The Official NBA Season Thread: NBA Cup Begins | Embiid Debut | Klay Return

[allergic2broke]

Joker triple double tonight.

Nuggets win by 8+

 

[titang545]

Umm because he’s a billionaire. Plus I’m sure Ayesha is a good mom with her businesses and doesn’t impact Steph.

I think it is more wives playing their role across the league than we give credit for. Jordan first wife was cool being in the background, but Jordan just couldn't stop bangin different chicks in her face. Kobe wife was in the background, even during the Colorado debacle. Hell Durant fiance was cool being in the background, so much so when they called it off it flew under the radar. I forgot what MTV show they were on together Cribs or something.

One of the few people in sports media worth listening to

No, he is a homer. we are pointing out Embiid and Booker worst games. Lets not act like LeBron hasn't had bad games in the playoffs. Lets make sure we keep that same energy.

 

[dacomeup]

Wouldn't shock me at all to see Poole have a bounce back year if Dray gone

Dray ain’t going nowhere man . They would’ve moved him after the punch if they wanted to do that. Poole is on the chopping block

 

[James_O]

Ppl think Jokic is abt to dominate AD in the post. Yeah no

Only reason the nugs were so successful against the suns, us cause one KD washed a hell and two cause they don’t have a dominate big man. AD will have at least 25 tonight

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

I think it is more wives playing their role across the league than we give credit for.

It's really just Ayesha that be doing the most

 

[nick.]

i forgot today's the day the Thunder or Pelicans move up in the lottery & the Mavs pick falls to 11

 

[titang545]

I heard a WILD stat on Undisputed yesterday, Doc has lost TEN game sevens.

 

[rolaholic]

Rockets

 

[storm2006]

****. On one of the days I pick to have a primetime, school night date and I’m going to miss The Lottery and G1 of the WCF

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

i forgot today's the day the Thunder or Pelicans move up in the lottery & the Mavs pick falls to 11

Why do you have to go back to being an enemy

We had a good thing, going

 

[Moheezy]

I heard a WILD stat on Undisputed yesterday, Doc has lost TEN game sevens.

I wonder which one of those losses are his fault.

 

[WASHED KING]

Rockets

Praying the Spurs win it so antidope can go back to rooting for them. I can see him and the Wemby avi now.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[703 hwy]

If there is a basketball god he will not let Wemby go to the Spurs for the future of basketball.

 

[sneeker]

they didn't need durant last year despite steph being guarded by the DPOY. when they sent bigs at him, steph was cookin that drop coverage.

i'm not arguing that KD wouldn't help, but klay and JP regressing offensively in these playoffs hurt a lot. if klay had anything remotely close to a decent playoff run, the series vs the lakers could have gone differently. oh well.

i want KD back in the bay but that aint happening.

That's exactly the point. Klay and Poole can only be good as they can be as supporting players. But push comes to shove, they needed another superstar to carry a part of the burden and not expect Steph to play God mode every game. Saw last year's finals and Steph was phenomenal. Although as good as the Celtics were defensively, they didn't push as hard as they could have compared to what the Lakers did employing a sort of "Jordan Rules" defense. Plus the fact that Tatum disappeared on most of those games.

 

[antidope]

Praying the Spurs win it so antidope can go back to rooting for them. I can see him and the Wemby avi now.

 

[amitt5504]

Ugh

 

[ballinsam23]

Pretty much everyone from that tree of coaching has an iso heavy offense.

 

[youngwolf]

If there is a basketball god he will not let Wemby go to the Spurs for the future of basketball.

Hoping none of the top three teams in the lottery get the top pick.

 

[B Sox]

Ugh

Gave up on Brown too early. Travesty.

 

[amitt5504]

Gave up on Brown too early. Travesty.

Browns time had run it’s course tho. I loved Brett but it was time. Especially after the prior offseason

The Joel centric offense just has to stop. It’s fun yes but it doesn’t work in the postseason

 

[noblekane]

do lakers have personnel to play two bigs and move AD to the four?

mo bamba and tristan thompson

mo sucks *** guarding defending bigs but tristan is a big body

but ham will probably not play them

 

[pmatic]

Probably more likely to see Bron try to guard Jokic than Tristan Thompson, Gabriel or Bamba.

But I think the Lakers can/will just mirror AD's minutes with Jokic (~40) and go small with Bron/Rui in the leftover minutes since the Nuggets go small with Gordon/Green when Jokic rests.

 

[Mark Antony]

Should be a good game, would love to see the Lakers plan for Joker.

 

[lawdog1]

Jokic is not going to score like he did against Phoenix in this series - let’s just get that out of the way. The Lakers are just way better defensively as a team than the Suns. Doesn’t mean necessarily he’s getting locked up though.

Part of what makes Jokic so good is that he can be selective about his own offense and dominate a game through facilitating. Think he’s too smart to try to win a one-on-one battle against AD.