2024 NBA Season

[Yogee]

I thought the Clippers was already done after the first half but I was surprised they managed to steal the game. Both teams have problems with missing players but Nuggets still had Jokic and Gordon who came up big but still fell short. Good fourth quarter performance by Terance Mann and Reggie Jackson.

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[Distinctin]

I thought the Clippers was already done after the first half but I was surprised they managed to steal the game. Both teams have problems with missing players but Nuggets still had Jokic and Gordon who came up big but still fell short. Good fourth quarter performance by Terance Mann and Reggie Jackson.

Reggie Jackson is very reliable, even in the playoffs last season, we saw his consistency and now with the absence of PG and Leonard, they are still competing as a team despite the fact that their ranking is going down but I still see the spirit of competitiveness and toughness in a game as they beat some good teams also.

[Yogee]

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Reggie Jackson is very reliable, even in the playoffs last season, we saw his consistency and now with the absence of PG and Leonard, they are still competing as a team despite the fact that their ranking is going down but I still see the spirit of competitiveness and toughness in a game as they beat some good teams also.

I wouldn't say he's really reliable despite their comeback win. Eleven out of thirteen points in the fourth quarter is nice but I'm pretty sure the coach would prefer if he was more productive in both first and second half. They won but they were still lucky that almost everything is dropping for them late in the game. Kudos to their competitive spirit which allowed them to crawl back.

[Japinat]

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Reggie Jackson is very reliable, even in the playoffs last season, we saw his consistency and now with the absence of PG and Leonard, they are still competing as a team despite the fact that their ranking is going down but I still see the spirit of competitiveness and toughness in a game as they beat some good teams also.

I wouldn't say he's really reliable despite their comeback win. Eleven out of thirteen points in the fourth quarter is nice but I'm pretty sure the coach would prefer if he was more productive in both first and second half. They won but they were still lucky that almost everything is dropping for them late in the game. Kudos to their competitive spirit which allowed them to crawl back.

Exactly, if we talk about consistency, it should be from the start to finish. The Clippers are struggling now, that's just one of the games where they were lucky, however, we cannot expect too much from this team since for me they are already out in the playoff picture without their 2 best players.

[danherbias07]

Charlotte Hornets are on fire. 3rd winning streak and they are winning against top teams of the East. Defeated Bucks twice and now the 76ers even with a healthy Joel Embiid. Miles Bridges being consistent with his contributions to the team and now Gordon Hayward looking young with 30 points and 4/4 at the 3 point line. Their 2 next games will be up against the Orlando Magic then New York Knicks. I bet they could go on a 5 winning streak before bumping to a strong Eastern team again, the Celtics.

[dwyane36]

Durant alone could not beat the Bulls, they are the hottest team in the East now, they are winning games and they are beating good teams and Nets would not be an exception here. Bulls have their big 3 in this game, Nets only have a big one, so we know which team will win already.

It looks like Durant won't be alone this time because there is news that Harden and Irving will also be taking part in the game against the Bulls tonight. So I expect that it should be an interesting and close game, although the Chicago Bulls have a slight advantage since they will be playing on the home court.

[btc_angela]

Charlotte Hornets are on fire. 3rd winning streak and they are winning against top teams of the East. Defeated Bucks twice and now the 76ers even with a healthy Joel Embiid. Miles Bridges being consistent with his contributions to the team and now Gordon Hayward looking young with 30 points and 4/4 at the 3 point line. Their 2 next games will be up against the Orlando Magic then New York Knicks. I bet they could go on a 5 winning streak before bumping to a strong Eastern team again, the Celtics.

In their last 2 big wins against the Bucks, Hayward was taking a back seat and let others do the scoring. But I was surprised to see the score and then Gordon leading the team this time. It their winning streak continues then we can compare them to the Memphis right now who are too hot to handle by any team including the Warriors who just lost to the Memphis.

