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

yeah the giant point forward scheme kinda doesnt work without shooting

hes like ben simmons without the passing or athleticism

i like scottie hes a baller but theyre asking a lot of him and he does need to learn to shoot

it has been pointed out that they gave siakam a lot of rope and it probably looked this bad at times but idk man barnes might just not be that type of player

idk feel like its a pretty common pattern for promising rookies to have disappointing 2nd years because they werent actually good as rookies just promising then their teams ask them to do more and theyre still not good, and in this case toronto is really letting him run the show which idk if its wise tbh, but he does need to learn to shoot

but if he learns to shoot he has a bright future. if.

thats my feeling

but if he learns to shoot he has a bright future. if.

yeah its true

devner absolutely raining on the clips my lord

clips are 13/45, 2/22 (!) from 3. they all look sleepy.

i watched it for like ten mins and was like never mind

theyre up 40+ now

https://stathead.com/basketball/pcm_finder.cgi?request=1&sum=0&player_id1=cartemi01&p1yrfrom=2015&player_id2=barnesc01&p2yrfrom=2023

barnes would still be a good NBA player even if he never learned to shoot imo. he got overrated a bit last year, i personally never saw him having huge offensive upside and i still think he could be one of the better role players in the league or a really good number 2. somewhere between wiggins and jaylen brown. he also plays the most valuable position, there will always be roles for 6’ 9” athletic guys

mcw was the least efficient scorer in the league, scottie is inefficient, but not a complete disaster. it might help him if the raptors had more than two playable guards

aau rockets

JUST SHARE THE BALL AND MAKE QUICK DECISIONS pic.twitter.com/RdDMN9g7ta

— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) January 6, 2023

SJJ is such a good follow.

might be a really boring trade deadline

Woj on LeBron/Lakers with trade deadline a month away:

- more buyers then sellers
- Lakers few assets left pic.twitter.com/09CJXxh2wf

— Alex 👋 (@Dubs408) January 6, 2023

here's a tip for the lakers they could "trade bron"

the lakers must trade away their last remaining 1st picks for whatever they can get for them, then finish 10th and lose in the play-in. this is what god intends.

the hornets hung 51 in the 1st q vs the bucks

my diagnosis is the blazers “are bad” because they “suck ass out there”

zach lowe was talking on his podcast about whispers of bad vibes around the bucks

giannis is 2-6 for 9 points, 3 turnovers, 0 assists and is a -21 in a game they’re losing by 24 to the worst team in the league

farewell to the "scrappy, fun" blazers of the first dozen games

Yeah the Bucks have been really weird lately, I guess it’s best to get it outta their system now

i think simmons alluded to bucks vibes too recently, i don't understand it at all it's literally the same group of guys

everyone is sick of jordan nworas shit

Just seems like the bucks don’t have all their guys and the roster isn’t deep so it’s hard to win

it would be funny if noted good guy joe ingles nuked their chemistry somehow

calling the city milwauko and driving everyone up the wall

yea their starting 5 has barely played together at all and there's only so much you're gonna get outta Grayson

devils, fiddles, things of that nature

Lebron just saying it haha

Oh. My. God. pic.twitter.com/5oY3iB0IlY

— 𝙎𝙝𝙪𝙗𝙝 ⁶𓅓 (@OVOLakeShow) January 8, 2023

man he is gonna be talking so much shit in five years

many are saying trade bron

trade him

Bron cannot currently be traded due to the recent extension

you can get around that by trading everyone else on the team for everyone on the team you would have traded him to

the ship of theseus but it's the lakers

Lmao he squared up again

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— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 9, 2023

suns have lost 9/10

KD hurt his knee

Awfulpic.twitter.com/0971z3TWgC

— Vince 🌉 (@DubsSZN2023) January 9, 2023

reaaaallly hoping thats just a mcl sprain but it could be bad

your prayers have been answered

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant has been diagnosed with an MCL sprain in right knee and will be re-evaluated in two weeks.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 9, 2023

thats great news

hopefully he comes back at full strength in like a month and by then the nets mojo has been completely depleted

yes that would be the ideal scenario - we get to see some all time KD playoff performances, in the context of heartbreaking losses and simmons and kyrie meltdowns

or maybe bad kd playoff performances like last year cause hes still just shooting from the elbow over and over

this is not normal its like kobe if he actually hit his shots

https://i.imgur.com/qpgoPMS.png

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/kevin-durant-shot-chart