Random NBA Observations 2016 - 2017

[tremonthustler1]

What does that mean?

you're a smart kid.

 

[duckbutta]

Kawhi did it again

Had Danny Green wide open in the corner calling for the ball with the shot clock running down and instead kawhi shot it from damn near half court

Kobe system

 

[funkee]

KAT had 47 and you expected a play for Lavine. Breh...

dude, fukk the amount of points KAT had at that time, with 2.3 sec left on the clock, that is not a situation to force feed KAT the ball to create a tying or game winning jumper, that's just not his game when you have shot creators on the floor with that narrow of a timeframe left. that situation screams lavine or wiggins at worst. Biggest problem this game and all season long has been the pathetic excuse for a bench.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Westbrook just has another gear that no other human being has.....

 

[Flight]

dude, fukk the amount of points KAT had at that time, with 2.3 sec left on the clock, that is not a situation to force feed KAT the ball to create a tying or game winning jumper. that situation screams lavine or wiggins at worst.

Thibs ain't that creative breh offensively.

 

[Reid2Achieve]

To be fair it's his first game back. I have my gripes with Randle but the more Russ & Ingram develop hopefully we won't need Randle to be more than a 3rd/4th option.

As I stated before his tunnel vision at times is

He played yesterday as well (and was worse), but I will give him a pass because at least he was active on the boards. He needs to calm down with the dribbling though and make better decisions. I was ready to throw him in the bushes for Black tonight (but Black had foul trouble)

 

[NoMorePie]

The Spurs pulled that win out of their ass

 

[KOohbt]

Wizards can barely beat a d league team bruh, it ain't that impressive

Only a fakkit can hate like you

 

[thewiz]

Only a fakkit can hate like you

I'm a Westbrook fan you clown ass nikka, putting up numbers on the wizards ain't shyt

 

[funkee]

Thibs ain't that creative breh offensively.

breh, you don't have to be creative to run a simple pass to gorgui with a handoff to zach or running zach off screens to get a dribble into a shot. he's done it numerous times since he was a rookie at the end of shot clock/games. calling a play for KAT in that situation with that little time left is stupid despite his 47 points (and he had a great fukking game when he decided to finally keep his ass in the post and move the ball around). If there were 6-7+ seconds left, then i could see how he would consider dumping it to KAT. But with 2.3 sec left? absolutely not.

 

[FakeNews]

The other new wrinkle is NBA sideline work, which Schefter first revealed to The MMQB’s Peter King during a podcast this week. But the NBA will be strictly one-off assignments. Schefter repeated multiple times during his interview with SI.com that he does not want anyone inside or outside ESPN to think he is taking gigs away from ESPN’s regular NBA sideline reporters.

Schefter’s close friends at ESPN know this but most do not: Schefter has become a hardcore NBA junkie. He plays daily NBA Fantasy and following the NBA has become somewhat of a pleasurable obsession. To wit, he’ll often reach out to ESPN NBA staffers Brian Windhorst and Antonio Davis just to talk the sport. He also counts Clippers point guard Chris Paul as an acquaintance. Paul calls Schefter for Fantasy Football advice; Schefter asks Paul about his league.

“I went from knowing nothing about the NBA a couple of years ago to knowing every player on every roster,” Schefter said. “It’s become a side hobby and the bosses are aware of that.”

Schefter declined to comment on any specifics relating to his contract negotiations but did say, “I want to make it very clear in no way am I looking to infringe on the turf of someone like Doris Burke, Rachel Nichols, J.A. Adande, Marc Stein or anyone else. They do a great job. That’s not what this is about. I could never do their jobs. This is just me doing an assignment where it will be 100 percent fun to me. My job is great but it is also intense and relentless.”

Viewer reaction to Schefter on the NBA sidelines will be interesting. (Schefter was a sideline reporter for the NFL Network for two years in the early days of that network’s Thursday Night Football presentation.) He has marinated in basketball reporting (he has some NBA sources) in small doses, and recalled being amused at how people told him, in essence, to stay in his own lane. “One of my proudest moments at ESPN was filing a couple of years ago that Dwight Howard was going to make his [free agency] decision by a certain date,” Schefter said. “People were like, Adam Schefter? What the hell is this?”

Schefter has already sent his schedule to Tim Corrigan, a senior coordinating producer who runs ESPN’s NBA game assignments, on dates he might have a break (December, the end of January, the second half of February) in his NFL schedule. Asked if he wanted a piece of Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, a noted sideline reporter killer Schefter said, laughing, “Bring him on. He can’t be much different than Bill Belichick, right?”

 

[Reid2Achieve]

 

[The God Poster]

He played yesterday as well (and was worse), but I will give him a pass because at least he was active on the boards. He needs to calm down with the dribbling though and make better decisions. I was ready to throw him in the bushes for Black tonight (but Black had foul trouble)

Didn't even realize we played last night

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Westbrook has to be the most polarizing & complex player we've seen since Iverson. You drift btw WTF & WOW. Outstandingly flawed but amazing

 

[jaguar paw]

The other new wrinkle is NBA sideline work, which Schefter first revealed to The MMQB’s Peter King during a podcast this week. But the NBA will be strictly one-off assignments. Schefter repeated multiple times during his interview with SI.com that he does not want anyone inside or outside ESPN to think he is taking gigs away from ESPN’s regular NBA sideline reporters.

Schefter’s close friends at ESPN know this but most do not: Schefter has become a hardcore NBA junkie. He plays daily NBA Fantasy and following the NBA has become somewhat of a pleasurable obsession. To wit, he’ll often reach out to ESPN NBA staffers Brian Windhorst and Antonio Davis just to talk the sport. He also counts Clippers point guard Chris Paul as an acquaintance. Paul calls Schefter for Fantasy Football advice; Schefter asks Paul about his league.

“I went from knowing nothing about the NBA a couple of years ago to knowing every player on every roster,” Schefter said. “It’s become a side hobby and the bosses are aware of that.”

Schefter declined to comment on any specifics relating to his contract negotiations but did say, “I want to make it very clear in no way am I looking to infringe on the turf of someone like Doris Burke, Rachel Nichols, J.A. Adande, Marc Stein or anyone else. They do a great job. That’s not what this is about. I could never do their jobs. This is just me doing an assignment where it will be 100 percent fun to me. My job is great but it is also intense and relentless.”

Viewer reaction to Schefter on the NBA sidelines will be interesting. (Schefter was a sideline reporter for the NFL Network for two years in the early days of that network’s Thursday Night Football presentation.) He has marinated in basketball reporting (he has some NBA sources) in small doses, and recalled being amused at how people told him, in essence, to stay in his own lane. “One of my proudest moments at ESPN was filing a couple of years ago that Dwight Howard was going to make his [free agency] decision by a certain date,” Schefter said. “People were like, Adam Schefter? What the hell is this?”

Schefter has already sent his schedule to Tim Corrigan, a senior coordinating producer who runs ESPN’s NBA game assignments, on dates he might have a break (December, the end of January, the second half of February) in his NFL schedule. Asked if he wanted a piece of Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, a noted sideline reporter killer Schefter said, laughing, “Bring him on. He can’t be much different than Bill Belichick, right?”

Handegg is dying.