Couple of Sombor Doubles in there, I’m sure he’ll have at least 2-3 by the end of the season especially since our SOS has been ridiculous so far

Hopefully in January when we finally play some easier teams he can pick up a couple

I looked at the schedule for next week and legit thought I was seeing things cause I was like… no way we played them twice already and they just beat our ass today, you gotta be fucking kidding me. AGAIN?? Already?? Leave us alone this is bullying I say

For the love of God please stop making us play against the bad man. Please get him his horses so he can leave us alone.

As of right now the Rockets have spent a full 18.75% of their season getting lit up like a fucking firecracker by Jokic despite winning 2 of the 3 games thanks to Murray being out. And we play him AGAIN next week. It’s fucked up man, I don’t want to see him on the other side of the court from us twice in a whole season, let alone four times in the first two goddamn months

initial reaction was being pleasantly surprised not to see jalen green on the list, based on the title, and then opening the post and seeing the rest of the list lmfao

not at all surprised, he drives into someone bigger and tosses up a layup that he has no business trying like once a game pretty consistently. guess he just has to get it out of his system idk 💀

a) i love him so much

b) there are now two different people in this thread (presumably different anyway) that have said bill kennedy looks like rob schneider and all i can say is may god have mercy on you

brian is one of my favorite PBPs in the league, always shout him out whenever those ‘which broadcast that isnt your own team’s do you enjoy’ threads come up

good at actually describing what’s happening, very unbiased and dispenses praise and hype freely, and also a really good sense of humor? can’t ask for better than that unless you’re the knicks and you get to have mike breen and clyde frazier for all your damn games

maybe im blanking on something obvious but who the hell is TP, or did you sign Nicolas Batum and Smaller HOF PG Retired Nicolas Batum at the same time?

and killed his fucking car

My GOAT, Big Govt finally using a fraction of his true power

I have no idea what the expectation was for this guy in his rookie season

Very high

anyone who had half a semblance of knowledge

Very rare

wow, i agree that that’s a horribly soft call and it should have been a flopping tech on embiid if anything

nonetheless that’s 2 out of 21 (if he shot FTs there which i assume he did) so are we agreed that the majority of the calls he got were legit or are there more that are this bad? and to be clear i’m not saying you specifically are obligated to provide the clips like this, it’s more directed at the people who make this kind of obviously leading thread with no justification besides ‘i want to direct more hate from other people toward [player/team] with no context’

obvious spite thread, post clips of the ones you think were particularly bad calls

the Magic being 11-5 and on a 6 game win streak

This part by itself actually does not surprise me. Anyone who watched any of their games toward the end of last season can see that there’s a LOT of raw talent on that team. Side note I’m also a big Fultz believer, I think some people still haven’t realized how much better they looked when he was playing vs not playing last season. I feel for the kid after all the stupid ‘fultz forgot how to play basketball har har’ nonsense that keeps getting spread even now, as opposed to ‘fultz had a rare and easily misdiagnosed condition that screwed him over’. Hope he continues to correct his trajectory along the rest of the improvements the Magic have made/are making.

Anyway, what does surprise me about the Magic’s strong showing atm is that they’re doing it while Franz is in the middle of a fairly noticeable slump. I would have expected him to be one of the key factors in a strong early start/win streak like what they have, but they’ve actually done a great job with much less contribution from him than I could have guessed.

not saying demar is right or wrong to be annoyed but for that 3 specifically, teams frequently play their last possession normally if the shot clock is on and dribble it out if it’s off

No joke they matched him minute for minute with Jokic for the first 3 quarters

He is singlehandedly preventing this from being a blowout from the get-go. I’m terrified of Jokic. With respect to Giannis, Luka, KD, whoever else is being talked about rn - this man is the best player on the planet rn and he’s doing it surrounded by, um, less than stellar help with Murray out.

thank god that this one was posted right before we play the nuggets again with a very pissed off jokic who is probably going for 40/15/15 tonight, stop the count

what the hell goin on tonight

Shout out to the Wolves, Pelicans, Knicks, Nets and Lakers broadcasts, and though I might be a little biased I’d like to think I’m being pretty fair when I say the Rockets’ current guys are quite good at being fair to both teams, giving praise and hype freely while also openly acknowledging when the Rockets benefit from bad calls or get away with things. Old duo were definitely huge homers though lmao.

An additional shout out to Eric Collins, the Hornets PBP guy (good golly miss molly, hum diddly dee, you know who I’m talking about). Not only is he great for hype moments on both sides, I appreciate him being very, very obviously frustrated and disappointed with the Hornets’ decision to bring back Miles Bridges based on how he sounded while calling Bridges’ first game back. Obviously he can’t just blast the org without being quickly removed from his position but he was not afraid to toe the line as closely as possible. Good man.

while single game +/- is still NOT a valuable stat for the purposes of making actual statistical claims and stuff… ignore that for the moment because it doesn’t tell ENOUGH of the story tonight. +21 in a 1-point loss and I swear that’s understating his impact.