January NBA game thread: The Deep Midwinter 3

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Have you looked at their schedule? They’re about to tumble.

vs OKC
vs NYK
@ IND
@ MIL
@ DEN
vs CLE
@ CHI
vs LAL
vs SAC
vs DEN
vs BOS
vs DAL
vs MIA
@ DET
@ MIL

How many games do they realistically win of 15? Maybe 5?
lol 5 was super optimistic
Let's check in on our heroes!

vs OKC L
vs NYK L
@ IND L
@ MIL L
@ DEN L
vs CLE
@ CHI
vs LAL
vs SAC
vs DEN
vs BOS
vs DAL
vs MIA
@ DET
@ MIL

16 straight L's and a calendar month without a win are still in play!
 

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Is Kerr being instructed to play Quentin Post and Gui Santos down the stretch with Curry as a way to convince him that being traded will be in his best interest as well? That was a brutal finish for the Warriors.
I think he's in full experimentation mode since nothing is working and so many guys are injured. He started Looney and played him 9 minutes.
 

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I think he's in full experimentation mode since nothing is working and so many guys are injured. He started Looney and played him 9 minutes.
Looney was ruled OUT at halftime for an illness and didn’t return to the Warriors bench in the 2H
 

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Looney was ruled OUT at halftime for an illness and didn’t return to the Warriors bench in the 2H
Ugh - I totally forgot. Sorry about that. My point still stands though - Kerr is just trying to find warm bodies who can help.
 

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Is Kerr being instructed to play Quentin Post and Gui Santos down the stretch with Curry as a way to convince him that being traded will be in his best interest as well? That was a brutal finish for the Warriors.
Dray, SloMo, Kuminga, Podz, and Loon were all unavailable. Gui and Quinten both played pretty well, all things considered.
 

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In the most incredible display of clock mismanagement, the Miami Heat were down 10 with a chance for the final shot of the 1H. Somehow, someway.....they go into the break down 16! LOL!!!!

Herro gets one off prematurely allowing Lillard to get a 3 off and is fouled by Duncan Robinson. Makes all 3. Ware completely botches the inbounds pass not expecting pressure and throws the ball out of bounds without it touching anyone so there is still 1.1 on the clock. Bucks inbounds and Lillard knocks down a falling out of bounds corner 3.
 

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Miami fucks up the end of the half against Milwaukee about as bad as you possibly can. They've got the ball holding for the last shot, here's the sequence:

-Herro shoots with 11 seconds left in the half, 10 seconds on the game clock (woof), misses.
-Milwaukee gets the rebound and pushes it up court, Dame gets a 3 pointer off at the buzzer.
-He's fouled by Robinson, putting him at the line for 3 free throws (he goes 3-3), and 1.1 seconds put back on the clock.
-Miami throws the inbound pass out of bounds, no one touches it, ball back to Milwaukee.
-Milwaukee inbounds it to Lillard, who hits a 3 as he's falling out of bounds.

Should've been last shot for Miami, nothing for the Bucks. Milwaukee ends up getting 6 points in the final 1.1 seconds. Crazy.
 

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Miami fucks up the end of the half against Milwaukee about as bad as you possibly can. They've got the ball holding for the last shot, here's the sequence:

-Herro shoots with 11 seconds left in the half, 10 seconds on the game clock (woof), misses.
-Milwaukee gets the rebound and pushes it up court, Dame gets a 3 pointer off at the buzzer.
-He's fouled by Robinson, putting him at the line for 3 free throws (he goes 3-3), and 1.1 seconds put back on the clock.
-Miami throws the inbound pass out of bounds, no one touches it, ball back to Milwaukee.
-Milwaukee inbounds it to Lillard, who hits a 3 as he's falling out of bounds.

Should've been last shot for Miami, nothing for the Bucks. Milwaukee ends up getting 6 points in the final 1.1 seconds. Crazy.
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Is Kerr being instructed to play Quentin Post and Gui Santos down the stretch with Curry as a way to convince him that being traded will be in his best interest as well? That was a brutal finish for the Warriors.
Santos with 11 points on 4-4 shooting and Post with 6 points in the first half tonight. Kerr was just warming them up last night!

