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

okc wins again

With the win at Brooklyn, OKC is now tied for the final play-in spot.

The Thunder have wins against Dallas, Philly, Chicago and now the Nets in their last 5 games.

The lone loss was to Miami 112-111. https://t.co/WKQfgmgWLf

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) January 16, 2023

And have the easiest remaining schedule according to Tankathon.

our boy giddy 28-9-9

their starting perimeter guys sga giddy and dort are all so weird in each their own way then the other two starters are forwards named jaylen williams

good season for rookies. the pacers managed to lead the league in points by rookies while being the sixth seed (until recently)

you might be picking up on the youtube compression or whatever the person who edited did, it really looked blurry and the graphic and other shots didnt, tho it def couldve been something "digital" rather than the camera lens actually being out of focus

― lag∞n, Monday, 16 January 2023 

just that particular camera could be low bitrate, like if the main feed from that camera to the broadcast room was having issues

something fucked up idk shit looked blurry

2.5 games between 6 (lac) and 13 (lal) in the west rn its half way through the season thats crazy

whole lotta parity going on

You really could make a massive compilation of all Russs dumb plays in the clutch

LIVE BY WESTBROOK, DIE BY WESTBROOKhttps://t.co/UuwxYJmnXx pic.twitter.com/ODUWYbZTTR

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 16, 2023

my god this is a cursed Lakers season

extremely good stuff

Russ the rare guy where you hate when he’s on your team but love when he’s on the other team

ya he's great for the league

T.J. McConnell's first half in Milwaukee:
25 points (career high)
9-9 FGs
4-4 3s (career high)
3-3 FTs
6 assists
2 steals
0 TO

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) January 16, 2023

Milwaukee's really been going through it lately, wanna say they really need Khris back but their defense has been godawful lately

knicks about to lose in overtime but this was nice

RJ BARRETT FORCES OT‼️ pic.twitter.com/MnLn44BnNp

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 16, 2023

so in wolves-jazz tonight rudy gobert gets hurt 5 mins into the game and never comes back meanwhile walker kessler puts up 20-21 (both career highs) in a 1 point road win for the jazz

kessler has to be second in rookie of the year rankings atm

make up your mind, are you a walker or a kessler. you cant do both

sorry mathurin is second. he can be third if you like tho

always be kessling

kessler just being good in a role that no rookies are good in, that is also gobert's role, is hilarious

Sad state for the ol wolves

noticed bunch of sengun hype content recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEyjt_P-VBo

vanvleet is so bad now

minus 23

bottom falls out on guys like him fast sometimes

the rest of his box score line was awesome tonight, this would be an interesting single-game plus minus to dig into

lol all the announcers were talking about tonight was how good VanVleet was. he did score a lot at least

Holiday otoh really was playing great, if he's like that in the playoffs then watch out

xp usually that just means he got beat constantly on defense, didn't watch so i dunno if thats the case

i'd think that too but jrue has a very similar line and a very different plus/minus so they didn't exactly cancel each other out

Wonder if the clips will be able to keep kawhi and pg healthy for the back half of the season

John Wall says he told Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Jr: "This sh*t y'all getting away with here (with the #Rockets), if you go to any other teams, you would be out of the ****ing league. You wouldn't play. I'm trying to explain it to them because they think it's sweet." pic.twitter.com/xkckWAcYf5

— ClutchFans (@clutchfans) January 17, 2023

Compare to

Al Horford: "When I went to OKC, they put me in a place to succeed. They were great to me."

Kemba Walker on OKC: “They were unbelievable in the time that I was with them, like literally unbelievable. They took such great care of me.”

Chris Paul's shoes in his return to OKC: pic.twitter.com/nx6VJPcnF5

— Brandon Rahbar (@BrandonRahbar) January 17, 2023

fvv eviscerated the knicks in the 4th on monday lol

made a thread for nba fights n such

nba fights, scuffles and square-ups

kessler just being good in a role that no rookies are good in, that is also gobert's role, is hilarious

― call all destroyer, Monday, January 16, 2023 8:44 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sad state for the ol wolves

― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Monday, January 16, 2023 8:51 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's pretty hard to pick my lowest point of being a wolves fan, there are so many moments/time periods/etc...though something about this year is really stinging like never before. i think i need hoops therapy to help me end a bad relationship. i don't know, if we didn't have Ant i don't think i could follow them at all...to lose all those assets just to be scrapping to make the play-in game, jeez louise not good.

Vaguely debating putting money on the remainder of the hawks season. the last two years under Nate they had great seasons post-trade deadline and it's looking like that might happen again this year. Lotta injuries that allowed some younger guys to get seasoned and now back to full strength.

2020/2021 they were 14-20, finished 41-31
2021/2022 they were 17-25, finished 43-29

Plus Trae is finally hitting shots again. Anyone know what the over/under is for the rest of their season?

atlanta finished 26-4 last year???

43-39

Sure didn’t! I fucked that up. Should have been 43-39 which equal 82

oh duh I should have noticed that didn’t add up haha

This should help

Trae Young shooting numbers prior to Dec. 15:

FG%: 40.8%
RA: 55.0
Midrange: 41.2
3FG%: 28.5

After Dec. 15:

FG%: 46.0%
RA: 60.5
Midrange: 46.3
3FG%: 41.7

— Kevin Chouinard (@KLChouinard) January 15, 2023

But really having Capela back is the biggest factor. Guy is really having a great season

still can’t believe the nuggets got aaron gordon for gary harris, RJ hampton, and a 2025 first (which is gonna be like the 25th-30th pick for sure). what a time to be alive

idk pretty reasonable

yeah one first for aaron gordon feels right. keep in mind the mavs got luka doncic for one first round pick lol