GT: Raptors @ Scary Hours Funhouse - Friday, 02/05/21 | 7:30pm | ESPN & YES

[djsunyc]

Can somebody tell Harden to wake the fxkk up? You want to be the distributor, fine. But taking less than 10 shots a game is unacceptable, with Durant out no less. Not the first time this happened.

There’s no big 3 if you’re just a role player.

not sure if you saw it but he and nurse were talking a while. nurse has always thrown doubles at him taking him out of his scoring game. he did it again tonight.

[NyCeEvO]

This entire thing sabotaged this game.

Might have sabotaged the Philly Game too.

The thing that pisses me off is they admitted KD tested negative multiple times!

You can test positive after soon after testing negative.

It takes time for the virus to self-replicate. That’s why if you’re exposed to someone who is confirmed to have COVID, you should quarantine regardless but not take a PCR test until day 5 after post-exposure. By that time, the virus should’ve self-replicated enough such that we’d know whether you have COVID or not. If you take the test too soon after exposure, you still might end up getting COVID despite early negative tests.

[TheNetsFan]

This entire thing sabotaged this game.

Might have sabotaged the Philly Game too.

The thing that pisses me off is they admitted KD tested negative multiple times!

You can test positive after soon after testing negative.

It takes time for the virus to self-replicate. That’s why if you’re exposed to someone who is confirmed to have COVID, you should quarantine regardless but not take a PCR test until day 5 after post-exposure. By that time, the virus should’ve self-replicated enough such that we’d know whether you have COVID or not. If you take the test too soon after exposure, you still might end up getting COVID despite early negative tests.

But it's also highly unlikely that you would be shedding a significant amount of virus only a few hours after exposure. KD supposedly had contact with this person this afternoon.

[Suwanee]

Can somebody tell Harden to wake the fxkk up? You want to be the distributor, fine. But taking less than 10 shots a game is unacceptable, with Durant out no less. Not the first time this happened.

There’s no big 3 if you’re just a role player.

Been saying that since he got traded here. We didn’t trade for him to be an above-average PG, we traded for him to be James Harden the perennial MVP candidate.

It doesn’t take a basketball savant to realize that we still need to play at a high level in order to win. Why can’t he recognize that himself?

I think he knows. He’s not dumb. My guess is he’s tired of the narrative that he’s always had goat like numbers in the regular season but kept choking in the playoffs.

So he’s just gonna yo-yo his way (or coast if you want) until the playoffs. Then his performance will for sure be better than his regular season stats.

I can somewhat understand it. He can afford to do it now that he’s got two elite players on his side, whereas before Rockets wouldn’t even sniff the playoffs if he hadn’t given his all in the regular season.

But he’s done it to an extreme...

[NyCeEvO]

Might have sabotaged the Philly Game too.

The thing that pisses me off is they admitted KD tested negative multiple times!

You can test positive after soon after testing negative.

It takes time for the virus to self-replicate. That’s why if you’re exposed to someone who is confirmed to have COVID, you should quarantine regardless but not take a PCR test until day 5 after post-exposure. By that time, the virus should’ve self-replicated enough such that we’d know whether you have COVID or not. If you take the test too soon after exposure, you still might end up getting COVID despite early negative tests.

But it's also highly unlikely that you would be shedding a significant amount of virus only a few hours after exposure. KD supposedly had contact with this person this afternoon.

That’s correct. But because “highly unlikely” isn’t “impossible”, I understand why the league doesn’t want to take any chances despite the **** behind letting him play initially lol.

[GTR11]

We looking at 2 to 4 games without KD now.

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[NyCeEvO]

Can somebody tell Harden to wake the fxkk up? You want to be the distributor, fine. But taking less than 10 shots a game is unacceptable, with Durant out no less. Not the first time this happened.

There’s no big 3 if you’re just a role player.

Been saying that since he got traded here. We didn’t trade for him to be an above-average PG, we traded for him to be James Harden the perennial MVP candidate.

It doesn’t take a basketball savant to realize that we still need to play at a high level in order to win. Why can’t he recognize that himself?

