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

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

jelly fam

I really like Naz, if he ever becomes consistent watch out

I know it was a few hours ago but can I still say lmao @ the Mavs today. Lakers gotta be the hardest team to blow a big lead against too

oh my Timberwolves are falling apart

that's how they do

warriors looking like a mid tier pac 12 team trying to hold onto this lead

ohhh my god they had a wide open shot to tie it and he airballed it lmaooo

Neither team looking particularly impressive here

dame has 41 at the half

on 19 shots, 8 threes :)

damn!

thats alotta points marone

this clippers starting line up with westbrook and plumlee stinks

streaks!

bucks have won 14 in a row
spurs have lost 16 in a row

streaks!

this clippers starting line up with westbrook and plumlee stinks

― J0rdan S., Sunday, February 26, 2023 10:19 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm, this is outrageous

2nd largest win streak in Bucks history :)

2 points in 5:30 thats not good

putting kawhi and PG aside — who is the best shooter on the clippers now?

norm powell?

why did the clippers decide that westbrook is better than reggie jackson

i was gonna say batum?? xp

norm is 42% on 5 attempts/game this year, nic 38% on 4....marcus morris also 38% on 5, so regardless you would never want to play any of these guys when you have, um, westbrook and plumlee

one would assume lue will play powell, batum, covington, morris, gordon, mann more in the playoffs. but i’m still baffled by how you hand your opening minutes over to westbrook at this point in time (immediately get down 20)

the clippers are like permanently in some kind of R&D phase, i don't think they have acknowledged that at some point the results count

even if russ brought in fans, clips can't be hurting for cash. are gms/coaches really just blinded by former stardom, the numbers are right there for all to see

all the reporting has been that paul george advocated for russ and kawhi was on board too, but what if you told those guys oops we lost the contract in our office 365 folders, sorry!

and running bench units is the only role where you could potentially argue that he has value. and yet they're rolling him out there as part of a terrible starting line up ??

feel like it kinda gets lost in the mix of all russ stuff that hes the worst crunch time player ever too

yeah he clearly isnt a starter any more, with what they are paying him they should have no problem playing him 22 minutes off the bench and have him sitting at the end of halfs, lue will adjust id imagine

there was a time where i thought the clippers were taking things a little more seriously as far as championship basketball goes but now i think they’re probably not doing that.

LILLARD!

goodness gracious dame pic.twitter.com/fK2plGjxSe

— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) February 27, 2023

64 and counting 12 threes !

I know it ain't anything like the Greg Oden situation but man Dame being saddled to that team kinda feels the same way

feel like it kinda gets lost in the mix of all russ stuff that hes the worst crunch time player ever too

comparing dame to Greg oden in any way other than they’re both blazers is really odd to me, plenty of greats have whiled their primes away in broken situations, oden was a classic bust with a bunch of bad bones

71!

idk just a Blazer makin you think what could have been, its weird that there's a dude playing at such an insane level that you just don't think about that much. probably just me

71 for dame, damn

he was so gassed at the end lol