/nba/ general - ATHLETIC edition

SAC: Fox Force Five: De'Aaron scores 18 points
HOU: Zhou Qi has impressive debut, drops 17 points
LAC: Brice Johnson scores 23 points in win vs. LAL
LAK: Brandon Ingram scores 26, gets hurt late
LAK: Lonzo Ball makes just 2-of-15 from the field
ATL: DeAndre Bembry starts at SG, scores 22 points
MIL: Thon Maker struggles in Friday blowout loss
TOR: Pascal Siakam scores 24 points in win vs. NOP
CLE: The Cavs agree to terms with Jeff Green
UTA: Magic add Shelvin Mack on 2-year, $12M deal
TOR: Jakob Poeltl scores 12 points with 10 boards
NO: Cheick Up: Diallo looks great, scores 27 pts

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Lonzo a bust

Would you rather have a player who gives you 50pts half the games and 10pts the other half or someone who gives you a guaranteed 30pts every game?

Early General Top 3 Rookie Stats post.

Personal Opinion: Because the 3 ball is so important nowadays, for me it goes

Fultz > Tatum > Lonzo

>8x NBA Champion
>8x Finals MVP
>6x NBA MVP
>5x NBA DPOY
>1x NBA 6MOTY
>1x NBA MIP
>2018 NBA ROTY
>First Team All-Rookie
>11x Scoring Champion
>7x Steals Title
>12x Assist Title
>18x All-Star
>5x All-Star MVP
>15x All-NBA First team
>3x All-NBA Second Team
>2x All-NBA Third Team
>15x All-Defense First Team
>3x All-Defense Second Team
>7x 50-40-90 Member
>Leading Scorer all-time
>Assist Leader all-time
>Steals Leader all-time
>Leading Playoffs Scorer all-time
>Assist Leader for Playoffs all-time
>Steals Leader for Playoffs all-time
>Leading Finals Scorer all-time
>Assist Leader for Finals all-time
>Steals Leader for Finals all-time
>All-time 3-Point shot leader
>5x Olympic Gold Medals
>5x Fiba World Cup Gold Medals
>NBA HOF as Player
>Career averages of: 28/14/8/3/2
>Shooting splits of: 53/44/92
>20 year career all for the Los Angeles Lakers

The latter.

who here /reaper/?

Rate Eminem's performance on No Favors out of 10

idk but that beat is annoying af
em will never top renegade imo, that was the goat verse

>chuck shots up in close OT loss
>still have more blocks and as many assists as tatum in 3 games
>more steals and as many rebounds and assists as fultz in 2 games


Consider my almonds activated

Fultz, Tatum, and Ball are shitty memes. I'd like to thank the Lelkers, Celcucks, and the eternally injured 76es for letting Josh Jackson fall to the Suns.

This desu

anyone need a pb

Celtics are worse now

Why'd they disrespect Olynyk and Bradley like that?

theyre nothing players. 99% of the players are tradeable in their teams eyes

Ainge is a shit person, whether you think he's a good GM or not

Bradley is the third best 2 guard in the league. Olynyk + Bradly is 25 points, Hayward is 21

Guys, has any of you read any projections about Teodosic?

Do you think he will be able to stay competitive in NBA?

youtube.com/watch?v=aH-zOw5JeCo

No concept of loyalty, Olynyk just closed out the Wiz and Bradley is one of the best two way guards in the game/took a game off Lebron

Olynyk was left unchecked and had the game of his life. Nothing more.

>Ricky Rubio
>Mario Hezonja
>Sergio Rodriquez
>Marcelo Huertas

Add him to the list of mediocre euroleague star guards who do jack all in the NBA

BNHA/AOT/???

what fills the last spot

How the fuck did you put Hezonja in that list? Hezonja was at best mediocre in Europe, at least others were good

When it comes to Rubio, Teodosic is much better shooter than him, better passer than him, only thing Rubio is better is defense

2

I put him there because he was hyped up as fuck before the draft that year

I have hopes Teodosic will get his numbers feeding DJ and Blake inside and hitting shots from outside. I'm also expecting him to get btfo on defence 80% of the time.

