2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

Harden 19 fta tonight

the refs rewarding blatant foul hunting might have faded momentarily but the star calls are still there

not a great 3rd for the Mavs

the lakers are so bad lol

they should probably just full court press because their defence breaks down after a maximum of two passes every time

Cavs not looking terrible! But yeah, Lakers are kinda uh

I can never root for the Lakers or desire anything but their irrelevance. So far, so good.

It’s cool that every lakers win is trench warfare

get em stan

Loading your groceries into your car and then leaving the shopping cart in the parking lot rather than taking one damn minute to put it back tells everyone how selfish you are.

— Stan Van Gundy (@realStanVG) October 30, 2021

lol taking on the important things

king

my mind's eye immediately generated a scene of dwight howard doing exactly that in my local supermarket parking lot, with svg giving the quote to a reporter nearby

lmao

hahahaha

SVG using his millions to trail dwight like a PI and tweeting about his minor societal transgressions

good elevator pitch for an nba tv pilot if they wanna get into scripted series

his minor societal transgressions

there are probably, so many, for realz

"I can't believe I'm adding yet again to the list of places where it's just inappropriate to pass gas loudly"

dwight asking to taste test every ice cream flavor feels very real to me

Oh god yes

the wizards halftime show is a fat guy balancing giant objects on his chin

haven't seen this one before but maybe hes part of the normal circuit idk

lol

so ive signed up for nba league pass using a vpn saying im in brazil (s/o dayo) $10 a/month working so far

stadium feeds instead of commercials too

keep an eye out for the fat chin guy then

will do

remember that one year where bertans couldnt miss

would just like to say i appreciate the refs not falling for the foul baiting this year but theyre also just not calling a ton of legit fouls, its too physical imo

so the Dubs are playing a lot of zone against OKC and OKC is now 7-36 on 3s. think that's not great.

i don't think okc will challenge 9-73 but it's at least a conversation worth having

wild finish to nuggs-puppies

The hawks might have too many guys

Yeah they’re still feeling each other out. Defense looks real bad which should not be the case

if the officiating continues this way, fewest ft attempts ever! its gonna make the season pretty chaotic

it’s good free throws are the worst thing about basketball. is there data about game times? anecdotally seems shorter to me

i think they're letting defenders get away with a bit too much but if i'm gonna choose one extreme i'd rather it be this one

i also dislike free throws but i dont want the game to be too physical i want it to be the right amount of physical

agreed, it’ll settle out eventually but they’re setting the tone,

xp

i also dislike free throws but i dont want the game to be too physical i want it to be the right amount of physical

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:13 PM (fifty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow freaking goldilocks over here

ok sorry if i have high standards

I’m too biased about this because Jokic doesn’t get touch foul calls anyway

i think it’s clear the refs have taken the mandate to stop calling blatant non basketball bait fouls and are just letting a bunch of normal contact go when they should be calling fouls but i’m willing to accept it as a temporary price for reorienting the notion of fouls in general which seems to be the aim here

otm

I love what I’ve seen but were probably be the same games yah refs always overcompensate at the beginning of seasons but it usually smooths out after a bit

kind of a miserable start for the bucks huh

perhaps it won’t matter but everyone’s notion of the east and really the entire league kinda gets upended to some degree if the bucks & nets end up on the same side of the bracket again. everyone is just sorta operating as if it’s a simple fact that they will play in the east finals

theyre shorthanded rn, jrue and brook and bobby portis and i think white donte all out.

yeah. i mean they’ll be fine in the long run and nothing matters to them except being healthy in april but it’s not out of the question that another team could finish top 2 in the east especially if either the bucks or nets is just in a weird funk for the first month of the season. neither team is going to particularly care about where they’re seeded either

Middleton was out too