2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

thought he as supposed to be the best scorer of our generation

James Harden is 32 and his off court lifestyle is pretty debauched so maybe that’s part of what’s going on here

there's definitely a pattern in pro sports where great players suddenly turn mediocre in their early 30s and every time it happens people are shocked

not saying that's what's happening here, for all we know Harden is just using these early season games to see what he can and can't do anymore, but it wouldn't be unprecedented

in basketball at least barring injury it tends to be more of a slow decline for stars, like if harden was this bad all year it would be an unprecedented drop off

yeah this is a purely anecdotal theory but i feel like if you’re an all time level NBA guard who hasn’t suffered any sort of career altering injury you have a really good shot at being useful into your 30s. moreso than prob any other group of pro athletes just in terms of wear and tear, physical strain on the body

the suns look like they are on a finals hangover. but they arent old and proven enough to have that last very long. bucks are now in the zone where they turn it on only if they have to and some nights theyll get steamrolled outta nowhere. clippers are off to a very weird start... are they even a playoff team without kawhi?

the bulls start is cuet but theyre about to embark on a hellish three-week schedule

suns kings was a cool game and harry bs game winner was cold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8aIEfTnWJo

nice shot

in basketball at least barring injury it tends to be more of a slow decline for stars, like if harden was this bad all year it would be an unprecedented drop off

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:58 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well if one star player was gonna suffer this kind of decline I'd wager it's a guy with an insanely high usage rate who takes a ton of contact who also happens to maybe not be in the best shape

ultimately I think Harden will be fine once he's used to the new rules but I don't think it would be that surprising if he wasn't

why is there no tnt double header

bc they got scared off by thursday night football

jfc

mb i will watch knicks bulls its a brave new world

yeah feel like it’s gotta be football. TNT did 2 games on tuesday night

i dont think its been an issue in the past. or they just havent cared. why not both nights ffs

Packers-Cardinals is the rare good Thursday night NFL game, the teams are a combined 11-1

What’s a Packers?

kemba is starting to crank it up

love kemba hes a great fit with the knicks who badly needed another guy who can put the ball through the ring

yeah their offense would be missing a major component without him. it’s the bulls defense so whatever but their starting line up of kemba, barrett, fournier, randle & robinson has pretty good spacing. kemba has been getting to the rim and either finishing or hitting robinson for alley oops/fouls pretty consistently

kemba is still really good when hes healthy, unfortunately celtics only got half a season of that

and an occasional five game stretch i guess

thibs is one of the most naturally bald men of alltime he has like 25 hairs on his head

i should not have to listen to joakim noah while im innocently watching a basketball game he is still so awful

hes wearing like a hand knit bucket hat

thibs is one of the most naturally bald men of alltime he has like 25 hairs on his head

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 28, 2021 9:23 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's the number one thing that makes him look like an actor playing a mobster in a silent film

lol

demar derozan is taking threes. he’s not making them. but he is taking them.

the hawks lost to the wizards huh

they made him take them his last year in toronto but then when pop let him just shoot 2s he did that xp

celtics lost to the wizards too wizards are ok they have some guys

the wizards getting a bunch of useful players for russell westbrook might’ve been the no 1 move of the entire offseason

yeah low key heist

KCP and kuzma both put up 21-8 tonight and harrell had 25-13

i do not make bets but wizards over seemed like an easy one, they created a pretty deep roster that mostly makes sense

lol the eastern conference standings are wild rn

chi cho

end of this game is nuts

loool and ends with an airball

classic demar

Curry is a psychopath

Cmon lol pic.twitter.com/VutoEWiAVR

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) October 29, 2021

lol wtf even is that

giving the same insane grin as brad pitt in 12 monkeys

lol that rules

watched the fourth quarter of bulls knicks and the bulls had lonzo checking randle for the final 5 mins or so and man was he giving randle problems

lonzo is just a cool ass player

he's come a long way!

they don’t seem to wanna play patrick williams at the ends of games bcuz he can’t score so it’s been caruso with the 4 starters which basically leaves lonzo as the de facto stopper on any player who isn’t a center. he was up in randle’s shit tonight

Trae Young does not like the new officiating:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32499723/atlanta-star-trae-young-speaks-new-rules-frustrated-missed-calls

Especially a smaller guy like me who's going up against bigger and stronger defenders, they're using their body and they're using their legs and their hands to stop me."

Lol, the unmitigated gall of these defenders.