Official NBA General Discussion 2025-26 V2.0

[TheAlchemist23]

Jalen Duren scares me, Dwight Howard esque.

Easily the best player on that team. He's driving off the dribble to mix it up but he gets it dumped off to him down low it's a guaranteed bucket. When he Ds up ppl bounce off him.

[HumbleRen]

Jalen Duren scares me, Dwight Howard esque.

Easily the best player on that team. He's driving off the dribble to mix it up but he gets it dumped off to him down low it's a guaranteed bucket. When he Ds up ppl bounce off him.

I don’t want BI or Scottie anywhere near him lol. He’s going to break them in half if they drive on him.

[brownbobcat]

Jalen Duren scares me, Dwight Howard esque.

Yeah, Duren has improved a lot and is at another level this year. He's been one of the best centers in the NBA so far.

13th pick. I'm not going to rehash tWo at this point, but you see all trade scenarios about getting a C and just realize you're never ever getting anyone close to this good unless you trade a star or draft them. Yes, it's very unlikely even with good scouting, but odds of the alternative are much poorer.

[DreamTeam09]

I'm convinced all these soft tissue injuries are because of whatever synthetic additives/supplements these guys are taking

What are these, mind sharing?

I'm not sure, KG alluded it too one time on his show with PP, saying these guys are taking things legal supplements for recovery / he also said on another occasion that it's a conditioning factor and pace of play

[WuTang_CMB]

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[MiamiSPX]

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Castle out now too for a couple of weeks. You can almost make 2-3 championship teams comprised of the guys that are currently injured, it's crazy.

[HumbleRen]

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Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

[WuTang_CMB]

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Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

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Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

The Raptors seem ahead of the curve with the depth and running hard with less minutes for the starters. Not quite hockey lines but we are physically running teams ragged.

[WuTang_CMB]

Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

The Raptors seem ahead of the curve with the depth and running hard with less minutes for the starters. Not quite hockey lines but we are physically running teams ragged.

Lots of depth and quick*er* substitutions is the way to go. Indy and OKC have kind of set the mark for what's to come. You now need 11 guys who can actually play

[HumbleRen]

Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

The Raptors seem ahead of the curve with the depth and running hard with less minutes for the starters. Not quite hockey lines but we are physically running teams ragged.

I don’t think we’re too ahead of the curve, this trend of deeper rotations has been going on for the last 3 years or so. It’s been great seeing a deeper rotation from Darko though.

[HumbleRen]

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Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

I think they have to remove the corner 3. Artificially shrink up the court, no chance they make a shorter season, there’s too much money involved.

[WuTang_CMB]

Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

I think they have to remove the corner 3. Artificially shrink up the court, no chance they make a shorter season, there’s too much money involved.

They probably have to limit the amount of 3's a team can take as a whole. Who knows. Kind of scary since the game has changed so much and more than any other sport. Tough decisions coming ahead.

[Pointgod]

Knicks should do everything they can to convert Towns into AD. If they somehow manage to do that....they could win the chip.

Not Impossible. AD's stock has never been this low.

I don’t think AD is an upgrade over KAT, they just need a better more consistent version of Mitchell Robinson. There’s a pretty solid success metric we’ve seen with KAT. Put him a PF next to a defensive Center with size.

[WaltFrazier]

Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

I think they have to remove the corner 3. Artificially shrink up the court, no chance they make a shorter season, there’s too much money involved.

Probably won't reduce to 72 games or whatever, true, although they should to eliminate back to backs. But Silver floated the idea of 40 minute games, 10 minute quarters, a year or so ago. Might be revisited sometime. Same # of games for revenue, TV would like it better for scheduling, and would reduce minutes. I know there'd be objections about tradition, and the effect on individual stats. I got used to 40 minute games watching the W this summer and kind of like the shorter format. And as Silver said every other level of hoops plays 40 minutes, WNBA, FIBA, NCAA.

[ATLTimekeeper]

This discourse kicked off with Wemby getting hurt, when pretty much no one that tall has ever had a healthy NBA career. He's built to break playing this game. You gotta get those wins in while you can.

People are whining about pace when previous eras required your 6"2 point guard to drive 15+ times a night for And1s just to have a sensible offense. They all wrecked their knees. Meanwhile James Harden hasn't had to take a hard foul in 16 seasons and plays with a beer belly and he's exhibit A for how the game changed.

[MiamiSPX]

I can't remember whose podcast it was but they said the idea gaining the most traction is a certain amount of 3pters per game.

[HumbleRen]

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

I think they have to remove the corner 3. Artificially shrink up the court, no chance they make a shorter season, there’s too much money involved.

Probably won't reduce to 72 games or whatever, true, although they should to eliminate back to backs. But Silver floated the idea of 40 minute games, 10 minute quarters, a year or so ago. Might be revisited sometime. Same # of games for revenue, TV would like it better for scheduling, and would reduce minutes. I know there'd be objections about tradition, and the effect on individual stats. I got used to 40 minute games watching the W this summer and kind of like the shorter format. And as Silver said every other level of hoops plays 40 minutes, WNBA, FIBA, NCAA.

FIBA quarters would be great. I’d welcome that.

[Zeno]

Yep. It’s hilarious when older folks say my guys were able to play 82 games a season back then. It’s like duh, people weren’t covering that much distance back then.

Read something last year that Gradey Dick was running an equivalent of a mini marathon every last year due to how much running he did on the court. Its why deeper teams having so much success over the last 3 years.

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

I think they have to remove the corner 3. Artificially shrink up the court, no chance they make a shorter season, there’s too much money involved.

There is one way to shorten the season but not eliminate games(or the money). Expand the rosters and create two seasons running concurrently. Basically dissolve the G league into the NBA. You can have a roster of around 22 and have an "nba elite" season of 60 games and another nba season of maybe 20-30 games ending in the nba cup happening some time in late Jan/early Feb. Players would be capped at playing no more than 65 games total between both levels. When a team goes to a city they would play a game at each level within 2 or 3 day period. Obviously pricing would reflect the difference in levels and only NBA elite games would be shown nationally. This way players would never play more than 3 games in a week. Anyway that's my rough idea.

[HumbleRen]

Ive been saying this for a while. the pace is 1000x then what it was 20 years ago and even a crazy amount in the last 6-7 years alone.

Players cannot sustain playing at this level without getting injured. It's inevitable and all the data points to it

Something will need to change in the future for schedule

I think they have to remove the corner 3. Artificially shrink up the court, no chance they make a shorter season, there’s too much money involved.

There is one way to shorten the season but not eliminate games(or the money). Expand the rosters and create two seasons running concurrently. Basically dissolve the G league into the NBA. You can have a roster of around 22 and have an "nba elite" season of 60 games and another nba season of maybe 20-30 games ending in the nba cup happening some time in late Jan/early Feb. Players would be capped at playing no more than 65 games total between both levels. When a team goes to a city they would play a game at each level within 2 or 3 day period. Obviously pricing would reflect the difference in levels and only NBA elite games would be shown nationally. This way players would never play more than 3 games in a week. Anyway that's my rough idea.

Is that how the football league does it in Europe? Like regulation and what not?