Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 271. (Read 902843 times)

For sure, Haliburton has a remarkable ability and basketball fans love to watch him play. It is certainly not good news but better than what occurred in Memphis. Haliburton is missing seven matches, but Morant is out until the end of the season. The Pacers previously won one over the Wizards and they have a fair chance to prevail over the Hawks, Jazz, and Trail Blazers.

Anyhow, they may be able to win more than just three. The Pacers are on fire prevailing over the Bucks and Celtics which implies they are fit to win matches.

This is not good for the Pacers, missing him for 2 weeks might cost them games because Hali is their leader, he manage the plays well as evidence by his high assists on the last few games. There was even a time that his assists was 23, that's how good he is, his first priority to make a play by making his teammates ready.

Bucks needed a win after a loss to the Jazz, while Boston had a win at home beating the number 1 team in the West, game went to OT, so probably they got tired doing to their 2nd game which is a back to back game. I see the Boston still has the talent, but they didn't have the energy to match the Bucks who are trying to bounce back after a loss.


Haliburton  won't be playing .

Here's the update.
Tyrese Haliburton update: avoids serious injury, ruled out for at least 2 weeks

Well I guess even the best team in the NBA has it's bad night and they gave up already in the 3rd quarter. But you can smell that they wanted to get revenge next, but I'm not sure when is the next game between this two rivals. The Thunder as well win big against the Trailblazers but it was to be expected as Portland is one of the team in the last spot.

Good game tomorrow, both teams coming from a big win, Atlanta winning in OT against the Sixers and then the same with the Pacers beating the Celtics. So it's going to be a fun game to watch tomorrow night. But if Haliburton is not going to play, they might have a hard time to win, but least see, Trae Young is also nursing a shoulder injury so I'm not sure if he is going to play or not.

Yes, it was really a blow out games, Blazers losing that big points against the Oklahoma City Thunder. I know that OKC might deliver a win in double digits, but not that huge. And then the Lakers started very slow against the your Suns,  .

Beal having his best game as Suns and almost shooting perfectly in the 3 point line, 8/10. And then Durant and Booker too providing the needed offense and they really buried the Lakers in just 3 quarters and it was just moot in the 4th as we are waiting what will be the handicap win by Phoenix.

Lakers are probably done this season, they lose big time to the Phoenix Suns who are also struggling, but they are worst than them. Beal had 37 points, this is scary, he is back to his old form, and hopefully the Suns will be consistent in the coming games.

While looking at the Lakers players stats, I feel dissapointed specially the two superstars of the team.

Lebron 10 points and AD 13 points, this is a real struggle, both of them.

I feel like they are getting 'real-proper' old now, and not like they did anything with their young players neither, they kept on sending their best players away, and didn't resign with them, and they are basically playing with an older Curry who is still good of course, an injured Klay who never got back to how good he used to be, and a mad dog Draymond who is not help, these tree were awesome maybe 5-8 years ago, but not today, they are not really that great anymore and they should reconsider the rebuilding phase.

While they have these, they should try to get some young players, so far whoever they got they just get rid of eventually. You can't keep this team going, they will keep on getting worse and worse overtime.

If his teammates continue lobbing him it's gonna be an easy record for Victor, the thing is this team compose of young players who wants to showcase their ability on the court and they wouldn't let Victor finish all the plays, which I think they should if they do really want to win a game.

I don't know, but for the past weeks of watching Lakers play, I don't think they really want the championship this year. Trade deadline is coming, do they do this to reason out for player trade?

They almost didn't do anything against the Suns. The only reason they are in the play-in pot is because the Warriors are as bad as they are. But the Utah Jazz have been pretty good lately. For now, these three teams are going head-to-head for the play-in. Let's see which one of them will grab the last play-in ticket. I predict that the Suns and Rockets will be in the top nine. Like the warriors, Lakers have to make a trade or else AD has to play with averages like 40 points, 20 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 blocks.

That was good. I think if Victor continues to progress, we will see more than one triple-double from him, but not with ten assists, but with ten blocks. However, I wouldn't be surprised if he makes even a quadruple-double one day, as players like Olajuwon and Robinson have done before.


It was another pathetic performance by the Lakers. It looks like they didn't even try to beat the Suns in this game, as no Lakers player even managed to score 20 points.

Well, the good thing is that the game happened in the home court of the Thunder. Just imagine if it happened in the home court of Portland? We might see fans booing them like what happened to Detroit, and Golden State.

TBH, It's my first time to see that happen. Not the huge lead, but the opposing team being down by more than 50+ points. Just for context, the 62-point win of the Thunder tied the 5th largest win in NBA history. Watch out for the Thunder. They have an MVP caliber player in SGA, a Rookie that can get the ROTY award in Holmgren, and basically a team that's full of young players, and a bunch of draft picks as well that they can use to get another all-star player if needed. They're coming. They will clinch the playoffs this season, but I don't know if they will pass even the Conference Finals just because of their lack of experience in the playoffs.

