Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 336. (Read 903117 times)

Westbrook already had experience performing as a bench player when he was with the Lakers. So, it should not be surprising that he can quickly adapt to his new role with the Clippers. As for Victor, 18.5 points per game isn't only, it's a good result for a rookie. In fact, he's a rookie like other young players, and I think the expectations for him have been overblown by the media.

Finally, the Golden State Warriors ended their losing streak against the Houston Rockets. 121-116
They will be going to Phoenix with lots of confidence in their next game and I hope they can give the Suns a good game. Houston Rockets is not a weak team anymore so the Warriors did grind to take this win.
Steph with 32 points, Klay with 20 points, and CP3 with 15. The combo looks better now and the turnover was cut in half, unlike their previous games.
8 turnovers only and this should be their average if they want to win more games in the future. Protect the ball and use the possession like it's always the final seconds of the game.
21/43 in distance shots. That's almost 50 percent which feels like the Splash brothers are back. They have fewer points in the paint 16 only against 56 of Rockets but that's how the Warriors play, they live in the three-point line.

No max player, most are young players, and they also have a talented coach who had a remarkable season in his first year with the Celtics. No wonder the Rockets are playing better this season than it was a few years ago.

Now that KPJ is out with the team already, they might focus on developing their young players like Sengun, Green, and Smith Jr. They also have a veteran in Jeff Green who can help them as well. I'm not expecting too much with this young Rockets team, but with their new coach, I guess we expect that they will have a better record now than they had last season. The highest that they can get this season is the play-in tournament since the West is still as competitive as it was last season.

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The Spurs are on an 8-game losing streak as they again lost to the Clippers who won 2 straight games already 124-99.

6 players in double digits for the Clippers, and it seems like they're starting to build the chemistry already. I'm still impressed by Westbrook's adjustment to play off the bench. Wembanyama on the other hand is kind of struggling averaging only 18.5 PPG in those 8 losses. I mean I know that he's still a rookie, but the expectations around him especially with the Spurs fans are high. TBH, with how Chet, and Victor are playing, it seems like Chet is having an upper hand over him, and he might steal the ROY over him. Too early though, but still they on a losing streak currently.

I am more interested with what team will win the In-Season tournament and I think the poll should be changed to that. Or it could be what teams will enter the Finals of the said tournament. As we can see this season, they are playing harder because of it, and it somehow made the NBA more interesting. I think Adam Silver will keep this event because the game suddenly became more competitive.
It also made the stars play more because of the new rule about load management. They are now afraid of whatever the fine that will be dealt for players that are resting without any good reason behind.

Not that much participants on the poll and it shows that Sixers have got the best start for this season garnering 4 votes. While the rest are just like one, two and four votes only.

Just wanna express how funny that image I saw because I've missed the actual game about Westbrook dunking on Dillon Brooks on his face. LMAO!

It was Austin Reaves who hit the three to give them the lead, although the assist did came for Lebron James. I'm not really sure what you mean extra effort, he is supposedly the leader of the Lakers so he needs to be consistent in producing that numbers.

And as said, if he did missed both free throws, the game might not be over and go into overtime. Missing free throws is one in crucial moments is one of Lebron's kryptonite, to say the least.

But I do agree, Alperen Şengün is turning out to be a good player, similar to Sabonis of Sacramento Kings, but he needs to be strong in the inside.

Yeah I like his game a lot.  Getting in foul trouble is an issue for a lot of younger players, they have a difficult time not reaching in.  Vets and guys who know the game know how to draw fouls and get guys in foul trouble if they seem a bit to jumpy.  Houston is building a nice little team.  Young but they should be a good team moving forward.

As a Turkish person, I really got excited about the fact that Alperen played so well again, he is their highest scorer ppg, and he is not even using the most FGA neither, he is third, but his rate is so high. Plus, they gave him the last ball, so that he would go against the king himself, I do agree that Lebron may not be the greatest post defender in the world, but that is still such a big responsibility at such a young age, and not that he disappointed, he went ahead and scored that last bucket, that was an insane situation and definitely an experience that he will not forget anytime soon. I believe Alperen could be a great star one day if they keep using him like this, he just needs to take care of his foul troubles.

In the last quarter, Lebron James took full control and responsibility and scored the winning point. He made a lot of extra effort. When you look at it, he scored 37 points. After the Houston Rockets winning streak was broken, they started to lose with very close scores in the matches they competed well in. These losses are definitely very important experiences for the Houston Rockets, and I think they will learn very good lessons from these defeats. I cannot pass without mentioning Alperen Şengün. He left over twenty scores in this match. If this kid improves his three-point shooting, he can reach much higher levels and he clearly carries this potential.

They're a young team with no superstars so definitely they did well even if they lost against a star-studded Laker team. They might even be considered a rebuilding team since it's still developing and finding out the potential of its new players.

Overall I think they're doing well. I don't see any issues when it comes to their salary cap space. Is there even a max player in the team right now? If it's about the future, you don't have to worry about it since there will be changes and movements to come when needed.

