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

tough vibes situation going on in dallas

sheesh Kyrie totally taking over now

hes a very dynamic ball player unfortunately

man i love slo mo

gobert not closing games?

good god

26 points for kyrie in the 4th so far

I mean do you, under certain circumstances, have to hand it to him

aahahha totally flubbed that. kyrie and luka deferring but also great defense by ant and mcdaniels. didnt even get a shot off

i would put money on ben simmons being out of the league before he turns 30

Ben Simmons played 13 minutes tonight — his second lowest minutes total of the season. Jacque Vaughn just gave a long answer when asked about the challenges of playing Simmons, and said it’s going to be a work in progress to find lineups that make sense for him to fit into.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) February 14, 2023

he's like a really broken Magic: the Gathering card that somehow costs purple mana

no idea what that means but otm

McDaniels & Ant haunting Luka & Kyrie with the game on the line.https://t.co/qJ5MMzaKgM pic.twitter.com/RToIek20a7

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) February 14, 2023

dames cooking the lakers, 30 points in the first half, 8 threes.

reminds me of the time kevin love knew steph needed to shoot a 3 at the end of the game

xp

points allowed in the two games luka and kyrie have played together 133, 124, both Ls

the scores are gonna be high

lots of baskets three pointers things of that nature

ya gotta score points to win, that's what my coach used to say

cant argue with that

xxxpost - it's been really great to see that Ant actually has the ability to be a good defender, it's just a matter of locking in and committing to it, but at least it's there, he's certainly not consistent at this point

hes def got the tools

i would put money on ben simmons being out of the league before he turns 30

― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Monday, February 13, 2023 11:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hollinger pointed out today that the nets getting two firsts and simmons for harden wasnt the greatest deal

Nikola Jokic vs. Bam Adebayo tonight: 5-5 shooting in 1-on-1 situations pic.twitter.com/QB7EGv7ehR

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) February 14, 2023

too big 4 bam

watched like 10 mins of the hawks/hornets last night and it occurred to me that i don't really see/hear much about lamelo anymore. is he having a weird year or something?

been injured a lot

hollinger pointed out today that the nets getting two firsts and simmons for harden wasnt the greatest deal

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 14, 2023 10:38 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago)

i was thinking today about how the sixers reportedly wouldn't consider trading simmons to the kings for halliburton bcuz daryl was intent on holding out for a "real" star

oops

personally still think trading two firsts for harden was a bad trade but maybe getting off simmons contract makes it worth it on its own

yeah youd have to give up at least a first to get someone to take simmons at this point

harden is overpaid and very odd but he is playing good basketball this season, which is not to say i would want him on my team, still worked out pretty well for philly tho

not as well as trading for haliburton tho

kinda think you could take half the shooting guards in the league and put them on this sixers team and they'd still be third in the east. the trade of simmons was all about getting further in the postseason and if you wanna put that on harden, we all know the deal there. but maybe i'm just being a hater

just looked at simmon's contract, due $40M two seasons from now yikes

yea I'll give Harden credit I kinda expected this to be the year he'd fall off a cliff and he's actually been playing pretty well

hes even changed his game to be more of a distributor and team player credit where its due

you guys are suckers

i stand with jordan

listen you have to give credit where its due that just a rule

now do i think the sixers are serious contenders of course not cmon but harden has done good the situation had all the signs of a massive fiasco but its actually working out

this year at least lol

it will be really really funny if he actually walks in free agency

doubt anyone with cap space has any interest in signing him which might allow philly to give him a big but short deal which is certainly in their best interest, giving him a big long deal wld be guaranteed to end in tears

sometimes that's just how we like things to end people are complicated creatures

thats really true

well the rumor that must be so omnipresent that nba reporter types feel comfortable mentioning it on podcasts all the time now is that he wants to go back to houston, which will have a lot of cap space and some incentive to be good next year bcuz they owe picks to OKC. but i think that would require such an epic playoff meltdown that a. returning to philly becomes untenable and b. harden is basically like "i'm so bad in the playoffs that i'm gonna go sign w/ the worst team in the NBA and not have to worry about this anymore." it's certainly not out of the question, but prob not very likely

theres no way harden isnt just making up the houston stuff to give himself leverage why would houston want him back it doesnt make sense hes the last guy in the world you want around young players and he just got done fucking the franchise over two years ago

im willing to conceded theres a possibility the rockets are just psychotically incompetent but man that would be a very bad decision