2018-2019 NBA Season Thread [Archived] Basketball • Page 299

hopefully those are still in the mockup stage lol

 

shout out to jimmy for sitting tonight. fine with me.

 

https://deadspin.com/the-rockets-suck-1830130305

"Parting with Luc Mbah a Moute and Trevor Ariza and replacing them with Carmelo Anthony seemed crazy when Houston did it over this past summer, but in retrospect, it, ah, seems even stupider and more floridly ludicrous. The Rockets ran up the NBA’s best regular-season record last season, and got all the way to the seventh game of the conference finals, playing a highly idiosyncratic and customized (hideous) style of basketball—one that employed a nearly zone-like commitment to switching at the defensive end, and at the offensive end spaced the floor around Harden, Paul, and center Clint Capela with spot-up shooters who didn’t need the ball in their hands pretty much ever. Then they jettisoned, in Mbah a Moute and Ariza, the two players who best embodied the long-armed, low-usage, defense-minded interchangeability the Rockets prized, and replaced them with an aging turnstile defender who also happens to be one of the NBA’s worst spot-up shooters. The only part of this that makes any sense is the results."

 

Fultz gets all the press but the Sixers are struggling because they completely changed their defensive scheme to switch everything and basically the whole team is learning it on the fly. Also doesn't help that Chandler, who is key to this whole scheme, is hurt, and Saric has been struggling on both ends of the floor.

All that said, they are 4-4, not 34-34. There is plenty of time to improve

 

Lots of puke here but I don’t think Ariza or Luc are fixing the issues the Rockets currently are facing with Clint, EG, and to a degree Chris being so bad to start the season.

 

Boogie liked this tweet smh

 

i've been really vibing with most the bucks redesign, not super into those city unis

 

Hopefully Dallas can steal one from Lakers tonight. Losing another one would be spocky....

 

Can’t believe we got stuck with Spurs/Suns on ESPN instead of Dubs/Pellies

 

D-Rose looking really good in that first half.

Wendell Carter Jr. also looking good against Yokic. Being aggressive and Yokic looks too slow to keep up with him some plays.

 

Love those classic Wolves uniforms

 

DAMN, WCJ is everywhere this game. He's finally coming out of his shell.

 

I've definitely been impressed with his defense for sure.

 

Ricky please come home

 

Soooooooooo

Nobody is gonna tell Derrick Rose what year it is?

 

Nah let’s not

 

the pistons are actually good. what the hell.

 

Sabonis. Wow

28 points on 12-12 shooting

 

D Rose really has 41 huh

And still losing lol

 

Casey gonna lead us to the playoffs and we're gonna get first rounded

 

Dre with another 20/20