AdulasMoonblade

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Tyrese Haliburton stats this season: 27.0ppg, 3.6rpg, 11.8apg on 52/45/88 shooting (67.2% TS) (alien.top)
 

And he's doing all that with only 2.5 turnovers per game. He's currently leading the NBA in assists per game and 8th in TS%. He's 2nd in the league in offensive EPM only slightly behind Jokic. What a player

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Tyrese Haliburton tonight: 44 points, 10 assists on 15/28 FG (alien.top)
 

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401584895

Hali continues to go off. He had a very uncharacteristically bad night from the FT night shooting 8/12. He was shooting 91.5% from the FT line entering this game

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Is Cade Cunningham the worst of the 2021 top 5 picks? (alien.top)
 

Scottie Barnes and Jalen Suggs have made considerable improvements in their games this season. Evan Mobley has been consistently good since day 1. Even Jalen Green has seemingly turned the corner after a rough start to the season. And all of them are doing it on pretty decent teams. Meanwhile Cade is looking like he regressed from his rookie season, playing on the worst team in the league. Is he the worst of the bunch right now?

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Kevin Durant with the rare chucker performance tonight: 30 points on 11/30 FG, 2/8 3PT. This is the 2nd least efficient 30pt game in KDs entire career (alien.top)
 

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401584888

This is the 2nd least efficient 30pt game in his career. The least efficient is a game in 2012 where he scored 35pts on 11/34 FG against the Lakers.

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[Smith] The Pistons are awful. They aren't even bad with purpose right now. Lineups don't make sense. Positions players are being put in don't make sense. It's just a complete and total mess. (alien.top)
 

https://twitter.com/KeithSmithNBA/status/1730043615835996612

The Pistons are awful. They aren't even bad with purpose right now. Lineups don't make sense. Positions players are being put in don't make sense. It's just a complete and total mess.

Sometimes teams are bad. It happens. And it's often with purpose. Spurs are also bad, but they are trying to figure out what they have. Pistons just seem to show up, do the same stuff, lose and repeat the process.

Being bad without purpose is just wasting a season.

Pistons are currently down 31 and about to lose their 15th in a row.

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Most blocked players in the NBA this season: Cade (29), Randle (28), JJJ (27), Bane (26), Mathurin (26), Zion (25), Maxey (25), Wagner (24), Giddey (23), Grant (23) (alien.top)
 

Here are the 25 players who have been blocked the most so far this season
Rk Player Blk
1 Cade Cunningham 29
2 Julius Randle 28
3 Jaren Jackson Jr. 27
4 Desmond Bane 26
5 Bennedict Mathurin 26
6 Tyrese Maxey 25
7 Zion Williamson 25
8 Franz Wagner 24
9 Josh Giddey 23
10 Jerami Grant 23
11 John Collins 22
12 Damian Lillard 22
13 Shaedon Sharpe 22
14 Joel Embiid 21
15 Collin Sexton 21
16 Ausar Thompson 20
17 Giannis Antetokounmpo 19
18 RJ Barrett 19
19 Jaylen Brown 19
20 Anthony Davis 19
21 Jalen Green 19
22 Tobias Harris 19
23 Karl-Anthony Towns 19
24 Jordan Clarkson 18
25 DeMar DeRozan 18

Source: https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2024_play-by-play.html

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[Highlight] With 1min left and the Heat down two, Eric Spoelstra gets called for a tech for being upset at this call (streamable.com)
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Zach Lavine with a disasterclass in loss to Celtics: 2 points on 1/9 FG in 25 minutes (alien.top)
 

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401584141

He looked like he wanted to be literally anywhere else. Dude has completely checked out of the Bulls. Passed up multiple good looks, bad body language. Bulls lose by 27

Jeremy Sochan puts ketchup on his pizza. in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

People put cream cheese in their pizza crust or drizzle honey on their pizza but draw the line at ketchup. I dont get it

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Atlanta Hawks record with Nate McMillan: 98-80. Their record with Quin Snyder: 18-19 (alien.top)
 

Despite the Hawks being on coach #3 of the Trae Young era, it's seemingly more of the same mediocrity they've had in recent years. Currently the Hawks have the #2 offense in the league but also the #24 defense and an 8-8 record.

