2023/24 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "THANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

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i watched this and thought he did the right thing. unless the correct answer was throwing an alley oop to gabe vincent

this story about harden showing up to the team flight and not being let on is pretty out there, sounds like the sixers are done with him, which is reasonable tbf

― lag∞n, Friday, October 27, 2023 11:09 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago)

it's funny bcuz they prob need him to play to buoy his trade value. they also could force him to come back by threatening to trigger that clause in the CBA that says you can't become a FA if you don't show up to work in the final year of your deal. but it seems like they rightly assume he would just immediately turn to sabotage? god it's so good

i watched this and thought he did the right thing. unless the correct answer was throwing an alley oop to gabe vincent

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 27, 2023 11:36 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

everyones filling lanes and then he just randomly cuts across them, peep ads reaction

i don't think AD realized okogie was running behind him and would've stolen the ball. free d'lo

its not like theres a guaranteed bucket there 4 on 2 is pretty crowded but what dlo did violates basic high school level basketball fundamentals

lakers jogging didnt help either

maybe this is just the new way confuse everyone so bad by blowing up your own fast break that they leave you open from three

he shoulda just stepped in and pulled from 5 feet, hes really good at those.

feel like he prob had ad or wood for a layup but hard to say considering what transpired

https://i.imgur.com/5a6ZZ3c.png

this is where we are where things go wrong, youve got vincent on right wing ad (and wood lol def part of the problem he prob shoudlve been trailing rather than in the same spot as ad) in middle and dlo with the ball on the left wing when he decides to just cut across the play for some reason, obvious play since hes on the wing is to attack the basket from there and then make a read depending on how gordon reacts, good chance he just gets a lay up but if gordon is in good position then he can dump it off to ad or wood for the dunk

he should've passed it to vincent just to keep the ball flowing but i also understand looking at a 6' 2" PG rim running on the fastbreak & being like, hmm maybe not

yeah the vincent pass is prob there too, tho gordon does present some problem

anyway no excuse for dlo or wood on this total garbage bet bron was mad

i'm sure lebron understands that russell is around as a trade piece but i also think he probably hates playing basketball w/ him very deeply

yeah how could he not

wood is not the best guy for making the right play, playing hard and so forth either

if you were going to engineer an event to annoy lebron james specifically, i'm not sure you could do a whole lot better than putting christian wood and d'angelo russell on a basketball court together

a new fighter has entered the area

The NBA is “looking into the facts” around James Harden’s availability against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday after the Philadelphia 76ers guard was ruled out for his team’s season opener. Here’s what you need to know:

Harden’s absence raises questions regarding the implementation of the NBA’s new star rest policy, which states that teams must make star players available for nationally televised (and In-Season Tournament) games.
NBA spokesperson Mike Bass said the league is working to “determine whether an approved reason exists for his lack of participation” in a statement Thursday.
Harden is listed as out and not with the team due to “return to competition reconditioning” on the injury report.

i don't think AD realized okogie was running behind him and would've stolen the ball. free d'lo

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 27, 2023 11:46 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hear the heat could use another playmaker…

d "heat culture" lo

https://x.com/michaelvpina/status/1717706264870846932?s=46&t=XlsbhgknQH65_CH00_uPqw

thats a good idea tbh, theres a lot of things you could build the letterboxed or good reads of, im working on one for a client right now as a matter of fact, tho i think the nba one would need to be a lil more twittery ie be more about chat during the games

tbh i wouldnt use a sports one theres no real utility to a list of basketball games ive watched like there is with movies where i can use it to remember stuff to rewatch or recommend to people or directors to further explore, sports are too transient

agree that it has to be more live-reaction-focused for that reason but i already have ILH for that don't really want a bigger crowd

twitter used to be so good for that too

i assume a lot of that is happening on, like, discord these days?

yeah the concept would have to be pretty different than letterboxed but the ability to have the apps functionality built specifically basketball data could be good, something like that may already exist idk, def have to focus on the live experience, and while people are unlikely to go back and look at old games too much one thing people do do is look at last nights game

it would be cool if it could capture/track notable plays and possessions, like some guy has a weird turnover off his own face and all the users like it or add it to their favorites

yeah i was thinking of like how soundcloud does timestamps on comments so you can see exactly what part of a track someone commented on. that but for likes would be fun, you could have a little histogram of the game like that youtube thing that shows the most viewed parts of the video, idk if any of the web streaming bball apps have that already

yeah you would prob need the rights to the games to make it good, make it easy to pull share clips, maybe it could be tied into league pass accounts i know people stream movies from amazon on twitch and in order to watch them you have to put yr prime credentials in

v strange to me how stone-age all the big league apps are. you’d think they’d be the ones doing these innovations. maybe there’s not enough in it for them yet since everybody in-market has to watch on the rsn

companies like that just have a real hard time making good tech

nba cant even make a site where you can reliably stream their games

i think its just not possible to make a good website in 2023 someone would have done it if it was

i mean in general not just for sports

theres that too

i assume a lot of that is happening on, like, discord these days?

― call all destroyer, Friday, October 27, 2023 1:30 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm part of a couple NBA Discords which are like half fun and half annoying. I'm sure there are good ones out there though. one that I'm on is really big, chats during all games in progress go pretty fast

Discord is my main timewaster now

i loathe the discord UI which is how i know i’m old. it seems like a small one would be fun for game chats.

letterbox’d for regular season games is a great & idea and essentially how i use ILH

believe on league pass thru web browser they do timestamp important plays but it’s not intuitive

idk if you guys have ever watched NFL on amazon but they have a default setting that will show you a series of clips of important plays up until the point where you’ve tuned the game on. or you can just skip that and start live. they also do an analytics broadcast that tracks players routes along the field as they run & stuff. i wouldn’t watch a game i cared about that way but it’s a fun trifle

i think lagoon is right that the leagues just don’t have the tech capability to build this stuff in a very user friendly way. i’ve heard ppl say that NFL sunday ticket on youtube now is a night & day experience from the previous iteration (NFL + directv)

I like that shit a lot. NFL Red Zone for instance was a total revelation. I like the Manningcast a lot too, not that I particularly like the Mannings but I do like that there's an alternate broadcast full of guys just talking about shit as though they're in your living room. but maybe the NFL is just different in that a 3 hour broadcast will really only have like, 12 minutes of actual action

if league pass did stuff like this i might even pay for it instead of just torrenting everything the next day. (the game is on too late where i live. which game? cmon you know the game i'm talkin about)

speaking of websites that work, the nba website looks like this for me rn

https://i.imgur.com/ZZX0Pv8.png

all games are gone

sigh

Trail Blazers say Anfernee Simons will undergo surgery for a UCL tear in right thumb and is expected to miss 4 to 6 weeks.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 27, 2023

https://i.imgur.com/ONjeYC0.jpg

its time for the greatest rivalry in sport

im watching detroit and these boys are playing hard!