Anyone getting league pass or got it last year? NBA has WOAT marketing for this. I don't even know what the experience will look like. Can you skip ahead during games (commercials, free throws etc)? How long do you have to wait to watch in market blackout games? Why is Silver such a dickhead?

Durant, Irving, Lavert, Dinwiddie, Harris, Allen, Prince, Shamet, Jordan - barring injury to Durant & meltdown by Irving, that team can play.

VPN for black markets ; skip ahead when rewatching the game, but obviously not live

Thanks. Skip ahead is most important feature for me. usually watch delayed anyways unless trolling 2p2

You Know It!

sailorsaint you historically have great NBA takes so I’m not surprised to read this post!

As a neutral that has not much to root for other than drama and choas, this team only presents upsides - either another worthy contender to make the season more interesting or a trainwreck full of drama.

I pick option #2.

Nets will be like 1984ish Nuggets and play 0 defense too.

+ 1000% more drama

KD got to a finals with Russ and Harden. I'm sure he can shepherd drama queens like Kyrie. Although makes me think Lebron is even more of an all time great to win with that psychopath.

Don't remember the NBA being so balanced east and west and also competitive teams 1-6 in each conference in ages.

Great read, thanks again for sharing you son of a gun, you old sailor you!

Weird signings today

Isaac: I’m fine with it laugh all you want but he was gonna get maxed next summer some rebuilding team would do it. He’s basically what people think Jerami Grant is I’m fine with the gamble DPOY level potential

Kennard: dont know what this is this is the deal you give if he stays healthy and plays like you hope you don’t do it now assuming he will. They clearly think he’ll play meaningful minutes in the playoffs after round 1 their really counting on him. I’m still somewhat skeptical

OG: he needs to fire his agent this is $30 mil too little. What a steal

Fultz: my least favorite one just getting way too attached to your pet project if Orlando. 3/33 woulda been ok this is foolishness

Derrick white: like this one also he’ll be the best player on the team before too long. This is value

True.


Certainly the more entertaining possibility.

I went from LP on Direct TV to the NBA app on my Apple TV, and I can say it's not as bad as I thought going in. The quality is a step below 1080P on most games, but not unbearable even on an 82" TV.

You can either pause and fast forward which is a guessing game, or at least on my AppleTV there is a 10 second skip that I just hit a bunch of times. The only tilting part of it for me is that when you stop a game and then come back to it you have to figure out where you left off. There might be a feature I'm missing though as I could have swore it continued for me once.

Also you can hide scores which is a must for me as I like to sweat games out and usually watch them a couple hours late due to Dood Jr.

Who? The Durant warriors?

Think he was referring to the Rockets but I would think the Clippers also apply. His best matchup was a team like the Thunder, but fewer teams are employing lineups with non-shooting bigs these days. In many ways his best matchup is Denver, and that series ended up with Jokic hitting a series-winner on his head.

And yes the entire post was just to set up the last sentence. Feels good man

Let's look at the on/off of the Jazz starters in the Houston series:

Mitchell: -0.2
Gobert: -17.0
Ingles: -4.2
Crowder: -13.5
Rubio: +26.5

Self-aware fanboying is the best imo

League pass is not even expensive, but is so terrible. Last year I paid it and spent the whole year watching on a streaming website that had every game HD no blackout nothing

Only good thing with league pass is the 15/20 minutes highlights

Same. Had League Pass the last 3 years. Two years ago the Jazz were on national TV like 18 games plus another 4 games vs the Timberwolves so I had to use totally legal streams for a quarter of the games. Most of the national TV games were on NBATV, which is a joke to black us out and it's also not even offered on my local cable package.

Then you've also got the problem that the product itself is crap. Tons of pauses and buffering while the totally legal streams always run just fine. The occasional error won't even let you pull up games at all while the streams work fine.

Personally I only like it for the ability to rewatch games. I like breaking down action to figure out how the floppy action/pindown/whatever got the guy open for the pretty bucket.

Hey hey lettuce NBA

I've coached basketball every year since 1977.

God Bless Basketball - from a secular perspective.

But, not this year. F**k Covid.

At least I think it was '77.

Tatum wants to be elite. Brown wants to maximize both his basketball and social activist/NBAPA pursuits. Tatum loves Irving. Brown was the first to see through Irving's b.s. They seem to actually like each other. If either has a regression for any reason - Boston is screwed.

If Tatum has players around him that can score, he's ready to improve his distribution game. Boston needs to surround him with players he trusts, which has to include Brown who needs to continue to deepen in-game impact at both ends - which he seems committed to doing.

Re, the bench. They need a three big rotation. Thompson/Theis both can play. Rob Williams is a question mark. They're too small without enough shooting on the floor when they play Grant Williams at the 5. Rob Williams, you would think, has maybe 15 games to show he can contribute or he's in DNP-CD mode. Grant Williams has to be able to consistently hit open looks. They need him to be an effective wing.

Nesmith shot well in the scrimmage minutes against Brooklyn. He's small - his body doesn't really look like it's NBA ready. That take is open to revision.

Pritchard's gonna be interesting. Looks fearless - which can be both a good & a bad thing. Plays hard. If effective, he'd be energizing. Kept throwing pick n' roll bounce passes into turn-overs at Tacko Fall's feet for some unknown reason against Philadelphia - which was a tad weird from a life-long gym rat.

Lankford's still hurt, so we'll see. He needs to get on the floor. Injuries be injuries.