Defense is the thing i am worried about him, he was known to be to bored to play defense even while he was young

I really can't wait to see him play, it could be either Jokic tier hype or total disaster

we should unironically do a LA meetup next year, we have enough anons to do it and the all-star game is in LA too

Hey, you don't need to play defence to be a star in this league. Hell, Nash proved you could be MVP without playing defence

Why this nigga Fultz got no stamina?

Just want everyone to keep in mind that Tim Hardaway Jr will live up to his contract. Any comments to the contrary will be grounds for deletion and potential banning. Thank you.

>LAK
its LAL, ya dummy
or else why don't you have clips as CLI and rockets as ROC
nerd

Why don't players constantly have their hands up and moving on defence rather than just when contesting a shot? Are they just lazy?

Wasn't everyone hyping Rodriquez last year as this Euro point that will light up the league? What happened to him?

perfect "defensive stance" would be to crouch down with your arms out basically crabwalking and a lot of players do this, but you don't want to have your hands UP in the air unless they're shooting because how the fuck are you supposed to run to keep your man in front of you when you're reaching for the sky like its a fucking bank robbery

Damn these power outages, I couldn't login for a whole 2 hours

>fultz
>6 assist
>10 TO

nice PG you got there

Hahaha he's still here canada-kun

you lost me at 2 blocks per game

>getting excited about roberson 2.0

>Olynyk + Bradly is 25 points

on 55 combined minutes

someone else will pick up the slack

derozan
mccollum
harden
thompson
butler

there's 5 that are better

Will Lavar sing Zhou Qi now that Lonzo is a bust and can't sell his shoes.

Lavar would have done better. No memes.

So is Lonzo basically Rubio who shoots even worse and can't play defense?

>DeRozen
No defence, can't hit 3s
>Mccollum
Who?
>Harden
PG now
>Thompson
Yes, as well as Beal
>Butler
SF

harden will be a SG with paul at PG

butler will be a SG with wiggins at SF

CJ mccollum is better than bradley

Derozan is a max player bradley isnt

>harden will be a SG with paul at PG
>butler will be a SG with wiggins at SF
Currently they are not, you are speculating
>CJ mccollum is better than bradley
No he isn't
>Derozan is a max player bradley isnt
Can't shoot 3s. This is a 3s league now

1. Fox
2. Tatum
3. Jackson
4. Fultz
5. Bam
6. Kennard
7. Markkanen
8. Justin Jackson
9. Mitchell
10. Leaf
.
9001. Ntilikina
.
99999999999999999999999. Lonzo

There isn't much of a difference between 2-3 in the NBA anymore. On a lotta teams 2-4 can be interchanged defensively if needed. It doesn't matter what Butler officially is, he's gonna guard the best wing on the opposing team each night and Wiggins will get the other.

Sacramento's young core is so fucking real holy fucking shit

Literally going to destroy the league.

Isaac is top 5 pleb. Did you even watch Orlando summer league?

You say Bradley is better than McCollum and then you say it's a 3s league, your logic is retarded

Please stick to rugby, Adam

why is fox rated over Tatum?

Lonzo vs Westbrook, Curry, Paul, Harden, Lillard etc etc etc

Small ass ballers

jarrett allen and derrick white deserve their own tier

Doubt it, he is waaay too unathletic for the NBA

Lonzo versus some random Serbian in Turkey you mean?

Dlo is going to ball the fuck out and put the Lakers on eternal suicide watch.

Bradley can play D which makes up for it. DeRozen can't do either

...

Guys how the FUCK do I rebound in 2k13? I'm a 7'6 center and fucking guards are getting over me

Bro Lonzo was legit horrible last night. Don't give me none of that hurr 1st summer league rusty bullshit cause all other top 5 picks had decent games, especially Tatum who looked the best imo, Fox 2nd.

