This is standard Rockets. They began last season 1-5 including three 20-point home losses to NO, LAC, and Portland during that stretch. Two years before that a 3-3 start including losses to Atlanta and a 26-win Laker team. The year prior when they were a .500 team they lost 10 of their first 15. This one common denominator here is Harden......we should only be concerned if we expect Harden to shoot 20% behind the arc for the entire season. They will be fine.
Except that the problem of Ball not being able to get to the basket specifically limits what he is supposed to be his best asset. This isn't complaining that Ball isn't a rim protector or that he doesn't have any post moves; this is something that really limits his ceiling, especially if his shooting regresses.
Thrilled for the pick to get the win by Houston tonight. They have been notorious in years past for putting up absolute duds against awful teams whose picks were owed the Celtics.
Its already begun. Can the EP and the Warriors hang on for their first win of the new era?
They are chanting M-V-P while he’s at the line down the stretch here. These are not your 2018-19 Blazers.
No. They are your 2019-20 Blazers. And Lillard has been transcendent thus far this season. 3-4 after seven games is a bit too small to start making pronouncements methinks. You do you though.
Who knows if Paschall can keep this up but the net effect may be to hasten Green and Russell's respective returns. This team will likely still struggle to do everything but if Paschall is real, it kind of changes the tanking narrative. And that is probably good for ownership if not Myers just because they are at risk of the building being largely empty until Curry returns.
?? They haven't had a big hit late in the draft since Draymond, unless someone is totally slipping my mind. Now, hitting on Draymond in the 2nd round does buy you cred, but we're not talking about the Spurs here.
Alternatively, they embody the argument that you shouldn't allow Ryan McDonough within 5 miles of a phone.
40 on 17-24 shooting, Ingram killing it out of the gate. One of the reasons I was high on the Pelicans this year was the addition of Bzdelick to run the defense. Gentry loves to play with Pace with the players/fans love but sometimes (oftentimes?) this is counterintuitive to actually winning games. If the players mindset is to get up and down the floor rather than getting stops then it won't only be Kyrie ripping them up but a continuance of other guards like VanVleet, Delon Wright, and Gilgeous-Alexander tearing them up.
Looney at 30 is decent. They had Nunn on their G-League team last year, not sure how/why they let him slip.
Yeah, Looney at 30 isn't exactly making other teams rush to hire your talent evaluators lol.
I hate this so much. He's one of my favorite players in the NBA. Huge hit to the Hawks. Oddly, I was making a post about Ayton when you made this post.
Baynes also defended Simmons all night. Here is what the Philly Inquirer beat writer Keith Pompey wrote last night:
Part of this is just Baynes being a really good defender, but I’d like to see Theis on Simmons some in non-Embiid minutes.
Re: #2
Him developing too much and hurting the pick. Although outside of him and Jackson (Jaren), there's not much there so it might not even matter if he does take a huge step next year. They will be way under the cap too though.
