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

hes played 136 games since he was drafted in 2017, just one of those guys whos body cant do nba, hes likely some sort of lunatic too

i wld like to see a jokic draymond playoff battle this year pendulum might swing

think i had predicted bucks mavs finals for some reason but celtics grizz is what i want to see

draymond has been good this year and while I am not worried about him I would prefer to avoid the warriors for psychological reasons

warriors are the most psychological team, true

if i’m denver i don’t wanna see the warriors in the playoffs. that’s the one team in the west i look at and am just like, that’s a really bad match up for the nugs. but the warriors are old so hey

yeah for sure

warriors not too worried about the nuggets. the grizzlies offer their toughest matchup.

teams that shoot a ton of threes generally a bad matchup for us

think i had predicted bucks mavs finals for some reason but celtics grizz is what i want to see

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yeah thats the best one

um no

nobody wants to watch dillon brooks in the nba finals

i think a warriors vs bucks, steph vs giannis finals would be pretty sweet. the grizz would be fun to watch in the finals but i think they need a bit more seasoning (losing) for me to really get on board w/ their involvement

jordan have you seen the warriors play this season

yeah but they're starting to round into form. they started playing sensible rotations which has really helped

they look like themselves when not forcing their young guys (wiseman) to play, plus healthy. curry comes back tonight. wiggins is back. iggy just came back. they have their playoff rotation now: curry, klay, wigg, dray, loon, poole, donte, kuminga plus maybe iggy

yeah they have the ideal shape of a line up around steph & dray again aka a bunch of guards and wing players. GP3 and otto porter were huge for them last playoffs and they don't have any obvious replacements for those exact roles. also donte is always hurt and it's an open question how much he & kuminga can be trusted in the playoffs anyway. i think a move for an olynyk or bogdanovic (pistons) type stretch 4 to fill the porter role would be a prudent move for them

yeah they need to make a move but bogdonavic makes too much money

iggy is my mortal enemy (now that the jokic teams have surpassed the 2013 nuggets team) but is he really the difference maker in 2023?

for the other team, maybe

no hes cooked but wont do anything dumb in his 10 minutes of play

with so many teams in the mix there gonna be a lot of buyers for quality rotation guys at the deadline this year

lotta buyers but less sellers

yeah only a handful of teams are tanking rn, maybe get a couple few more by the deadline

lottery changes really helped can only imagine what kind of ridiculousness would be going on right now if teams were chasing the worst record

yeah between that, the cba working to spread talent around and the play-in the nba has done some things to alter tanking drastically

i even like the playin in now i thought it was adding too many playoff teams but its almost like they took some away since being a play in team is shameful

Hey so who's going to claim the "Wanking for Tembanyama" d/n?

do it lol

in any other year, it'd be "scoot it and boot it"

Boot Scoot-in' Boogie

real nice choke by okc in miami tonight

heat went 40-40 from the line

suns have one starter playing tonight

dubs black uniforms gray court situation is such a disaster

steph is back tho

watching jimmy butler take and make 23 free throws would probably put me on suicide watch

i only watched the 4th quarter so i survived

Jesus....

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— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 11, 2023

three potential game tie shots and none of them by dame eh

i think they should give dame a shot, the kid's got potential

https://theathletic.com/4080234/2023/01/11/nba-all-star-game-roster-picks-2023/?source=user_shared_article

man the east really is stacked compared to the west

the west was so much better than the east for so long that this still takes me some getting used to

lebron and ad starters?? lol

LA's fan vote is both outsized and irrational

well those were hollinger’s picks. but that was my impression initially but when I checked the other candidates I had a hard time being mad

yeah bcuz of the backcourt/frontcourt thing you can only have 2 of luka, steph, shai, booker. obv jokic takes up one frontcourt spot so that leaves you with two spots for: lebron, AD, sabonis, markannen, zion, PG, aaron gordon etc. you could prob pick any combo of 2 from that group and have it be more or less defensible

pick any two except both lakers

eh. you could throw zion in there for sure but i'd still take the lakers guys over the rest of those guys w/o thinking twice

davis has been great but 25 games played is pretty borderline, zion at 29 is a lil better