NBA Week One Takeaways
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The NBA Is Not Your Average Stephen King Novel, In Actuality Its Not A Novel BY Ay Standard. Players Aren't Hand Crafted Characters Pirouetted About To The Tune Of Their Author’s Whim; that Is Of Course Unless you believe the Conspiracy theories. The Season Plays Out In Chapters But They Rarely Build On One Another. One Chapter Could Drive A team Forward Another Could Drive A Team Backwards. Some Chapters Force Teams To Reckon With The Subsist Of Both States Concurrently, And The Tensions Never Resolves. Drama, the Principles Of Every Storyline Isn’t The By-Product Of Reinforced Plot Lines conjured Up the Imagination Of A 15 Year Old Who Lives North Dakota; that is Course unless You Believe The Conspiracy Theories.
There is Not A Script To The Games. Trade Deadline Dilemma Are Not "Arranged" Ahead Of the Season Instead They Are More In The Movement Of The Day-to-day transactions of the league; Offseason Extensions Are Not Parallelism With Expansion; At Least Not for Everybody. None Of This is True, Or Maybe It is But One Thing Is Clear From Opening Week The NBA Came Right In With It.
NBA week One Early Takeaway
Is It Still a Preview If we Are Almost Two Weeks In. The NBA is Where Amazing Happens.
Brooklyn Nets
Kevin Durant's Offense Can't Overshadow The Reality Of This Flawed Brooklyn Team, And James Harden's Struggles Only Underscore This Rosters Fatal Flaw, and Perhaps Nearly The fatal Flaw Of Nearly every "Super Team" Forged the Post big 3 Epoch. Some super teams Won By Way Of 'Out-Talent-ing" Their Opponents, But They all Succumb To A Peculiar Injury. A lot of Brooklyn's Woes Rest At The Wayside Of Kyrie's Absence. Kevin Durant Has to Acknowledge This much, But He Has Also Conferred that The Team Needs To Make Better use Of their Opportunities. The Team is Woeful Defensively, 26th in rating, And Their 20th Rank offense is Offsetting It As Its top 10 Ranked Offense Did Last year. The Defense Doesn't Have The Defensive Anchor It would Have Had In Jarrett Allen, whom they Lost when they Gutted The roster To Build The super Team Or If Deandre Jordan Weren't Past his Prime. The Nets have Been better When Star Rides Solo. As A Unit, The Nets Score 93.1 points per 100 possessions in 67 minutes with Durant and Harden. That Number Soars To 115.8 per 100 in 72 minutes with one on the floor without the other.
Chicago Bulls
In Chicago, "One of These Things Is Not Like the Other" Wasn't the Proposed Model For A Roster Construction Exercise. Sure, That's Not the Best Line of Critic Ever Levied but Let Me Finish. The Bulls Were "Aggressive" In Free Agency as They Were at The Trade Deadline. Zach LaVine's Prime Won't be An Inexhaustible Era of The Team's History, And The Bulls Haven't Faired Well When Managing The Primes of Their Past Stars. Being So, The Bulls went Out And Nabbed All-Star DeMar Derozan, Lonzo Ball, And Alex Carazo. And thus Far, The Results Have Been what You'd Hope. They Are 3-1 On The Season The Question Portends That Now That The Competitions Stiffens To Teams Who Are A lot tougher Than Detroit, whom the Bulls Beat Twice, How Well Will These Ball Dominant Guards, All Talented In Their Own right, Mesh. I Have Seen a few Instances Where Ball Stagnancy And Floor Spacing Proved Crucial Against The Loos To the Knicks, But That's For Another Conversion.
Milwaukee Bucks
I read The Kia MVP Ladder on NBA.com, And I was None too Shocked to Read That Giannis Is Once Again Running…. Striding Ahead Of The Competitions. In All My days Of watching And Playing Basketball, I Don't Think I Have Ever witnessed Such An Impressive, Ok, One Of The Most impressive Basketball Onslaught Ever Perpetuated On A Basketball Court. Giannis Posted A Easy 40 On A Surprising Stingy Timberwolves Defense. The 40 Points. It was too easy for Giannis. It Makes Me Wonder If the Game continues To Come So Easy To "The Freak," And It Makes One Wonder Is There Any He'll Be Able to Completely Unearth All the Potential His Dimension Have the Capacity To Contain. He, Giannis, Blocked A Shot on Wolves Guard D'Angelo Russel And All Russel Could Do In Responses was turn to The Ref Arms Opened, Flummoxed with An Incredulous Impression Arresting His Face. The Bucks Loss, but They Have Looked No Less impressive.
