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

raps gonna get a haul for him type of guy everyone wants

mb should be thinking about trading siakim instead tho just cause hes older, on the other hand hes not old and hes better so raps are prob thinking about more of "a reset" than a rebuild here which is fair if they think they can pull it off

they have a bunch of talent and a good coach why arent they winning is the thing

bad vibes?

fvv is mb cooked? rest of the east just got better+random variance?

they dont have enough playmaking bench is bad theyre trying to run everything through barnes which is way too much for him right now fred has been bad

they had a crazy late season run last year and were still only +2 so its not like they were great

year before that they were bad

the vibes are bad too tho when ive watched them theyve missed tons of defensive rotations just not playing like a team of all 6-8 guys with a great coach should be

seems like this group lost their soul a bit once they traded lowry

ultimately theres just not enough 6-8 guys with guard skills to build whole team youre gonna just need some guards

like the celtics have two big wings with guard skills and they still have guards

the suns going from 6 usable players to 5 would be an interesting strategy. i think they should try it out

fred has been on a hot streak recently, i doubt he is like done at 28.

The raptors thing is to play the most aggressive defense in the nba on every possession, and to have a small rotation doing it. I think it wore them down.

they’re one of those teams that legitimately has half an NBA roster. you look at their box scores and there’s always two guys who shouldn’t be getting minutes and three other guys who never play and who you’ve never heard of. they get a lot of credit for developing their entire starting line up but they have not done the same with the bench

i think we've also learned you can't build an NBA team that has 1 pg and 1 center

in retrospect that playoff series vs philly prob should've been a wake up call. philly almost choked it away but they manhandled the raptors for much of that series and that was not a particularly good philly team. it's prob a bad match up for them w/ embiid and all but van vleet was bad in that series, he looked small and overwhelmed. siakam is a good player but he's not putting you on his back and dragging you to the ECF.

yeah, it seems like they were waiting for one of their 6'8" chimera guys to turn into something really special and it hasn't happened. siakam is maybe the least exciting all-nba caliber player of his time.

you really cant just draft based on long arms alone

for a second it rly felt like toronto had figured something out, wonder if okc's all 6'11"+ lineups will suffer a similar fate, but i think sga kind of saves them there

they could desperately use a colin sexton type sixth man scorer

yeah their backcourt depth is rough

they need a superstar (kawhi). otm about them thinking one of their guys would develop into a top tier player. siakim would be a really great 2nd banana. seems weird to blow it up with a relatively young ~solid~ core but selling high on a few of them wouldnt be the worst thing

they could do any number of things but barnes and siakam on the same team is probably never going to make sense

barnes for bones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3fTRk2yEgU

kat is a few weeks past the high end of the range of being out for that injury and they said yesterday he's still out indefinitely. seems not good

yeah tim connelly was on our local sports talk drive time yesterday for an interview and said that it's just proven to be a trickier injury than they thought. he said they aren't worried about the long term but right now he can't go and so it's going to take as long as it takes.

def dont want a kd type of thing so its safe. the later he comes back tho the less chance i think theyll have of making any noise in the playoffs. they hadnt really figured out how to work as a team yet and it wont be enough time

is there not a general lebron thread on ILH? i posted to one recently but just realized its on ILE.

hes about to break the scoring record within a week or so.

so i’ve been told!

breaking records and things of that nature

lebron will never be as good as jerry stackhouse

Lebron is 30, this fuckery won't go on for much longer, thank god

— Draybron (@urklespaces) May 25, 2015

lord willin

who’s lebron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_cl3WIO6A

wolves/warriors headed to ot

one of the best wins of the year, down 14 at one point

the suns lose by 32 to the hawks in phoenix??

i checked league pass when that was the only game still going and didn't feel like i needed to see the 4th quarter once i saw the score. the hawks had 15 more made 3s than the suns.

he wld be so good on the griz

Chris Haynes: “Memphis doesn’t want New Orleans to get O.G and New Orleans doesn’t want Memphis to get O.G”

Bidding war 👀

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— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) February 2, 2023

man dillon brooks has gotten so many minutes for a replacement level player, what do they see in him

tough dude who gives them an edge. i think hed be better served as a 25 minute guy off the bench taking way less shots.

def

yeah it's easy to see why a team would love him

his 3 point shot has fallen off a cliff, needs to get that back to league avg to be a really effective player

in no way should he be third in shot attempts on the team. needs to switch with jjj
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MEM/2023.html#per_game::7

hes just really holding them down with those shooting #s no matter what else he does