NBA Season 2025-26

[Phantom255x]

Just checking the standings and saw that the Southeast Division is surging.  With the dramatic exception of the Wizards, all of the other 4 teams are at least 8-2 in their last 10 games. Atlanta has to be feeling pretty good about themselves playing so well after dumping Trae.

Yeah Magic, Heat, Hawks and Hornets are all 8-2 or better their last 10 games. Kinda insane. And 3 of those teams are likely to be in the play-in tournament (Orlando will probably stay around 5). Personally, I'd be very happy if we drew any of Miami, Atlanta or Toronto in the first round. Less so if it's Charlotte or Orlando.

Philly meanwhile has slipped to 9 and with their other injuries even besides Embiid it could get even uglier. They could match up against CHA in the play-in (9 vs. 10) which I would probably favor Charlotte at home.

[Who]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_rdFgrHVI

Perk bashing the Rockets. Says their locker room is broken. He expects them to lose in the 1st round.

Perk and C Frye dissing the Rockets offense. Clunky. Little movement. Too much one-on-one from Durant & Sengun. Perk trashing Sengun's defense. Says they have no defensive anchor with S Adams out injured.

Perk saying Dillon Brooks was the Rockets leader last year. They miss his swagger. C Frye debating whether Durant or D Brooks is the better leader. Perk praising D Brooks for his leadership on the Suns this season as against Durant when he was there.

Good clip (12min).

[Phantom255x]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_rdFgrHVI

Perk bashing the Rockets. Says their locker room is broken. He expects them to lose in the 1st round.

Perk and C Frye dissing the Rockets offense. Clunky. Little movement. Too much one-on-one from Durant & Sengun. Perk trashing Sengun's defense. Says they have no defensive anchor with S Adams out injured.

Perk saying Dillon Brooks was the Rockets leader last year. They miss his swagger. C Frye debating whether Durant or D Brooks is the better leader. Perk praising D Brooks for his leadership on the Suns this season as against Durant when he was there.

Good clip (12min).

I think it's pretty wild they lost their PG for the season before it began, and yet they didn't do anything to actually add another PG or floor general of any kind to the roster even at the deadline. There were many options, and still are like CP3 even on a limited role.

Also, for all the love Ime gets, is it possible his teams and systems are just limited? Their offense is certainly better with KD's scoring added, but it's still not quite there. He emphasizes defense and hustle but you still need to actually score. Look at the Celtics-Warriors Finals. The switching and drop coverage on Curry was maddening, but in some of the games the C's just also had trouble scoring and keeping up. Same thing happened last year to the Rockets in the first round, their defense had good games but the offense couldn't score. Some of that has to be on Udoka too.

What's crazy though is in the West, they are still the 3 seed currently and there's like 4 teams within a game of each other. But still, I don't think anyone takes the Rockets seriously nor should they.

[Who]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_rdFgrHVI

Perk bashing the Rockets. Says their locker room is broken. He expects them to lose in the 1st round.

Perk and C Frye dissing the Rockets offense. Clunky. Little movement. Too much one-on-one from Durant & Sengun. Perk trashing Sengun's defense. Says they have no defensive anchor with S Adams out injured.

Perk saying Dillon Brooks was the Rockets leader last year. They miss his swagger. C Frye debating whether Durant or D Brooks is the better leader. Perk praising D Brooks for his leadership on the Suns this season as against Durant when he was there.

Good clip (12min).

I think it's pretty wild they lost their PG for the season before it began, and yet they didn't do anything to actually add another PG or floor general of any kind to the roster even at the deadline. There were many options, and still are like CP3 even on a limited role.

Also, for all the love Ime gets, is it possible his teams and systems are just limited? Their offense is certainly better with KD's scoring added, but it's still not quite there. He emphasizes defense and hustle but you still need to actually score. Look at the Celtics-Warriors Finals. The switching and drop coverage on Curry was maddening, but in some of the games the C's just also had trouble scoring and keeping up. Same thing happened last year to the Rockets in the first round, their defense had good games but the offense couldn't score. Some of that has to be on Udoka too.

What's crazy though is in the West, they are still the 3 seed currently and there's like 4 teams within a game of each other. But still, I don't think anyone takes the Rockets seriously nor should they.

In the comments section of that clip, someone was talking about Dennis Schroder and wondering why Houston did not go after him. He would have been a great stop-gap option for them.

[Phantom255x]

WOW!! What a play by Reaves to send it to OT.

Been an amazing game. Old friend Smart also making huge defensive plays late

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

My goodness, the Nuggets are foolish. Should?ve beaten the Lakers in regulation, instead they?re going to OT because they allowed Austin Reaves to deliberately miss a FT, get his own rebound, and hit a short floater to tie the game with less than 2 seconds left. SMH

[radiohead]

And Lebron is allowed to embrace Murray resulting in Murray fouling out after the scuffle.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

And now Smart hits a go-ahead 3 because they left him wide open.

[radiohead]

Why didn?t they foul Luka? That was a brain fart by Denver.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Why didn?t they foul Luka? That was a brain fart by Denver.

Denver made a lot of dumb plays in the late fourth and OT. Bums.

[SparzWizard]

Jamal Murray logged 36 mins with only 5 points. If he played just an average game they may have won comfortably in LA.

Hopefully these two teams meet in round 1. Would be another classic rematch and maybe Lebron's nightmare reminder