2021 NBA Offseason Thread

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

Some of the foul calls he gets. He has more FTs than FGs

 

[foucault87]

Some of the foul calls he gets. He has more FTs than FGs

He is literally walking into people and just falling. Hate to say it but I'm with Ariza on this one. If your going to get called for a foul, might as well get your moneys worth

 

[Man Called X]

I didn't think we'd see another manufactured superstar like Harden, but here comes Trae Young.

 

[Pioneer10]

Some of the foul calls he gets. He has more FTs than FGs

I just don't understand how some of these aren't offensive fouls. He's jumping into a guy who is clearly in the spot before he makes any move into that space. Call offensive fouls and this shit would stop

 

[Rich]

It's the same horseshit Harden does and it's disgusting.

Playing for the foul as opposed to playing to score and forcing someone to actually foul you is, quite frankly, a cowardly way to play the game. I don't care if its smart.

If you play like that in a pick-up game and try to call those fouls dudes will just simply not play with you anymore. That won't fly in open gym.

And the NBA doesn't stop it because the NBA has somehow convinced itself that more points = more eyeballs.

meanwhile, their ratings continue to fall straight into the fucking ocean.

 

[Rich]

Early returns are in: Philly won that trade with Dallas by a lot. Seth Curry > Josh Richardson.

 

[natedagg]

Some of the foul calls he gets. He has more FTs than FGs

Hahahaha. I have never seen this before and it’s hilarious. Dude can bomb from deep so he is just crafting ways to troll refs and other players. Harden has that bull (the animal not bs) move where if he gets kind of past a guy he can keep that guy from recovering by leaning into him on his way to the rim. Trae doesn’t have that so he will just do whatever it takes, and apparently i mean like whatever it takes, to initiate contact and morph that into a shooting motion.
he doesn’t even need to hear the whistle to start the shooting motion. He just feels a foreign body near his body and it’s like a cobra reflex to go toward it and shoot toward the rim.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Hahahaha. I have never seen this before and it’s hilarious. Dude can bomb from deep so he is just crafting ways to troll refs and other players. Harden has that bull (the animal not bs) move where if he gets kind of past a guy he can keep that guy from recovering by leaning into him on his way to the rim. Trae doesn’t have that so he will just do whatever it takes, and apparently i mean like whatever it takes, to initiate contact and morph that into a shooting motion.
he doesn’t even need to hear the whistle to start the shooting motion. He just feels a foreign body near his body and it’s like a cobra reflex to go toward it and shoot toward the rim.

Kinda makes me wish you could drop prime Barkley into the modern NBA and give him some shots at "guarding" Young.

Barkley would have gotten a T or two, but he'd have made them worth it. You'd have needed a spatula to scrape Young off the floor while Barkley stood there with a "who, me?" shit-eating look.

 

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

Good NBA games tonight. Unfortunately I don't give a fuck about any other games but the Cavs. they are all boring to me...which sucks.

 

[Photon]

Watching games without Cavs being really competitive, I’ve expected to not be so annoyed bu the refs... but shiiiiat.... terrible.
Latest gem: Utah vs Suns, refs gets in the way of Jordan Clarckson and caused TO, JC is pissed and gets a T.

 

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

Watching games without Cavs being really competitive, I’ve expected to not be so annoyed bu the refs... but shiiiiat.... terrible.
Latest gem: Utah vs Suns, refs gets in the way of Jordan Clarckson and caused TO, JC is pissed and gets a T.

Refs get a call right once in every 10 tries.

 

[foucault87]

Refs get a call right once in every 10 tries.

At least a monkey can be trained to react correctly with higher reliability...

 

[Rich]

I hate Trae Young.

The Hawks are good though. Really, really deep. In my predictions thread I said they'll get the 8th seed. Too low.

 

[Ohioplayer00]

Kinda makes me wish you could drop prime Barkley into the modern NBA and give him some shots at "guarding" Young.

Barkley would have gotten a T or two, but he'd have made them worth it. You'd have needed a spatula to scrape Young off the floor while Barkley stood there with a "who, me?" shit-eating look.

If Young had tried that “stop and back into the defender” back in the day players like Rodman, Dumars, Payton, Dennis Johnson etc would have put him through the floor boards

 

[Dshuks]

Deni is going to be really good, he's already putting up decent numbers with a criminally low usage rate and shot attempts. His shot looks much better than advertised as does his defense.

It's unfortunate that he's playing for the Wizards, they have so many low b-ball IQ players that hog the ball, and seem content on using him as a 3 and d player and don't really give him the opportunity to handle the ball even with the second unit.