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

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

Taurean Prince is nice to have on your team

if you need an RPG character, i guess

when you read about ppl’s potential all star ballots the name dejounte murray is not one that comes up much

man the bucks’ bench is a rough loss. sheesh

rough watch**

the bucks blew a 20+ point lead to the hawks who nonetheless couldn’t manage to win the game. giannis scored 7 points. not sure which team should be more depressed

Bucks doing that thing again where they're just unspeakably awful for 6-7 minutes at a time

wolves gave up 135 to the pistons tonight. that team needs to be fumigated

kings are in 4th place

didnt know mitchell was such a celeb

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ja barely ahead of shai is crazy thought he had broken through as a bigtime star

maybe the canadian votes are flowing in for shai

those ja numbers are surprising tho

going by this ja has the 15th most votes -- 14th if you exclude wiggins -- which doesn't seem crazy to me... everyone ahead of him aside from zion and possibly mitchell are more accomplished or just have been around much longer. i guess my main takeaway is that cleveland fans really really love mitchell

It just seems like that’s who all the kids are loving and latching onto these days but the numbers aren’t matching that

do kids vote for the all star game

i dont know anyone who does

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wolves gave up 135 to the pistons tonight. that team needs to be fumigated

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being a wolves fan, you're always in one of the five stages of grief

wtf lavine???

Nikola Vucevic watches in agony as Zach LaVine goes for 2 while down 3 😭 pic.twitter.com/CYHiHimGdf

— Jon Asaad (@jaynbablog) January 12, 2023

thats not great

when you're way up at the half and also hold your opponent to 13 points in the 4th quarter, but cant win

never got the sense that zach levine had coaching in his future

no indeed

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nembhard time baby

tight race for the 6th spot

shame he absorbed that bruise and it didn’t just bounce off of him

pacers will be happy to tank

everyone has always said they’ve never wanted to tank in that market but they would accept it this year but then they were too good and i sorta feel like they would be one of the franchises happy to chase a first round series over wembanyama

yea they should just get in and get some playoff reps

idk getting wembanyama wld be pretty nice but if youre too good then youre just too good whatre you gonna do manufacture season long fake injuries thats not good

chances at the top pick are very low with how good they are, they would have to do some seriously uncouth stuff to get down there.

also for as good as scoot appears to be as a prospect there has to be some teams out there that care less about getting the second pick bcuz they already have a lead PG. indiana would fit the bill

the thing they shouldve done if they wanted to tank was trade some guys before the season

but they didnt want to so there you go, mightve been a good idea tho

a lot to ask a not young hall of fame coach to go through a rebuild

they cld trade him too