NBA 2019-2020 season thread

[Vox_Populi]

Carlisle seems super strict with his substitution patterns, some here would probably hate him if he was our coach despite his brilliance.

[mr. dee]

Indiana with an early lead against the Bucks so far.

[SparzWizard]

No LeBron James tonight and they host the Nuggets.

Lakers fans may finally get their wish of a 3peat. A 3-game losing streak that is!

[JSD]

Lakers in a 3 game losing streak, AD leaves the game limping.

[Fierce1]

The NBA's 82-game schedule really makes it hard for a team to stay healthy all season long.

[SparzWizard]

128-104 Lakers get routed at home by the Nuggets.

[Fierce1]

128-104 Lakers get routed at home by the Nuggets.

And suddenly the Lakers have 6 losses and the Celts are only 1 behind with 7 losses.

[nickagneta]

AD limping around quite a bit after a bad slip. Looks like a right knee issue. Let's see what happens with that.

[bopna]

The NBA's 82-game schedule really makes it hard for a team to stay healthy all season long.

Bucks have been lucky so far with Giannis.. Yes Middleton has missed time but they have been relatively healthy all year

[Fierce1]

The NBA's 82-game schedule really makes it hard for a team to stay healthy all season long.

Bucks have been lucky so far with Giannis.. Yes Middleton has missed time but they have been relatively healthy all year

Lebron's gotta be the luckiest.

He's only missed 20 or more games once in his previous 16 seasons in the league.

[gouki88]

AD limping around quite a bit after a bad slip. Looks like a right knee issue. Let's see what happens with that.

Always the biggest concern with him. Gotta say lots of people saw it coming

[Fierce1]

13 mins ago – via Twitter kylegoon
Kyle Goon: AD on his knee tweak: “Plenty of time to get it back right. Obviously the game just ended so we’ve got to see how it feels overnight. But hopefully nothing significant happens, we’ll get some treatment on it and continue to move forward.”

[Moranis]

The NBA's 82-game schedule really makes it hard for a team to stay healthy all season long.

Bucks have been lucky so far with Giannis.. Yes Middleton has missed time but they have been relatively healthy all year

They've been fairly healthy, but Robin Lopez is the only guy who has played in every game for them this year and their 2nd and 3rd best players have missed 7 and 5 games respectively. 

[Fafnir]

128-104 Lakers get routed at home by the Nuggets.

Their offense is still incredibly LBJ reliant. I expected them to be better on that end (and a little worse on D)

I wonder if AD playing almost entirely PF is the reason for it not matching what I expected. Not sure.

[bdm860]

Lakers in a 3 game losing streak, AD leaves the game limping.

Lakers next game is Christmas Day against the Clippers too, so a real chance at losing 4 in a row.

Also their next 2 games after LAC are @Portland and Dallas.  Portland may have turned things around after a slow start, going 9-4 in their last 13 and Dallas should have Luka back.

It will be interesting to see how the Lakers close out this stretch of decent opponents, especially if Davis and LeBron are injured or playing through injuries (AD ankle/knee, LeBron thoracic muscle strain).