The Official Offseason 2016-17 NBA Thread: Waiting for Preseason

To be fair, Chandler has looked really good this year too, particularly on the boards. Having that 1-2 punch at center is nice since I’m so used to it being our weakest position year after year.

LOL Bulls. Fuck Wade.

Big test for the Clippers tonight. They need to win this and show they belong in conversation with SA and GS.

Embiid is legit. Once Simmons comes back they need to see about moving Okafor, he’s gonna be the odd man out of this.

After that Sixers ending, I have no words.

Sixers deserve a win, man. Brutal.

Conley has been putting up great numbers. Maybe he’s turning a corner.

Welp that escalated quickly.

Bucks are the surprise team so far.

https://youtu.be/yzCLnOwJZbw

There won’t be too many traditional post bigs left soon.

Yeah, it’s called being healthy…i will agree he’s looking for his own shot a little more than usual tho Tough loss to the Blazers. CJ Macullum lit us up for damn near 40… Parsons played but didn’t do much… He still looks weeks away from being 100%

You don’t pay a player $16 million dollars to come off the bench, that’s the problem with Bucks. They need to find out what they want to do with Monroe.

Bucks, Lakers and Nuggets all look improved. Magic win 3 straight after starting 0-3. Bulls and Celtics starting to look sus. Thunder with a better record than Warriors.

Gotta love early season basketball.

Nance got injured, hopefully nothing serious.

Lakers just look fun, the ball is moving and guys are getting good looks. They’ve tighten the screws defensively as well.

nance concussion.

harrison barnes scored 34. i’m so happy he’s flourishing.

You won’t be saying that if he goes off on the Warriors this Wednesday.

Reminder

i just want the league to get it out of their system early on.

i can also be happy about harrison killing it while simultaneously being disappointed that this warriors team couldn’t rebound on an empty court.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZHNbNqNfI

i think its great that the bucks only scored 1 point in overtime. can’t even blame mcw for that one.

https://youtu.be/gTy873h5588

Booker makes scoring look so effortless.

Barnes and Bogut played really well, specially Barnes at PF. Also the Bucks had real problems getting the ball up.

What we can take away is, that the young gun Finney-Smith defended really well. Also that Barnes is alright with isolations, when the P&R game is not there (Bucks double teams helped abandon that this game).

I don’t think this is true anymore. From watching them so far this season, you don’t see the fear in the opposition anymore. Before, if a team were up 20 on GS, you could still see that team was tense and on their toes - thinking about every decision twice. This season is the complete opposite. Everyone knows they don’t have a bench. Everyone knows they’re too small. Everyone knows they gave away all their depth to get better in a category they were near unstoppable in already.

It’s still early, but right now it’s looking like a big lead is pretty safe against them and they don’t intimidate teams anymore.