NBA 2024-25 Season Thread

wait Larbon slurping is in again? guees I missed the memo

Good TAEKs are in, bad TAEKs are out.

thanks to Lebron

well there must be a huge supply of great coaches who can't wait to get backstabbed at the first opportunity and deal with a massive circus of Larbon and the passive-aggressive baby back bullshit he brings

If you think Ham is bad, wait for the next hire

he is the goat oat ... even though he loses like half the time. but we're not playing to win the game here, and come on the goat oat has no control over wins and losses, instead check his $tat$. well those are the best either, but never mind that. everyone wants to be an la laker, but his teammates always suck. everyone wants to play with him, but his teammates always suck. he makes everyone better, but his teammates always suck. his hand-picked coaches suck. he is being sabotaged by his enemies! labald cannot fail, he can only be failed, and his failures are still the most entertaining, interesting and exciting thing in the world. they're all i ever think about. labald is all

I dunno lads, any thoughts on last night's game or Monday's game? There's a whole other thread for the 'LeChoke woat, will never be the goat' stuff.

*guy makes like 10 straight posts about the lolkers*
also guy: yall obsess over the lolkers much ???

Triple header bout to start. Cue the john tesh music

Bron was so good I feel like his whole career we compared him to Jordan when that's just not real to me I feel like in 5 years well start to appreciate Bron for who he is g9 more in depth about HIS game specialties and not put him in comparison with a different person. Looking foward to the narrative in some years about Bron and how it'll be.

And so far both absolutely horrible games.

Pacers are only -1 hopefully that isn't garbage.

kiwi out and the mavs still don't have anyone to guard beard. worse, they don't have anyone who can guard zubac. also luka & kyrie look like **** on offense. seems bad

Result’s oriented ?
Usual bs to blame again .
Always the same thing with LeBron ….

It’s dangelo fault they lost -> 6/20 Fg .
And yet jokic number 2 in Murray -> 9/24 FG .
Fwiw is it normal dangelo have more shot then the « goat » LeBron in a playoff game ?
Especially at 20?
At least murray a bit normal being the number 2 right ?

Look at Davis ffs number 2 of LeBron …he did great !
So What happen ?
Ah yes LeBron great stats but « only » 16 shots because he did the right passing(?)! play …..and lost !
Because takings contested shot sometimes is bad for stats and u might miss .
Take less contested shot ? pass and u have great stats and blame on others when they miss !
LeBron loser mentally and his record shows it after 21 years !

Take it to the aids thread plz

Also, the guy is 39 years old, you may wanna give up

omg i just checked the 1h score

lots of betting syndicates on mavs ml as well yhtsi

btw for years i read that as a stylized version of "yahtzee" - but it still kind of works with the same meaning and impact

Is there a good reason to keep the challenges? Is there evidence that it generates a lot of extra $$$ to the NBA and that's the sole reason?

If I see another one of those challenges for an out of bounds call in the 2nd quarter, I'm going to explode

the review on that ft situation is the legit woat **** they really need to get rid of

wow everyone was boxing out and two guys fell down, lets go to the monitors and look at it for 5 minutes for some reason fellas

don't even know what they were looking for, and why. did you think something really happened there? two guys fell down and then instantly got up. it's ok, it happens sometimes

Pacers have lost 9 playoff games in a row. Tonight maybe?

Pacers' series betters SWEATING right now.

No one listens to RT. Shame.

I actually don't really agree with this. DLo is the Lakers 3rd best player and he is going to just have to play well for them to have a chance in this series, this isn't last yr where you can sit him for Schroder. Gabe has barely played this yr and hasn't looked very good when he has. Dinwiddie/Gabe both been underwhelming, I mean DLo is just way better than these guys in general. You really wanna sit him for backups over a bad few quarters?

It is game 1, you gotta ride DLo a bit until he falls flat. Yeah he is a high variance player, guess what? You're a massive underdog, you just need to embrace that variance.

Prince/Rui don't have an issue with either, Rui is kinda lost on D out there. Atleast Prince is more of a natural 3 and a better spotup shooter. Rui is better overall but the general lineup is gonna be something like Bron/AD + 3 shooters vs the Nuggs and they have to hope to win a game or 2 with shooting variance. I don't think they really have any personnel grouping this yr that can do much to make the Nuggs have worse shot quality. Last yr team had Vandy and Schroder disrupting the game on D out there (obviously those guys flawed in their own right) but this team basically can just play 1 way and needs to lean into it.

Do you think Pascal is leaving this summer?

i thought hali was like some future star

guy seems like hes barely trying

took 1 shot all 2nd half

rt, why are the pacers

How did the Heat manage to lose with their best player injured and not playing?

That strategy seems to be working for teams in the other games today.