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

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

pic.twitter.com/gh9eZwB8sz

— 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

btw i wish they would let you do one of just halfcourt offense

unltimatly i think the nets biggest playoff weakness is theyre just too soft not sure anyone in the rotation really plays physical maybe rocye oneal, last year v the celtics all those kd mid range looks got a lot tougher and he just didnt have any adjustment to make i dont think he has the mobility to do a lot of the things he used to but hes papered over that by being one of the best shooters ever

and the east is full of very physical teams ready to get grimy in the offs

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

― lag∞n, Monday, January 9, 2023 10:03 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, January 9, 2023 10:33 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm, hate to have injuries masking the real drama

geez derozan just went down, non-contact while he was dribbling. holding his left knee.

did not look good

seems like hes ok

he's walking. tripped slightly on horford's foot on the replay. kind of weird tbh.

yeah not sure why he was grabbing his knee

out w a quad strain now, mystery solved

watching the bulls it occurs to me theyve made some bad draft picks patrick williams (4) coby white (7)

its not like either of those drafts were stacked after them but they both seemed like reaches at the time and it turns out they were

then they traded picks for vooch

yeah, interesting though how guys like lauri and wendell carter leave there and instantly get better. if you suck at development maybe don't take a guy like williams who was universally understood to be a developmental pick.

yeah theyve had a bunch of lottery picks and just have not hit