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

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

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— 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

Don’t think it can be understated how detrimental boylin was to some of those guys growth

the bulls are a great example of how you can be bad for a while and have a run of top 10 picks and still end up with essentially nothing. of course the franchise might have something to do with that. but in the patrick williams draft they ended up having the fourth pick in a year where there were three impact players in the entire lottery. the 6-10 picks in the coby white draft have all been disasters. they haven’t made any outrageously bad picks. the one outrageously bad thing they did ended up in them missing out on franz wagner (but then maybe they take james bouknight instead)

they’re a really bad franchise. if they hadn’t lucked into derrick rose they might not have had a single good team post MJ

bulls way underrated as far as terrible franchises go, they're just as bad as the kings etc but don't get the same press because, idk, they had derrick rose for a couple years and people remember mj?

pretty much

kinda funny and sad that two of what should be the nbas premiere franchises via being in big cities with good fanbases bulls and knicks just suck

welllll they did make the playoffs 10 out of 11 years between 04-05 and 14-15, they also found jimmy butler and had jo noah and luol deng and some other good pros, the kings would throw 200 random sacramento citizens down a well for that type of record over the past 20 years.

that said it has truly gone off the rails more recently and ownership seems to be checked out

were also really bad for a long time post mj, but yeah they had a good run in there, couple of those rose teams were actual good teams

they made a good coaching hire which helped a ton. basically everything else they’ve done has been a mess

great finish between the bucks and knicks. brunson put up 44 and made several really difficult shots on jrue. but jrue hit three huge shots himself and the knicks just couldn’t catch them

my favorite bulls thing was when they drafted curry and chandler in the same draft for some reason

no one who spelled eddy that way was ever going anywhere

I think it's just the cumulative effect of so many people going "just give us one more, I don't care if they never win again"

when i was watching the last dance i was slightly surprised to realize that oh yeah, jerry reinsdorf is still the owner of the bulls after 35 years and still coherent enough to give interviews and stuff. might be time for him to realize some capital gains.

today's nba factoid of the day is that chris duarte is only 15 months younger than myles turner

i did an investigation a while ago trying to figure out how he got so old it wasnt totally conclusive but it seemed like he did some extra high school when he moved from the dominican to usa

is it common knowledge that mike love is kevin love's uncle?

ya, it is a great knowledge tho