This. They're playing with so much energy and they're actually fun to watch at times. We expect the offense to be a bit stagnant and shots to not fall at times given our lack of vets (the only ones who get minutes are Lopez and Brewer). Our inexperience and lack of shooters has really shown in our losses, but I love the way we competed vs Washington. Wish Gortat and Wall would trash talk us before every game.
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Official NBA '17-18 Season Thread
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It's that and every team and their mother has a massive chip on their shoulder hearing all summer about how this Golden State roster is possibly the most talented team assembled in the history of the NBA. The Rockets, Grizzlies, and Pistons hustled their asses off in those GSW losses. Meanwhile Golden State doesn't have that same sense of urgency, since they feel (or know) that they can just turn it on later.
And of course I check tonight's game stats and Golden State lit up the formerly #1 rated defense for 141
I really wanna see the Barkley's opinion about this:
Video removed, what was it about?
Probably about those big ol women from San Antonio
Philly dangled him in trade talks, but couldn't get what they wanted in return. Knowing that a team that trades for him after they decline the team option cannot offer him more than a starting salary of $6,313,832 (the amount on the option) in July, they also know that his trade value will thus decrease because the teams that would potentially want him in July won't take the risk of him leaving for more money (max salary starting at 25% of the cap, or $25.25m if projection of $101m holds).Adrian Wojnarowski said:
In other words, Philly are going to lose him for nothing because there's no way in hell he re-signs even if they want him back. Yet they still refuse to give him away for like, a late first rounder or a couple of second rounders? Or no team is willing to give up even that for Jahlil Okafor??
Realistically philly should have traded him last year when it was clear he wasn't in their future plans. I'm sure he would thrive in San Antonio who could utilize his archaic playstyle but his value has been decreasing for the last two years. I've always said Colangelo is overrated as fuck as a GM.
Philly shoulda at least attempted to develop him a bit. Okafor was hurt the most developmentally by the center logjam. If a good franchise invests time into him he can still be something. I thought the Hornets should have take a chance pre-Dwight because they could utilize and develop him into a younger Big Al.
First game they looked like themselves. Coincidentally Steph's first good 3 pt shooting night ;)
Detroit's #1 defense looks like a SHAM! LA played spectacular as a team last night thoigh. Nice to see Lonzos shot start to fall
Apparently Sixers turned down a buyout for Jahlil Okafor and are still looking to trade him. Jahlil wanted to get a buyout to join the Celtics, but the Sixers didn't want him going to a conference rival. Not sure what their asking price is, but still can't imagine too many teams giving up a lot for him since he could walk at the end of next season.
To be fair, I think it's 22 vs Phoenix and 18 vs Warriors. Not sure the lead ever got that far (maybe around 10 max) vs the Lakers.
Barkley saying "Clippers can win Spurs and Warriors this season yada yada yada"
And Cavs collecting their 4th straight loss. That's the Cavaliers' natural. A sorry ass team until pick LeBron. It was a poor franchise before him and will be after him.
You're right, my psyche pushed the traumatic experience that was the Lakers game out of my memory.
Still, they should be 6-1 at worst right now and have nobody to blame but themselves.
Damn it, that f*cking Lillard Time...
Another good game from Ingram, Kuzma, and Lopez. What a steal Kuzma is at 27th overall. He's got moves upon moves and while not super athletic, appears to blow by defenders with ease. Apparently the Lakers have played the toughest schedule thus far as well (before the Brooklyn game), and only really got blown out in two of them (LAC and Utah), so that's really encouraging to see. We also have the same record as Cleveland, Milwaukee, and New Orleans, as well as being half a game behind OKC and a game behind San Antonio.
And if I recall correctly, the Utah game was relatively close until partway through the fourth quarter too.
Lopez is the first good vet post-Kobe. Also, it makes me super happy how often the Lakers overall drive to the basket; I was worried during the pre-season that they would turn into another unentertaining three-point chucking meme.
Ingram's midrange game is really on-point as well. Like you, earlier on I was worried he'd shoot a lot of 3s as well, but it seems like he has more composure and knows his range hasn't stretched out there yet. And even though Lonzo had two bad box score games, he had game-highs of +10 and +22 vs Portland and Brooklyn.
There it is, the worst fucking thing I'll see all season.
https://twitter.com/UpTheThunder/status/927380857144401921
Melo got a flagrant 2 and ejected for a basketball play that cannot remotely be construed as flagrant or intentionally causing harm to Nurkic
https://twitter.com/UpTheThunder/status/927380857144401921
Melo got a flagrant 2 and ejected for a basketball play that cannot remotely be construed as flagrant or intentionally causing harm to Nurkic
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