Random NBA Observations 2024 - 2025

[daemonova]

7:00 pm

Boston Celtics vs Washington Wizards

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7:30 pm

San Antonio Spurs vs Dallas Mavericks

TNT

10:00 pm

Oklahoma City Thunder vs Denver Nuggets

TNT


10:00 pm

Minnesota Timberwolves vs Sacramento Kings

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[Serious]

@Skooby

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Intuit Dome got some incredible acoustics and the arena is designed great. Kudos to Ballmer

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Not to mention the 2014 Spurs were literally the only team that played that elegant in 2014

Literally one of the greatest assembled teams of all time

And yet, on offense that Spurs team was best known for what? Danny Green, Patty Mills, and role player Kawhi bombing 3s... centered around a post-presence of Duncan... and PnR spammer in Tony Parker...

...so basically, the 2023 Denver Nuggets with elite defense

People do this thing where they always use the best teams as representative of how every team was playing...and it's like no, just no. Every single era has 2 or 3 teams that play beautifully and then a bunch of mediocre to bad basketball from everyone else. I see people complaining about some 3 point brickfest between say, the Hornets and Raptors but you think some game between two fringe teams in the 80s and 90s was any good, either?

There's a bit of a "lowlight bias" now because of how readily available every single game and highlight is now, compared to the old days where unless your local team sucked you were never seeing the bad teams on TV. Like there's probably 3 times as many national TV games now as there was in the 90s.

 

[Primetime]

People do this thing where they always use the best teams as representative of how every team was playing...and it's like no, just no. Every single era has 2 or 3 teams that play beautifully and then a bunch of mediocre to bad basketball from everyone else. I see people complaining about some 3 point brickfest between say, the Hornets and Raptors but you think some game between two fringe teams in the 80s and 90s was any good, either?

There's a bit of a "lowlight bias" now because of how readily available every single game and highlight is now, compared to the old days where unless your local team sucked you were never seeing the bad teams on TV. Like there's probably 3 times as many national TV games now as there was in the 90s.

Couldn't have said it better. Imagine the shyt the 2014 Pacers would get from the coli if they played in 2024 lol

Spoiler

2nd best team in the East and arguably top 4 in the league that year... had African Ivica Zubac at center as their 2nd best player, their best player being 3rd team all-nba Paul George who shot worse from the field (42%) than Tatum (who gets killed on here) ever has in any season of JT's career

No East team but MIA and IND won more than 48 games that year, and Milsap, Noah, and African Zubac were the all star centers

But we block all that out and focus on the goat Spurs team

 

[SchoolboyC]

People do this thing where they always use the best teams as representative of how every team was playing...and it's like no, just no. Every single era has 2 or 3 teams that play beautifully and then a bunch of mediocre to bad basketball from everyone else. I see people complaining about some 3 point brickfest between say, the Hornets and Raptors but you think some game between two fringe teams in the 80s and 90s was any good, either?

There's a bit of a "lowlight bias" now because of how readily available every single game and highlight is now, compared to the old days where unless your local team sucked you were never seeing the bad teams on TV. Like there's probably 3 times as many national TV games now as there was in the 90s.

Yeah, there’s a reason the 2014 Spurs ran through the entire league that season, nobody else was playing like that

Also, the Spurs style of play in real time was only beloved by Spurs fans and basketball purists. To casuals and especially the media they were always labeled as boring.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

@Skooby

My brehs Big Dikk @Skooby and and Big Dikk @Serious

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[Primetime]

I think this was the best one yet

 

[duckbutta]

I think this was the best one yet

"Don't you know...I can play outside" in a cheesy french accent

 

[daemonova]

stream on Max

 

[Primetime]

"Don't you know...I can play outside" in a cheesy french accent

Ending with CP3's heel turn at the hands of Pop's machinations to come full circle with his opening vision of future Wemby destroying the NBA by learning "court vision"

Prime Christopher Nolan would be taking notes at this carefully crafted storytelling

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Primetime]

stream on Ma

I been bullish all offseason about SGA as the MVP and OKC as the #1 West seed this season.

Couldn't be a better matchup to find out if i was being a casual this whole time

 

[duckbutta]

Ending with CP3's heel turn at the hands of Pop's machinations to come full circle with his opening vision of future Wemby destroying the NBA by learning "court vision"

Prime Christopher Nolan would be taking notes at this carefully crafted storytelling

Yeah I had to watch it a second time to understand Wemby went back in time to learn court vision from Chris Paul

The Chris Paul heel turn

Wemby telling Ant "a slashing two guard...is this 2006"

Him subtly closing golden state window