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

Starting to think Ja Morant will win mvp

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, October 24, 2022 5:40 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he was in the mix last season for a while too. just gotta sustain it and not get injured and hes got a good shot

Hyped on Sochan, fun roster which is much more enjoyable to watch than anticipated, slightly worried Spurs are too good for the Wemb sweepstakes.

Hope the Wolves get the ship right (yes I know it's early days, but this fan base deserves something good).

praying the hoops gods will honor us a la pels getting zion

It’s not Gobert’s fault but I just don’t think you can have a good defense with Towns chasing 4s around. And they never punish the mismatch, he just shoots with Gobert around.

spurs up by 31 on the wolves, jesus

Collins is a great creator for this bench unit - just need to pray for fitness.

tre jones is a real pg, devin is making a leap, keldon looks like a seasoned vet, poeltl is still my tall austrian son, sochan having the game of his life (he was p bad on offense in the first 3 games). jrich is playing with fire, primo looks good in spurts. this is a fun team!! theyre supposed to be shitty but if they keep winning, fuck it

lebron’s “that’s not who I am” response to the reporter’s question about russ’s shot seems like it’s gonna be part of a meme before long

bise, your enthusiasm about the scrappy spurs who are not supposed to be good is basically mirroring what i would tell blazer fans when i was arguing the team should just be dismantled. the fun part of being bad is you find some guys to root for! it's a joy when you win over a good team! you look back on those years later like "that's what we went through to become the contenders we are now!" it honestly feels so much better than being some perennially hopeless 6 seed type

my favorite random nuggets subplot is MPJ stealing defensive rebounds from jokic

turns out Simmo is just too savage for this league

somehow completely forgot that chauncey was the blazers head coach

Ja Morant just hilariously baited Ben Simmons into fouling outhttps://t.co/pU9Em4dJRC pic.twitter.com/tH7fAzQmtp

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 25, 2022

poor ben begging his coaches to challenge the call…the coaches are like yeah we’re good actually

totally was not a foul though

Fouled out of 2/3 games so far lol

Turns out the jazz aren’t going to go 82-0 this season

may as well concede the large wager i made in preseason that ben simmons would win mvp

lillard looks pretty good!

yeah he has been on an absurd tear since looking a bit off in game one

you know what does not look good it's chauncey's billups' beard

the portland trail blazers are "the team to beat in the national basketball association"

after their having felled the mighty lakers, this is self evident. maybe. but anyway, beating L.A. will never lose its appeal.

Why does Jokic only have 3 shot attempts

It’s not Gobert’s fault but I just don’t think you can have a good defense with Towns chasing 4s around. And they never punish the mismatch, he just shoots with Gobert around.

Jamal Murray just feels off, understandable but I wonder if maybe he should chill out and stop forcing it so much these games do count after all

xp i saw tre jones guard KAT and on multiple times jones shut him down, towns just is not him

durant and KD played 39 mins each tonight and scored 37 points each on a combined 28-44 shooting and the nets lost by 10

7-3-8 and 6 fouls on 2-5 shooting in 28 mins for simmons

The nets have a bunch of good role players too! I guess some are injured

I get that it's early but the Timberwolves have been embarrassing to start the season.
-Horrid transition D
-No boxing out
-Constant ball watching
-No communication
-Lazy passing
-No attention to detail

Fixable but much bigger issues than simply not hitting shots.

— Tyler Metcalf (@tmetcalf11) October 25, 2022

from this weekend:

MINNEAPOLIS — Anthony Edwards leaned back in his chair and tried to digest a frustrating defeat to a team with much less talent than his Timberwolves.

As he considered what went wrong, and what went right, in a 132-126 overtime loss to the Utah Jazz on Friday night, Edwards was asked about how things felt during a third-quarter run that had him on the floor with Jordan McLaughlin, Jaylen Nowell, Taurean Prince and Naz Reid.

“The smaller we go, the better it is for me,” Edwards said.

Why does Jokic only have 3 shot attempts

― Spottie, Monday, October 24, 2022 8:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

forgot to answer this: he was in terrible foul trouble all game for one, but he just was really passive out there? i have no other read here, he just honestly seemed completely out of it

been a couple years since we've seen passive/weird joker.

Speaking of passive aggressive and weird

KAT can’t do this to his young guy in public like this, especially with his struggles. Two weeks in and you can see how fragile this team is after it legitimately went all in on Gobert. Y’all know I like KAT. Been through so much. But this will not help anyone involved, honestly. https://t.co/RSTP1Ewzcq

— Myron Medcalf (@MedcalfByESPN) October 25, 2022

being weird for the media, in a big purple sweater

ah yes noted workout warrior karl anthony towns will impart his wisdom

i like when he says "you know that old cliche... it falls on you" cuz it's classic weird guy behavior to say "you know that old cliche" about a phrase nobody says

lol

yeah i don't agree with the tweet, that doesn't seem bad, just weird kat being weird as he does

what he said was out of line, and weird

https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/katnaked.jpg

katnaked.jpg

that feeling when you show everyone your weird basketball shaped dick

i would never

I've done this several times and it's never ended well

get in the paint

being weird for the media, in a big purple sweater

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 6:52 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah yes noted workout warrior karl anthony towns will impart his wisdom

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 7:00 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i like when he says "you know that old cliche... it falls on you" cuz it's classic weird guy behavior to say "you know that old cliche" about a phrase nobody says

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 25, 2022 7:26 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i lol'd at all this

nothing better a crazy flurry of buckets

ANFERNEE SIMONS 🔥🐜
Caught fire in the 3rd quarter & the Blazers are 4-0!

22 POINTS
6/7 THREES
IN 6 MINUTES

Dame: "It was crazy, like he's blowing the roof off this place.”pic.twitter.com/dY7nOViBoK

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) October 25, 2022

glorious

in the best of all blazer worlds, dame will finally be able to dirk this team into a title.

something i wasn’t aware of until i heard about it on a podcast is that simons was one of the best catch and shoot 3 pt shooters in the league last year

Love to see a player get hot and everybody just start feeding him/screening for him.