2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

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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

I mean Thanasis got 32 minutes tonight it doesn't feel like the Bucks are taking the season seriously yet which is a different issue than the Nets are having right now

Chip hangover is real

lakers scored 95 points on the rockets in a game where davis played 33 mins and lebron and westbrook played 35 mins

it’s not good!

I forget it a lot but Brook is really important for the bucks

so zion gets scanned again in 2-3 weeks to see if he's cleared to start practicing. seems like this is going badly.

yeah you know when youre dealing with time until next scan its not ideal

what a miserable awful season they're having, have to wonder how badly he even wants to come back and play for them

Just trade him for picks

The Celtics picked up the fourth-year option on guard Romeo Langford for the 2022-2023 season, source tells ESPN. He was the 14th overall pick in the 2019 Draft.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 1, 2021

wow rude

the drop off that happened right at the langford spot in that draft is pretty crazy

10. Cam Reddish
11. Cameron Johnson
12. P.J. Washington
13. Tyler Herro
14. Romeo Langford
15. Sekou Doumbouya
16. Chuma Okeke
17. Nickeil Alexander-Walker
18. Goga Bitadze
19. Luka Šamanić
20. Matisse Thybulle

i guess you'd prob rather have alexander walker or thybulle over langford at this point but it's not like you can necessarily blast ainge for how this played out. you really have to go all the way down to 28-29-30 with Jordan Poole, Keldon Johnson and Kevin Porter Jr. to get to like an actually exciting prospect

celtics are cursed (bad)

lol suns

Suns making Jalen Smith rare lottery pick with declined third-year team option https://t.co/zrsSDnnZzH

— Dan Feldman (@DanFeldmanNBA) November 1, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDHcaOGWQAke4my?format=jpg&name=large

kyrie still doing his thing

lol retired guys with nothing to lose egging him on

the jalen smith stuff is nuts that they're giving up on him this early. not sure "james jones executive of the year" is going to hold up to scrutiny...

he got lucky that chris paul still had something left in the tank.

didn’t korkmaz get an option declined and then just ended up signing back with the sixers for cheap? wonder if it could be something like that.

still a pretty bad pick.

KD frosty this past weekend lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wPDclNZmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3Y07rRrd8

supposed to be auto ejection if you throw the ball like that

from hollinger's column today:

Before you ask, the Suns can’t do any shenanigans here. They are limited to offering Smith the same $4.67 million as a free agent next year (ditto for Memphis and Culver), so if he somehow proves us all fools and has a big year, Phoenix will almost certainly lose him. (This is also an extremely rare endgame: The last time this happened was Solomon Hill with Indiana in 2015, and I don’t think the Pacers sit around ruing the day they let him walk.)

yeah hill just happened to get minutes in a short playoff run and hit a bunch of shots, then regressed to his mean immediately after

n.b nate mcmillan has implemented "his offense" with the hawks and it sucks. surprise!

the drop off that happened right at the langford spot in that draft is pretty crazy

10. Cam Reddish
11. Cameron Johnson
12. P.J. Washington
13. Tyler Herro
14. Romeo Langford
15. Sekou Doumbouya
16. Chuma Okeke
17. Nickeil Alexander-Walker
18. Goga Bitadze
19. Luka Šamanić
20. Matisse Thybulle

i guess you'd prob rather have alexander walker or thybulle over langford at this point but it's not like you can necessarily blast ainge for how this played out. you really have to go all the way down to 28-29-30 with Jordan Poole, Keldon Johnson and Kevin Porter Jr. to get to like an actually exciting prospect

KD frosty this past weekend lol

― It's the Final Cluntdiwn (Spottie), Monday, November 1, 2021 6:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the emptiness of the nets project...

the lifeless grey unis and court just add to it

kyrie and harden already various levels of checked out

funny to think that if theyd all just gone to the knicks theyd be demigods by now

if they had gone to the knicks durant would've torn his other achilles, harden would weigh 270 pounds, and kyrie would be living w/o electricity in the hudson valley

lol

lmao

btw per this article my memory held up well about kurkan--3rd-year option declined and then re-signed for 2 years at the minimum. not sure how this sitch is different from jalen smith's from a cba perspective: https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/furkan-korkmaz-sixers-free-agent-signing-20190724.html

good call on that.

ohhh i get it now, they can offer him no *more* than the 3rd year option number, but can offer less.

if they had gone to the knicks durant would've torn his other achilles, harden would weigh 270 pounds, and kyrie would be living w/o electricity in the hudson valley

― J0rdan S., Monday, November 1, 2021 7:55 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if that happened after they won a playoff round theyd still be ny legends

about an hour and a half ago the raptors were down 15 to the knicks and i was gonna post that it was feeling like a bit of a lost season for them and then they immediately started kicking the knicks ass and won by 13. career high 36 for OG

og is good

celtics are cursed (bad)

― ciderpress, Monday, November 1, 2021 4:50 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he looks excellent. if his offense is this consistent he’s gonna make a bunch of all star teams going forward xp

uh yeah i was gonna ask… so, the celtics… bad?

they just don't have a true #1 scoring threat unless tatum can take another step up. in the meantime this iteration was supposed to be a good defense medium offense team but the defense has been outright bad

i think on most teams tatum would qualify as a #1 scoring threat.

from what i have seen the issues have been poor team defense, getting nothing from smart and richardson, and not getting enough from rob in an expanded role.