12/7 - NBA on TNT | Thursday Game Thread

[Illmatic12]

The mix of length, ball handling and agility, its hard not to see him becoming a star. If he can get that jumper to be consistent, he can be an all nba type talent.

He looks much quicker/more fluid, maybe it's just my eyes though haha. He seemed almost sluggish at times earlier, he looks so smooth now.

But yeah every prospect gets to that point where you can just tell it's almost a lock they'll be a star if healthy. Like Giannis post-ASB in 2015-16. Ingram's hit that point imo.

Ya hes not the most explosive athlete but he doesnt need to be with his height and freakish length. But like you said hes very smooth, the dude is just so agile for his size. Its crazy to think hes only 20 years old and he is showing tons of flashes already. LA fans should be pretty excited about him.

Also goes to show not to toss rookies under the buss as trash for what they do early on. Ingram looked really rough the first half of last season and you could see it slowly start to click for him late in the season. Thats why I think its way too early to call Ball or anyone else a bust already.

I was saying in that other thread, imo he’s going to be better than Jaylen Brown but that opinion is viewed as blasphemy around here.

Ingram at WORST will be a playmaking wing on the level of Nic Batum (who got a max contract), and I think his isolation scoring talent + defensive tools gives him a much higher ceiling than that. He’s still like 5+ years away from being a fully-formed player

[CoreyGallagher]

Reggie Miller just bullcrapped his way through an explanation of why Philly is booing Zo.

[PistolPeteJR]

Ball doing me good in 9-cat fantasy so far tonight.

[clyde21]

I hate how Luke Walton talks. Holy crap.

[Illmatic12]

I hate how Luke Walton talks. Holy crap.

You should hear his dad..

[CoreyGallagher]

Benches continue to destroy ours, being outscord 12-0 through 15 minutes.

[Walmart]

Both Bogut and Lopez are outplaying Embiid.

[CoreyGallagher]

Both Bogut and Lopez are outplaying Embiid.

Based on what?

[Walmart]

Both Bogut and Lopez are outplaying Embiid.

Based on what?

Based on watching the game and that last foul should have been a charge.

[toodles23]

Embiid sure does get a favorable whistle.

[Mr Burns]

That should have been embiids third foul. How was that called on Bogut smh

[CoreyGallagher]

Both Bogut and Lopez are outplaying Embiid.

Based on what?

Based on watching the game and that last foul should have been a charge.

Not seeing it in the game or in the box score, but we can disagree.

[Trailblazer]

OMG if the Lakers had drafted Ben Simmons and kept D'lo with Kuzma and Ingram.


#Superteam

[Mr Burns]

OMG if the Lakers had drafted Ben Simmons and kept D'lo with Kuzma and Ingram.


#Superteam

uhhh.... simmons and Ingram were in the same draft

[Duke4life831]

Dont get what Kuzma is doing defensively on Simmons, hes playing him like hes a shooter. Ingram played him much better defensively keeping a good distance and forcing him to be a jump shooter.

[CoreyGallagher]

Read on Twitter

[j-ragg]

I was ready to give up on Ingram already. Guess I didn’t watch enough to see flashes last year but I’m starting to like his game a lot.

[PistolPeteJR]

Dont get what Kuzma is doing defensively this season

Fixed.

[Trailblazer]

Put in LONZO LUKE

The JC Lonzo combo is deadly

[akhan786]

He looks much quicker/more fluid, maybe it's just my eyes though haha. He seemed almost sluggish at times earlier, he looks so smooth now.

But yeah every prospect gets to that point where you can just tell it's almost a lock they'll be a star if healthy. Like Giannis post-ASB in 2015-16. Ingram's hit that point imo.

Ya hes not the most explosive athlete but he doesnt need to be with his height and freakish length. But like you said hes very smooth, the dude is just so agile for his size. Its crazy to think hes only 20 years old and he is showing tons of flashes already. LA fans should be pretty excited about him.

Also goes to show not to toss rookies under the buss as trash for what they do early on. Ingram looked really rough the first half of last season and you could see it slowly start to click for him late in the season. Thats why I think its way too early to call Ball or anyone else a bust already.

I was saying in that other thread, imo he’s going to be better than Jaylen Brown but that opinion is viewed as blasphemy around here.

Ingram at WORST will be a playmaking wing on the level of Nic Batum (who got a max contract), and I think his isolation scoring talent + defensive tools gives him a much higher ceiling than that. He’s still like 5+ years away from being a fully-formed player

Celtics fan here...I think Ingram has a chance to be better than both Tatum and Brown. That shows how highly I think of BI, because I think Jaylen and Tatum will both be sure-fire All-Stars. Ingram could be a Top 15 player.

Emphasis on chance. Not everyone even has that. Who knows what will actually happen, but I'll be rooting for him. Get some meat on those bones.