Edit: 20-5-3 for Post and 19-7-1 for Santos. Second and third-leading scorers for GSW.
 
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Santos with 11 points on 4-4 shooting and Post with 6 points in the first half tonight. Kerr was just warming them up last night!

Edit: 20-5-3 for Post and 19-7-1 for Santos. Second and third-leading scorers for GSW.
Santos 19 pts (7-10 fg), 7 reb, 1 ast, +31
Post 20 pts (7-12 fg), 5 reb, 3 ast, +13
Maybe this is why they are 10-19 in last 29.

Blow it up while you still can!
 

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Ty Jerome 8-8 from 3. Cavs down 1 with 11 seconds left.
They were down 8 (with PG going to the line for 1 more) with 86 seconds left, it was a pretty furious comeback. Jerome missed a free throw and when down 1, threw away the inbounds pass that let Philly turn it into a free throw game, and the Sixers held on (who knew they would win a game in this stretch without Embiid).

It's lost in the mediocrity that has been the Celtics lately, but the Cavs are just 3-4 over their last 7. 4 losses in 7 games, after losing just 4 times in their first 37 games.
 

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Meh — selfish, low-percentage play. ;-P

NBA scorekeepers are clearly geniuses for downgrading Jokic’s efficiency numbers with a “missed FGA” if that shot doesn’t go in. Incentivizing players to instead swallow the ball to preserve their FG% definitely makes for a great product. GJGE, NBA.
 

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Spurs slaughter the Pacers the other day, so of course the Pacers are returning the favor today. The NBA can be really weird sometimes.
 

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Spurs slaughter the Pacers the other day, so of course the Pacers are returning the favor today. The NBA can be really weird sometimes.
Damn this game got outta hand. Indy was up by one(1) with 3 minutes left in the 3rd quarter, then outscored the Spurs 55-18 to close the game. Haliburton scored 16 points in less than 3 minutes near the end of the 3rd:

View: https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1883228372005970273
 

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Cavs lose to the rockets again, despite scoring 47 in the 4th. I said it a could of days ago, if the Celtics weren't mired in mediocrity they'd be fighting for first. 3 straight losses for Cleveland.
 

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Josh Hart had no triple doubles for the first 6 1/2 seasons of his career, now he has 12 since last Jan 30 (79 games played).
 

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This clipps team is fun to root for and they play D like some dogs. I can't imagine if they actually had talent.
 

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This clipps team is fun to root for and they play D like some dogs. I can't imagine if they actually had talent.
I'm not sure why Derrick Jones Jr has bounced around so much (6 teams at 27) but that was a nice pickup.
I've liked him since his days with the Heat; excellent complementary player. The same goes for Kris Dunn, another player who hasn't stuck anywhere but defends.

The Clippers may be a future home for Jrue, if the C's fizzle out this spring.
 

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Josh Hart had no triple doubles for the first 6 1/2 seasons of his career, now he has 12 since last Jan 30 (79 games played).
He's really been something else, but I feel obligated to point out that he played 40 minutes in a game that the Knicks won by 23. Bridges, Hart and OG are 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the entire league in minutes played, and Brunson is 5th. At this point, Knicks' minutes are as mind blowing and predictable as crazy Wemby highlights.
 

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He's really been something else, but I feel obligated to point out that he played 40 minutes in a game that the Knicks won by 23. Bridges, Hart and OG are 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the entire league in minutes played, and Brunson is 5th. At this point, Knicks' minutes are as mind blowing and predictable as crazy Wemby highlights.
Although in this one specifically, Sacramento also plays their starters a lot (2nd most in the league) and didn't pull them until around when Thibs did with a few minutes left.

The really crazy one last night was that Thibs inexplicably put KAT back in the game with 4 minutes left, up by 22. He only stayed in a couple of minutes and then left again, but his finger is clearly bothering him and he had two drives during this garbage time stretch where he went flying to the ground after the shot. Very hard to understand.
 

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Actually looking at the box score, the Kings starters collectively played 2 more minutes than the Knicks starters, bet that's the first time that happened this year.
 