[ChiBitCTy]

This is one hell of a game with the Bulls vs the Nets. This is the latest I can remember a Bulls game starting (9PM local time). The Bulls are playing good basketball but every time they manage to get within two or tie it up the Nets come right back. This trio of Harden, Durant and Kyrie is just ridiculously good. The Bulls seem to keep leaving Durant open. They are having a hard time guarding this big 3, often doubling on one of them then it opens another up. Let’s go bulls!

[TravelMug]

This is one hell of a game with the Bulls vs the Nets. This is the latest I can remember a Bulls game starting (9PM local time). The Bulls are playing good basketball but every time they manage to get within two or tie it up the Nets come right back. This trio of Harden, Durant and Kyrie is just ridiculously good. The Bulls seem to keep leaving Durant open. They are having a hard time guarding this big 3, often doubling on one of them then it opens another up. Let’s go bulls!

Unfortunately mate, as much as we want the Bulls to win, maybe because we have a bet on them, the Nets are running with a huge lead now as they really pour everything in the 3rd and going into the 4th quarter.

The Nets has one surprised and it was not Kyrie but Day'Ron Sharpe who scored 18 points so far.

Kyrie is not even in double digit in scoring but it looks like he is going to make it as he has 9 points already.

[OgNasty]

The Lakers losing to the Kings is shameful...  I'm on board with Frank Vogel (one of my favorite coaches) being fired at the all star break.  It's clear his system is not working and he's horrible at managing his talent.  Another great outing by Dwight Howard in extremely limited minutes...  He made all 3 of his shots, was sent to the line 4 times, and grabbed 7 rebounds in under 15 minutes along with having a +/- of +9 in the loss.  It's crazy he's not getting ~30 minutes a night the way he's been playing.  Vogel has got to go.  The talent is there.  If they aren't going to trade Westbrook and AD immediately, they need to dump Vogel.

[yazher]

The Lakers loss today is actually heartbreaking since the star players are doing great but they aren't getting enough minutes they should have been given enough time until they are exhausted to play.

A nice game to watch was the Nets vs Bull and the Nets won the game by blowing them out by 26, 138-112.

James Harden: 25 PTS
Kevin Durant: 27 PTS
Kyrie Irving: 9 PTS

The Big three was doing great because they are winning games despite of their new rotation since Irving came back.

[Distinctin]

This is one hell of a game with the Bulls vs the Nets. This is the latest I can remember a Bulls game starting (9PM local time). The Bulls are playing good basketball but every time they manage to get within two or tie it up the Nets come right back. This trio of Harden, Durant and Kyrie is just ridiculously good. The Bulls seem to keep leaving Durant open. They are having a hard time guarding this big 3, often doubling on one of them then it opens another up. Let’s go bulls!

There's no doubt that the Nets big 3 is really playing well, they doesn't have that much difficulties with their rotation which is good to see. Even without Irving, the Nets is still a tough team to beat. But sadly, the Bulls have been defeated and they're indeed struggling to guard the big 3 specially Irving is always running and they tend to leave Durant open.
Gotta give some credits to Patty Mills especially Day'Ron Sharpe as they also made double figures.

[Questat]

This is one hell of a game with the Bulls vs the Nets. This is the latest I can remember a Bulls game starting (9PM local time). The Bulls are playing good basketball but every time they manage to get within two or tie it up the Nets come right back. This trio of Harden, Durant and Kyrie is just ridiculously good. The Bulls seem to keep leaving Durant open. They are having a hard time guarding this big 3, often doubling on one of them then it opens another up. Let’s go bulls!

There's no doubt that the Nets big 3 is really playing well, they doesn't have that much difficulties with their rotation which is good to see. Even without Irving, the Nets is still a tough team to beat. But sadly, the Bulls have been defeated and they're indeed struggling to guard the big 3 specially Irving is always running and they tend to leave Durant open.
Gotta give some credits to Patty Mills especially Day'Ron Sharpe as they also made double figures.

False rumor, I thought Harden and Irving will be out, but then they played and that resulted to a dominating win. In the other thread, I guess everyone was on the Chicago Bulls, I see lots of losers there.   But anyway, it's just one game, the bettors will come back to win the next scheduled games.

