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

i feel like the suns trade is about what i wouldve thought theyd get except that then bridges trurned out to be much better than everyone thought

four picks a high end starter a rotation guy and a swap for a consensus top five guy seems normal, except that kd is old and injury prone, and then the high end starter immediately looks like an all star

i mean i would not have done it even not knowing what we do now about bridges but im not surprised it happened

which is not to say that there was another comparable deal out there cause big deals are hard to pull off, unless youre danny ainge

idk getting the suns top 3 wing players, two of whom are very young, plus four unprotected firsts is one of the craziest trade packages in league history & def more than i thought any team would end up giving up for KD. it's maybe only surpassed by the gobert trade lmao. or the KG/nets trade

bridges thing isnt that surprising, he was extremely efficient scorer in lower usage, clearly had room to be taking more shots successfully

utah got four unprotected 1sts (one of theme was just the 14th pick that year not sure if that counts as unprotected) two swaps markkanen and sexton for mitchell

idk i didnt hear anyone say he was about to go off he wasnt really considered to have the scoring repertoire to do it xp

yeah agreed

he cld just be playing over his head right now too havent looked at his shot profile and so forth

i do have some reservations there hes taking more long 2s and making them at a high rate

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didnt realize they were both 26.

a rumor i just now started is that jaylen really wants to come back home to atlanta

wow i just heard that too! (from you)

rumor the change you want to see in the world

I see someone's paying attention

blazers are my #1 choice for wemby, would love to see dame back playing meaningful games without having to leave

so i am pro-tank

as a blazer thrall I thank you

my sources indicate jaylen will be staying in boston say he considers playing for the celtics to be lucky

i'm gonna edit that Jaylen interview with Ray Charles doing "georgia on my mind"

lebron opening a starbucks is simply too on the nose for me

doesnt magic own a bunch of starbucks he prob told bron about it

bucks with blue court and purple unis while the celtics in home whites w/ green accents looking like how the bucks should look at home. nba has gotta get their branding in check

its so bad wonder if theyll do something about it ive seen a lot of complaints online

this year is worse than ever

only recent change theyve done as far as that stuff goes that i like is allowing guys to wear off color sneakers

all the rest they shd just go back to how it was before imo

horf just drilled an early shot clock 30ftr celtics are up baby

home white away dark how is this hard or a problem for anyone oh right marketing guys are smarter than me

bucks scored all their points last night apparently

only recent change theyve done as far as that stuff goes that i like is allowing guys to wear off color sneakers

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 30, 2023 5:08 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah thats fine even if its unappealing to me, they have sneakers to sell.

this year they started allowing them to keep their normal court even if they are wearing the city version or another version. so like the bucks shouldnt be wearing these throwbcks without a matching court.

celtics saved their points while getting destroyed by the wizards

lol giannis jacking up zero pass threes cmon man

not pretty

its crazy that hes still taking 3 3s a game just a totally losing shot for them

celtics up 30

bucks 3/22 from three

thats not good

ew thats a lot of blood

i broke a guys nose accidentally playing once

Hmmm this is kind of a big game not good to blow it like this

wldve been a bigger game if the celtics didnt blow it v a tanking wiz a couple days ago

bucks passing up open 3s now whats the point might as well hoist

dont see this in the 3rd quarter too often

Bucks have pulled their starters down 39.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) March 31, 2023

celtics up 41

bucks have the best defense but also have some bad defenders in their rotation interesting dynamic def some guys you can target ingles carter allen

wonder if they might play some super big lineups in the offs to reduce the carter/allen minutes

damn dragic has a lotta grey hair

he doesnt look young

thanasis’s lack of grace and weirdly misplaced alpha energy reminds me of playing pickup with football players