Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 848. (Read 919054 times)

Nice to see Anthony Davis back on the floor for the Lakers. Granted the Spurs aren’t a good measuring stick, but a win is a win. The new guy Hachimura had a good game and AD put up 21 & 12. Only a couple more weeks until LeBron breaks Kareem’s scoring record. It looks like maybe the Lakers might be firing on all cylinders by then as they look to secure a playoff spot in the second half of the season.

That's happen to the best of them, unfortunately, even without Haliburton, the Chicago lost because they can't shoot the ball simply as that. They are leading, huge double digit, but the Pacers are not giving that up, even today if you watch their game in the road against the Magic, they have the same kind of mentality. But the Magic was able to withstood the rally of Pacers and won by just 6 points, when they have double digit as well. So it's a tough lost, but hopefully the Bulls can recover from this lost mentally in their next game.

That happens many times and I guess in every game, there is always uncalled violations like carries and travels.

Fans want a show. They want to see the players to score more often that's why referees opt not to call some violations. TBH, it sucks to see players not being called for these violations. Ball carrying here, travelling there and some fouls that aren't even being called even though it's obvious that it is. On the other hand, we've also seen some referees calling a technical foul or a flagrant to something that isn't a technical foul at all.

Right now, the Sixers are leading by 10 against the Nets that doesn't have Durant.

Looking at the stats of Nets right now, it's good to see that Kyrie has somebody that will help him offensively now that Durant isn't playing like Curry and Claxton. On the other hand, Maxey is leading the Sixers with 16 points off the bench. I don't think that the Nets will lose that easily to the Sixers even though they are playing on the road. I think it will still be a close one.

Grizzlies Vs. Warriors. I love the trash talking between these 2 teams, and I still can't remember how Thompson looked at Brooks for about 10 seconds after he fell down. Grizzlies are a dynasty? Maybe they need to win a title first before calling themselves a dynasty. They need to prove something first before telling that word.

Westbrook is really inconsistent. When he was good Lakers have a chance to win games but most of the times he makes wrong decisions and silly turnovers, so that decrease their chances to win games. Thomas Bryant is good in the paint, Schröder and Beverley try to do their best but overall Lakers is weak in terms of supporting players. Watching LeBron's one-man shows and the Lakers losing the game in the end pisses him off too, we can see that.

I had the same feeling, I am confused about what is happening to their team. When DeRozan was injured, LaVine is having a great performance night after night and even with back-to-back games, it won't matter to him. He can still contribute at an amount every Bulls fan would say "he is their star." But that seems to always change whenever DeRozan comes back. It makes people think there might really be something wrong with their team, locker room issues.
Anyway, I am done betting for them until I can see some changes. An inconsistent team is not profitable in betting terms.

Golden State Warriors vs Memphis Grizzlies later, oh this is going to be fun.
Checking at injury reports, both are near clean except for Steven Adams for the Grizzlies, and Iguodala, Wiseman for the Warriors.

I don't know if you guys have seen this, but there is a guy on twitter named devin and he is called "number one snitch on nba" and he shows the carries and travels and many other things that players constantly do. If you watch him, we all know this even watching but didn't know it was this bad, you will realize that all the players that we think are good, became good thanks to not caring about certain rules.

I mean if you carry the ball that much, it makes the defender jump because they think you will shoot, and then you just dribble again, that's just making the league a lot worse. I highly suggest watching his videos, he really shows how terrible some players would be if they followed rules.

Terrible loss by the Chicago Bulls last night.  I just don't get it with this team.  They beat really good teams on a decently regular basis but keep loosing to teams they shouldn't be losing to, like the Indiana Pacers last night.  They had a 21 point lead at one point and completely squandered that.  Lavine only having 14 pts was pretty sad.  The guy was 0-7 from the three point line last night.  After missing 5 straight 3 pointers it's probably time to switch it up.  SMH, terrible loss.

I guess we will see it in the next couple of days after Rui Hachimura have his practice and drills with the Lakers, it's still too premature to judge whether if the Lakers won the trade or not because he is yet to prove himself wearing the Yellow and Purple jersey. We never know, he might get some good flavors and give some good production unexpectedly.

After that championship taken with Raptors, I thought that it's going to be a continuous domination for Kawhi but I was wrong with that.

I hope that Coach Pop will have his new great 3 just as the generation that we've seen with those players that I've mentioned which is most likely the greatest roster that the franchise has ever had.

