2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

beyond jalen green they're playing otherwise decent to above average NBA players. christian wood, kevin porter jr, eric gordon, jae'sean tate, daniel theis are in their top 6 in minutes. 3 or 4 wins should not be that much to ask. silas jr had some of the worst coach body language i've ever seen the other day vs the knicks and they were winning that game well into the fourth quarter

i couldn't discern like a single offensive set they may have run in that game. it just looked like they were running random pick and rolls and then someone would eventually decide to shoot. also 1 out of 4 possessions someone threw the ball out of bounds for no reason. and yet they still could have won!

mike breen kept complaining about how bad the game was

yeah silas seems bad, but maybe hes good... for tanking

wall isnt playing due to tanking considerations and i guess theyre just totally hopeless as far as trading him, but he is traveling with the team and they say hes been a very good citizen, gives him something to do i guess, weird situation, have to think theyll do a buy out next year but then why not buy him out this year, maybe they think they can move him when hes expiring or hell be useful as cap filler in a big deal idk

they just have a buncha young dudes figuring it out with a crap coach. when i watch them they are suuuuuper sloppy and turn it over like every other possession plus no ball movement on the other end. just checked and yep they are dead last in TOs per game + dead last in assists per game

it's always kind of funny-sad with the last players left behind on a tanking team. I remember the Free Thad Young campaign at the beginning of the process. Thinking about Eric Gordon now more than Wall - I don't have a ton of sympathy for him as I have always found him to be a heel but you gotta think it grates to be out there playing 30min/g with this team after running with Harden for years. He is also expiring next year, at 20 mil. Seems like if he doesn't get bought out, he should get moved at the deadline to a contender looking for a microwave bench guy but hard to say at this point who that would be.

silas jr had some of the worst coach body language i've ever seen the other day vs the knicks and they were winning that game well into the fourth quarter

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 23, 2021 2:24 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hollinger has been saying that perception around silas is much worse than people might realize for a while now. there's probably no reason to move on this year but doubt he gets another year after this.

The rockets season is going perfectly.

it's always kind of funny-sad with the last players left behind on a tanking team. I remember the Free Thad Young campaign at the beginning of the process...

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, November 23, 2021 1:57 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

whats funny/sad is that thad is now the lone thirtysomething on the spurs first honest rebuilding effort since the 80s (going p good, losing a bunch of games)

Wow at the clippers mavs end of regulation. Clips come back from 10 down with a couple min left pg ties it on a crazy 3 that left his hand at the last possible millisecond.

Then zinger took over in ot. 30 points and he’s looking good of late.

fun game. the zinger put back dunk in the 4th q had me concerned for a moment the way he landed. but he has looked very decent

the lack of size/athleticism from cade cunningham still has me reeling, like… what happened there? i still don’t understand. i thought he was supposed to be a small forward. was i gaslighted? did i gaslight myself? he’s still filling up the box score regardless so i think he’s gonna be a really good player, prob will make several all star teams, but it feels way more lonzo ball-ish at the moment than i was led to believe… i feel like the comp for him coming out was khris middleton? i’m confounded. i think if you spin his ceiling as like jason kidd but with a real jump shot that’s a pretty tight player. but it really feels like they should’ve taken evan mobley.

i feel 100% gaslighted, usually mainstream draft coverage is at least adept at describing the physical profile of a player

I never understood the Cade thing and I think people got intoxicated by how good Doncic is with B+ athleticism

The draft nerds loved Cade because they watched film and he didn’t really have flaws and has such a good understanding of the game, and what the hell do I know maybe that’s the right call for Detroit

i do think there’s something to be said for safety. my thing is more that i can’t remember a high level player where i thought he was going to look/play like one thing and it ended up being something totally different

anyway speaking of no 1 picks, chet holmgren looking like evan mobley 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4qkyReYhE

cade is already a good playmaker the fake size news is def weird but he can still be really good hell just have to do it with skillz which it seems like he has idk

chet “mobley with a jump shot” holmgren

lmao

CHRIS DUARTE. IMPOSSIBLE. Overtime in Indy!!! pic.twitter.com/PD5TosITPz

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) November 25, 2021

It’s amazing how pink Poeltl gets when he gets going

my guy is using some spf 100 out here

He makes Huerter look tan

poeltl is german for "pale af"

the fuck did that shot go in?

ANTHONY EDWARDS OMG! 🤯

The dunk was waved off for a charge call. 🤐

(📽️: @Timberwolves)pic.twitter.com/y0Fr1bZUlg

— theScore (@theScore) November 25, 2021

that dunk looked like a fucking video game

in slo-mo that doesn't look like an offensive foul to me, but those kinds of calls are extremely hard to get right on the floor, without slo-mo

the Lad out there doing Lad things

5 in a row for the Wolves

Hawks on a roll thanks to a lighter schedule and Capela getting back into form

the ref who called a charge on that edwards dunk should be executed

he should at least be forced to write a short form essay on what it means to be and feel alive

I can't stop watching that dunk.

lol Jimmy never stop being a weirdo

just like old times pic.twitter.com/KE0eq9FVKd

— Wobthony Edwards (@WorldWideWob) November 25, 2021

Another dubs down by 20 to winning by 20 game

Fire that ref for sure f that we were robbed of an all time great dunk

crunch time blazers lately reminding me of brooks-era thunder

LeBron is not happy with these Pacers fans pic.twitter.com/ymuiIquZi9

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) November 25, 2021

him dragging the ref with one hand and pointing out the bullies with the other hand is killing me

what in the hell

Curious wtf those fans were saying

Well it's not Utah so I guess it's not 100% something racial but that's where I would put my money

they seemed distinctly non-antagonistic but sure, who knows

there was apparently a warning issued to them earlier in the game is what i heard

They could afford courtside seats, so its a cinch they're two rich assholes who were being assholish to the maximum of their abilities.

im in favor of giving lebron veto power to remove courtside fans at his whim tbh, i trust his word over theirs

like what good is winning 4 mvps and 4 rings if u cant tell some mayo malefactors to hit the bricks every once in a while

fuck that soft shit

i think there should be a ceremony in every game where one player from the opposing team gets to eject two fans sitting courtside

Jack Nicholson would not approve.