**OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD**

Which team will win the 2018-2019 NBA Championship?


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Guilty pleasure of mine. Kind of enjoy hate-watching/listening to these takes :smh: :lol:. Also, these takes really represent how the majority of basketball fans think in real life.

These the convos that be had outside of this board smh :lol:
I can only do so much. Be at home from work for a day and hearing SAS talk for 5 minutes I have to turn that **** off.
 
Well they still need the personnel to guard him. Kawhi and Danny Green are horrible matchups for Ben. Same with horford.

You need a bigger body that can move.
In the playoffs the opponent will be likely to have that kind of personnel.

It just means that the sixers will never get over the hump in the playoffs until Simmons learns to change his stripes.
 
Well they still need the personnel to guard him. Kawhi and Danny Green are horrible matchups for Ben. Same with horford.

You need a bigger body that can move.

Charlotte and Milwaukee clamped him this year too.

Keep him out of transition and don’t let him get to his launching pad
 
Opponent shoots 24/55 from deep and you only lose by 4.

Definitely a matchup to keep an eye on. Bucks looks great to start the year.
 
I feel like he's single-handedly carrying this team.

Simmons is becoming way too predictable and Fultz is Fultz.
They were really fortunate that on that Ben/JJ pick and pop that AB didn’t realize JJ always slips that screen. Philly ran it like 5x in a row to close it out. Usually run it out of horns.

Makes you wonder what film AB & the the clippers coaches are watching. Danny Green got caught with it once then snuffed it out.
 
This guy gets better every season. Lillard has rounded out his game on offense to the point that he is good at everything -- and realizes it. He can punish opponents in every conceivable way, from almost any spot inside the half court. He shifts entire defenses with one dribble, one shoulder fake, one glance at the rim. He knows every counter you have, and has two counters ready. He is operating with a stone-faced disdain that says, "Why are you even bothering?"


Shooting made Kuzma an obvious fit next to LeBron James, but his canny cutting has taken that to another level. Kuzma skulks the baseline when his defender gawks at the ball. That is a handy skill playing with LeBron; the Lakers run a lot of their offense through the elbows, and LeBron attracts eyeballs lording over the action there.
Even better: Kuzma executes those baseline sneaks amid the chaos of semi-transition, and that is where the Lakers live.

Doncic is as advertised. If he sustains 40 percent shooting from deep, he will exceed expectations. (Whether he can do that is unclear. Doncic has hit a Steph Curry-esque 42 percent on pull-up 3-pointers so far, and those toughies comprise about 60 percent of his attempts.)
Some players thrive only in highly controlled settings. When they run a scripted play, they know which options will pop up, and in what order.
Doncic's brilliance shines when the game goes off-script -- when the defense tries something outside the scouting report, or slips up and unlocks an opening that wasn't supposed to be there. In those moments, Doncic doesn't just see pathways toward his own scoring. He sees what the situation means for everyone.
 
They were really fortunate that on that Ben/JJ pick and pop that AB didn’t realize JJ always slips that screen. Philly ran it like 5x in a row to close it out. Usually run it out of horns.

Makes you wonder what film AB & the the clippers coaches are watching. Danny Green got caught with it once then snuffed it out.

That was very frustrating. Clippers made some really terrible defensive mistakes at the end of that game.
 
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She thick tho.
 
LOWE HOT TAKES:

Harrell emerged last season as a wily scorer with a soft touch. He did not fare as well on defense.

That is changing. Harrell is playing both harder and smarter on that end. He is rejecting almost 3.2 shots per 36 minutes, more than double his career rate, and staying down until the very last moment:

The defining image of Chandler's four seasons in Phoenix will be Chandler trying, and failing, to convert the alley-oops that came so easily with Chris Paulin New Orleans and during two rim-rocking stints in Dallas. (Almost nobody rocked rims like prime Chandler. Dude did insta-pull-ups on those things, releasing fast enough that refs couldn't hit him with technicals.)

Phoenix's point guard rotation thinned out amid discontent and one sell-low trade of Isaiah Thomas. That left Chandler flailing hopelessly for wayward lobs from Brandon Knight and a bunch of unprepared kiddos. Now, age is winning:


Clarkson has shot well so far, at least from 2-point range. The Cavs are scoring better than 1.5 points per possession when he drives -- the best mark in the league among ball-handlers, per Second Spectrum. That's all cool. He also has eight assists in eight games. He plays as if passing is illegal. Like, what is this?


We think of Fox as a straight-line blur for the suddenly turbocharged Kings, but his improved calm with the ball has been a big driver of Sacto's early-season success. The Heat pressured Fox on Monday, hoping to fluster him, but Fox coolly turned that pressure against them:



 
Pels road trip been tough spurs and thunder next man i dont know why they they game us all dem road games in a row :lol
 
lol at all these has-beens lying to themselves.

only OG i respek is AI, who constantly give respek to the new school b.

AI said he could Never be a coach or a broadcaster because he couldn't bring himself to say anything close to bad about NBA players :hat :hat

Ran into chuck like two months ago at Cabo Cantina on the promenade in Santa Monica drunk and lit af :lol :hat
 
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