2022/23 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "TANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

i think the common response to your c being victimised on switches is to bench him and go small

I venture to say that you guys are overthinking Colin sexton making a jumper and drawing a charge

it was game 1, overreacting is the name of the game.

speaking of overreactions... was talking through that suns game with my friend today and he said that was a must win game for them. i kinda agree honestly ha

Embiid's been stoned at the rim at least 3 times tonight.

that last one was rough

doesnt look like hes in top fitness

hes 28 - not going to get any quicker

what the hell is going on here

Crazy run with Embiid (and Giannis) on the bench.

Wow Wes

God I love Jrue

clutch defender, through and through

missed the game but if i'm just looking at the stats joel going 6/21 in the second game of the season doesn't seem great

i would pull a middle schooler for that over and back violation

― Clay, Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:48 AM (twenty hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I actually need a serious X’s and o’s breakdown on why NBA teams are obsessed with this action where they swing the ball across the court starting with the guy who has just barely crossed half court

Yeah Embiid looked kinda banged up?

kawhi coming off the bench feels a bit *audibly groans from pain as i get off the couch*

its unacceptable how pat bev has become an announcer fave, they think hes so wonderful but actually everyone hates him and he sucks

announcers know their casuals love a "scrappy blue-collar lunchbox-type defense-minded natural leader" and they think they can sell patbev to them as that, instead of as a "moderately washed complete a-hole".

lakers 0-2

lakers will win the nba draft lottery

Russ 0-11
Bev 1-7
Nunn 0-7

They need to cut Russ

Or just get the Myles/Hield 2 picks trade over with

sheesh, that sounds almost staged

Russell Westbrook was walking into the locker room and a fan yelled, “You fuckin’ suck!” and Russ heard him and came back out and told him something along the lines of “say that to my face” and then the fan went ahead and said it to his face…🥴 pic.twitter.com/jGSUntPZdG

— NAT THE PEOPLE’S CHAMP (@habibiting) October 21, 2022

I mean you can also ask for like… at least one made shot idk

Russ on his 0/11 performance tonight: “Solid….played hard” pic.twitter.com/kgvcwiqUPu

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) October 21, 2022

just 6 blocks away from the ultra rare 2-3-4-5-6

bucks-philly was good! love seeing maxey turn on the afterburners.

thank u nba basketball I LOVE THIS GAME

nice scrappy win for Milwaukee but yea i'm starting to think they may need Middleton out there

I really don’t understand why the Hield/Turner trade hasn’t happened, I think it would be great for the Lakers. If they had their pick this year it would make more sense to me to just give up

yeah two quality guys who can shoot and dont need the ball, idk what they think theyre going to get thats better, kyrie?

would allow brow to play his most favored position

the lakers need shooting extremely badly and they also need russ to not be on the team

funny that the lakers have been throwing draft picks around like confetti for as long as anyone can remember but now theyre drawing the line at a pretty reasonable trade

it’s hard to know how reasonable or unreasonable it is for them to not do that trade w/o knowing what the protections are

if indiana is really asking for two unprotected picks there’s no way i’d do that

hard to imagine indy wouldnt agree to some sort of protections its not like theyve got amazing players everyone is beating down their door to get

the lakers concluding that turner and hield don’t move the needle for them in a significant way and they’re better off just riding this season out & making major moves in the offseason when they have real cap space again and even more picks to trade is a completely justifiable position to me

keeping in mind that bron is fading so they might not have another year of competing, win now pressures etc

their inaction on that trade (assuming it is actually still on the table) feels like an indicator of one of two things: either lebron is not really calling the shots anymore and they are trying not to blow up all their future equity for a win-now move that won't actually help them become a true contender anyway; OR lebron is absolutely calling the shots and doesn't want to trade a fellow star of his era if he's not getting back another player he personally sees in the same class. i'm gonna put my money closer to #2

its a fun place for the lakers to be

lakers trade options are somewhat limited imo - the tanking teams who would be willing to take on westbrooks contract have already traded away their good players. you could probably get markannen, maybe jerami grant but there arent a lot of options

maybe jerami grant

never. the blazers would have to be out of their minds to take on Russ and his contract in exchange for grant.

everybody loses!
http://i.imgur.com/AfyK0dj.png

lakers should trade brow while the microscope isnt on the fact that hes been the worst shooter in the league since the bubble.

The Lakers need shooting!

They have made just 24 of their 101 jump shots this season.

Starting 5 Jump Shots, First 2 Games:
LeBron James ........ 6 of 22
Lonnie Walker .........3 of 14
Anthony Davis ........ 2 of 12
Patrick Beverley ...... 2 of 11
Russell Westbrook ... 2 of 11 pic.twitter.com/qPaqvezchn

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) October 21, 2022

i think this is fine they don't need to bother

just do dunks everytime

the lakers concluding that turner and hield don’t move the needle for them in a significant way and they’re better off just riding this season out & making major moves in the offseason when they have real cap space again and even more picks to trade is a completely justifiable position to me

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 21, 2022 10:44 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is not laker culture

lol they only have five players under contract next season and theyre still spending ~$90m

https://en.hispanosnba.com/salaries/los-angeles-lakers