Lakers once again fell for media hype and will have a ~30 win season.

>LaVar Ball Calls Lonzo's Lakers Debut His 'Worst Game Ever

bleacherreport.com/articles/2720463


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EVEN HIS DAD CAN'T LIE

HE'S A FUCKING BUST

oh shit look at the time

you took your biggest L ever last night LOL

Because Harden will just jump into your shit as he shoots

>Get into NBA late after watching college ball all my life
>Expect fun discussions on Sup Forums
>Everyone is a reactionist retard, the "hivemind" is flipflopping opinions on a daily basis always trying to find hype where there isn't any

Okay

It's tiring to have your hands up bro.

Thats just how people talk about the NBA in general, Inside Hoops forum, RealGM, the coli, any YouTube comment section on an NBA video and Reddit are all the same. To be honest I don't think I've ever had a great conversation about the NBA in real life either.

year career all for the Los Angeles Lakers
Stopped reading there

Lol the comment section on Woj articles on Yahoo used to just be people calling basketball players niggers who make too much money.

sorry to break this to you but even if lonzo scored 30 points and averaged 30 for the entire season, they wouldnt make the playoffs

Butler has been in the NBA 7 seasons, all but last year he has been a SG. The guy is a 2 guard as is Harden who has been the 2 pretty much his entire career as well.

Ive got a friend who's sensible to talk to, he's got some opinions I don't agree with but that's the fun.
Trolling once in a while is fine and can be fun but i feel like it's so bad in /nba/ that it's impossible to have a proper discussion.

>Mention James
3-5 literally terrible player
>Mention Kobe
carried by shaq, rapist
etc. etc.

All reports were that he didn't look good when the Lakers worked him out either before the draft. Everyone said he looked out of shape. That should have been a red flag from the start.

its because majority of the posters on here are obese/have never actually played this sport competitively in their life
while they shit post on their left monitor, their right monitor has some slice of life anime playing

>mfw the sixers would've ended up with Lonzo if they didn't trade up to #1

Biggest fucking bullet this franchise ever dodged.

Nah, they learned their lesson with MCW. They would've taken someone else.

First Simmons now Fultz! Will process busts ever not get BTFO?

I was listening to an interview with Brett Brown the day after the draft and he was asked what would've happened if the trade with boston fell through. He said "we probably would've taken Ball and found some way to make it work".

Jaylen Brown is such a badass for playing in SL in his second year when he clearly doesn't need the experience and jacking 20+ shots each game while the fringe guys trying to earn a roster spot can't showcase themselves at all.

>tfw you missed the lonzo game thread
how btfo were the lakies? I bet celties were out here letting them know.

oh shit look at the time

Fox had 5 steals and a block in that game. He's got active hands and hustles.

what youtube has good summer league highlights?

>No lube
>No privacy
>No surrender optional
>No prisoners
>No mercy
>No remorse
>No ass left to conquer

Sums it up.

ibson -- who signed a 2yr., $28 million deal with the Timberwolves earlier this week -- allegedly made an illegal u-turn in front of cops around 2:45AM Thursday morning. NYPD says they pulled T.G. over, and discovered his license was suspended.

NYPD tell us Gibson was charged with misdemeanor aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. He was taken into custody, and released around 4:30AM.
>misdemeanor aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle

lol

GDI, Ximo, and Dawkins each put up individual and team highlights.

Sarcasm detector is activated and in addition I'm picking up trace amounts of salt

really makes you think

People talking about this year's busts but failing to realize the only player from last year's draft that played well yesterday was Buddy Hield.

...

Ingram, Skal, and Chriss were all solid.

>0/6 3pt
>played well

Anyone got Lonzo ball Lowlights? Lmao

too much steroids

daily reminder

put a trash can 10 feet in front of you, close your eyes and throw a rolled up ball of paper at it also make sure your upside down and throw underhand over your shoulder in a helicopter motion
that was him going 1/11 from three