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

definite play-in preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEi-SJjJUzA

Didn't know they sold truth bombs at K-Mart.

just sat down at Target Center with my daughter.... someone told me Jimmy isn't playing?? so annoying. he actually sat out load managing when we went to the Blazers/Heat in Portland a few years ago, load managed in two cities.

yeah they're resting him on back to backs to ramp up for the season

feel like jimmy should continue his vendetta on the wolves whats the problem

watching the knicks give zion the biggest possible cushion and he just drives into them anyway and makes a weird layup

weird layups should be a tracked stat

lol for some reason Terrance Howard is here tonight and got a huge reception when they announced he was here

who leads the league in weird layups shai

fun game! Wolves really pulled away in the 4th thanks to Naz. Rudy has been playing much better this year so far, very active on D seems to be moving a lot better.

if they don’t trade KAT this year it’s a travesty

gotta find another team who wants him first…

KNICKS

randle/kat would be a fun twin towers

gotta think the knicks are keeping their powder dry for embiid

i think someone wld trade for kat tho

minny will prob just keep him tho

yeah the nuggets just can’t be stopped on offense

flavor flav singing the national anthem in milwaukee

jalen johnson is the real deal

Lmao yes I am at the Bucks game and I can tel you that is the best performance all night from a guy in a Bucks jersey

ah man thats such a bummer

Flavor Flav sings the National Anthem at the Milwaukee Bucks game: pic.twitter.com/zsiE4LszFU

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 30, 2023

clippers when kawhi and pg play are pretty good, weird

Dame was just insanely bad tonight, dunno what he wound up with but he didn't have a bucket until halfway through the 3rd and was responsible for like 8 turnovers

yeah i looked at his line has to be one of the worst games of his career

more liek the milwhatthe fucks

6 points and 6 turnovers

I prefer to look at tonight as a Flavor Flav concert with a bonus basketball game at the end

Jalen’s first start. That fucking block he had

pretty sick end to kings-lakers lots of good shot making scrambling d crowd was into it lakers lost and so forth

lackers

fakers

thinking early returns for both maxey and nick nurse looking so good maybe makes a harden trade easier, tho clippers not even willing to give them a marginal rotation guy and a pick maybe makes it less easy lol

Yeah, I think there is enough of a sample size that we can say Maxey is one of the best shooters in the league. His range is getting deeper, he can get his own shot, and he should simply shoot all the time.

gotta love it when the ball swishes from deep

flavor flav did a pretty good job, imo

it definitely came from the heart I'll give him that

feel like i could sing the anthem about as good as he did

7 pts 9 rebs in 21 mins for ayton last night

i’m sure there’s something real here about going from being set up by cp3 to guys like scoot & sharpe but these ayton stat lines are killing me. i think he’s achieving his dream of being an amateur NBA player. they should let him have a little 2K set up on the bench. embiid had 35-15-7 before resting the entire 4th q

did embiid get shamed into playing??

Completing the Lillard trade was always going to include swallowing some kind of bitter pill. Taking on Ayton and his ugly contract was the glaring downside, but the amount of upside made it worthwhile. The Blazers were always going to be bad for a couple of seasons, so it's not like they'll need to hide Ayton's weaknesses during the playoffs.

well the ayton trade was folded into the lillard trade for grease-skidding purposes but it was agreed upon ahead of time. they did not have to take him on in order to facilitate the deal

If the Ayton trade had gone down with Lillard still in a Blazer uniform, no Jrue trade, therefore no Brogdon, no Rob Williams, with Nurk sent away and a weaker bench I would have clawed my face off.

pretty sure the blazers saw ayton as an asset, if not exactly the centerpiece of their haul. and i would bet he still has some positive perceived value around the league: 18-10 last yr, got that #1 pick sheen, and went to the finals (need not dig too deep into whether he was a net positive or negative in that achievement). too bad for the blazers that value is going to tank precipitously if he can't even do the good stats bad team thing. they should trade him asap and throw in with the timelord

if everything ppl say about scoot is true he seems incompatible with the 16 hour a day 2k gamer as his primary pick & roll partner. but that’s a bridge to cross in a few years (probably)

memphis could use a center

denver really put OKC in their place last night. i like chet a lot & this thunder team overall, they had two pretty impressive wins to open the season. but their front court rotation is chet and ousmane dieng. just feel like you prob need one big man who can legally consume alcohol if you’re gonna make the NBA playoffs

3 games in and feeling good about my desmond bane is 25X better than austin reaves exaggeration

duren is good i guess

Despite his youth, Duren has been key to Detroit’s surprising 2-1 start. In three games, he has totally dominated around the basket, recording a league-leading 18 dunks (only two other players have even half as many), blocking eight shots and averaging 18.0 points and 14.5 rebounds. He leads the league in offensive rebound rate and is fourth in overall rebound rate.