Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 354. (Read 920810 times)

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.

Yah, I forgot to mention that part.

And it's like the Heat and Spo himself became clever on this deal. They need to let it pass first so that Spo will bag the entire money alone.

That's actually good for the Heat to consider that divorce battle of Spo so that there won't be any problem where the money is going as they pay and re-sign him.

Knicks didn't aquire IQ and RJ they traded them.  The Knicks ended up with OG anunoby and a couple othe bench guys.  The Knicks definately got better, I was on the fence but OG comes in and guards the best guy 1-4 and is a shut down defender.  Jaylen Brunson has 44 assists in the 5 games since rj left.  A lot more ball movement.  Losing IQ hurt the bench but Q grimes and Mcbride are gonna have to step up.  Wish Luka was playing it would have been on of the games of the night even though not a tnt game.

I know the Milwaukee Bucks currently 2nd in the Eastern standing but I doubt they can make Eastern Finals this season. For me it's Celtics against Pacers. If Tyrese Haliburton stays healthy this season I'll go with the Pacers but if not, I still won't choose the Bucks. I'll go with the Knicks. The Knicks right now are a good team especially with they acquired RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley OG Anunoby. Giannis being inconsistent might mean the Bucks face similar issues as last season, possibly ending with a first round exit again this season. 😂

Agreed! I as well is not sure who will work for the Lakers and LeBron and AD, because honestly, I feel like their current roster is already a strong one. 2 major thing that they only need to do is to be consistent and play hard defense. I saw them play a good defense in the IST, the kind of defense they've done in 2020 where they become the champion and them being the number 1 in defense helped a lot to their success.
Consistency and hard defense, I can't think of anything for the Lakers to become a championship caliber team again. They actually have a good roster even after the championship year, it's just that they were not utilize very well.
Lavine, Mitchell or even DeRozan, I don't think they'll make much of a difference. But one thing I'm quite sure here, Russell, Reaves, or Rui will step up on another team if the Lakers pull a trade using these pieces.

There’s a couple of great games tonight and they’re being televised on TNT. I’ll be watching.

First, the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks. This in my opinion is likely to be the Eastern Conference Finals matchup.

Closing out the night is the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers. Maybe not a playoff preview, but anytime LeBron and Durant face off is worth watching.

The battle of the rookie of the year contenders between JJJ and Chet was an interesting one. Both played decent and I want to see more of their match up. It would have been a great highlight if JJJ managed to finish that two-handed dunk over Chet.

Divorce is destroying a lot of men's wealth in the US so Pat Riley looking out for his coach best interest there hehe. I also think the timing of the contract extension was planned.

This is the most interesting part.

"Got divorced before getting the bag": Heat fans point out Erik Spoelstra's divorce timeline after $120 million extension

Good timing and I think it was carefully plan by the Miami Heat. Well, he deserve this contract extension as he is an extraordinary coach, can transform an ordinary player to a star player, and can make an ordinary team to a championship team.

This is what we called "HEAT CULTURE".