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

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

Klay's post shot interview was excellent

read this quasi viral thread from a psychotic bucks fan about griffin — i’m making no comment on the beginning of it where he’s talking about internal drama tho the stotts thing. but the part where he gets into the stats is interesting. i didn’t realize griffin was making bucks fans relive the jason kidd experience

It's only four games in, but I feel pretty confident in saying that the Bucks (and Giannis if slop is to be believed) made a very large error in hiring Adrian Griffin to the HC role.

— rcon14 (@rcon14) November 2, 2023

the upside is that perhaps a lot of this seems fixable thru a combo of scheme adjustment & trying harder

All along, Griffin has talked about how he wants ball pressure and to play an aggressive style of defense... with a team that is perhaps the oldest in the NBA and has a 7' rim protecting mountain of a center.

That's clown scheme/personnel matching.

— rcon14 (@rcon14) November 2, 2023

sure the Bucks are generating turnovers at a better rate than last year, but they are absolutely bleeding points everywhere else. They've dropped to 14th in DRB%, they're 30th in eFG%, 15th in opponent FTr.

When you play aggressive D, you're going to foul more and rebound poorly

— rcon14 (@rcon14) November 2, 2023

The Bucks actually allow a very low frequency of rim attempts, but they are all effectively dunks or easy layups. And this is largely happening due to cutters and rollers getting free because guys are having to cover too much ground and make too many communications.

— rcon14 (@rcon14) November 2, 2023

The transition defense is abhorrent. The Bucks give up the highest number of transition opportunities in the league and are horrific at defending it.

Per CtG, teams are adding 11.3 points per game in transition. That is 4.4 more than the next worst transition defense...

— rcon14 (@rcon14) November 2, 2023

thread is interesting but idk if most of those stats mean anything other than the bucks have been bad so far, this however is a very reasonable point

All along, Griffin has talked about how he wants ball pressure and to play an aggressive style of defense... with a team that is perhaps the oldest in the NBA and has a 7' rim protecting mountain of a center.

That's clown scheme/personnel matching.

— rcon14 (@rcon14) November 2, 2023

gotta give em a chance tho, making the dame jrue swap days before the season started is gonna make things kinda chaotic, having said that if i were a bucks fan i would not be 100% zen about the situation, but things certainly can improve any time, look at the celtics the year they went to the finals, rookie head coach and the were pretty bad for the first 2+ months of the season before turning it around

Dame gotta be the worst (high profile) screen navigator ever. He’s always done this

Bucks defense has been bad all around but Dame is just DYING on these screens. pic.twitter.com/6zvarQFs1m

— Esfandiar Baraheni (@JustEsBaraheni) November 2, 2023

lol hes like whats this theres something in my way

lol i posted for years about dame's inability to even conceive of defending the p&r, he never sees the screens coming it's really bizarre??

he has expectations now all his flaws are gonna be magnified much more

James Harden ranked second in the NBA in time possessing the ball per game. Behind only Luka last season. I guess if you’re not first you’re last. https://t.co/Cdsbu1xhvR

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) November 2, 2023

I agree this defensive scheme looks a lot like Kidds in how it puts players in difficult positions that don’t really match their strengths but also Kidds thing was he never changed shit even as opponents shot like 70% from 3. So we’ll see if this guy can adapt.

I just came here to post those Harden comments. Lol, talk about getting high off your own supply.

lol why would he say that

Psyched to watch the Sixers for the first time this season. It's a lot more fun when you have no expectations.

i think they can pretty easily be the 3rd best team in the east, maybe even the 2nd if milwaukee cant figure it out. plus they have some flexibility to go get one of the toronto wings or whatever

"i am a system" on a team where he'll be the third option is hilarious

Yes, but that might be an indictment of the East as much as anything. I guess I don't believe in Embiid anymore, so I'm just going to have fun watching Maxey hoop.

xp

he's dominayton the system

plus they have some flexibility to go get one of the toronto wings or whatever

― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Thursday, November 2, 2023 7:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah bet we see another trade

honestly in harden’s defense, the guy was an MVP of the league — literally voted the best player in the world that year. I can see how that might make someone feel immortal. (see westbrook, russell)

I think Morey said doing a deal now for a guy and they can then extend gives them more flexibility than waiting to use the cap space in the offseason.

i haven’t really seen this point discussed much after the trade but the end result of all this is that embiid no longer has anywhere to hide when it comes to his personal and the team’s overall performance in the playoffs. there’s nobody left to scapegoat. as someone who has long thought that embiid basically escapes all scrutiny over how he performs in the playoffs, i’m very excited

time for joel to figure out how to not be exhausted at the end of a playoff game

xp oh yeah, i'm totally with you on that. btw he got hit in the face again and fell down like he got shot tonight--it's like game 5 of the season and they were up double digits in the 4th quarter.

the spurs are going to win the next 16 titles

theyre starting 2 ~*believe*~

omg what is happening in this game

i was informed that the phoenix suns were a big time contender

they are missing one of their "big three (3)" which means they are at 66.66666% strength, also the spurs are hitting like 314159 three pointers #math

listening to the suns crowd boo the officials...feels like 2007 all over again

75 seems like a lot of points for a bunch of young guys to lay on one of the Big Title Contenders in a half idk very interesting

noticed more than one broadcaster calling him wembanyaNa, idk why they like that better, i guess repeating the n feels more normal in english, regardless its not his name

its funny when wemby throws down a thunderous dunk youre like he really got up then you realize he jumped like a foot high

lmao i was just about the post abt that -yana thing, its just lazy af the name is v easy to pronounce!!!

this is like the 3rd time ive watched where a broadcaster cannot resist changing a letter bc they know it makes me mad

can u do microaggresions to a 7'4" guy? nba media aims to find out

reggie was doing it the other night too, these are people who talk as their job

it literally rhymes with "mama" which is the first word ever uttered by babies