10/24 - 11/6 Games Discussion Thread
 

First game thread of the season as it gets underway tomorrow night.

Don’t forget as usual, NBA League Pass is free during the first week of the season, for those who aren’t signed up for it.

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Cut off the direct tv a couple of weeks ago. What is yalls preferred streaming method for the nationally televised stuff?

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Most of my friends have YouTube TV and they all like it. I'm still in the dark ages with Comcast.

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I was leaning YouTube or Hulu.

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Been a YoutubeTV user for 3 years now and love it.

This is really the best time to have it tbh compared to the summer.

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I'm excited that the season is underway even though I don't usually fully get into basketball mode until football ends. I need something to watch mid week after cancelling netflix and not many regular shows starting yet.

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Sounding like Beal will be a no go tonight and Booker’s status is up in the air.

They starting already with the foolishness lol

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Book says he's playing. So at least we get him and Durant out there I guess.

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That's the best part during the summer I pause it. So I don't pay for like 2 months. But agree this is the best time to have it

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So with YouTube you can just pause the subscription whenever?

That's pretty clutch.. We didn't have any issues with DirecTV, and weren't struggling or anything, but we literally never used it anymore unless I had a game on. So we'd go months at a time and pay like $400 for maybe a few hours of TV.. It was just stupid lol.

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I forgot how we did this last year. Predictions for the year going in this thread or do we get a predictions thread to keep up with that?

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I've been waiting for the "annual @Master Live 013 " post, but anyone can do it if they want since it'll be too late soon.

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Already mentioned Bron’s age in commentary [emoji23]

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Hope everyone had a good off-season. Good to be back with y’all again.

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Dudes not missing lol

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Can’t wait to hear the mic’d up stuff from Murray on that call.

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AD getting that finger worked on already… dude almost made it a full quarter [emoji1373][emoji23]

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Denver picking up where they left off [emoji91]

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Jokic’s court awareness >>>>>

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Weird seeing Bron's stuff swatted like that.

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I've done it every year during the summer except for Olympics. Came over from PS Vue which I missed up until YouTube TV added split screen.

But yes you can pause it at anytime.

Nuggets about to run them over [emoji23]

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Damn shouldn't that be a foul on Jackson? Clearly stepped on Bron's foot

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Naw, naw Kevin Harlan didn't just go there on the first damn night man LMAO

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Technically yes probably, but that’s an easy miss obviously.

If I was Bron I’d be more upset not a single one of these drives has draw a foul with clear contact and one that drew some blood lol.

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I had to rewind to see what you meant [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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To quote the Dells, "Oh What a Night!"

I'm ready...when do the NBA Rookie Cards get released by Panini? I need that Spurs numbered and signed card.

I need Curry to go for 50.

I need Denver to win by 20.

West Coast tonite. East Coast tomorrow.

Oh What a Night!

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Jokic is just abusing AD down low.

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Ad cannot defend him. Its just a bad matchup and has been for the past 4 years. Nothing new as far as that goes.

They’ll need a somewhat mobile big on the roster by the playoffs for a series against them.. or go back to Rui and let AD roam and play to his strengths and just live with it.

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That was Dwight Howard. But agree. Let him roam.

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AD looking in regular season form at the offensive end though.

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AG my goodness lol

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This feels exactly like the playoffs series. Lakers trying to cut into a lead the entire game.

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Woods with good minutes here. How long will that last? Lol

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Prince was good on the Nets.

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Lakers have a lot of the same issues.. you want the ball in Bron’s hands less with guys like DLo and Reaves, and you want to isolate Davis when you can, but neither of those things create openings for shooters. So unless you get clean transition looks the shooting of DLo-Raves-Prince is greatly reduced because if you aren’t leveraging AD as a screener to get Bron downhill there is no action within their half-court offense to collapse the defense.

Have to get more Bron-AD action, or get much more creative in terms of sets and movement offensively. The middle ground was ugly under Frank, ugly under Ham last year, and still ugly here… that’s not going to change.

10/24 - 11/6 Games Discussion Thread
 

Denver rolling again. Always got a run up their sleeve. Brown and Green loss hasn’t seemed to effect them a ton based on this massive 1 game sample size lol

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First trash call of the season.. that tech on KCP.

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Where has Davis been this half?

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Jokic with a triple double lol. Didn't see that coming [emoji23]

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In that DLo, Bron, Ham huddle DLo mentioned they needed to utilize Bron at the high post, and Bron agreed and said because from that spot he can see everything..

Interesting aspect in all that (given who they are playing) is Bron is one of the few players in the league who can make most of these passes Joker makes. But the Lakers run none of this off-ball action, they don’t have guys who cut like that.. largely the only cuts they get are Reaves hitting Bron on cuts and lobs to AD..

Not sure what happened with AD.. he didn’t score in the 2nd half, but honestly I wasn’t really monitoring what his touches looked like throughout the half… weird that they found so much success with Rui, gave him the big bucks, but his only role now seems to be Bron’s backup through the pre-season and this game.

Just a weird dynamic to see them improve so much late last year, then have a full off-season but still have shades of the same issues that have plagued them since making the Westbrook trade… although they played a team that still looks like the champs.

It’s 1 game lol.. but knee-jerk arm-chair GM reaction from me is I’m still not sold on losing Dennis’s defense for Vincent being an upgrade, and still not sold on DLo (or any player of that mold) being what they need to maximize the Bron-AD duo.