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Actually looking at the box score, the Kings starters collectively played 2 more minutes than the Knicks starters, bet that's the first time that happened this year.
You'd lose this bet. It's the most net minutes the Knicks starters have been outplayed all year but the Celtics on opening night also did so as the only other such team thus far this season:

-Knicks: 141 minutes, 24 seconds
-Celtics: 143 minutes, 26 seconds

For those curious a bit more than the box score by exact seconds, I'm getting Knicks 172 minutes and 39 seconds, Kings 176 minutes and 49 seconds. The chart below is usefully read left to right and goes in chronological order for the Knicks, so the leftmost point is Boston, and the rightmost is Sacramento. That one data point at the bottom of the Y-axis if curious is vs. Charlotte in MSG, with -74 net starter minutes on December 5th.

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Just one game today (which feels deliberate, given the NFL games), and it's OKC vs Portland (which seems like an odd choice for a deliberate matchup). Outside of Christmas, I have no idea what the league is thinking with some of their scheduling.
 

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Just one game today (which feels deliberate, given the NFL games), and it's OKC vs Portland (which seems like an odd choice for a deliberate matchup). Outside of Christmas, I have no idea what the league is thinking with some of their scheduling.
What’s not to get - they are punting on today. It is weird though I guess that there is any game.
 

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What’s not to get - they are punting on today. It is weird though I guess that there is any game.
That's the thing, punting I get. Don't have any games at all, or do what they do on super bowl sunday (3 early games, one of which is theoretically an interesting matchup). They could have a game or two that starts at 7:30 Pacific after the evening NFl game, or an early game that starts well before the afternoon NFL game.

One game, right in the middle of the NFL games, that is about as far from an interesting matchup as you can get, why bother?
 

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Just one game today (which feels deliberate, given the NFL games), and it's OKC vs Portland (which seems like an odd choice for a deliberate matchup). Outside of Christmas, I have no idea what the league is thinking with some of their scheduling.
It was odd scheduling spot for the Thunder in that OKC had two days off prior to today and have the next two days off as well. Meanwhile it was Portland's 6th game in 9 days in 5 different cities.
 

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Davis should really give Wemby a run for his money as DPOY because that Laker defense was like swiss cheese.
 

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See on nba.com just now: "Davis (abdominal strain) exists against 76ers" [sic]. More than they can say about Embiid these days.
Sometimes it's important to be reminded that certain guys exist. Can't we just give him the grace to just, you know, be? Does it have to be a news headline? :)
 

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On the bright side, if anyone ever wanted to imagine how the best baller on SoSH would fare against NBA competition, we may be witnessing a decent approximation.
 

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He's 1-16 from the field. Best as I can tell, that's the worst fg% for a player with 10+ attempts since 1989.
More importantly, that's 13 games (65% of the betting threshold) he has played in, in 55% of the season, so we might come down to the wire on the charity bet.
 

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More importantly, that's 13 games (65% of the betting threshold) he has played in, in 55% of the season, so we might come down to the wire on the charity bet.
Thank you, this is the truly important piece.

Said differently, he only needs to play 7 out of the remaining 37 games (19%) to meet the 20 games.
 

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I'm eagerly imagining us all on a zoom call together in games 81 and 82, watching the Lakers flail about, as we're on the edge of our seats trying to see if Redick will put Bronny in the game in garbage time to decide the bet. The Port Cellar version of "$20 says the Smails kid picks his nose!"

Real market-moving stuff.
 

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I'm eagerly imagining us all on a zoom call together in games 81 and 82, watching the Lakers flail about, as we're on the edge of our seats trying to see if Redick will put Bronny in a game in garbage time. The Port Cellar version of "$20 says the Smails kid picks his nose!"

Real market-moving stuff.
Normally you'd expect that the end of the G league season (late March) would mean that a player like Bronny would see his NBA appearances pick up at the end of the year, but given that playoff (and play in) positioning will likely go to the very end for the Lakers (I can't imagine they're either safely in the top 6 or outside the top 10 down the stretch), it's really gonna be interesting to watch.

I also never again want to hear about his high BB IQ. This guy runs around like a dope on both ends, chucking up 18 shots per 100 possessions at the least efficient rate in 35 years and constantly getting lost or losing focus on defense. There are no redeeming qualities or upside here.