2025 NBA Preseason Multi-Game Thread! (October 2-17)

[mademan]

One sided whistle like usual with these teams. Nuggets flop nonstop for calls… clippers get shoved in the paint no calls.

Complaining about refs in a preseason contest is next level. A true commitment to the game

[SlimShady83]

Lakers!

[SlimShady83]

One sided whistle like usual with these teams. Nuggets flop nonstop for calls… clippers get shoved in the paint no calls.

Complaining about refs in a preseason contest is next level. A true commitment to the game

Didn't see the games, But it's also the REFS preseason too, they have to warm up:)

[SlimShady83]

Watching game now

Ayton = 14, 8, 5 my predictions = 20-12-4 we'll see.

[AleksandarN]

One sided whistle like usual with these teams. Nuggets flop nonstop for calls… clippers get shoved in the paint no calls.

Coming from a SGA fan is **** hilarious

[Wolfgang630]

Complaining about the refs in preseason because the clippers lose to Denver lmaooo

[MMyhre]

Man, if I'm the Raptors, im getting concerned about Barnes. Outside shot still looks busted. Doesn't seem to have any real moves to get to where he wants, and all around looks wholly unimpressive. I mean he's picking up stats, 8/9/2/2 in 16 minutes, but does not look like a max type of player.

Looks like more of a utility type of player, than a 1a, or 2b type. I know its preseason, but its noticeable.

To be fair, he posted a +22, my stream was so **** that I couldn't see stuff happening, so it was hard to track how his defense looked. I think it's getting clear that he does not have a very high offensive ceiling, but has to go for the Draymond Green archetype of player, which is still very much so useful. The only problem there is that the advanced stats think he is a positive defender, but not anything special from last season. So idk, I need to watch him play without the worst stream of all time. Maybe I'll watch the replay, looking at his shot diet the fact that he took more threes than rim shots last season shows he is a stupid/delusional offensive player. He was actually elite finishing at the rim in 23-24, yet he still took more threes and kept doing it worse in 24-25. Clearly a coaching and stupid player combination here. Someone said he is struggling with a jumpers knee as well...

The fact that they got Ingram makes this situation better, since he no longer has to be the 1st option which he just doesn't seem to have the capacity to be in any way whatsoever. He probably shouldn't be the 2nd option either though, Barrett is their best bet there but he has a pretty awkward offensive game with his subpar athleticism and inconsistent shooting.

I think Quickley is pretty overrated as well, he was just put in to be a playmaker that he really had no experience or skillset showing he could do that before. He also has pretty terrible mechanics for getting to the rim, jumping etc, very poor vertical athlete and poor at getting to the rim = lower % shots, thus he is very reliant on his three pointer going to produce effective offense. I did a lot of analysis on him in the Quickley threads when he signed because the stats looked good, but I was not sold because of how his game looked. In 23-24 he got 102 shots at the rim, and mind you this is probably a lot from fastbreaks, because he is fast, and compare it to 433 attempts from three and you see how he is too reliant on his outside shot going. He does not either have an elite long mid range, or short mid range game to fall back on either, making him a very unreliable scorer. Compare his shot diet to someone like Shai, who is at 545 threes attempted compared to 426 shots at the rim, and the balance of effective shots is much better because Shai is just so much more refined, not necessarily just because he is bigger and longer, but because he has much better skill and movement mechanics to set himself up.

So yeah, idk. Raptors better hope Ingram doesn't get injured again if they want to make the playoffs, because their offensive players except him are just unreliable and inconsistent.

[BruttoNostra]

Clippers were whistled for 5 less fouls and shot 9 more FTA.
Not like it's a clear indicator for anything, but let's not pretend Nuggets won the game SGA-style.

[nomansland]

The Nuggets offense is looking very good so far, and that's without Cam Johnson hitting wide open looks. The double big lineup was fun for a few minutes. Glad they're experimenting with it.

Brook Lopez was a very nice get for LA.

[Catchall]

Cooper Flagg and Ace Bailey matchup tonight. See if they guard each other.

[MrGoat]

No fun that there is no preseason game scheduled between the Bucks and the Lakers. We could have had the ultimate nepotism game with Bronny vs. Thanasis and Alex Antetokounmpo.

I guess we have Lakers Warriors to have Bronny show down versus the Curry brothers but Seth is actually a legit NBA player at least

[LockoutSeason]

He hooping.

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[G R E Y]

Castle is not 6'3" what's that broadcast photo showing?

[G R E Y]

AREA 51!

[Bornstellar]

Victor honestly looks like he's leveled up. Dude might eff around and win MVP this season

[G R E Y]

French Vanilla time!

[G R E Y]

Dylan my GOODNESS! PRETTY pass, physical drive, hard D.

[G R E Y]

W3MBY.

[Klomp]

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[Capn'O]

I already can't stand Jordan Clarkson