2019-20 NBA Season Discussion

[Dr Spaceman]

I haven't seen Dwight move this well in a decade.

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Still seems too stiff to bend at the waist But it’s nice to see the improvement in mobility and motivation. Hopefully he can keep it up the whole season now that he’s got a taste of his old life back.

I legit can’t remember a guy who had a comeback year this good after multiple down years. Rose has bounced back but not like this.

EDIT: 3/9 on the year from the free throw line is his only flaw

He was a total liability on pick and roll defense in Charlotte. Now watching him switch and smother teenage point guards is like watching an entirely different player.

It is amazing especially considering he lost basically an entire year to injury before this.

[The High Cyde]

Well it helps when your role is strictly defined, being coached by one of the best defensive coaches in the league, and have Davis whose another DPOY caliber player playing with you PLUS LeBron who as we know has great defensive awareness too. You can tell Dwight is loving it, he probably hasn't had this much fun in years playing basketball. And he's always had great defensive fundamentals to boot.

Happy for Dwight, not looking forward to the Clips playing them however, their frontcourt is nothing to sneeze at, that much is evident so far in the young season.

[clyde21]

i get that Kawhi has to load manage to make sure he gets to the POs healthy

but what if guys like Steph and KD and LeBron were all on a 30 mins restriction during their prime and also didn't play back to backs to get ready for the playoffs, are we gonna act like that things wouldn't have been different for them as well?

seems like Kawhi is having his cake and eating it too, gets to chill af in the RS because he's Kawhi while everyone else has to go through the rigors of it, and then he pounces in the PS...

[Homer38]

i get that Kawhi has to load manage to make sure he gets to the POs healthy

but what if guys like Steph and KD and LeBron were all on a 30 mins restriction during their prime and also didn't play back to backs to get ready for the playoffs, are we gonna act like that things wouldn't have been different for them as well?

seems like Kawhi is having his cake and eating it too, gets to chill af in the RS because he's Kawhi while everyone else has to go through the rigors of it, and then he pounces in the PS...

LeBron had a lot of heat back in 2017 when he had games off, but he had only 8 game off during the season, including the last 2 games of the season...Kawhi had 22 last year!

Kawhi is the only superstar ever to have been in a team during an entire career that his team would have made the playoffs even if he would not play a game with this team….No other superstar has had this luxury for an entire career in NBA history.

We've often heard that Pop managed Duncan at the end of his career, which is true, but Duncan still played 74 games in 2014 and 77 games the year after when he was 37 and 38 years old!

Kawhi is an amazing player, but he has the luxury of being in a team that his team can have a good win-loss record during his load management!

[Dupp]

Yeah lebron goat roasted for those 8 games in 2017 and he’d played way more ball than kawhi will ever play. Clear double standard with kawhi.

Funny lebron played 82 games the next season solely to prove a point.

[GSP]

Is Joerger/Kings the worst coach firing of the decade? Decisions like that is how teams like the Kings stay the Kings

[anthony00]

Harden with 36 points 13 assists 3 steals 3 blocks +20 plus minus

Westbrook with 18 points 8 rebounds 6 assists 2 steals +40 plus Minus (Highest on the team)

W. I think that rest game was really russ getting benched for the worst game of his career it just makes more sense to me. He had 5 fouls so he was more aggressive on defense.... and he almost all the way made up for last game. Good W Need a win like this against a good team though.

[Slava]

Harden having a bad game in Miami is hardly a surprise. Man has his vices.

[inDe_eD]

i get that Kawhi has to load manage to make sure he gets to the POs healthy

but what if guys like Steph and KD and LeBron were all on a 30 mins restriction during their prime and also didn't play back to backs to get ready for the playoffs, are we gonna act like that things wouldn't have been different for them as well?

seems like Kawhi is having his cake and eating it too, gets to chill af in the RS because he's Kawhi while everyone else has to go through the rigors of it, and then he pounces in the PS...

Do Steph, KD, and LeBron all have degenerative quads too? I must have missed that.

[Dr Spaceman]

i get that Kawhi has to load manage to make sure he gets to the POs healthy

but what if guys like Steph and KD and LeBron were all on a 30 mins restriction during their prime and also didn't play back to backs to get ready for the playoffs, are we gonna act like that things wouldn't have been different for them as well?

seems like Kawhi is having his cake and eating it too, gets to chill af in the RS because he's Kawhi while everyone else has to go through the rigors of it, and then he pounces in the PS...

Curry should have been load managed. It was 100% a mistake to push for 73 wins and it cost them a title.

[clyde21]

i get that Kawhi has to load manage to make sure he gets to the POs healthy

but what if guys like Steph and KD and LeBron were all on a 30 mins restriction during their prime and also didn't play back to backs to get ready for the playoffs, are we gonna act like that things wouldn't have been different for them as well?

seems like Kawhi is having his cake and eating it too, gets to chill af in the RS because he's Kawhi while everyone else has to go through the rigors of it, and then he pounces in the PS...

Do Steph, KD, and LeBron all have degenerative quads too? I must have missed that.

did you read the first sentence of that post?

[clyde21]

i get that Kawhi has to load manage to make sure he gets to the POs healthy

but what if guys like Steph and KD and LeBron were all on a 30 mins restriction during their prime and also didn't play back to backs to get ready for the playoffs, are we gonna act like that things wouldn't have been different for them as well?

seems like Kawhi is having his cake and eating it too, gets to chill af in the RS because he's Kawhi while everyone else has to go through the rigors of it, and then he pounces in the PS...

Curry should have been load managed. It was 100% a mistake to push for 73 wins and it cost them a title.

what does slipping on a wet spot in houston have to do with gunning for 73? Curry didn't get injured in the playoffs because he plays that many games, he injured his MCL because of this:

[eminence]

Heat have really impressed me so far this season, interested in seeing if they can really push the Sixers/Bucks as the season progresses. Not as much star power as the others, but I like their depth and prefer their roster balance as well.

[Homer38]

i get that Kawhi has to load manage to make sure he gets to the POs healthy

but what if guys like Steph and KD and LeBron were all on a 30 mins restriction during their prime and also didn't play back to backs to get ready for the playoffs, are we gonna act like that things wouldn't have been different for them as well?

seems like Kawhi is having his cake and eating it too, gets to chill af in the RS because he's Kawhi while everyone else has to go through the rigors of it, and then he pounces in the PS...

Curry should have been load managed. It was 100% a mistake to push for 73 wins and it cost them a title.

Maybe for the last week of the season, it's important to have a load management, but as another poster said, Curry would have had his injury against Houston in game 1 and game 4, regardless of whether he had had a load management or not.

[Homer38]

Heat have really impressed me so far this season, interested in seeing if they can really push the Sixers/Bucks as the season progresses. Not as much star power as the others, but I like their depth and prefer their roster balance as well.

I think this is possible that the heat could give a fight to the Bucks or 76ers in the playoffs

[Homer38]

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He is right and this is crazy!

And it's just the beginning for him!...I think he has learned a lot from his first deep playoffs run of his career of last year.He has no ceiling even with a below average jump shot and he will become a great all-time if he stays healthy.

[anthony00]

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[Peregrine01]

Kawhi has the luxury of not being the most visible star. Lebron wouldn't be able to do this even if he wanted to...there'd be too much backlash given that he's the face of the NBA basically.

[liamliam1234]

Remember when Lebron literally took a two week vacation because he was sick of his team? I do.

[MisterHibachi]

Remember when Lebron literally took a two week vacation because he was sick of his team? I do.

Yes, it was because he was sick of his team, not because he could barely move with a bad back. Whenever it comes to LeBron, the framing is always uncharitable.