2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

i understand the hesitance to do a full teardown especially in a market like that, you could go another 10=15 years not making the playoffs & just be totally in the wilderness. if they kept dame and tried to put a new team around them i wouldn't blame them. but aside from him they should be selling off anything that isn't simons or little. you'd figure that nance, covington, nurkic have value to contenders. CJ may not be tradable on that deal unless he comes back before the deadline and looks great

ppl have talked about it being a complicated situation there between stotts being forced out, paul allen dying, just seems like a big power vacuum there right now at a time when they really need someone to make some important decisions for the longterm future of the franchise

otm xp
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/POR.html
roco and nurk is 24 million expiring and they could both help out a team for a playoff push
nance is only making 10 per year for one season no reason they cant get something for him
CJ might have to play a bit to show he's still got it but his is the hardest to trade cos hes paid like a max player but is a few tiers below.
Dame is for sure tradable if teams were willing to trade for the corpse of john wall then dame is no prob
maybe hang onto simons and little but no reason they are untouchable

fwiw the going theory on cj is he does not want to leave and is delaying his return from injury to make sure he isn't traded

i broadly agree with jordan and have been in full burn it down mode since last summer, but i just don't see it happening with this coach (nobody seems to see billups seeing the end of his contract), absolutely no real front office, ownership nowhere to be seen, etc etc. power vacuum is putting it lightly, there's no rudder on the ship at all

full tear down is looking pretty good for them rn tbh, particularly considering dames age and his generally being on the verge of demanding a trade vibe

for sure, but whos making the calls lol

been a sad state of affairs since allen died

im making the calls and everyone goes

finally a leader of men

im the guy

a full tear down might make the most sense for them (prob does) but i’m not sure it’s looking all that good for them. they don’t even have a permanent GM. if they hire the wrong guy it could easily end up in a situation where you’re making a bunch of 4th, 5th, 6th overall picks and not turning up any superstars & you’re just in this kings, magic, bulls before this season kind of treadmill of mediocrity

We'll reach the midpoint of the NBA regular-season schedule tonight with the Cleveland-Utah game.

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) January 13, 2022

well at the halfway point of halftime

New Year, New Jerseys

Tomorrow at 5pm, kids 12 and under can exchange any old opposing player NBA jersey for a new Ja Morant or Jaren Jackson Jr. replica jersey + two tickets to the game.

Full Details: https://t.co/BuEbOexfnh pic.twitter.com/uZvdOYMldb

— Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) January 13, 2022

That’s incredible

lol get em

hmm i need to find myself a kid 12 and under it seems

try amazon.com they have everything or so i'm told

i know the owner is a weirdo but the grizz seem really well-run up and down the organization. that's such a great promo.

v big 'non-flagship university trying to get students to stop wearing the sports merch from the big athletic colleges from their state' energy

For sure, but sometimes buying fans works

xp what a thing to say about your small-market brethren!

other than a few lame-o laker bandwagonners, we dont have this problem!

yeah, that's very clever.

would be cool if memphis turned into a real griz town, why not seems fun

how do you even live within 50 miles of memphis and not want to be A Ja Guy

i ja i guy

Morant is way more fun to watch than Z-Bo was.

the grizz aren't the main deal in town or anything but i watched plenty of grit and grind playoff games where the crowd was pretty awesome. and yeah ja will only help.

Morant is way more fun to watch than Z-Bo was.

+ this team has a higher celling

lmao joe ingles two techs in the first half!

hahah what set him off?

idk i missed both the plays

he did look quite mad tho

jazz only had nine guys dressed too

they have no centers from the looks of things

The Hawks are truly a mess

man they looked down bad tonight. nine home losses in a row. they have 2 more vs the heat in the next 10 days & it will be interesting to see how those go bcuz there’s a big, um, coherence gap between those two teams right now

feels like a weirdly anonymous year from huerter. his percentages are better but i just feel like whenever i catch the hawks this year i forget he’s even out there

on the plus side i thought hunter’s three point shot looked good but to say the least he obv can’t solve their defensive issues just by being on the court

Seems like nate has run his course there

i have to say… i do enjoy watching kevin durant james harden and kyrie irving play basketball

i do too but they need to lose every game

that is a defensible position

nets just spanking the bulls up and down the court

maybe they could win one game then lose one for the rest of the season

bucks taking a different approach this year

The Bucks are showing or blitzing on 15.4 picks per 100 possessions, the second-highest rate in the NBA per Second Spectrum. That figure is more than double the league average this year (roughly seven per 100), and more than triple their rate from last season (roughly 4.5).

The Bucks may be the defending champs, but they’re still evolving 👀@NekiasNBA breaks down how their defense is getting more aggressive:https://t.co/EuOZpL4SpI

— BasketballNews.com (@basketbllnews) January 13, 2022

omg Westbrook is so bad! lol

down 4 to the Kings with a minute to play

https://streamable.com/wdab3f

8/40 from 3pt range in the last three games

lol my bad that's just like regular shots. i'm half asleep but damn this dude should not be a starter anymore