2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

he is a super lame dude for sure, feel the same every time im exposed to kyrie lol

love how the celtics have a largely homegrown team + some solid low drama guys now

i find it hard to get a handle on tatum’s mentality but jaylen brown just seems like a rock solid guy

as far as jayson and jalen go one is fire and one is ice but were not sure which is which

tracer you should listen to tatum's recent appearance on jj redick's podcast. i think it will give you a really good sense of how he thinks and what's important to him.

queued

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— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) March 8, 2022

not sure how reserves are determined there but if its guys who arent in the healthy starting lineup then warp being a cumulative stat would favor players who have gotten a lot of minutes cause of injuries in front of them which with the exception of the suns def looks like whats going on there, granted those are teams that have continued to win with a lot of injuries which would imply they have good benches, but its prob not an apple to apples comparison to teams whos bench has played less cause theyre healthier

kyrie is very good at basketball

even tho they're obv in a better place as a franchise than where they were a few years ago & have some really good players on the roster, still kinda feels like the hornets are on a road to nowhere & i'm not really sure what they do to change that aside from hanging on to lamelo and bridges for dear life and waiting out this current era of the east? they felt exciting earlier in the season but it seems like they're gonna max out at getting the 8th seed and losing 4-1 in round 1 of the playoffs, at best. maybe i'm being too pessimistic about what they might look like next season if they're a bit healthier (hayward in particular) but they're not gonna have high picks & free agency is prob never gonna net them a ton, that front office is gonna need to get creative, which...

having lamelo and bridges is a great place to start but yeah theres a lot of work ahead of them

i guess maybe the hope is that lamelo makes the ja leap

i think theres a really good chance lamelo becomes a top guy

I hope so. He rules

kyrie put up 50 tonight

Kyrie Irving tonight:

50 points
15-19 FG (78%)
9-12 3-pt FG

He is the first player in NBA history to record 50 points, 9 3-pointers and 75% shooting in a game.

— Matt Williams (@StatsWilliams) March 9, 2022

dece lol

ah very interesting

Official release on Dort, Ty Jerome and Muscala having season ending surgery pic.twitter.com/YLnrdc0QTg

— Andrew Schlecht (@AndrewKSchlecht) March 8, 2022

wow nash mad

Steve Nash if he looks forward to catching up with James Harden on Thursday: "I don't know that we'll speak."

— Kristian Winfield #NFTAllStar (@Krisplashed) March 9, 2022

hm doesn't seem like he's that interested in catching up with him

feels pretty safe to say that if kyrie had just gotten vaccinated harden would still be on the nets and they would be the overwhelming championship favorites lol

alternate timeline for sure

feels pretty safe to say

"overwhelming" might be a bit of overestimating

idk hard to watch kyrie play this year and harden now that he cares is trying + KD almost singlehandedly beating the bucks and not think that that trio would be overwhelming favorites. obv a lot of things could've gone wrong -- ***obviously!!!*** -- but still

i mean there was this line of thinking after the harden trade that the heat and bucks were losers at the deadline bcuz the sixers got better and the nets got simmons back but the best team in the east and possibly the NBA was KD/harden/kyrie even if kyrie had to play half the games in the playoffs and the elimination of that from the landscape was a huge W for the other teams in the east imo. even w/ as good as the sixers look they aren't as scary as a nets team that had KD/harden/kyrie in the playoffs

biggest issue with that nets team was health, kyrie going anti vax prob helped him there, unfortunately it alienated harden lol

but when those three guys played together they were unstoppable, thank god they barely did

philly could def go all the way but they dont scare me the way the nets did, cause they have two guys instead of three

yeah crazy how they built one of the all-time Big 3s and we basically never got to see them

not a lot of teams third best guy can hang 50 on you

Westbrook :)

lol

klay ;)

kinda funny that in the smallball era weve got a crazy competitive mvp race between three centers

when everyone can go small, u have an advantage when u can stay tall

its true that the value of an average center has declined but if you get a good one oh boy its still good

occurs to me that none of them were born in america too, the nba is pretty cool, bunch of seven footers from all corners of the map running around dunking and so forth

being a unicorn is key

love how each of them tells their story while smoking a pipe and stroking a spotted retriever

it’s what unites us that makes us strong

Giannis is a power forward

and a center

my 13 yo was making the case to me today for philly going all the way. i’m very pleased our relationship has developed to this point obv. says harden will thrive in the backcourt. embiid will find him. tobias harris. thinks maxey underrated. agrees with ilh that these playoffs will be sick.

good analysis tracer jr

youve raised your child the right way kudos. my kids will not watch nba games with me (yet).

damn… tobias harris about to crush the hopes of an unsuspecting 13 year old

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nC9z57MuaI

damn… tobias harris about to crush the hopes of an unsuspecting 1349 year old

even tho they're obv in a better place as a franchise than where they were a few years ago & have some really good players on the roster, still kinda feels like the hornets are on a road to nowhere & i'm not really sure what they do to change that aside from hanging on to lamelo and bridges for dear life and waiting out this current era of the east? they felt exciting earlier in the season but it seems like they're gonna max out at getting the 8th seed and losing 4-1 in round 1 of the playoffs, at best. maybe i'm being too pessimistic about what they might look like next season if they're a bit healthier (hayward in particular) but they're not gonna have high picks & free agency is prob never gonna net them a ton, that front office is gonna need to get creative, which...

went and saw them play vs. san antonio the other night with joan crawford jr. seriously what a fun team to watch & melo's star power is really something but this feels like pretty solid analysis. I'd add Rozier & Oubre Jr to the keeper list but defensively they need a much more aggressive stance imo.