Cleveland Cavaliers
Is This the Season the Cavaliers Step Out of The Shadow of History? I Mentioned this Before, but I Could Believe It When The Cavs Fell Out of the Playoff Contention Last Season. Their Place In The Play-in Tournament At Least Was In Place And Approved By Mid-Season. Despite the 1-2 Record Early This Season. The Young Core Is Still "Jelling," but When A Guy Like Collin "Young Bull" Sexton Is Punishing The Rim With Reckless Abandon, You Can Help But Believe The Cavaliers Have Another Playoff Push-In Them.
Indiana Pacers
At 1-4, The Pacers Have Gotten off To A Slow Start, And This Slow Start May Only Be a Harbinger Of Things To Come. Middle Ground Teams Are Under The Greatest Threat Of Quickly Falling Behind In A Eastern Conference Of Budding Giants Like Charlotte And Chicago. Early Return from First Round Pick Chris Duarte Prove To Be The Only Caveat For A Team That's Been Unimpressive Otherwise. Duarte Averages Of 19.8 ppg, 4.8 RPG, 2.0 APG (per NBA.com) Are Propitious. His Near 20 Point Average is 3rd On the Team. The Pacers Have Had to Lean On Duarte Production Thanks to Injury Woes Caris LeVert – (sore back), Malcolm Brogdon - (left hamstring strain), Isaiah Jackson - out (left knee injury), Kelan Martin - (sore left hamstring), T.J. Warren – (left foot stress fracture). After That's Done, The Pacers Will Have To contend With the Age-Old Complex Of Capturing A true "Star" To lead Their Team.
Detroit Pistons
For Their Trouble Of Being Winless, The Pistons Have Acquired Measurable Gains From Last Haul Of Draft Round Picks. This. Includes Guard Shadiq Bey, Who Is Leading the Team In Scoring At 18.3 And Rebounding 9.5. The team Is About to Move Into Another Phase Of what has been a Promising Rebuilding Effort. When Number 1 Draft Pick Cade Cunningham Returns To The Court, Then Further Deduction On The teams Future can Be Levied. The Oklahoma State Product Hasn't Played yet Due To An Ankle Injury. At the same time, It's Impressive to Note Young talent is Impressing Early In the Season. It's Important To consider That having A Second year Player leading your Team In A Majors Statistical Category, particularly Scoring, Rarely Denotes A Team On the Verge of Success. Exceptions withstanding.
Orlando Magic
The Magic Have A Compendium Of Guard Prospects to Parse Through. First Round Picks Cole Anthony and Jalen Suggs. Former Number 1 Overall Pick Markelle Fultz and Then is The Excitable R.J. Hampton Whom They Claimed from The Nuggets. Perhaps When That's Done Their Work with The Back Court, the Organizations Can Then Sort Through Their Big Men Prospects. Former First Round Picks Mo Bamba and Wendell Carter, whom, Carter, They Just Signed To An Extension, Added To That Lot 6'11 Forward Moritz Wagner. The Magic Have Dearth of Wing Prospect to Scout From. Jonathan Issacs is still Out with Injury, and Chuma Okeke, Who They Drafted in The First round a year Ago, Is Only Now Just Getting Consistent Minutes, And First Round Pick Form This Franz Wagner (Mo's Brother) Is Now In Tow. Once The Roster Composition Is Cured and The Team Trades Away Its Veteran Holdovers, The Organization Can Then Begin to Forge A New Identity.
