ATL: The 2019-20 Season Has Begun
Moderators: paulpressey25, MickeyDavis
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
-
- Sixth Man
- Posts: 1,995
- And1: 1,943
- Joined: Nov 19, 2014
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Clippers played LeBron to pass. Now that he's lost a step his bad footwork is leading to lumbering drives that end below the rim or with a telegraphed pass
Sent from my moto g(7) power using RealGM mobile app
Sent from my moto g(7) power using RealGM mobile app
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- Baddy Chuck
- RealGM
- Posts: 49,544
- And1: 22,612
- Joined: Apr 18, 2006
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Ayt wrote:Baddy Chuck wrote:TroyD92 wrote:im not saying it’s going to happen, but the Lakers might be a 48 win team
Baring health Clippers might win 70. They're really **** good.
That's a flaming hot take.
If you gave me 150 games from Kawhi/Geroge I'd put money on it.
John Henson wrote:This lady just asked me who I play for and I said the Milwaukee Bucks, she quickly replied “oh the highschool across the street?”
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- Coach Carter
- General Manager
- Posts: 8,549
- And1: 6,261
- Joined: Apr 28, 2017
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
clipps want a title and they have the talent + personalities such as beverley and harrell to get it done
In reference to our title winning year
Coach Carter wrote:This year is a wash and most of us know it.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- blazza18
- RealGM
- Posts: 53,212
- And1: 26,429
- Joined: Dec 02, 2010
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
There were definitely moments where Lebron looked a step too slow
Baddy Chuck wrote:I want to win but I also love chaos.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
-
- General Manager
- Posts: 8,080
- And1: 5,034
- Joined: Jul 13, 2010
- Location: Sconnie Nation
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Clippers are better than I thought. Depth. Defense. Gritty role players. And they cover for their lesser defenders (Shamet, Lou, Trezz).
AD posting is simply awful basketball and the fundamental reason he isn't as impactful as he should be.
Lakers were relying on Quinn Cook to be their playmaker with <6:00 in a close game. That's a PROBLEM.
Gentry lost the Pels the game by having Okafor in with 3:00 to go.
Sent from my SM-G955U using RealGM mobile app
AD posting is simply awful basketball and the fundamental reason he isn't as impactful as he should be.
Lakers were relying on Quinn Cook to be their playmaker with <6:00 in a close game. That's a PROBLEM.
Gentry lost the Pels the game by having Okafor in with 3:00 to go.
Sent from my SM-G955U using RealGM mobile app
fishnc wrote:If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and LeBron, I would shoot LeBron twice.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
-
- RealGM
- Posts: 17,591
- And1: 11,556
- Joined: May 23, 2004
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Couldn’t tell if Lebron or Luke Maye...
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
-
- General Manager
- Posts: 8,106
- And1: 4,148
- Joined: May 06, 2014
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Baddy Chuck wrote:Ayt wrote:Baddy Chuck wrote:Baring health Clippers might win 70. They're really **** good.
That's a flaming hot take.
If you gave me 150 games from Kawhi/Geroge I'd put money on it.
Are you including playoffs? Otherwise Kawhi and his 60-65 games is probably going to make 150 between him and PG pretty hard to come by
Sent from my SM-G892A using RealGM mobile app
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- Baddy Chuck
- RealGM
- Posts: 49,544
- And1: 22,612
- Joined: Apr 18, 2006
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
RRyder823 wrote:Baddy Chuck wrote:Ayt wrote:
That's a flaming hot take.
If you gave me 150 games from Kawhi/Geroge I'd put money on it.
Are you including playoffs? Otherwise Kawhi and his 60-65 games is probably going to make 150 between him and PG pretty hard to come by
Sent from my SM-G892A using RealGM mobile app
I agree it pretty much has no shot of happening. But if it did, I'd put money on 70 wins from that team. They have it.
John Henson wrote:This lady just asked me who I play for and I said the Milwaukee Bucks, she quickly replied “oh the highschool across the street?”
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- stellation
- RealGM
- Posts: 15,543
- And1: 8,904
- Joined: Dec 13, 2005
- Location: *inaudible*
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Chuck Diesel wrote:The Clippers are going to be absolutely filthy.
Sing it, sister!
I do declare, they piqued my interest today.
#FreeChuckDiesel
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- freewhitemoon
- Assistant Coach
- Posts: 3,837
- And1: 1,351
- Joined: Oct 14, 2015
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Clippers will steamroll everyone if they have both PG and Kawhi healthy. Most teams dont have the wing defenders to handle 1 let alone both of them.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- Plossum
- General Manager
- Posts: 7,720
- And1: 4,764
- Joined: Jan 18, 2014
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
AD looked pretty average but guess it will take some time.
