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

Lauri!

LAURI MARKKANEN DESTROYS RUDY GOBERT 🤯pic.twitter.com/dnpEo3xHH8

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) October 22, 2022

kyrie was awesome tonight vs toronto

lowry also looked lightyears better

some really nice minutes for christian braun for the nuggets so far

jazz 2-0 lol

nuggets look incredible

Damian Lillard has 28 of the Blazers 47 points in the first half.

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) October 22, 2022

wow dame lurking rude

make a post coward

DO YOU WANT TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION OR NAH pic.twitter.com/bnal7pAExj

— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) October 22, 2022

dpoy is when you stand at the ft line pointing its mostly a pointing award

just completely atrocious effort from the nuggs on the glass the last 5 minutes, smh

bruce brown was such a steal for denver

malone needs to use a fucking timeout and advance the ball

nuggets are trying their best to complete an epic meltdown but there just might not be enough time on the clock

oh my fucking god

they got really lucky klay took that horrible shot

Despicable by Draymond

end of that game is a reminder that monte morris is going to be missed, honestly might be no one on the roster I trust to advance the ball in a high leverage situation

I trust Ish Smith, who Michael Malone took out of the rotation I guess? Malone also called a timeout as Jokic threw a pass to a wide open teammate under the basket

ish is a steady hand but I’m not sure you want him closing out games

defintely no problem with taking the timeout there, should have called it before the foul that set up that out of bounds play. nuggets were unraveling and unable to get the ball across half court

Really fun game there. Wiseman and Kuminga are unplayable together. Poole was very passive tonight, did not look happy out there. Jokic is so smart so many little things he does to affect the game. Kcp and Brown really good pickups. Klay didn’t play all off-season and it shows. Draymond still the best defensive player in the league, 3rd q was dominant. Bones is chaos and I love every second of his playing time, really fun guy to watch

Anfernee w a sky hook over mikal to take the lead

Simons for the lead! pic.twitter.com/luAKY77nla

— 🚁Sky Wob🚁 (@WorldWideWob) October 22, 2022

fun game, Ayton played well but got pushed around by Nurk

dame is good I never said anything bad about him ftr however you guys should be ashamed

Brutal

"You think they trust you with the game on the line? Hell nah" pic.twitter.com/5LYiwFLoii

— B (🏀(2-0)🏈(3-3)) (@BradenEP) October 22, 2022

some rookies putting up nice numbers out of the gate this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aWMogvOUEI

mathurin was really aggressive last night and looked way more seasoned than his age or experience would suggest, him and paolo both have impressed from what ive seen

bol bol just blocked two three point attempts in 45 seconds

the spurs on the second night of a road back-to-back are beating philly with one quarter to play, cant tell if this speaks worse about philly or better of the spurs

Vassell is a stud.

Poeltl should net Spurs a good haul pre deadline.

68-68 at the half here

celtics have not played a ton of defense so fat this season

Great effort

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— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 23, 2022

too much lazy man energy between harden and embiid

tre jones getting to the rim on two must stop possessions in a row

not even the premiere jones brother

false, tre is better

Doc already under pressure.

Embiid was probably begging Brett Brown to come back at the end there.

tyus jones is the #1 jones

I'm not sure it's his fault, but I wasn't in favor of bringing Doc back.

not gonna be a good look to bring the guy back against virtually all popular opinion and then fire him 15 games into the season

The Jones boys are the pride of MN prep basketball

not gonna be a good look to bring the guy back against virtually all popular opinion and then fire him 15 games into the season

― frogbs, Saturday, October 22, 2022 7:43 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gonna be an even worse look if they struggle to make the play-in

27 from mathurin tonight as well

Brook has 5 blocks already

27 from mathurin tonight as well

― micah, Saturday, October 22, 2022 9:42 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

just how much he scores now i guess

averaging 24 in 3 games, not bad

banchero didnt look too good tonight, think his shot has a ways to go, not stopping him from launching tho

i do feel like few star players escape scrutiny to the level that embiid has in his career. every failure of that franchise has been chalked up to someone or something else. i can’t think of a player who has been as close to winning MVP as he has on multiple occasions and still gets zero blame for not ever getting past round 2. and of course now being 0-3 is doc’s fault. the third rail that nobody wants to seem to touch is whether embiid has the personality to lead a franchise to a title. i would find it alarming if i was invested in the sixers that embiid openly looks elsewhere (to jimmy butler, to PJ tucker) to try and import the leadership, discipline, toughness etc that a player of his stature is supposed to possess himself.

dallas is smoking memphis off the floor. christian wood trade looking like it might be one of the best moves of the offseason.

same reason people don't really scrutinize Aaron Rodgers, the team has a lot of other legitimate problems and when he's out you get a glimpse of how bad they can really be. you had the shit that happened with Fultz and Simmons, plus he was badly banged up last year. so I think he kinda gets a pass but people have been turning on him and he'll definitely catch a lot of shit this year