Davis' return is very positive news for the Lakers, especially for LeBron, as now they will have a chance to improve their place in the standings and make at least a play-in tournament. However, I wouldn't expect Davis to start performing the way he did before. It will probably take him a few games to adapt after his long absence. Anyway, let's hope Davis has recovered well enough to make it through the rest of this regular season without another injury.

I'm not sure if we can use the word "easily" for the 76ers winning the game against the Brooklyn Nets.

Just recently, the Golden State Warriors, which is far much better in terms of roster comparison to the 76ers got upset by the Nets without Durant. Not saying the Nets will be able to repeat that win even without Durant but I should say that there will be no easy win for both of these teams when they faced each other.

Nets without Durant and the 76ers without Embiid. Should be a close game the entire game or if not, the final score is not that gap.

Joel Embiid is questionable in this game, so it's going to be Kyrie again vs James Harden, so we will see who will carry their team to victory. I don't think there will be drama anymore for Ben playing against his former team, but we will see.

If I'm not mistaken, the Warriors beat the Grizzlies the last time in December. It was a huge win for the Warriors that time, there are a lot of emotions between the two based on their history and it was the last time the Grizzlies lost prior to their 11 game winning streak. So it's going to be interesting to see this game.

All I can say is, Hachimura performs if everyone else around him performs. He's had his time in the Wizards helping here and there, but I don't think he's added some more value in the Lakers after being transferred there. Lebron and Westbrook will still be doing a solid carry for the Lakers if they want to be placed in a good standing for the playoffs with players of this caliber in their roster. Hopefully they pull through, but I don't think there's much chance for them given how tight the Western conference is right now.

The chemistry inside Clippers is better than the Lakers, both PG and Kawhai are really respecting each other, they are playing as one, ball
rotations are very important, though both PG and Kawhi are capable of taking the one on one.

If both PG and Kawhai will be ready with a healthy condition, the chance of Clippers is really great, they are capable of winning more games.

Hopefully, there's no major injury that will happen so they can move forward in trying to chase for the title.

A couple of good games on ESPN tonight for the watching. First up you have the 76ers and the Nets. Without Durant, I think the 76ers should be to win easily, but we’ll see. After that, the second game of the doubleheader is between the Grizzlies and the Warriors. This game might be fun to watch. Steph Curry isn’t the most agile defender and Ja Morant is an insane athlete. This could lead to some highlight dunks that you can watch on Sportscenter if you miss the game…

They need not to overused Davis for him to avoid more injuries, I like the idea that once he come back the chance of winning is high,
with him playing with LeBron they are solid both Offense and defense.

The coaching team needs to find ways to give both LeBron enough rest by rotating the players
properly, if they can duplicate how Boston and Warriors doing the rotations, all the players
inside are contributing and know their roles when playing inside.

And speaking of Wizards, Westbrook has 3 of his former Wizards players in Lakers now, Rui Hachimura, Troy Brown Jr. and Thomas Bryant. Well we can say that it's a good trade as it will benefit both parties in this trade.

But in the long run, we all know that this is like patches things for the Lakers, they might not survived another season with this kind of players surrounding Lebron just like what happen to them last season.

Definitely, it might improved, but the thing is that the West are very deep as well and it's going to be very hard for the Lakers to survived in that division. Yes, they might be in the play-in, possible to go, but when they face a tougher team in their first one, they might exit.

So it's not assurance for this season once again, they had a few good runs and wins, but it might be too late.

And then they have to see how Rui will blend in their next game.

Their situation will change for sure once Anthony Davis comes back from his injury and LeBron will be more positive because he knows that he will get some help in lifting the team towards the top 10 and sometimes, LeBron doesn't need to be much aggressive because AD is there already doing most of the work just like what he did before he got injured. But let's face the reality, Davis might good and all, but we know that he won't be playing that long because he is so prone to injury and if he will keep a safe distance to avoid injuries, that will also mean that they will be struggling.

Did you really expect that the Los Angeles Lakers can just have it their way and expect a good trade from giving away their second rounders? I mean c'mon man, let's be reasonable because we all know in the first place that the Lakers can't give a good package to any given team in-exchange for a reliable shooter. Rui Hachimura is quite decent and young as well, he's been favored because he got some history with T. Bryant and R. Westbrook back in the Washington Wizards, moreover, you can't possibly get any good picks in the second rounders. I'd say it's a good trade after all, not what we expect because they don't have that much to offer.