The NBA Thread.

Is this really what you want us to make our judgement on?

 

you are correct. The whole gather step to me is nothing more than just a travel, but they allowed it so much they gave it a name.

 

you’ve already decided. by whatever nba rules are that night, he could probably take 2 more and they’d give it another name. Can’t debate the fact he has the ball with right foot down and left up, then left down right up, then right down again.
One, 2, free

 

What have I decided?

We’ve established that it’s not a travel under current NBA rules.

Do you believe that LeBron is allowed to travel/not travel at a higher rate than other players? If not, why are we even talking about this?

 

Also, I can debate anything being backed up by those blurry ass pictures.

 

Nah. Everybody gets away with this.

 

Do you think that’s a real, undoctored video of an actual basketball play that actually happened?

 

who knows. There are 10 minute travelling compilation videos on YouTube of him.

 

This is the NBA equivalent of Kentucky fans saying they've never gotten the calls.

 

Real or not, the best comment is:
"That's not traveling, that's adventure"

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/grant-williams-raves-celtics-ball-133000289.html

 

If Norman Powell got to play against the Bucks every game, he would be a first ballot hall of famer.

 

And, Giannis goes superman to save the day, again.

 

It's still funny to me how teams act during trade season. We've seen over the past however many years that you don't HAVE to have a perfect team to get to/win the finals. Nearly all of the top teams have significant injury concerns. The Celtics have Brogdon, Philly has Harden and Embiid, Bucks have Middleton, Nets have Kyrie and KD, Nuggets have MPj, Clippers have Kawhi, Suns have CP3, and the list goes on and on. Injuries almost always change the playoff landscape pretty dramatically, so if you've even got a remote outside shot at making the finals, you should probably make whatever moves you can to solidify that position.

That makes Rob Pelinka's comments about the Lakers all the more confusing. They've shown they can compete. Beat the Bucks on the road. Should have beat the Celtics in Boston. They're 3 games back from the damn 4 seed. The team can absolutely compete for a title if they stay healthy and get some luck, and their position can be pretty easily solidified with a move or two. Just doesn't make sense to stand pat.

 

Kyrie to the Mavs is fun

 

I wish this was real, it has me laughing.

 

@IP

Not any more subjective than "performing well." It's easier to perform well in terms of points per game or whatever when you have unlimited shots on a bad team playing 3 months of games that don't matter, and there are hundreds of examples of this like kidbourbon's guy Kevin Love. No Finals team will ever have that dynamic.

As people like to say, you could put a G-League team into the NBA and someone would still score 18 a game. Raw numbers are always there to be had in a basketball game and are in some ways a function of role, and large roles are easier to seize on bad teams. NBA numbers lie.

There are metrics like on/off numbers that attempt to measure individual impact on winning, which is the point of basketball, but they aren't perfect either. I can tell you right now that with the impact one player can have in a 5 on 5 game, no one leading in those metrics will be on a team well below .500 (it's probably just Jokic again)

 

So maybe the compromise is using on/off numbers.

 

Wow, what a moment. I regret not going.

 

True, and seems like that + other advanced stats are becoming bigger and bigger parts of the NBA discourse