Thursday 12/19 NBA Game Thread

[thelead]

Orlando needs a scoring guard and owns Denver's pick this year (plus their own). Anfernee Simons is from Orlando.

Make it happen Weltman.

[2weekswithpay]

Denver getting absolutely destroyed on defense

[JustBuzzin]

Denver is an absolute joke

Are they really a joke tho?

Everyone over hyped them and called them a future dynasty after the championship. They are a team who has the best player and not much else. They seem to be on regular schedule imo.

Playoff team not really a threat to win a championship imo

[Wargreymon]

Wow the Knicks won the Towns trade...holy cow

starting to look like the mikal trade is a win too the way he’s starting to play in december

Maybe even the OG trade too with how injury prone Quickley has been.

[DCasey91]

Aaron Gordon seems to escape a lot of criticism on this forum, I'm noticing. I guess because he has good "chemistry" with Jokic off the court.

Nuggets have no backup defensive Center and no one looking applicable on team's O when Jokic sits unless you pray for 5 MPJ 3's. Gordon works great with Jokic (Any of us would though lol), he's missed games.

He's the least bit criticised because he's been very good consistently since he came unlike the other two.

He's the least criticized because it's hard to evaluate his mediocre defense because analytics have not caught up to the defensive side of the floor. It's very easy to judge Porter and Murray's horrible shooting percentages.


Shawn Marion, Aaron Gordon is not.

Hey I'll take what I can. Way worse issues over there firstly firing the FO/Coach into the Sun.

[Tor_Raps]

This is the healthiest Portland has been all year. I don't care what anyone says but they have actual talent on that team.

[DaGawd]

divincenzo reduced to garbage time run…. wild

[SweaterBae]

Guess which one is Scoot:

4-8
4-12
7-12
9-15
6-12
6-8
1-2
2-11

[Sharkboy242]

The Nuggets haven't been particularly bad this game. Lot of 50/50 balls have just gone Portland's way. Portland playing really well too, they look talented.

[Yinwest]

Stat watching but damn….KAT is either 30 piece or 20 boards recently lol

[Chuck Everett]

This is the healthiest Portland has been all year. I don't care what anyone says but they have actual talent on that team.

People seem to expect them to lay down and roll over (especially at home). They just gave the Spurs and the Suns all they could handle like a week ago.

[Wargreymon]

Guess which one is Scoot:

4-8
4-12
7-12
9-15
6-12
6-8
1-2
2-11

2-11

[Champ1on]

Lol Malone looks like he's coming alive now that the score is closer.

[BigGargamel]

Good to see Portland continue to jack up threes while Denver is slicing into this lead. NBA teams are so stupid. No awareness.

[baldur]

Orlando needs a scoring guard and owns Denver's pick this year (plus their own). Anfernee Simons is from Orlando.

Make it happen Weltman.

then why did you sign kcp while you had cole anthony and gray harris?

[Chuck Everett]

Deuce McBride with 16 points, 8 assists, 5 boards in 29 minutes off the bench. Only one turnover. Not bad at all.

[LeBronSpaghetti]

Wtf happened I went to brush my teeth the Nuggets were down 17 and come back and they’re down 6

[SweaterBae]

The Nuggets haven't been particularly bad this game. Lot of 50/50 balls have just gone Portland's way. Portland playing really well too, they look talented.

Yep, those offensive rebound numbers have more than a little luck of the bounce in them and that's the difference in the game.

[thelead]

Guess which one is Scoot:

4-8
4-12
7-12
9-15
6-12
6-8
1-2
2-11

sad for y'all on that pick. It's a crapshoot.

[Special_Puppy]

This is the healthiest Portland has been all year. I don't care what anyone says but they have actual talent on that team.

How many above average players do they have on their roster?