Have only caught a bit of 2-3 games, but damn it's good to have NBA back. Lot of old dogs looking relatively fresh, and until it comes back, you forget how quality the skills are.
Quality of the stream from all the NBA apps/sources is a++.
Fantastic site and much more than just zack lowe e.g. Jalen & Jacoby, Andy Greenwald, Mike Goodman etc.
Top 3 fav memories:
Vince Staples on NBA After dark and explaining how the tallest team always won, why CP3 would never win a chip, why Doc Rivers was a terrible coach and how WNBA Point Guards are better than (male) college equivalents.
The transcript of the Pop and Doris interviews from the 2013 finals ("Fuck you Doris")
Simmons annual piece on the worst contracts of the NBA
Wnba is solid. Quite literally a more on the floor game, but the xs and os are all there. Maya Moore is entertaining AF. Also, their league pass is us$15 for whole year.
Catching up on Warriors v t-wolves. Curry is absolutely ridiculous. I know that's obvious to say, but there really has never been anything like it.
They started trying to play him straight up, and Levine got lost a couple of times and he hit deep 3s (even with the big hedging every time). So they adjust and go for an uber hard double team everytime. T-wolves are super aggressive with it, right on the money, picking him up early, and he still hits shots straight in their face, and then goes straight into some peefect bounce passes out of the double team. A couple of rotations and boom, basket.
Add to his freakish skill and near perfectly balanced roster and some absolutely brilliant coaching and it's just insane.
its a weird narrative, normally a team will gradually improve and pull away from the pack or trade big but GSW seem to have gone from also rans in the West to just being head and shoulders better than everyone else without any significant roster changes.
Threw it away in the 3rd, just like the Boston game.
I expected both them and the Nugs to smack the Bucks by high double figures though. At least this sort of performance makes every fixture seem to count and therefore is quite exciting.