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Where are all the guard-sized international players? (alien.top)
 

Excluding Canada which basically has the same development system as America, why is the rest of the world not producing any good guards? All the good international players are 6'8+. Luka, Jokic, Giannis, Embiid, Siakam, Sabonis, Markannen, Porzingis, Sengun, Gobert etc. Meanwhile who is the best small international player? Dennis Schroder? Kind of an interesting discrepancy

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As of right now, other than LeBron/KD/Jokic/AD who are the other West front court All Stars? (alien.top)
 

There are between 6-8 front court All Stars so who are the other 2-4 that will get in? Jaren Jackson Jr and Lauri Markannen were on the teams last year but their teams have been trash this year so I doubt they make it.

Some names

Kawhi

PG

KAT

Gobert

Zion

BI

Sabonis

Sengun

Chet

Assuming everyone keeps their early season play up who do you think would get in?

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Joel Embiid leads the NBA in Drawn Foul % on Drives by far. The gap between him and #2 Cam Thomas is bigger than the gap between Thomas and #35 Immanuel Quickley (alien.top)
 

Source

Embiid has mastered the art of ~~flopping~~ drawing fouls on drives.

Here's the top 10

  1. Embiid—19.8%

  2. Thomas—13.9%

  3. JJJ—13.3%

  4. Dame—12.9%

  5. Paolo—12.0%

  6. Trae—12.0%

  7. LeVert—11.4%

  8. Jalen Green—11.3%

  9. Hayward—11.2%

  10. Giannis—11.1%

Josh Giddey Allegations Discussion Thread in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

That's 100% not the same girl from the rest of the pics/vids and the caption could have been added after by anyone

[Highlight] Things get heated after Donovan Mitchell retaliates to a Draymond Green shove. Draymond Green has received a 2nd technical foul and has been ejected in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

https://streamable.com/dldwus

You can see the shove in this clip

Who are the 'Smoothest' players in the league? in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Lamelo is extremely smooth when he's dribbling. Its like he glides around the court

What are your biggest takeaways, positively and negatively, after Wednesday night's action? in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Jalen Green looks awful still

[Marks] Barring a trade, Minnesota is entering second apron territory next season. in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The problem with paying big bucks for high-quality role players you need your actual stars to be SUPERstars. And this is double so when you're investing $77m into two defense first guys like Gobert/McDaniels. You need superstar offensive production from Ant/KAT because there will no other great offensive pieces to surround them with when you have that much cap tied up to 4 players.

Problem is Ant and KAT are not superstars. Ant can probably get there in due time, but KAT? He's 27 years old and not even a top 25 player.

Which player were you right about from the get-go? in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

RJ Barrett was a mediocre athlete and didn't have the finesse or shiftiness to make up for it. He just looked clunky as fuck. He had no right hand. He was shooting 30% from 3 and 66% from the FT line. And the worst part was this dude was jacking up shots like there was no tomorrow even with Zion on his team. I had no idea how he was projected to be a star.

rank these players from best to worst in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

2018 LeBron > 2023 Jokic > 2009 Kobe > 2014 KD > 2021 Giannis > 2018 Harden > 2013 PG

Why is PG on this list lol

Prime Harden v Prime Melo in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prime Melo today would not be a top 10 player or maybe even not top 15. Prime Harden today would be top 3. Come on its not close

The Las Vegas Aces beat the New York Liberty to close the Finals 3-1 and win their second consecutive WNBA Championship in c/nba@nba.space
[–] AdulasMoonblade@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At least this means no more "please watch the wnba its really good i promise" posts for a while...

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