Dwight played pretty well.
Dwight played pretty well.
#LockUpChuck
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- paulpressey25
- Senior Mod - Bucks
- Posts: 60,876
- And1: 25,840
- Joined: Oct 27, 2002
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
TroyD92 wrote:Lakers going to be in the market for a guard. Cook and KCP are straight garbage.
They have no assets. That’s the crazy part. Pels control their draft and took most of their average players.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- BroncoBuck
- Assistant Coach
- Posts: 4,362
- And1: 2,609
- Joined: May 19, 2015
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Lakers need Kuzma back to lead that bench unit.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- AussieBuck
- RealGM
- Posts: 41,650
- And1: 19,674
- Joined: May 10, 2006
- Location: Bucks in 7?
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Plossum wrote:AD looked pretty average but guess it will take some time.
Dwight played pretty well.
I only skimmed through it but from what I saw it looks like Howard has slimmed down a lot to make up for ageing/bad back but also looks like he's gained no spring/quickness from it. He just looked like an unskilled, average sized PF. But again I only watched a few minutes each of the first and last quarters.
emunney wrote:
We need a man shaped like a chicken nugget with the shot selection of a 21st birthday party.
GHOSTofSIKMA wrote:
if you combined jabari parker, royal ivey, a shrimp and a ball sack youd have javon carter
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
-
- General Manager
- Posts: 8,115
- And1: 4,918
- Joined: Nov 15, 2009
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
BroncoBuck wrote:Lakers need Kuzma back to lead that bench unit.
Completely forgot about Kuz. Him and Rondo coming back will help.
They could really use someone like Austin Rivers though.
MoreTrife wrote:Love seeing two buffoons have a buffoon competition.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- Ron Swanson
- RealGM
- Posts: 22,336
- And1: 23,357
- Joined: May 15, 2013
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
I'm curious to see how long the "Lebron just doesn't care about the regular season" excuses continue before people eventually reason that he's just not the best player in the world anymore.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
-
- General Manager
- Posts: 8,463
- And1: 11,561
- Joined: Mar 13, 2010
- Location: Get your ass to Mars
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
ZeppelinPage wrote:Jason Kidd **** sucks
Smashes the +1 button so furiously my mouse looks like the aftermath of a tornado vs trailer park battle.
“I went to Toronto, I went to Atlanta/I used to drink Pepsi, but now I like Fanta.”
-Hannibal Burress's impression of Canadian music figure Drake
MickeyDavis: "OT Pants is gone forever. Cherish the Memory." (3/28/23)
-Hannibal Burress's impression of Canadian music figure Drake
MickeyDavis: "OT Pants is gone forever. Cherish the Memory." (3/28/23)
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- SirChurros
- Lead Assistant
- Posts: 5,265
- And1: 3,788
- Joined: Apr 02, 2015
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Lakers bench is hilariously bad. Like woof.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
-
- RealGM
- Posts: 13,458
- And1: 8,085
- Joined: Jul 09, 2015
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
chonestown wrote:ZeppelinPage wrote:Jason Kidd **** sucks
Smashes the +1 button so furiously my mouse looks like the aftermath of a tornado vs trailer park battle.
yea this is a thing lingering in the background in LAL that will probably more negatively affect that team than people realize.
Yea I think the Clips are gonna be the team to beat. I know it's one game, but I've thought this going into last offseason. They had all the role players and hustle guys in place. If they got at least one superstar to go with it they'd have a chance. They got that star and added another star right below the superstar level as well. They should be team to beat.
Lakers teams is so weak after LBJ AD. Green is perfect role player, Kuzma is fine. Then it's pretty much bad. Throw in that LBJ could be finally slowing with AD always being hurt so I'd put them below Clips in pecking order. For the Lakers to have a serious run LBJ pretty much has to go back to being 2018 LBJ, if he's dropped a level I don't think they can do it as I doubt AD is that 'lead, carry your team all the way' type guy.
Just flipping a guy like LouWill from Clips to Lakers would change things a ton. Lakers are going to severely be missing that type of skillset, not dissimilar to how the Bucks were missing that last year too.
Resident Lillard truther since 2015.
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
- paulpressey25
- Senior Mod - Bucks
- Posts: 60,876
- And1: 25,840
- Joined: Oct 27, 2002
Re: ATL: Season opens TONIGHT
Ron Swanson wrote:I'm curious to see how long the "Lebron just doesn't care about the regular season" excuses continue before people eventually reason that he's just not the best player in the world anymore.
Think the NBA world is already there. Bill Simmons proclaimed him the third best player on the court last night, said it wasn't even debatable.