I think he knows. He’s not dumb. My guess is he’s tired of the narrative that he’s always had goat like numbers in the regular season but kept choking in the playoffs.

So he’s just gonna yo-yo his way (or coast if you want) until the playoffs. Then his performance will for sure be better than his regular season stats.

I can somewhat understand it. He can afford to do it now that he’s got two elite players on his side, whereas before Rockets wouldn’t even sniff the playoffs if he hadn’t given his all in the regular season.

But he’s done it to an extreme...

I highly doubt that he’s actively choosing to coast. The big 3 need to figure out how to hit on all cylinders during the regular season so that there’s no confusion over roles and timing come postseason.

Harden can’t simply expect to just turn it on when the postseason arrives. You can’t screw around for 6 months and then play god-tier level basketball for 2 months at the drop of a dime.

[Whiskey Slick]

You can test positive after soon after testing negative.

It takes time for the virus to self-replicate. That’s why if you’re exposed to someone who is confirmed to have COVID, you should quarantine regardless but not take a PCR test until day 5 after post-exposure. By that time, the virus should’ve self-replicated enough such that we’d know whether you have COVID or not. If you take the test too soon after exposure, you still might end up getting COVID despite early negative tests.

That's valuable information for everyone. THANK YOU

Let me ask you, if you've been exposed to someone who has Covid, self-quarantine and show ZERO symptoms for over a month, do you still need to get tested again, after the initial exposure, or does 6 weeks of being 100% symptom free mean you dodged a bullet? Also my roommate/cousin has been tested multiple times since then, like a half dozen times, every week for those six weeks because he's needed to have medical procedures, and despite us living together he's tested negative every time, which is doubtful if I had contracted Covid, right?

[NyCeEvO]

We looking at 2 to 4 games without KD now.

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If the test was inconclusive, why let him play at all? I know there’s almost no chance that he’d infect someone by playing tonight but why even allow for that small chance. He should’ve been held out as a precaution.

This seems like a similar situation to Seth Curry, who was on the bench awaiting test results before leaving the arena. Like bro, if you’re awaiting for test results, you should be away from everyone and only come back after it’s been confirmed that you’re negative.

For the players, they should be guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around. This is looney tunes.

[Suwanee]

Been saying that since he got traded here. We didn’t trade for him to be an above-average PG, we traded for him to be James Harden the perennial MVP candidate.

It doesn’t take a basketball savant to realize that we still need to play at a high level in order to win. Why can’t he recognize that himself?

I think he knows. He’s not dumb. My guess is he’s tired of the narrative that he’s always had goat like numbers in the regular season but kept choking in the playoffs.

So he’s just gonna yo-yo his way (or coast if you want) until the playoffs. Then his performance will for sure be better than his regular season stats.

I can somewhat understand it. He can afford to do it now that he’s got two elite players on his side, whereas before Rockets wouldn’t even sniff the playoffs if he hadn’t given his all in the regular season.

But he’s done it to an extreme...

I highly doubt that he’s actively choosing to coast. The big 3 need to figure out how to hit on all cylinders during the regular season so that there’s no confusion over roles and timing come postseason.

Harden can’t simply expect to just turn it on when the postseason arrives. You can’t screw around for 6 months and then play god-tier level basketball for 2 months at the drop of a dime.

8 shots with Durant out. And it’s not like Kyrie was on fire either. If that’s not coasting, I don’t know what is. He was deferring to Shamet for crying out loud.

[Suwanee]

Of course I agree with you that they can’t just expect to turn on the switch automagically. But he obviously thinks otherwise...

[Paradise]

KD going off. Incoming fine.

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[NyCeEvO]

You can test positive after soon after testing negative.

It takes time for the virus to self-replicate. That’s why if you’re exposed to someone who is confirmed to have COVID, you should quarantine regardless but not take a PCR test until day 5 after post-exposure. By that time, the virus should’ve self-replicated enough such that we’d know whether you have COVID or not. If you take the test too soon after exposure, you still might end up getting COVID despite early negative tests.

