AROUND THE ASSOCIATION
Five Teams That Are Making Us Rethink Everything (Already)
Danny Chau, The Ringer
5 young role players improving rapidly so far this season
Ricky O’Donnell, SBNation
Are NBA salary cap rules breaking up teams? Players open up on second apron
Joe Vardon, The Athletic
Wednesday’s Games Notes
Keith Smith, Basketball Bulletin
TEAM-SPECIFIC
BKN: Thomas And The Brooklyn Tunnel Vision
Steve Lichtenstein
It’s not too early to state that the Nets (0-5) are not just a bad team. They are also acutely displeasing to a basketball purist’s eyes. Oh, Thomas and Michael Porter Jr. are gifted enough scorers to go off on some big nights—Thomas dropped 40 in San Antonio last Sunday and Porter put up 32 points on just 20 field goal attempts against the Hawks—but so many possessions feature endless dribbling to nowhere in particular that the efficiency eventually succumbs to the law of diminishing returns.
BOS: Josh Minott starts again, and Celtics win again
Jay King, The Athletic
BOS: CELTICS-CAVS: The Good, The Bad, and what was better than expected
Sherrod Blakely, Full Court Press
Boston wins the battle of the boards along with strong play defensively, the kind of basketball that’s reminiscent of their championship-contending days
BOS: The Celtics looked drastically improved as they dispatched the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Adam Taylor, Celtics Chronicle
CHI: Bulls stay unbeaten in best start in four years
Joel Lorenzi, The Athletic
CHI: The undefeated Bulls
Kelly Dwyer, On Hoops
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