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

Clippers are prob grateful that the Nets' bad vibes are at the first-team-all-universe level, so their bad vibes get little attention.

their vibes are just non existent.

they're the worst offense in the league right now. defense is good

i also picked them to win the chip... i think lue will work something out.

it all depends on kawhi and pg health and really not much else.

if kawhi can't play 4 playoff rounds at a high level they don't have a shot

lmao

Someone sitting courtside just told me he got hit with the technical foul after asking the referee if he was playing FanDuel. 😂😂 https://t.co/sXgGoGJ0yf

— Damichael Cole (@DamichaelC) November 8, 2022

fun game in miami plz tune in

cant watching celtics game (fun)

oh you missed two game winners in six seconds tho

Hawks destroyed the bucks without Trae

oh you missed two game winners in six seconds tho

― Clay, Monday, November 7, 2022 10:44 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its ok i dont even like that its bad to me

yeah i can see that sorry i brought it up pretty gnarly stuff

its cool you didnt know

yea Bucks were fully in playoff shooting form that game

so far in this lakers/jazz game, russ has played 16 minutes and scored 18 points…and is a -16. seems implausible

extremely not having a god time watching the nuggets eke out a close win against this ghastly spurs squad

Hawks destroyed the bucks without Trae

― Heez, Monday, November 7, 2022 9:44 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dejounte seems like he's been really good for them

so far in this lakers/jazz game, russ has played 16 minutes and scored 18 points…and is a -16. seems implausible

― k3vin k., Monday, November 7, 2022 11:37 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

now 20 points in 19 minutes and -21!

the jazz being #1 in the west right now is truly fucking baffling, like end times shit really

Russ has warped time and space nice

extremely not having a god time watching the nuggets eke out a close win against this ghastly spurs squad

― k3vin k., Monday, November 7, 2022 10:39 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I read that as "ghostly" and got really scared for a second

a spectre is haunting san antonio

think i'll just wait until the nba finals to worry about the western conference

hawks might have got a good one with this AJ Griffin kid. he dropped 24 on the bucks shooting 10/15 from the field

there were a lot of questions abt his defense, but his shooting was always his greatest feature

every Mavs win is going to be a nailbiter

ive decided the funniest timeline is the lakers and wolves keep sucking and they win the #1 and #2 picks in the lottery which go to playoff teams pelicans and jazz

thumbs up emoji

the jazz being a top 6 team and getting the number 1 pick would be chefs kiss

luka is putting up insane #s but after watching harden and russ do this type of thing for years i just cant get excited about it?

The fact that a player has so much talent that they consistently put up big numbers against other NBA teams makes them pretty damn amazing to watch. But teams that are built around having one superstar put up mind-boggling numbers every night are built more around a weakness than a strength.

bones posting his own highlights to sexual healing is lol

When I get that feeling..😮‍💨 pic.twitter.com/K32EwcIadi

— Bones Hyland (@BizzyBones11) November 6, 2022

Watching Luka isn't as much fun as the Dirk-Nash era or elder Dirk putting the team on his back but he makes some incredibly fun passes. (He seems less pouty this season, too.)

if you can't enjoy watching luka i feel bad for you son

what i like about luka is that he loves to put on a show and seems to love what he's doing out there. the feeling that he's just toying with the other team.

i love luka highlights but dont care to watch a whole game of him is i guess what im saying idk

i like watching luka but the mavs theory is flawed they need another guy

i really dont get cuban/mavs FO decisions between the dirk/luka eras, just looking back at broad strokes never really seemed to have a clear plan of how to put together a contender

they stumbled into luka and I think stumbling into a great was the only plan

i know mavs player haters ball is one of our favorite pastimes around here but it’s not really all that crazy that after a 15 year stretch of success with the best player in franchise history they had a three year dip after the guy retired. it doesn’t strike me as exceptional in any way honestly

also they didn’t stumble into luka they went and got him by trading a single first round pick aka making one of the best trades in NBA history that any other team could have topped by throwing in a grand total of two first round picks. given what stars are going for now it was just a massive coup and again literally any team could’ve put their chips in the middle for luka and nobody did. it wasn’t a giannis situation

tbh i forgot the mavs traded up for luka rather than a bunch of dumb teams passing on him (though a couple dumb teams did pass on him)

i don't think it's fair to prior mavs management, who ran out of steam but did some really good things in their time, to lump them in with current mavs management who might well be incompetent

idk the mavs are a good team, but they need another guy

“We just play soft, man,”

- Anthony Edwards on the Minnesota Timberwolves pic.twitter.com/7IDd6RAXG9

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) November 8, 2022

fact check: true

Cuban's decisions have been baffling for 20 years - he inherited Dirk, their most successful draft pick between Dirk and Luka was Devin Harris IIRC (or Josh Howard, maybe - one of them was the only drafted player to last more than like five seasons with the team). Chase a huge free agent, get spurned, set money on fire for Erick Dampier or Raef Lafrentz. The Porzingis sign and trade was another in that long line, even though they clawed a little advantage back pawning him off on the Wizards.

there was the part where they won the nba finals

i know this is prob the 4th time weve had this discussion but the major datapoint that uh points to the conclusion that they lucked into that champ team is they immediately dismantled it ie did not run it back truly one of the most insane decisions in the history of the league, underrated

they really had to hit the sweet spot of being dumb while thinking theyre geniuses, the mark cuban effect, because a normal dumb org wouldve just run it back, as would a smart one