***Official 2024-2025 NBA Thread***

[KC_Connection]

Season starts tonight with Knicks and Celtics followed by Lakers and TWolves.

Will history be made early in the 2nd game?

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Probably because the opposing team shot threes at a massive volume and Utah plays no defense, yes. Every game is literally the same these days.

I don't disagree. I like the idea of eliminating the corner 3.

[KC_Connection]

LeBron is back. ��

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— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) December 16, 2024

The GOAT is making his return.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

LeBron is back. ��

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— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) December 16, 2024

The GOAT is making his return.

Nobody cares.

All eyes on the NBA Cup where the best team in the league is facing Giannis Antkekuompopopopop.

Turn your attention to your fellow Canadian Shai. Enough of LeBron. Its over unless he gets traded.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Nobody cares.

All eyes on the NBA Cup where the best team in the league is facing Giannis Antkekuompopopopop.

Turn your attention to your fellow Canadian Shai. Enough of LeBron. Its over unless he gets traded.

SGA could be the best player on the best team in the league (and he's pretty close) and he still won't draw as many views as 40 year old LeBron does.

[UteChief]

Originally Posted by BWillie

The Utah Jazz made 22 threes at a 57% clip and lost by 8. This would blow Bill Selfs mind.

The 5-19 Utah Jazz? 🤣

[KC_Connection]

OKC choking out in the final just like they did in the playoffs last year. A gutless franchise in the end.

[chiefzilla1501]

Okc is a hell of a team. But man it just reminds me of those UVA teams that were just ripe for upsets. These defensive teams can be so good until they run into an offense that ends up playing out of its mind. It reminds me a bit of the twolves last year where you have two dynamic scorers surrounded by guys who can very easily shoot 10%.

[chiefzilla1501]

Read an interesting opinion by the way about if analytics and three point shooting are ruining superstars. The 3 point chucking we already know. But it was an interesting tie in that it’s analytics that’s driving guys like Ant to become long range shot chuckers. I think SGA is so interesting because is he being forced to do some of the same despite not being a great 3 point shooter?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Okc is a hell of a team. But man it just reminds me of those UVA teams that were just ripe for upsets. These defensive teams can be so good until they run into an offense that ends up playing out of its mind. It reminds me a bit of the twolves last year where you have two dynamic scorers surrounded by guys who can very easily shoot 10%.

SGA isn't as effective when driving into two shot blockers (Giannis/Lopez) but it seems to me they just choked, same as they did in the playoffs. A lot of those threes were open shots that OKC usually makes.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Read an interesting opinion by the way about if analytics and three point shooting are ruining superstars. The 3 point chucking we already know. But it was an interesting tie in that it’s analytics that’s driving guys like Ant to become long range shot chuckers. I think SGA is so interesting because is he being forced to do some of the same despite not being a great 3 point shooter?

Silver finally acknowledged the 3PT issue for the first time yesterday (when I gather he was questioned on how basically every game looks the same). We'll see if anything comes from it. It's gonna take years for them to make any kind of major adjustment, though, I'm sure.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

SGA isn't as effective when driving into two shot blockers (Giannis/Lopez) but it seems to me they just choked, same as they did in the playoffs. A lot of those threes were open shots that OKC usually makes.

Superstars will have off nights but Okc and Minnesota don’t strike me as teams that can make up for a cold night from sga or any. The offense goes as their superstar goes. At least Dallas has kyrie and in the playoffs they needed pj Washington to go unconscious.

[chiefzilla1501]

Silver also needs to acknowledge the total horse shit of injury reports. It’s becoming a complete joke. Healthy starters playing the minimum 10 minutes to avoid fines, injuries announced minutes before tipoff. They’re not even hiding anymore that a player just doesn’t feel like playing . Injuries are up 35% from last year and a lot of these don’t even feel legitimate.

These analytics geeks are ruining the game. Horrendous for the fan experience to travel hours to see your favorite player only to find out he’s a healthy scratch.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

SGA isn't as effective when driving into two shot blockers (Giannis/Lopez) but it seems to me they just choked, same as they did in the playoffs. A lot of those threes were open shots that OKC usually makes.

Yeah Im an OKC fan but it is choke. Just missing shots in big games is not a good sign. So many bricks from 3.

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Nobody cares.

All eyes on the NBA Cup where the best team in the league is facing Giannis Antkekuompopopopop.

Turn your attention to your fellow Canadian Shai. Enough of LeBron. Its over unless he gets traded.

Lol i doubt anyone watches that shit NBA is about as bad as WNBA

[chiefzilla1501]

Pitino brought up on interesting point on Twitter. What if you bring back hand checking