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

Shaping up to be good finish here.

Joel is locked tf in

I think about what it would have been like if Shaq could shoot free throws like Embiid

holy shit

lol

holy fucking shit

lmao

they should count it imo it’s more fun that way

Insane finish. Tatum showed up in the end

if that would have counted that would have been an all time wild ending

good game some rugged playoff style stuff

that would have been an all time wild ending end of regulation play

Crowd went nuts when that went in. Alas.

embiid knew it was late didnt even react

JAYSON TATUM FOR THE WIN 🚨

Joel Embiid was THAT close to tying the game 🤯pic.twitter.com/G632TLS8K4

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) February 26, 2023

Doc needs to figure out a rotation that works. Bench was absolutely brutal.

What’s going on over there in that nuggs Grizz game

― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Saturday, February 25, 2023 9:52 PM (yesterday) book

just one of those games where one team comes to play and the other doesn’t. also malone is not a serious coach

Doc needs to figure out a rotation that works. Bench was absolutely brutal.

― and my soul would smack me if I didn’t listen (PBKR), Sunday, February 26, 2023 12:25 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah theyre rough when embiid sits, one would hope that harden could take over but he doesnt seem capable

and maxey and harden together is tough since neither of them really defend which is exacerbated by embiid sitting

tobias harris played like 38 minutes and did not get a rebound which seems hard to do

one annoying thing about watching national games is the tv guys are always gassing up random players almost like they want to talk shit about them but theyre not allowed so instead they talk about how good they are, they did that with harris for a while last night

Harris has been playing very well lately. If he were making $20M a year, he would be great, but he’s severely overpaid.

I love Maxey, but he and Harden just give up too much at the point of attack.

Sixers still flawed but I feel like they need someone more creative than Doc to figure it out.

maxey had some moments last night but even on offense he disappeared a bunch. obv celtics d played a role in that.

on another subject, wemby watch, the hornets have won 4 in a row. smh they can't even tank properly, now up 4 wins over the bottom 3

yeah theyre too good when healthy need to sit some guys

time for lamelo to have a phantom injury. maybe they could list him as OUT - BROTHER'S KNEE

Lamelos played like 10 games this season. Let the hornets cook (jordan doesn’t deserve wemby)

that is true. karma dictates he should be a spur

uh oh, lebron achilles watch

“i heard a pop”

ok now he’s playing again

classic lebron

trae buzzer beater

TRAE YOUNG

🥶❄️🧊 pic.twitter.com/fpxYBApcJr

— Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) February 26, 2023

wild comeback by the lakers. were down 27 in the second quarter and are now up 3 with less than 2 mins to go

a lot of shots from players who aren’t luka or kyrie at the end of this game

they got some good looks but didnt hit them

brutal loss for the mavs

no huge surprise but luka and kyrie have no idea how to play off each other in crunch time possessions

lol

Mavs blow a 27-point lead to lose to the Lakers. NBA teams were 138-0 this season in games they led by 27 or more, per @ESPNStatsInfo.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) February 26, 2023

i believe the lakers were 1-19 from three at one point in the first half

the mavs really look like a team that traded its best wing defender. they had justin holiday guarding lebron at the end and it looked like they could’ve pulled a random fan out of the crowd and had just as good of a chance of getting a stop

top ten offense bottom ten defense trading to get better at offense and worse at defense seems perhaps conceptually unsound

kyrie era going as per usual

Jason Kidd: “I’m not the savior here. I’m not playing. I’m watching, just like you guys. As a team, we’ve got to mature. … We’ve got to grow up.”

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) February 26, 2023

it's really tough because there were no warnings about kyrie as a teammate or person

kyrie looking forward to playing with new coach says they have a great rapport

two weeks later coach found floating in nearby river

Kyrie already looking forward to his move to the suns this summer he doesn’t care about this mavs team in the least

That roster outside of Kyrie and Luka is very questionable lol

snyder 5 years $1 trillion to the hawks

seems like they avoided giving him gm powers

In recent days, Snyder has been engaged with general manager Landry Fields, assistant GM Kyle Korver and owner Tony Ressler on a number of philosophical, team building and staff budgetary issues, and Snyder will enter the organization with a significant voice in player personnel matters, sources said.

pretty great move for them. the owner and his son's involvement still seems very bad tho

dont forget the owners sons friend

Naz Jordan more like it sheesh