NBA season 2018/19
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Spurs win!
Pelicans hose the Rockets
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Defence is now officially optional
Some of the scores over the first 3 games have been ridiculous.
Rondo is a love/hate sort of player but I’m liking him. He’s old school chippy and in a league where there is far too much chumminess, it needs a bit of Rondo’s edginess.
“He spit on me”, yeah right....
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I dunno ACT, i saw a video that looked pretty damning. It's not a full-scale mouth full of goob hoiked in his face, but it looks like there was some transfer, and i would kick the fuck off as well.
Defense has been optional for ages, players, especially in teams that think they will go deep in to play-offs, aren't going to go all out in the first 40 games of the season. Add that to the fact that damn near everyone in the team can reliably hit a 3 and the scores keep climbing.
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Haha 'without pay'. I watched that game yesterday. Ingram has a lot to answer for none of that stuff would have happened if he didn't pointlessly shove Harden. He just got smoked (and rondo had gotten smoked a bit in the game too hence the heatedness between him and CP3).
Lonzo ball played pretty well. Its weird having him and Rondo on at the same time. Both pass first guards, surely must be a bit easier to defend with three main inside threats. In saying that Lonzo hit some shots so had to start getting marked.
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@mariner4life we need some Wallaby supporter to do a frame by frame to show whether saliva was transferred.
To me it looked like not much and may have been sweat for all we know.
On the incident that kicked it off, Harden does get the elbow up around Ingram’s head as he does his step through. Standard Harden move but given where the game had been going it was already on the verge on boiling over.
Paul threw a punch but only gets 2 weeks? Players Association rep.....
On the defence, yes it’s gotten progressively worse overall over a few years, but we haven’t seen these sort of big scores to start a season. It’s not only the 3 ball, but teams are speeding up their offence and the number of shot attempts is increasing.
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@act-crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
we need some Wallaby supporter to do a frame by frame to show whether saliva was transferred.
back, and to the left. Back. And to the left.
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@act-crusader there is actually close up video that shows that Rondo spat.
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Spurs beat the Lakers.
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Spurs beat the Lakers.
Decent game that. Lakers looked gone at the end of regulation but hit some big shots. But then Spurs looked gone but LBJ misses free throws and a game winner.
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@act-crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Spurs beat the Lakers.
Decent game that. Lakers looked gone at the end of regulation but hit some big shots. But then Spurs looked gone but LBJ misses free throws and a game winner.
The Lakers look reasonably competitive
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@raznomore said in NBA season 2018/19:
Its hard to say if the Lakers are competitve as the Spurs are flattering to deceive.
They played quite well against Houston until losing it at the end. They are still getting to know each other on both ends of the floor but they are very athletic. 3 point shooting is a problem which was not a surprise
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Losing their two most consistent 3 point shooters and two best perimetre defenders are going to have an impact.
Then to lose your starting point guard and the promising rookie before the season started again is going to mess things up.
I think LA and DeRozan will work well together and others will find their role.
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@act-crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
Losing their two most consistent 3 point shooters and two best perimetre defenders are going to have an impact.
Then to lose your starting point guard and the promising rookie before the season started again is going to mess things up.
I think LA and DeRozan will work well together and others will find their role.
LA and DeRozan are good enough to win us a lot of games if they stay healthy. Not enough to make any sort of a splash in that fucking conference though.
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@mariner4life but they will over achieve imo. My OKC on the other hand....fuck me dazed these guys make it hard to support them. Poor percentage shots are all we take and thr high percentage shots we do attempt we dont hit.
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@mariner4life watching Barkley trying to list his eight teams in the West that would make the playoffs was funny because there’s probably 3-4 teams that you’d say are definites to make it and then it gets a bit interesting after that with 7-8 others that all could. It’s early days but my picks are:
Definites
Warriors
Pelicans
RocketsMost likely
Jazz
Denver
Spurs
BlazersIn the race
Lakers
OKC
Dallas
Twolves (if Butler stays) -
I'm keeping my eye on the Nuhgets with former Taipan fan favourite Torrey Craig getting game time
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
I'm keeping my eye on the Nuhgets with former Taipan fan favourite Torrey Craig getting game time
And getting shots too. Like his game.
He got okay minutes last season about 15 minutes a game. Even started a handful. But I heard the Nuggets GM talking about him preseason and it definitely sounded like he would get better minutes and feature in the rotation more this season and definitely happened in the first 3