That's valuable information for everyone. THANK YOU

Let me ask you, if you've been exposed to someone who has Covid, self-quarantine and show ZERO symptoms for over a month, do you still need to get tested again, after the initial exposure, or does 6 weeks of being 100% symptom free mean you dodged a bullet? Also my roommate/cousin has been tested multiple times since then, like a half dozen times, every week for those six weeks because he's needed to have medical procedures, and despite us living together he's tested negative every time, which is doubtful if I had contracted Covid, right?

I am not a medical professional, so don’t take my word as absolute gospel. Despite how the CDC initially handled the dissemination of information regarding COVID, it’s still very important to check the CDC website for general updates and with local health authorities to see how your district/county is handling the situation.

With that said, I have close relationships with biostaticians at elite institutions (who are obviously in contact with doctors, epidemiologists, and others in the know). I also read a fair bit on the latest developments, so I’d Iike to believe I’m not to far removed from knowing what’s currently going on as well as the responses to the developments.

If you’re exposed to someone who has COVID, quarantine for 14 days, AND show no symptoms, it is essentially assumed that you don’t have and/or no longer have COVID, especially after you finish your quarantine. In this particular situation, I wouldn’t get tested.

Regarding your living situation with your cousin/roommate, I’m a little confused. Are you asking whether you may have contracted COVID from them or whether it’s possible they contracted it from you?

If you are worried about contracting it from them, their repeated negative tests are a strong indication that haven’t contracted and passed it on to you.

But if you are asking about whether your cousin could get it from you, that’s a whole different ball game. Idk if your roommate is immunocompromised, but even if they’re not and just need medical procedures done, it is very important that they don’t contract COVID since many operations won’t be done while they’re infected/positive and COVID could compromise their health enough in the short-to-medium term that doing a procedure could be too risky for their own health.

Remember, even if you get tested tomorrow and get a negative result soon after, it could all be negated if you’re in close proximity to an infected person for a long enough period of time after your test. So make sure to social distance and where a proper mask when you can to inhibit the chances of you contracting it as well as you potentially spreading it if you did contract it.

Again, it bears repeating. I’m not a medical professional. Don’t take my word as final. I’m just passing along what I’ve heard and read, but it’s important that you stay updated as well. If you have any more questions or want to talk about this at a greater length, feel free to PM me.

[NyCeEvO]

I think he knows. He’s not dumb. My guess is he’s tired of the narrative that he’s always had goat like numbers in the regular season but kept choking in the playoffs.

So he’s just gonna yo-yo his way (or coast if you want) until the playoffs. Then his performance will for sure be better than his regular season stats.

I can somewhat understand it. He can afford to do it now that he’s got two elite players on his side, whereas before Rockets wouldn’t even sniff the playoffs if he hadn’t given his all in the regular season.

But he’s done it to an extreme...

I highly doubt that he’s actively choosing to coast. The big 3 need to figure out how to hit on all cylinders during the regular season so that there’s no confusion over roles and timing come postseason.

Harden can’t simply expect to just turn it on when the postseason arrives. You can’t screw around for 6 months and then play god-tier level basketball for 2 months at the drop of a dime.

8 shots with Durant out. And it’s not like Kyrie was on fire either. If that’s not coasting, I don’t know what is. He was deferring to Shamet for crying out loud.

He was deferring to TLC and Perry for several games after the trade as well. It was maddening.

[Prokorov]

What an absolute joke the NBA is. I'm sorry but this fake facade of safety is just absurd. Kyrie and Adedbayo can sweat on each other, breath on each other, and be physical for 48 minutes but they cant exchange jerseys after the game?

Durant needs to leave the court for safety and health reasons but the 30 guys in the arena he breathed on, sweated on, and battled physically for 20 minutes dont need to quarantine?

It is just complete garbage.

[CalamityX12]

No kidding, NBA treating this horribly...

Start planning for bubble, it was near perfect for the sport

[Prokorov]

My thoughts on the game.