Minnesota Timberwolves
Can The Wolves Keep Up Their Successful ways In haul Beyond the First Four Games the Season? Well, that Depends. Minnesota is Not Shooting The Three Ball well (32.7%) despite Taking The Second Highest percentage of 3s (43.4). Furthermore, Rebounding is Not Good (45.8 total /11.8 Offensive rebounds Per Game), That's Good enough For Near The Bottom Of the League. The Counter to All Of This. The Team is 5th, Formerly First, In Defense Rating. Second in Blocks And top 10 In Points In the Paints. The T wolves Have Defended The 3 With Moderate Success. They Are getting Killed In The Corners, But At The Top Of The Key opponents Have Had No Success. Getting shots In From Deep. Offensively, The Wolves Are Deploying The Usually Suspects At The Top of The Lineup. Karl-Anthony Towns Is Pushing Out 28 Ppg Follow By A Supercharge Second Year Man Anthony Edwards At 25.3. All Of This Is Supposition. Committing The Lionshare Of Your Offensive operation To Just Two Players, (DLo Is Third But STill Averaging Under 20 At 17.2) Is Both An Advantage And A Handicap. The Offensive Game Plan, “HAnd the Ball Off And Vacate”. The Defense’s Game Plan, “Swarm And Deter”. With teams Opting To Post up A lot More, I Dont Have Numbers To Support this Calim But My eyes Bear Witness And Have Taken Oath, The three Point Shot won’t Be A Critical Plot point Of The Timberwolves’ War Machine. The Timberwolves Employ One Of The Best Post-Arms Man In KAT But As Defense’s Adjust To the trend, How will Minnesota Counterpoise The “Swamp And Deter” Delta Pattern?
Denver Nuggets
The Nuggets Are 2-0 As of this write-up. The Defense Is Top 10, But the Offense I Lagging Behind Last's Year Pace is. Surprising, This is the converse of Last year's Top ten Offense And Lackluster Defense. It is Important to remember That the Team won't be full strength Until Jamal Murray Returns From Injury And Heals Nikola Jokic’s Bewildered Supporting Cast. Michael Porter Jr., who Picked Up, The Offensive Load In Place Of Murray Last season, Is Off To, A slow start. Only 9-20 From the Field in Two Games. Murray won't be Back until April The team's lead Guard Is Only Going To be 25 Come January. Murray has Accomplished A Remarkable Amount So far In His Career; Quite Remarkable. A 25 Or More Plus Scoring. His Heroics Inn The Bubble Including A 50 Point Explosion Against The JAzz. Not Bad For One Of Those Guys From That Unmentionable School. The Nuggets Are Still One Of The best teams In the Association, 9th in Net rating, Given his Absence.
Golden State Warriors
If I Had To Make A Quick Judgment As To who would Be the Highest Favored Team To win It All, I Would Have To Say The Golden State Warriors. That’s Not Exactly Going Out On A Limb By Any Standard With A Hot Take. The Warriors Are One Were Unbeaten Through Three Having Bested Both LA Squads. There Isn't Another Team Of Championship Caliber That is Playing Up To That Standard So Far. The Odds Makers Are Still Labeling the Warriors As the 4th best chance, But as Drake Says, "Nothing Tell The truth But The Eyes Will." Despite Being nearly Four Years Removed from Their Last Championship Victory in 2018, The warriors Haven't Lost That Covet Championship Luster. That's Mystique. You Know What I Mean.
Los Angeles Lakers
The Lakers Are Still Clinching To the Second Best Odds Win The Title though Those Odds May Be Adjusted By The end Of This Write up. It is Apparent, Lebron Has Lost A Step Or Two, AD Will Never Be More Than What We Seen—Not That He Has Been Bad, But He Is far From the transcendent Talent We Thought He Would Emerge Into--And The Russell Westbrook Experiment Has Not Turned Out Productive Yet, Not Yet. Both Westbrook and AD Shot 3-20 Form three And Are Shooting A Combine 14.3% And 17.4% From Three-Point range this year. This Lakers Team that wasn't Exceptional A Plus ThrThree-Pointooting Team And Added A "Black Hole" Like Westbrook. Speaking Of black holes, The Team Ahs Gotten Respectable Production from Carmelo Anthony, who is third On the Team In Total Points Scored. Melo Is one Of The few players On The Team with A Positive Plus/minus (7), But He Continues To be in This Quasi-Blank space. He can Catch A Rhythm A Light up A Scoreboard, But He Isolate And Become A "deterrent" To The Overall Flow Of The Offense.
Memphis Grizzlies
When Was the Last Time the Grizzlies Had Certified MVP Candidates? Marc Gasol Of the Grit N Grind Days. Well, Ja Morant Is in the Third Year Is Putting His Name into The Bidding.
