2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

its nice everyone has brothers to wage proxy war

my huge dumb brothers are posting at this very moment

lol

i don't have a huge dumb brother which probably means the huge dumb brother is me

A reliable #NBA source told me, the @Jokicbrothers bought tickets today and are expected to be at the #Nuggets #Heat game in Miami on November 29th.

— Eric Goodman (@EricGoodman) November 9, 2021

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32592504/penny-sarver-wife-robert-sarver-sent-messages-three-former-phoenix-suns-employees

a lot of NBA gangsters out there right now!

"This is Penny Sarver," one message began. "I know a lot of bridges were burned between you and Robert and you are very bitter. I want to remind you that real lives are at stake here."

Later, the message added, "Please put your hatred aside and realize the hurt you are causing by spreading lies and fabrications. Is your time in the spotlight that important? If something happens to one of my children, I will hold you and Earl Watson personally responsible. Think about your own child for a second and imagine the tables turned."

A second former employee received a message that began, "I am so terribly saddened that you would say such untrue things about my husband. Your interpretation of what happened is so far from the truth. You are crushing my families (sic) lives. Thanks for that."

A third former employee said their message began, "You are such a liar. In your trying to destroy my husband with (your) lies -- you have destroyed my family and children."

lol what a dummy

someone take away penny’s phone now

I would like to see the bikini pic tho

matt

I suspect Neil Olshey is feeling mildly grateful rn to Markieff Morris, Nikola Jokic and Penny Sarver for completely deflecting the attention of nba fans and the sports press away from him.

try DMing robert sarver

olshey's a dead man walking and i'm sure he knows it, why they're giving him all this lead time to shred all the records i don't really know

Sixers are bringing Curry and Green off the bench I guess, which means none of their starters are in the starting lineup.

Korkmaz and Niang have been solid lately. Milton is off the IR and making shots. Good depth.

Niang's been great and they've been shooting well as a team from 3 which I think has been covering up a lot of issues.

Maxey is hooping 4 sure.

Niang never misses a shot when I watch him

Drummond contract year push is very impressive but also last year was a contract year? Why didn’t you do it then

mb he forgot

this spectrum-style court design is dope as fuck. sixers designers still best in the league.

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic has been suspended one game for shoving Miami’s Markieff Morris from behind Monday night.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 10, 2021

fair

wild that the warriors are 9-1 while steph "curry" is well below his usual numbers. also the #1 defense despite starting wiggins

Another good game from Grayson Allen, who is not a bad NBA player

wild that the warriors are 9-1 while steph "curry" is well below his usual numbers. also the #1 defense despite starting wiggins

― ciderpress, Tuesday, November 9, 2021 8:06 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wiggins is a solid defender now, and stephs defense has never been better either. draymond is as active as ive ever seen him. things are clicking at the moment but their schedules been pretty easy. whooping bad/mediocre teams is a good thing tho.

hey so uh

whats happening with the hawks? 4-8 and in the 13th spot in the east rn

this seems right

Man it’s so wild that Nate McMillan saw the first real coaching success of his career doing the opposite of everything he’s ever done and then still said “nah fuck that I’m doing things my way this year”

— Atlanta Hawks Reddit (@ATLHawks_Reddit) November 10, 2021

lol

hubrisky business

persistent rumours that brogdon couldnt stand the guy fwiw

i’ve read that capela hasn’t looked healthy

they look a lot like they did at the beginning of last season. i'm not worried. Capela sat out the whole preseason so he's getting back in shape like a few others. they look like fire for stretches and then go completely cold. it's really like a mirror image of last season's start. also, i see all the things blaming it on McMillan but this seems more like a players issue

definitely need Okongwu back. so excited to see that kid develop

dame complaining about the rules now. so weve got harden, trae and dame complaining so far? cos lol

they put a lot of effort into exploiting the rules then the league goes and changes them, i can understand why theyre upset

yeah for sure its just funny/predictable the ones that are in strongest opposition to it. the natural ballers have moved on and made the adjustments.

harden has never looked happier than when he got this call

James Harden celebrates after FINALLY getting a foul call 😂 pic.twitter.com/gobJ0p8ppZ

— YES Network (@YESNetwork) November 9, 2021

also, i see all the things blaming it on McMillan but this seems more like a players issue

― Heez, Thursday, 11 November 2021 12:43 AM

thats mcmillans dark genius - he somehow makes it look like the players fault

feel like given the relative youth of the hawks they still don't have tons of guys you can rely on night to night. prob will have some heaters and then some colder stretches. pretty anonymous years so far from a number of their guys... bogdanovic, huerter in particular seems out of wack, hunter's offense is up and down at best, collins' percentages are up but his overall scoring is down. they've also been on a pretty brutal road trip

going into the season i thought they'd blaze thru the regular season and then fall short a bit in the playoffs but perhaps it will be the opposite. their roster gives them line up flexibility which is maybe more advantageous in the playoffs where you can pick out match ups but hurting them a bit in the regular season where mcmillan is like kinda throwing shit at the wall? idk

Yeah I totally see them hitting top form in the new year

One thing I’ve noticed is that teams are focusing def on not giving trae lobs

The Hawks are stacked with talent so I think it’s fair to be concerned about what is going on there

one game its cam going off, next game its hunter, next game its huerter, then its bogdo. they need to figure out their pecking order and roles. overabundance of talent is a good problem to have tho.

they're 27th in defensive rating right now. not much else matters until that gets back to averageish.

yeah the defense has been glaringly bad

team defense that is

losing 5 straight but the 5 are nets, jazz, suns, warriors, jazz w/ 4 of those on the road isn't necessarily a huge cause for alarm, tho several of those have been borderline non competitive based on the final scores and that phx game they blew a big lead which hurts. they have nuggets on the road and then bucks next two so it might get worse but their schedule is much easier in december so it feels like a wait and see where they're at come the new year for me

also contra the prevailing narrative it's possible nate mcmillon wasn't sprinkling any magic on that team and was simply just not the previous coach that they hated and now that aspect of their situation is crashing back to earth

the one thing i read when they were on their run last year was players saying pierce didn't really have them run plays and the one thing mcmillan did was actually like, have plays that would organize the offense. so that seems tangible to me. i do think they have some rotation stuff to figure out and not sure i trust him to do a great job with that, but if they can clean up the defense (which is very much related to getting capela to a better place) they should still be a strong team.