I do agree that Rockets are trying their best and that is an improvement over course of some seasons, they are going to get even better but the main problem they will face is that they have a lot of young guys and they can't keep giving them the max all the time, yes their "max" is not like some Jaylen Brown levels of max, but they still can't just give them full on max, there is nothing wrong with that.

I believe that there is nothing wrong with the situation and should not be really considering the situation getting better, there could be a moment where they will have to take a step back and look who they really need and who they are going to end up using all the time, that's who they will keep and rest they may not resign.

Why does Bron always do it 1-2 for the last free throws in the court? haha I think that's his way of getting on Brooks's nerves knowing he got less of time to get in near the three point line and has to made a shot before the clock ends. But my comment on the game, it is hard to watch Lakers struggling to this kind of Team, I mean Rockets now are on Tier B or C, not even on NY level and they are struggling on getting a win, I think that's what they call the Brooks effect or something.

Yeah! right now it's 1-1 for them this season and that's how it should be because the game would be boring if Lebron didn't prepare a way how to beat them next game. As for the Suns, it was really a great and rare game because to reach that long you need to have a great team that doesn't want to give up easily and that's what we witnessed last night. hopefully to see more games like these in the future because this is how they become amazing when they don't give easy wins to each other.

It's like wondering if LeBron can keep up playing so much. But the Lakers have other good players too and the way they play might change during the season. So even if LeBron has a bad day there could be others stepping up. Let's see how it goes. But I remember the Lakers having a tough time at the beginning of the season. It happens but teams usually figure things out and improve as they go.

Part of the entertainment is seeing him feeling the pressure, I mean the challenge against Brooks he's showing that he's really taking the matchup
as personal as it can be, showing his greatness and not to disappoint his fans.

There's no doubt that Houston is already improving with Fred and the rest of the newcomers, they're playing with heart and that kind of competitiveness. Unlike last season where they were just playing without any direction and just being inside the court and waiting for the outcome.

They are more competitive, and they are really showing that they can push the game to the point where they will really try
It's hard to win the game.

I didn't expect a lot of improvement from this team, but it seems like Van Vleet and Brooks were really good additions to the team. This team has changed from being a bad team to becoming a very competitive one. Of course, we should not forget to praise the coach, as Ime Udoka has been one of the reasons for the Rockets' success.

In the current standings (https://ph.global.nba.com/standings/), they are at number 7 in the West despite having a 2-game losing streak.

I hope they'll bounce back soon and start winning again; they were on a 6-game winning streak before it was snapped by the LA Clippers.

I think he is better this season than his previous three seasons. He is indeed carrying his team on his shoulders but still almost looks like he is in his prime. He scored 37 against Houston and he's playing like he's going to stay at this level until the day he dies. There will always be haters. generally successful men are not liked, they are appreciated later. I am lucky to have grown up watching kobe and lebron. I am especially happy to have witnessed lebron's whole career, from the beginning to the end, and to still be able to watch him in full performance.

Rockets deserved to be praised also. They were tanking big time last year but this season they are devastated to lose the last 2 games. They are of course still young although Van Vleet and Brooks came, they lacked the experience before but they seem much better now. The thing I'm most curious this season is where they will finish in the standings. For now, they seem like they could have a good and successful season.

They are already a very competitive team since the last season, and they vastly improved again this year, but it seems that they still lack the final push in every game. Clarkson has improved a lot but it was not enough though.

And yeah, it was a very fun game to watch, double OT and the game is out now in the social media. And if you bet on the Over for sure you will have hit the game already because the score was high with that double OT.

Lebron again, never ceases to amazed us. He is very competitive and when he faces with the likes of Brooks, it bring the best out of him.

Well its up for us to find out since we don't see Lebron been away for much longer time and for sure they can able to handle that situation since they have guys that can able to step up on the court even if Lebron is out on the game. They have Reaves and Davis that can give them huge output plus they have reliable role players that can also give decent performance to help Lakers win, For now we can only see a Lakers with Lebron since the game play they set is all about for him but once he's out for sure Lakers still a strong team since they have reliable guys that can cover them on crucial times.

For now that is what the game flow and they let James carry the game since the hype still focus on hype so more news about his performance more viewership they can get so expect this to happen while Lebron still active on their roster.

It looks weird my eye was hurting while watching the game it was like red hot trying to pierce my eyes for sure the players have caused Chromatic aberration when looking at the color red too much then when they look at a different view it got a red hue aswell, for sure it is a distraction it also causes chromatic dispersion to the different angle on such place, for sure some players will have a problem with this kind of red color court this could also be intentional as there will players that may have trouble with this kind of court color,


It was the NBA In-season Tournament so for sure both teams will not back away from getting the Win, and actually, it was really a close game as Jalen Green made a great game and Fred VanVleet had a great performance and was great in making plays for the team but James Harden and Paul George have spoiled the efforts of the Houston Rockets and quite sure the tandem of Harden and George was really successful,


Well, Jordan Clarkson got a shooting slump for sure and just gained 22 points against the Phoenix Suns, for sure Lauri Markkanen was the one that put the Jazz together, as he got a double-double of 17 rebounds and 38 points, while Keyonte George was keeping the play for them but it was not enough as the Phoenix Suns have win this game it was really a close game for sure,