What's hilarious with this game is that, the starting 5 of the Celtics didn't bother playing in the 2nd half for some reasons. Nevertheless, the Celtics are still at the top in the Eastern Conference. I guess the halftime score where the Bucks are up 30+ points already broke the morale of the team.

The notable score of the night was in the match played between Oklahoma and Portland. I was amazed when I saw the third quarter score 118 -56.
When Oklahoma put on the brakes a little in the last quarter (they only scored 21 points in the fourth quarter), the score ended 139-77. Six basketball players in Oklahoma reached double-digit scores.
The other match of the night for me was between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix, and Los Angeles continued its inconsistent play as before and lost 109-127 at home. When Anthony Davis and LeBron scored few points, defeat became inevitable.
Milwaukee, second in the Eastern Conference, defeated leader Boston at home with a score of 135-102.

They are exhausted. They played until overtime yesterday. It's obvious that the Milwaukee Bucks will win that game and even the sports analysts think so too as the spread given at the start of the game is -6.5. That's not the normal spread when they are up against the Bucks when they are fresh from rest.

LA Lakers lost in a blowout against the Phoenix Suns. Bradley Beal has the hot hands shooting 8/10 in the three-point line. Booker too with his high-arcing perimeter shots made 31 points.
The Lakers are just so bad defending the backcourt. There are rumors that they are interested in Dejounte Murray of the Atlanta Hawks. They want to add more speed and with DLo getting more injured a lot of time, Austin Reaves cannot handle the playmaking. They want to spread the floor more or add some speed in their transition plays.
The Phoenix Suns on the other hand might not really make a move before the trade deadline ends. What they needed more is more body on the inside, a big forward maybe.

Knicks almost snatched that game against the Dallas Mavericks. Threes are all sinking in from Brunson, Anunoby, and DiVincenzo who made a good long run. The Mavs felt the drought for 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter where their lead was 16 or 18 IIRC. Almost there, but their luck ran dry in the last seconds of the game. It could've been the 6th winning streak for the Knicks since Anunoby played.

Yes, OKC really would have stood a chance to clinch the reverse record for themselves, it would have been a thing to see, and meanwhile, for OKC, they had the luxury of having their starters play longer minutes in the 4th Quarter as they are not having a back to back fixture, while Trailblazers are up for what could be another round of serious bashing as they face the Minnesota Timberwolves tomorrow, I really don't think this kind of score line would be a boost of confidence when playing against the best defensive team in the league this season.

OKC vs Portland really was something.
Up 36 at halftime the odds for OKC to win the 3rd have been around 1.75, even though they still played their starters.
And what followed was a 43:17 beatdown quarter yet again, easy money.

For a while I thought OKC might now aim for the reverse record. OKC holds the record for the biggest loss in NBA history losing 79 : 152 vs Memphis.
Would have been fun to see them get the record for the highest win ever as well but unfortunately 11 points to tie is were missing. If they played their starters in the 4th this would surely have been possible but I guess fair play (makes sense ) got in the way.

Must be something in the air tonight. The Portland Trail Blazers are down by more than 60 to the Oklahoma City Thunder with a few minutes to go. I can’t remember the last time I saw a beat down that bad. Hard to believe they’re even running up the score that much.

I can't believe the temporary result of the bucks vs boston celtic. until the 3rd quarter, they lost 100-62. the squad is equal but I can't believe that they can lose so badly and be so far behind. boston celtic's game today is really bad.

Pat so clever they really take care of spo, waiting for the right moment before giving the extension, a win for Miami and Spo, I bet the woman did not see it coming.

Yeah he is going to be a nightmare to come.  Peak ceiling he will be hlgiannis with a better handle and better outside shot.  That's a terror to deal with.  He held his own against giannis this year.  I'm still skeptical to anoint him the future, he needs to show that his body can hold up to the rigors of the NBA or he will just become another could've would've should've in the league.  Hopefully them knees stay in tact.

Heard this news yesterday night. The Miami Heat management definitely did well here in taking care of Coach Spo. He may not have given them a ring again but he had always been one step closer to the championship ring ever since they acquired Jimmy Butler. The bubble and last year where they came from the play-in tournament that was recorded as the first time to happen in the league. Good coaching and system and we have not seen Butler creating any drama ever since he went to Miami.

How about the first career triple-double of Victor Wembenyama?
I didn't get to watch the Spurs yesterday playing against the Detroit Pistons because both teams are at the bottom of the ranking so I thought it wouldn't be that much fun. I just checked the highlights after reading the news.
https://www.nba.com/news/victor-wembanyama-posts-1st-career-triple-double-in-21-minutes
Winning on the road and blowing out Detroit. That's awesome. Wemby will have more triple-doubles in the future, he ain't bad with his passing skills and he can also ball handle at an average skill. With his height, he can definitely see open men on the whole floor just like how Jokic is doing it.