2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

lol 16 games total is insane xp

morey was right in the end*

*had to trade his third best player and two first round picks to acquire a disintegrating 32 year old playoff failure

Would be awesome if the Nets cratered in the playoffs and KD bails and Simmons is left holding the bag.

you misspelled “sixers”, “harden” and “joel embiid”

morey was right in the end*

*had to trade his third best player and two first round picks to acquire a disintegrating 32 year old playoff failure

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 10, 2022 11:40 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i just mean in theory he waited and landed who HE wanted. obv this will all go down in flames but he got his guy.

Not to derail this but what the fuck is Enes Freedom doing

South Park Vibes pic.twitter.com/rfylHCuWCi

— Enes FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) February 10, 2022

Also lmao @ the first reply

.@JoelEmbiid tweeted this photo after the reported Ben Simmons-James Harden trade. pic.twitter.com/943Z1uMT1Y

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 10, 2022

thought we agreed on no enes chat

morey was right in the end*

*had to trade his third best player and two first round picks to acquire a disintegrating 32 year old playoff failure

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 10, 2022 11:40 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i just mean in theory he waited and landed who HE wanted. obv this will all go down in flames but he got his guy.

― Spottie, Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:43 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he mightve had some information not available to the general public

The Harden-KD fall out over Kyrie is a classic case of your homeboy's homeboy who ain't your homeboy making shit weird with you and your homeboy. NBA wild as hell this some freshman year of college shenanigans

— ✨🦦America Is Musty🦦✨ (@DragonflyJonez) February 10, 2022

lol

quick thoughts on harden/embiid. they will be killer in the pnr together for sure... but the fact that both of them wear down at end of games/series will play a big factor at some point. they are also both highly TO prone.

richardson has been great for the celtics but i do like this, white is more of a baller than josh, tho i imagine theres more than just those two guys in it

The Boston Celtics are trading Josh Richardson to the San Antonio Spurs for Derrick White, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 10, 2022

lol they just pried back two picks after sending out three + swaps to get harden and they cant wait to ship them out

The Brooklyn Nets are still working to be aggressive in more deal-making today, armed with two new first-round picks, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 10, 2022

answers one question

As part of deal, new 76ers star James Harden is opting into his $47.3 million player option on contract for next season, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 10, 2022

the celtics finally have a real point guard kinda? josh richardson and romeo langford feel like neutral trade value at best players so i guess we’ll see where that pick ends up landing. doesn’t feel like they really gave anything up. not sure it speaks hugely of what derrick white’s value is unless the spurs think weirdly highly of langford

ah langfords in there i see, good reclamation project for the spurs, i could see them getting something out of him, feel like richardson has some trade value but to a contender who needs some spot minutes at guard not sure what hell do for the spurs guess they can always trade him again

Richardson could totally be a Spurs-y role player but this is not a moment in the life cycle of the Spurs where that's what they need

quick thoughts on harden/embiid. they will be killer in the pnr together for sure...

― Spottie, Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:53 PM (nine minutes ago)

pop quiz:

when james harden swings the ball to a shooter in the pick and roll, which sixers player has the best chance of making an open three pointer?

a. tobias harris
b. tyrese maxey
c. danny green
d. mathisse thybulle
e. furkan korkmaz
f. none of the above

Maxey at this point.

thybulle is hopeless but the rest of those guys can shoot, and if philly can find their way to playing good inside out ball they should get some nice looks

the rest of those guys can shoo

can they?

does danny green not make threes anymore? if not, then why danny green

theyre all either currently decent to good shooters or have been in the past and are about to be in a situation that should be good to shoot in

danny green has played like a corpse that has already been embalmed and set into a casket for imminent burial in the last two playoffs so i guess we'll see

i think teams in the playoffs will be more than glad to concede shots to any/all of those players. their best shooter aside from harden is actually georges niang, i'm sure it will be fine

maxeys shooting 40% green at 38, harris and embiid at 35, theyre not a bad shooting team, i mean none of those guys is someone you groan if your team gives them an open look but they can knock down good shots, and they should be getting them

harden iirc can shoot too

yeah. good luck w/ all that

whether he can figure out how to play off embiid to get easy looks for himself will prob go a long way towards determining how far philly goes

not sure what your argument is here jordan

Yeah, last year Danny Green would have a hot game once every three weeks. Now it's once every 6 weeks, if that.

not sure what your argument is here jordan

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:20 PM (two minutes ago)

that they're gonna be playing 2 on 5 on offense in the playoffs if their plan is to play spread pick and roll around harden and embiid & their success is going to come down to whether a bunch of unreliable shooters can stay hot for 4 series

I'm actually with Jordan that they need another shooter.

i'm just saying the plan of attack vs them is very obvious it's swarm harden and embiid as much as you possibly can and if tyrese maxey and tobias harris shoot you out of the playoffs then i guess that happens but the way teams like the heat and bucks play defense, it's all designed around protecting the paint at all costs and making role players beat you with threes

lol what level of shooting would be acceptable to you, all the numbers point to philly being a fine shooting team like theyre not blowing the doors off but theyre also not bad

if team decide to just not guard phillys shooters well then i think that sounds like a bad plan

i guess we'll find out cuz i think that's gonna be the plan

whether he can figure out how to play off embiid to get easy looks for himself will prob go a long way towards determining how far philly goes

― lag∞n, Friday, 11 February 2022 6:19 AM

they both tend to sit there and call for the ball. neither has ever had to cut into space or move without the ball. fortunately they have a great coach there who will no doubt help them avoid their worse tendencies

leaving shooters open is generally not a thing good teams are in to idk

to hardens credit he is a great playmaker and if he decides to just run the pick and roll w embiid into the ground which is what he should absolutely do then its gonna be pretty tough on the rest of the league, if he instead just dribbles an bunch and takes stepbacks well lol

putting embiid in the pick and roll instead of the post could help with his conditioning issues too, could see a situation where harden and embiid are both reformed and playing good team ball but then revert back to their bad habits at the end of a playoff game and get bounced lol

harden def made an effort to be more of a distributor in brooklyn so

whaat

Dallas is sending Kristaps Porzingis to the Wizards, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 10, 2022

the trade gods are really blessing us today

ok good luck dallas

The Mavericks are trading Kristaps Porzingis to the Wizards for a packaged centered on Spencer Dinwiddie, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 10, 2022

leaving shooters open is generally not a thing good teams are in to idk

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:28 PM (one second ago)

the bucks and the heat are 30th and 28th respectively in the league in opponent 3 point attempts allowed per 100 possessions, that's the style of defense both they play and it's generally worked out pretty well for them. no team that plays the sixers in the playoffs is going to stick to their shooters and just let harden and embiid beat them (if such a thing is even possible). they're going to make the other guys beat them w/ open threes, it seems pretty obvious to me. now if you think they have the talent to do so that's cool -- i disagree.

wtf are the Wiz doing

um wow. sure hope the mavs are managing to get kuzma and/or KCP out of that deal

the wiz also traded trez to the hornets, beal is out for the season & porzingis is also hurt and of course never healthy. about to be one of the great half-season tanks in nba history