[Minor Miner]

This is one hell of a game with the Bulls vs the Nets. This is the latest I can remember a Bulls game starting (9PM local time). The Bulls are playing good basketball but every time they manage to get within two or tie it up the Nets come right back. This trio of Harden, Durant and Kyrie is just ridiculously good. The Bulls seem to keep leaving Durant open. They are having a hard time guarding this big 3, often doubling on one of them then it opens another up. Let’s go bulls!

There's no doubt that the Nets big 3 is really playing well, they doesn't have that much difficulties with their rotation which is good to see. Even without Irving, the Nets is still a tough team to beat. But sadly, the Bulls have been defeated and they're indeed struggling to guard the big 3 specially Irving is always running and they tend to leave Durant open.
Gotta give some credits to Patty Mills especially Day'Ron Sharpe as they also made double figures.

Firstly congrats to the Nets for their huge win against the Bulls. They have won by a huge 26 points margin. Seems like the Bulls had a really tough time guarding the big 3 - Kyrie, KD, and Harden.

Although Kyrie didn't score that much, he only scored 9 points in 25 minutes but Sharpe rose to the occasion to fill the void of Kyrie by scoring 20 points and taking 7 rebounds.

On the other hand, KD is playing consistently well supported by Harden who himself scored 25 points and gave an insane number of assists (16).

I think if Bulls want to get a better result, Derozan has to play better than what he's currently doing.

[rhomelmabini]

The Lakers losing to the Kings is shameful...  I'm on board with Frank Vogel (one of my favorite coaches) being fired at the all star break.  It's clear his system is not working and he's horrible at managing his talent.  Another great outing by Dwight Howard in extremely limited minutes...  He made all 3 of his shots, was sent to the line 4 times, and grabbed 7 rebounds in under 15 minutes along with having a +/- of +9 in the loss.  It's crazy he's not getting ~30 minutes a night the way he's been playing.  Vogel has got to go.  The talent is there.  If they aren't going to trade Westbrook and AD immediately, they need to dump Vogel.

They are bringing that to the table on the early days of the season and not that a shocking thing I guess. Looks like that would be the possible scenario Lakers might get, they really need a shift for Vogel. I don't know if that's the best decision to dump Vogel or trade AD/WB for the Lakers but they do need to act and see if what will change.

[Swordsoffreedom]

The Lakers losing to the Kings is shameful...  I'm on board with Frank Vogel (one of my favorite coaches) being fired at the all star break.  It's clear his system is not working and he's horrible at managing his talent.  Another great outing by Dwight Howard in extremely limited minutes...  He made all 3 of his shots, was sent to the line 4 times, and grabbed 7 rebounds in under 15 minutes along with having a +/- of +9 in the loss.  It's crazy he's not getting ~30 minutes a night the way he's been playing.  Vogel has got to go.  The talent is there.  If they aren't going to trade Westbrook and AD immediately, they need to dump Vogel.

They are bringing that to the table on the early days of the season and not that a shocking thing I guess. Looks like that would be the possible scenario Lakers might get, they really need a shift for Vogel. I don't know if that's the best decision to dump Vogel or trade AD/WB for the Lakers but they do need to act and see if what will change.

Lakers really have the talent but they are not able to show that as a team. They have incredibly talented individual players like Lebron, WB, Howard. But as a team- they are still not playing up to the level the fans expected them to.

Lebron is as always solo-carrying the team. Even in this match he scored a whopping 35 points and gave 6 assists and took 7 rebounds. The guy is a powerhouse in both offense and defense.

Maybe Howard should be given more minutes in my opinion he at least deserves 25 minutes a game. If you look at the stats of the Kings, they played really well as a team and their rotations were also really good.

[LogitechMouse]

This is one hell of a game with the Bulls vs the Nets. This is the latest I can remember a Bulls game starting (9PM local time). The Bulls are playing good basketball but every time they manage to get within two or tie it up the Nets come right back. This trio of Harden, Durant and Kyrie is just ridiculously good. The Bulls seem to keep leaving Durant open. They are having a hard time guarding this big 3, often doubling on one of them then it opens another up. Let’s go bulls!