Steve Nash is an absolute TRASH coach with no business coaching a 3rd grade team, let alone a pro one. I'm done with this 5 out ultra small ball for 35 minutes a game. Second game out of the past 3 where deandre was killing it, and nash glues him to the bench while small ball with green turns into a layup line for the other team.

We get easier to defend when you take deandre off the floor. people will live with brown and green shooting threes. they cant live with deandre getting open dunks. and Deandre is no motumbo, but he provides some threat of shot blocking and rebounding. We also had them in the bonus with like 8 minutes to go, any coach with a brain is telling his team to go hard for contact.

Nash also froze out his wn player. gluing kyrie to the bench, then watching him stand at the table ready to check in for 3 minutes instead of calling a timeout as our lead dwindles.

I'm not taking "he is a rookie coach" as an excuse. you cant make awful horrific mistakes that a 10-12 year old rec league coach wouldnt make.

I dont think we can win a title with nash as coach. even with the big 3.

[Prokorov]

Also.... what is the complete nonsense about Harden "not being aggressive enough? he was double teamed at halfcourt the entire game. Same with Kyrie for the most part. Nurse was going to make everyone else beat them. and for the most part they did. tons of open threes for our role shooters. Would have been a ton of more open dunks for deandre while also providing some kind of rebounding and shot blocking but hey why would nash want those tings?

[Prokorov]

This is not on the league. I’m not going to get mad at a league that is trying to protect other players and their close contacts.

Plus, things have calmed down a lot. IIRC, This past week there were no positive cases.

Instead of blaming the NBA, I’m wondering why KD, who already tested positive, has already been kept out of games twice this season due to the protocol.

It seems like at least someone in his circle is irresponsible.

We don't know the extent of who he was around, if KD was out partying or something yeah, but we don't know. A Nets personnel member could have gotten covid and contact tracing could lead to Durant having contact with this person. We just don't know

A Nets personnel member who only had contact with KD and no one else? Doubt it.

And yes, I don’t know for sure. But I’m more reacting to the idea that it’s somehow the league’s fault that KD keeps getting barred from playing to health and safety protocols. It’s not the league’s fault. They’re just trying to mitigate the spread of the virus in a non-bubble environment, which is extremely tough.

It could be purely coincidental, but this being his 2nd time in under 25 games is interesting to say the least.

thats the problem. they arent actually trying to mitigate the spread. if they were, they would have suspended the game, pulled all the players off the floor, quarantined and tested them. They just want this illusion of safety. they dont actually care. Durant breathed, sweated, spit on every player who was on the floor tonight. its absurd.

Either really try and be safe, or dont. but dont give me this half arsed fugazy PR nonsense

[Shark]

We don't know the extent of who he was around, if KD was out partying or something yeah, but we don't know. A Nets personnel member could have gotten covid and contact tracing could lead to Durant having contact with this person. We just don't know

A Nets personnel member who only had contact with KD and no one else? Doubt it.

And yes, I don’t know for sure. But I’m more reacting to the idea that it’s somehow the league’s fault that KD keeps getting barred from playing to health and safety protocols. It’s not the league’s fault. They’re just trying to mitigate the spread of the virus in a non-bubble environment, which is extremely tough.

It could be purely coincidental, but this being his 2nd time in under 25 games is interesting to say the least.

thats the problem. they arent actually trying to mitigate the spread. if they were, they would have suspended the game, pulled all the players off the floor, quarantined and tested them. They just want this illusion of safety. they dont actually care. Durant breathed, sweated, spit on every player who was on the floor tonight. its absurd.

Either really try and be safe, or dont. but dont give me this half arsed fugazy PR nonsense

This. Keep in mind the league is also out here allowing the Hawks to seat fans courtside. And this is the same city they want to hold the AS festivities in. Several teams will have players present in the arena and there will probably be fans in the stands. What happens if multiple players get infected and then go back to their teams and get them infected?

Maybe they are banking on things getting better, but why take the chance? Same thing as tonight. If they didn't know what to do about KD, why not err on the side of caution and just hold him out for tonight's game? I thought the NFL did a bad job with their COVID response, but this NBA regular season easily takes the cake. Just awful stuff.