2020-2021 NBA Regular Season thread

Paul will be the 12-team Hall of Famer with no ring, and this year's MVP.

Suns are No. 2.

 

I am glad to see that (while Golden State isn’t as good as they used to be) they still use 2-3 illegal screens per possession that are not called.

 

@Songbird must be driving - he's pretty quiet about the Celtics

 

Lotta bacon for Tatum.

 

@PCLoadLetter

he was a freak of nature

 

FOH

Holy shit

 

Its the lower rungs of the league but watched the Ws-Pelicans game last night closely.

Zion is a monster in the paint, so quick, so smooth, and so large. Definitely a freak and someone to admire going forward. The difference between him and the "other" guy, Ingram is an ocean. Ingram gets buckets, but, at least for this game, floats along, doesn't appear to do much to impact the game. Nice tall jump shooter with range but appears to be a zero on D and on the glass. Doesn't pass very well to get others involved whereas Zion does. Am I off?

Oh yeah, and Curry has simply unreal range, an added 4 ft from his MVP run in '14-'16, which is unreal.

 

I think you're right on Zion and Ingram, and it's frustrating that SVG is the coach there. I realize that there was probably some appeal in ownership to hand the keys to a "veteran coach" like him, but SVG is such a caustic personality that I wouldn't trust him with a roster of younger players. It doesn't seem like their roster has improved, and it wasn't like his previous job with Detroit had many "highs" that you could point to.

 

Once a week, I get to moonlight as the sports department, laying out the Tuesday sports section at my shop. Therefore, I saw this:

Wizards 154, Pacers 141. No overtime. Not a typo.

It was 82-66 Washington at halftime. I remember quite a few NBA playoff games during the 1990s (when I followed it much more closely) where teams didn't score 82 points for the entire game.

There weren't even a ton of 3-pointers from the Wizards, just 9-for-22 in the game. They shot 63-for-103 from the floor overall. Indiana shot 53-for-107.

That's 210 total shots in 48 minutes. All-Star Game-esque.

 

The Wizards have two guys who want to go at a quick-ish pace (Beal and Westbrook), but who don't really play that much defense. Stuff like this was more prevalent in the 70s and 80s, but the long stretch of clogged sink iso offenses and "handcheck the guy on the perimeter constantly" in the 90s and early 00s tends to be remembered more.

 

32 years ago today. Never saw this angle. Poor Cavs, Bulls had their number every year.

 

Maybe it was on The Last Dance, but Ron Harper with a great story about how he was pissed that Wilkins (?) put Ehlo on MJ instead of Harper.