NBA 2017-2018 thread
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Knicks411
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I can't really agree. I think their guard rotation, sans IT, is a disaster.
OttoinGrotto
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Love playing center tells me they don't care if he's happy.
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Kuzma looks legit.
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Teams will go under the screen on Ball on pick and rolls until he makes them pay to the point where they can’t do it. He’s gotta improve defensively too.
He’s got a ton of talent though. He will have his ups and downs this year. I think Ennis is in a great spot. I think there will be a lot of games this year where he’s more effective than Ball as he will shoot it better and make fewer mistakes, and while he’s not a special passer like Ball, he is a solid distributor.
He’s got a ton of talent though. He will have his ups and downs this year. I think Ennis is in a great spot. I think there will be a lot of games this year where he’s more effective than Ball as he will shoot it better and make fewer mistakes, and while he’s not a special passer like Ball, he is a solid distributor.
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Hopefully they start trying reasonably hard again. It’s been completely unwatchable recently.
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I think there's gonna be so much drama.
NBA All-Star Game ditches East-West format
Playground style.
As said above hopefully the ASG becomes somewhat watchable again.
Playground style.
As said above hopefully the ASG becomes somewhat watchable again.
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I love watching Lonzo play, but the Lakers gotta be creative with how they use him. He's going to be awesome in transition...I think literally everyone can agree with that. In the half-court though, he's just not a traditional PG at all. He's not the type that can dribble the air out of the ball, operating pick and rolls left and right and just picking defenses apart that way. He's more like what Jason Kidd was like down the stretch in his career, where he wasn't the initiator but he was the guy that would make good cuts, spot up, and make the extra pass; they need to sort of create transition opportunities within the halfcourt for him, meaning to get him the ball while the defense is already off-balance. He's not a very good ball-handler and is a pretty stiff athlete, so he's going to likely struggle to break his man down and create opportunities for himself and teammates the traditional way, but if for example you can throw a skip pass to him and let him attack closeouts, he'll be able to destroy defenses that way. For this reason, I think the development of Ingram and Randle will be a huge key to how Lonzo pans out (at least in the short-term). If those two can put pressure on the defense and be willing passers to find Lonzo, he can do the rest from there, but if the Lakers expect Lonzo to make everything happen on his own in the halfcourt, I think he's really going to struggle.
And he definitely needs to get that shot of his to start dropping; seems like that's been a struggle for him dating back to summer league.
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Don't have enough players in the East to compete. Makes sense. They should play 4 games and keep switching teams.
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Same number of players from the east still make it
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Yeah sorry I missed your point, I agree.
I don't think this helps or hurts Melo? The players still get selected to the team in the same way. I think it'll be really tough for him to make it
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looks like Lydon is not going to play in Denver this year. 4 minutes at the very end of game 1, 3 minutes at the end last night. Denver doesn't have it's own G League affiliate, so he's going to get assigned to someone else's squad.
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No worries, I worded it badly.
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Looked to me like he was trying to save his own neck. Unfortunate, but not dirty.
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I don’t know...just seemed so extra. Like, he held on way too long or something. I would’ve been livid if someone did that to me.
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If you start it, I will follow.
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I second that emotion. Last season I started a thread on opening night, but I'm ready whenever all the NBA heads on here are ready to rock 'n' roll. Let the games begin! So looking forward to seeing LBJ holding the Walter Kennedy trophy in June -- I should live so long.