The Bulls lost in their home and ended their winning streak as they lost against the Nets by 26 points.
That 3rd quarter domination by the Nets and the 18-0 run by them is just insane. Like you are top 1 in the conference and you will allow an 18-0 run against your opponent :X.

Well, the Nets are now 2-1 at the road when the Big Three is playing. 4 players of the Nets scored 20 points and Irving only scored 9 points. Its the first time though that I see their Center, Sharpe but he contributed in the team on that game with 20 points.

I saw a post in Facebook if I'm not mistaken saying that they will allow Kyrie Irving to play on their home but they will have to pay a $5,000 fine per game to the NY City. Is this true? What can you say about this?

[Yaunfitda]

This is one hell of a game with the Bulls vs the Nets. This is the latest I can remember a Bulls game starting (9PM local time). The Bulls are playing good basketball but every time they manage to get within two or tie it up the Nets come right back. This trio of Harden, Durant and Kyrie is just ridiculously good. The Bulls seem to keep leaving Durant open. They are having a hard time guarding this big 3, often doubling on one of them then it opens another up. Let’s go bulls!

The Bulls lost in their home and ended their winning streak as they lost against the Nets by 26 points.
That 3rd quarter domination by the Nets and the 18-0 run by them is just insane. Like you are top 1 in the conference and you will allow an 18-0 run against your opponent :X.

Well, the Nets are now 2-1 at the road when the Big Three is playing. 4 players of the Nets scored 20 points and Irving only scored 9 points. Its the first time though that I see their Center, Sharpe but he contributed in the team on that game with 20 points.

I saw a post in Facebook if I'm not mistaken saying that they will allow Kyrie Irving to play on their home but they will have to pay a $5,000 fine per game to the NY City. Is this true? What can you say about this?

Well if that is the case, then the Nets management has a big decision to make. We know that $5k is not that much for them, but the accumulation though, maybe it's not worth for them, maybe it will in the long run.

I think with this win they are back now on top of the division?

Nonetheless, it's a big psychological win for them, they have been in somewhat disarray lately so this is a big win for the team in general. Against the top team in East division and their potential contender for the number 1 spot (and homecourt advantage in the playoffs).

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

The Lakers losing to the Kings is shameful...  I'm on board with Frank Vogel (one of my favorite coaches) being fired at the all star break.  It's clear his system is not working and he's horrible at managing his talent.  Another great outing by Dwight Howard in extremely limited minutes...  He made all 3 of his shots, was sent to the line 4 times, and grabbed 7 rebounds in under 15 minutes along with having a +/- of +9 in the loss.  It's crazy he's not getting ~30 minutes a night the way he's been playing.  Vogel has got to go.  The talent is there.  If they aren't going to trade Westbrook and AD immediately, they need to dump Vogel.

I thought that the Lakers are going to win this one against the Kings, I mean they should so I would agree that it's a shameful that after a 5 winning streak, they are back in the losing end again. Hard to really pinpoint what is the issue but it could be the Vogel is no longer the coach that is suited for the Lakers because of so many superstars and he don't know who and how to rotate them and still presses with the old process of going with Westbrook when he is committing a lot of TO.

[Minecache]

The Lakers loss today is actually heartbreaking since the star players are doing great but they aren't getting enough minutes they should have been given enough time until they are exhausted to play.

A nice game to watch was the Nets vs Bull and the Nets won the game by blowing them out by 26, 138-112.

James Harden: 25 PTS
Kevin Durant: 27 PTS
Kyrie Irving: 9 PTS

The Big three was doing great because they are winning games despite of their new rotation since Irving came back.

The Lakers have the individual talent, but they need to convert that into team play. Lebron played really well but he can only do so much by himself. Howard should be getting more minutes in my opinion.

And a huge win for the Nets against the Bulls. The big 3 seem to like are clicking well enough with each other. KD is playing very consistently and Harden also rose to the occasion. Irving didn't score that many points but he was an integral part of the build-up to their attacks.