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

bucks are going to have to "figure out" the perimeter defense

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 1, 2023 11:01 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

dennis schroder 24pts on 13fga + 11ast

I literally have zero idea what the Minnesota Timberwolves are going to do from game to game, so weird

trick or treat timberwolves

memphis getting smoked by the jazz, it's starting to get away from them

re: bucks, it's probably reasonable to ask if they downgraded their coaching, at least for regular season purposes.

yeah bringing a rookie coach into a contender is always dicey

also was thinking bucks have played a giannis centric game his whole career, bringing in dame is a big change

yeah it's definitely a few things, new coach new superstar, also middleton is now a shell of himself instead of a third option.

they could figure it out but it doesn't feel solid when you look at who's playing up and down their rotation.

its true as of now theres a lot of questions

broadcasters talking about austin reaves early season struggles as if hes some proven vet "hell get there it might take a little time but you know hell get there" "you can never question his effort" lakers pr needs to be studied by science

ok finally got to "he is a little higher up the scouting report this year"

lakers in general got really gassed up by getting swept in the conf finals

bunch of second round quality teams on that side of the draw

read part of an athletic article today about how they had unlocked a new winning crunch time lineup by going big eg playing christian wood next to ad, the proof was they beat the magic by 3

steve ballmer just pitched his new arena in an in game interview and im sold, hes good

hes going to combine recent trends and make it a giant eyeball that shoots a beam

he said it was "hardcore basketball heaven" said they made it really tight and steep not broken up by a bunch of weird suite levels going for a college basketball style fans on top of the court feeling, maybe he suckered me but i was like this guy sounds like he actually cares about the experience of watching live basketball

too bad the team is like a year or two from being bad for a decade, that seems like an important part of the experience of watching live basketball

its true that live basketball is better when the home team is good

feel like tons of guys are sitting on really high cushions on the bench this year whats up with that, i mean i can understand why tall guys would want to do that but why now

maybe it was uncool before like underhand free throws

its cool now its the "it" seating option

they should have cushions for the fans too. i guess some arenas do but not the boston one

I guess that lebron minutes restriction thing isn’t happening any more

Dejounte Murray's been on one. 41 against the wolves while guarding Edwards after shutting down Dame the day before.

24pts on 10-15 shooting plus 8 assist against the wiz last night

https://x.com/ATLHawks/status/1719885572813062161?s=20

hes gone over it in 4 of 5 games lol xp

ham going with playoff rotations 5 games into the season?

nba cup rotations

this is the lakers problem right here

https://i.imgur.com/8oDPOlN.png

playing ad 48mins (ot) seems pretty bad

seems way too early to panic about the Bucks but yea it does concern me that a team with two great defensive players is giving up these quick 20-4 type runs in every game so far. at the game I went to it looked like they were giving up way too many fast breaks due to turnovers which seemed to be a result of players not being where they were supposed to be. also they're not switching when they're supposed to, seemed easy to get a guy open for 3 with a little razzle dazzle, plus Capela kept getting behind the entire defense somehow. so right now I think it does kinda come down to coaching, though I have faith he's gonna figure it out sooner or later

yeah obvs you have to give it time, there are things to be worried about but you cant really tell to what extent theyre really a problem yet

if i was a fan of the bucks i'd have a hard time worrying too much about how the team was playing 4 games into a season w/ a new coach & new roster

that said defense feels pretty scheme oriented in the NBA these days & the bucks in particular have a pretty complicated relationship w/ that concept. it's not a stretch to say that bud was fired for being too rigid defensively & after the jrue/dame trade the ability for the new coach to be much better than bud at defensive scheming is even more paramount now than it was the day after they got eliminated. does he have it in his bag?

i do think the bucks perimeter d is gonna be an issue no matter what, the extent to which they can scheme and play good team d will determine how big of an issue it is, they could also just make a trade tho, middletons ability to find some form will be big for that too and obvs other things

they should be able to get a defensive minded guard who can kind of hit a three for not that much

crowder & beasley are two guys who were acquired by contenders for title runs last season & then were terrible/couldn't get off the bench in the playoffs and are now playing 25 and 30 mpg respectively for this bucks team. so i immediately look at those two spots and i'm like, this isn't going to fly in playoff games that matter. i kinda agree that they have some work to do to find a few more guys they can trust in the playoffs. bcuz right now their list is: giannis, brook, middleton, portis, connaughton and cam payne. that feels, um, incomplete

Early returns but Did not expect this

The Wood/LeBron/AD lineup has now played 44 minutes, with an ORTG of 127, a DRTG of 63 and a Net rating of +64.

— Jason Timpf (@_JasonLT) November 2, 2023

kawhi played big minutes on night two of a back to back? this 65 game minimum rule might be working

yeah they were saying during the game that he has no restrictions on minutes back 2 backs anything

suspect western conf teams looked at the final standings last year and said damn if we had just tried to win a lil more we wouldve been in a better spot

yeah its making for some fun and competitive regular season games.

i think ballmer would be willing to eat every fine if that’s what kawhi wanted & i don’t think kawhi cares whether he is allowed to make all NBA. i think it’s more that they fucked around and found out one too many times in terms of where they get when they pretend the regular season doesn’t matter

doenst he need to make an all nba team to be eligible for another supermax?

that’s a good question. i feel like he has enough service time in the league that probably not. but i honestly am not sure

Draymond Green: “Last year, we had an awful team as far as chemistry goes.”

“Last year was horse shit. Hard to come to work. Not fun. This year, you see the joy on guys’ face when they come in the building…this is a group that likes being together.”

— Danny Emerman (@DannyEmerman) November 2, 2023

his whole quote is pretty good. klay hit a game winner last night, the last 4-5 minutes was really entertaining

Forgot About Klay pic.twitter.com/e2b1L9LCLM

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) November 2, 2023

draymond is currently searching for the killer
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, November 2, 2023 2:07 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

there were at least 50 i think you should leave hot dog memes posted on my timeline last night after that dray quote dropped.

i really think that as a culture we need to switch back to OJ references for this emotion. thank you for your service tim robinson but it’s time to bring the GOAT back

started a thread to track vibes updates
NBA ~Vibes~ Check