2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

book got tagged as an empty points guy early in his career, which IMHO is unfair

yeah he clearly proved hes more than that over the years and washed it away completely last season. his defensive improvement is good to see. he moves without the ball and is unselfish. maybe its just cos hes one of those fundamental gets-to-his-spots mid-range-y guys and rarely makes any highlight reels? i mean the two biggest things hes know for over the last couple years is being mad he got doubled in a pickup game and getting mad at a dinosaur mascot.

the richard jefferson/perk combo on that panel is brutal

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 2, 2022 2:52 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink'

agree lol. RJ is actually pretty good at calling games tho imo.

sadly cannot stand him in any context

i understand, and felt the same b4 but thought he did good on the last couple games i heard him call.

the richard jefferson/perk combo on that panel is brutal

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 2, 2022 4:52 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

youre supposed to have exactly one dumb hot take guy on at a time, the producers know this, not sure whats going on

...its espn

everyone has an opinion these days

#Lakers Lebron update

—Swelling still present
—Seeking options for treatment

Two things come to mind
1) Baker’s cyst
2) Bursitis pic.twitter.com/EcGUp57iZy

— Dr. Evan Jeffries, DPT (@GameInjuryDoc) February 2, 2022

booker clearly needed a good team to be built around him & for a real elite PG to step in, but you could take any of the other players in their line up -- including cp3, as we saw last year -- and i think they could still win a lot of playoff games. but if you took booker out that team would struggle to score in crunch time vs locked in defenses. maybe ppl just take him putting up 25 ppg in the regular season as ho hum nowadays but in the offs that skill plays up

Morey’s current asking price for Simmons keeps the Mavs from getting their foot in the door here (for now), but there have been separate rumors saying Luka likes the idea of playing with Simmons & Simmons has Dallas on his shortlist… 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/SLaZTCrSnG

— Dalton Trigg (@dalton_trigg) February 2, 2022

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i can see why ppl might think they could fit together but simmons and porzingis together just seems like a disaster

i dont see the problem from a fit perspective, they are both kind of general disasters tho

yeah exactly

porzingis has been playing really well as of late but i have only seen him play the blazers recently so that's a meaningless assessment

he's had a good season for sure. an issue w/ him and getting another guy is that in theory he's an easy "fit" bcuz he can space the floor but if you listen to/read anything about the mavs ppl openly talk about him becoming a malcontent when he's asked to just stand around and shoot threes

best case scenario they could add simmons and just have very good team ball/player movement with everyone involved but thats prob not the most likely outcome

i still want simmons to end up in charlotte, him + lonzo + bridges is an ideal scenario for him imo, they'd be a complete terror in transition and they could just switch everything on defense. but it doesn't sound like they're anywhere near the discussions

yeah would be cool wonder if they just dont want to deal with simmons tude

seems bad to throw ben into a good vibes team situation, otoh he might be soothed by the vibez

as a barely-living survivor of kyrie's corruption and ruination of the celtics, you're taking a big risk putting a malcontent on a big contract with nice young guys who don't know any better

kyrie was a champion though, simmons I would imagine does not command the same sort of respect among his peers

also I hadn’t realized simmons was getting fined millions and millions of dollars this year, that’s awesome, he fucking sucks

lol

everyone seems to think he’s gonna get it back when he’s traded

zaire williams looking quite frisky for the grizz tonight

kyrie was a champion though, simmons I would imagine does not command the same sort of respect among his peers

― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Wednesday, February 2, 2022 9:09 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a good point. i don't think it would be exactly the same, but i think simmons would still have an outsized idea of his abilities and place in the pecking order which could be pretty harmful.

yeah i mean kyrie undermines a team like hes painting the sistine chapel simmons could never

I mean, what he's done this year? Truly will never be topped.

the creativity, adjusting to circumstances on the ground, not sure weve ever seen anything like it

it’s really comical how much better the knicks are when they don’t have a single starter on the floor. they should trade their entire starting 5

just spitballing here but what if they didnt start them

i had been trying to figure out for a while why announcers calling 3 pointers "triples" annoyed me. and it hit me tonight that it's just a simple usage thing--triple is a multiplier. we don't call 2 point shots "doubles." in baseball this is fine because the default hit is a one-base single. not really a thing in basketball.

i think i am now even more annoyed by it.

i kinda like the idea of a color guy yelling out "1-2 that's two points!" after every dunk and "1-2-3 you can count em" after every three pointer especially if the guy doing that was hubie brown.

yea in baseball it's always called a "single" so I do in fact like the idea of calling them "doubles"

With six straight losses, the Nets are in sixth place in the East, and are 1.5 games – and two losses – above the play-in tournament.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) February 3, 2022

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Haha just came to post about the Nets losing streak. You love to see it.

Also Harden played 37 minutes tonight and scored 4 points. Did not get to the line. These new rules baby

that’s a shame

Nets have vibes issues

harden clearly doesnt like kyrie

had harden ever had a good vibes team tho?

maybe the OKC finals team? the one rockets year where they almost beat the dubs before cp3’s hammy exploded and their relationship deteriorated?

all the nets big 3 have terrible vibes thats what makes it fun lol

super low VORP (vibes over replacement player)

kyrie has obvs by far the worst vibes, some of the worst of all time
harden is a sullen weirdo but not the committed team cancer that kyrie is
kd is capable of being a fully functioning member of a team who takes nothing off the table but at his lowest is a big resentful baby

harden not a committed team cancer? lol remember last season?

he was trying to force a trade, thats special circumstances

never has there been a greater commitment to cancering

super low VORP (vibes over replacement player)

― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Thursday, February 3, 2022 8:43 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

does harden have a single friend in the league?