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

Magic stole the inbounding pass to tie it up and then De'Aaron Fox lets it FLY FOR THE WIN 🚨pic.twitter.com/xP9WCiACxI

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) November 5, 2022

beautiful

BREAKING: The Suns fear that Cam Johnson may have suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee, per @ShamsCharania & @sam_amick

Testing so far indicates the meniscus injury, and Johnson is receiving further evaluations and imaging. pic.twitter.com/cYKTV3Idfv

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) November 6, 2022

james jones hoping against hope that jae crowder hasn’t blocked his number.

damn he had been balling

that sucks

knicks fan hit a halfcourt shot for a car tonight, one of the greatest plays in all of sport

the celtics were cheering for him

The C's bench was so happy after a fan hit a half court shot to win a car! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/mIEg95qKNr

— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) November 6, 2022

u literally love to see it

aww

he C's bench was so happy after a fan hit a half court shot

Uh, the Knicks bench was bouncing, happy and celebrating. The Celtics bench was kinda "OK, that's interesting."

A win for humanity

i’d be mad if i lived in new york city and hit a half court shot and my prize was a car (a kia no less)

Haha fair but just sell it

lol this had occurred to me

wait i get the logistical argument but let's not disrespect kias around here

Bones Hyland was NC-17 tonight

He’s really fun

do you think this play was designed for anthony edwards pic.twitter.com/XaOJpg9LSD

— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) November 6, 2022

I almost posted something on my skepticism about building your franchise around Anthony Edwards - and not because of his basketball talent - a few days ago, but erased it and kept moving. He is obviously very young and has many years to learn how to be a good team player and teammate, but he's has some NAGLs this season.

crying @ that video

hardenesque except his positioning is worse should be further out to pull his man away from the play

Who unplugged his controller

wow lol

ant man more like can't man

when he said the paint was too clogged for him to go in there he really wasn’t kidding

he has time to change this but right now he's definitely a guy who's great when things are good and.....not great when things are not

i sorta sympathize with him in that a new GM came in and made one of the worst trades of all time that severely messes up how he can play & didn’t even tell him about it

xxpost: yup. you could see it at Georgia, too.

i'm old so i'm as quick to react as anyone, but it's important to remember that he turned 21 three months ago.

he could really use a few of the right veterans around him. not sure who that is, but looking at their roster, i don't see them.

i think KAT can handle it

lmao

Hahaaaa

Lue: Kawhi Leonard without timetable for return.

— Underdog NBA (@Underdog__NBA) November 7, 2022

lue: idk

i wonder if his career is over…..

spurs diagnosed him correctly smh

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do the clippers just kinda stink

they were a .500 team last year and haven't really made any major changes

they get more games of paul george this year presumably but he's getting old

this jazz team is really something

Little thing that says a lot about the Jazz: Will Hardy went with Collin Sexton in the closing lineup instead of Jordan Clarkson. As Sexton threw down the dagger dunk, Clarkson jumped off the bench with his fists in the air to celebrate.

What’s going on in Utah? Good vibes.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) November 7, 2022

nice vibe check

lauri balling out like this and still shooting <30% on threes is crazy.

i think every team plays tomorrow? and no games tues for election

that ant edwards clip is hilarious. the vibes are way off with the wolves.

i'm trying not to give in to despair
things are weird, everything feels off
though i'm trying to keep it in perspective, we started worse last year (were 3-7 at 10 games in)
but i dunno, finch has a lot to figure out
i think he's going to have to abandon the idea of starters/bench to a degree and try to put together lineups of the players that he has that work together, but that can be tough given egos etc

early season struggles arent the worst thing in the world

every night my team's not playing i'm kind of taking as a personal affront. how dare they

yeah one would think the wolves figure it out better than they have so far, their defense has been decent but the offense is pretty bad, the opposite of what id expect, when rudys on the floor you really have to have him rolling to the rim a lot in order for teams not to ignore him, russell prob their best ball handler for that but edwards def needs to learn too, then you have kat spaced out at the line ready to shoot or attack the closeout, when rudys not on the court you can go small make room for the guys to work, seems like it should be possible, tho everyone might not be happy with that style of play idk, maybe try to stagger kat and rudy as much as possible

theyve got talent, maybe not the best fit, its also prob not a super high bb iq group