***Official 2024-2025 NBA Thread***

[KC_Connection]

Season starts tonight with Knicks and Celtics followed by Lakers and TWolves.

Will history be made early in the 2nd game?

[dirk digler]

I have seen enough the Knicks aren’t beating the Celtics in a 7 game series. You can’t trust The 76ers so who else can? Honestly haven’t paid much attention during the offseason

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Good luck convincing the owners to give up 20 games of revenue.

I know but this shit is way too early lol.

[POND_OF_RED]

Hoping for a much healthier season. Excited to see what Ja and Edey can do with some nice pick and rolls this season. Just hoping Edey doesn’t get shredded defensively!

[smithandrew051]

End of the Celtics game was hilarious.

Tie the 3 point record with like 10 minutes to go. Clank every attempt after that.

[MAG]

National Blowout Association is so back baby.

[RealSNR]

Knew it was going to take time for the Wolves to play with this new lineup, but Christ, just because you traded KAT doesn't mean you stand around holding your dicks when trying to get a rebound

[RealSNR]

Also I thought DiVincenzo was some 3 point ace? Lord he's had two airball shots already

[KC_Connection]

History.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

Knew it was going to take time for the Wolves to play with this new lineup, but Christ, just because you traded KAT doesn't mean you stand around holding your dicks when trying to get a rebound

Ugh I really do not like Randles game. I just don’t get it. Divincenzo I get despite this dud. But I’ve always hated his effort and it always bothers me when players rely on holding the ball to score instead of being able to score in rhythm

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by MAG

National Blowout Association is so back baby.

All the Lakers need to do to ensure a close game is play Bronny about 5 more minutes.

[KC_Connection]

The fact that LeBron James is simultaneously a) athletic enough to pull this dunk off while being b) old enough to be the *father of one of the other 9 players on the court* is incomprehensible. pic.twitter.com/sOhs0eWXEp

— nick wright (@getnickwright) October 23, 2024

[chiefzilla1501]

It will be hilarious if the lakers lose by 1 and can point to the bizarre idea of letting Bronny take 2 shots with the game far from over

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

It will be hilarious if the lakers lose by 1 and can point to the bizarre idea of letting Bronny take 2 shots with the game far from over

If Bronny stays on this team at all after today, it’s pretty clear the team’s priority isn’t actually winning games this year.

[DJ's left nut]

Man.

Lakers bench is rooouuuugh.

And James still has some juice, but this is so completely Anthony Davis' squad at this point that it's a little bit terrifying. Because he's no sort of iron man and is going to take about 15% of the games he does play off in any given season.

And now they're getting just whupped on the glass.

I think they'll finish above .500. Maybe challenge 48 wins on the high side. But this team ain't very good.

[DJ's left nut]

Truthfully, I'm hard pressed to name anyone (apart from Davis) that's actually played well tonight for LA. Rui has been solid, I guess. Hayes has been good, especially as a rotational big.

But Russell is doing that "shoot them out of the game" shit. Reaves doing his best to aid him in that endeavor. Lebron's offense has been pretty inefficient (though his downhill game still looks pretty good). His defense has been...Lebron. I like what I've seen from Knecht but he's a rotation player at best.

Even with the lead, this team's giving me more questions than answers right now. Looks better coached than last year's version but I really felt like they needed Vincent to be a fairly significant contributor to have much success and they don't seem to be using him much.