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

posting the kid takeover for posterity

THIS MEANS SOMETHING TO ME pic.twitter.com/6aVOuXb2YD

— Waun & Quan (@Brooksbrosmedia) November 7, 2023

holy shit

Yeah, that's good stuff.

I felt such a sense of relief this morning reading the quotes about Harden's Clips debut and everyone from PG to Lue talking about Harden just having to get himself into playing shape because of a lack of training camp. So glad he's off the Sixers regardless of the outcome.

No games today

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVQpIzxXYAcM5vS.jpg

i can't believe they've done this

victor's first game in MSG is in the early ESPN slot tomorrow night -- boxed the first celtics/sixers rematch of the season out of national TV. and it would be hard to argue w/ that decision!

why arent there any games

election reasons and things of that nature

ah right

the beatings will continue until morale improves

election day i guess

oops xxp

the upshot of no games last night is a bunch of interesting games tonight. got victor’s MSG debut *and* warriors-nuggets on ESPN, plus

celtics-sixers
nets-clippers
heat-grizz
pels-wolves
cavs-thunder
mavs-raptors

i will be watching celtics-sixers

the battle for atlantic division supremacy

Draymond Green is out tonight. Personal reasons. Gary Payton II is questionable. Illness. Warriors are closing out a difficult road stretch in Denver.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 8, 2023

dray out tonight (personal reasons [personally afraid of jokic])

"the embiid"

it's a title

might become the first "guy whos really into the in-season tournament". why not

Is there like a bracket or something I could follow?

absolutely not

https://www.espn.com/nba/standings/_/view/in-season-tournament

this is the realest philly has looked in the process era

They definitely have some more guys now.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8ADkMKA/

omg

pritchard is no good sorry but it's true

too small

Lakers getting stomped by the rockets lol

Idk why some were rating the lakers so high coming into this season? They actually suck

my posts are getting eaten wtf

you'll just have to imagine my insightful commentary im not typing it again

Idk why some were rating the lakers so high coming into this season? They actually suck

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:07 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

think its cause they made the conf finals mostly, and theyre the lakers and have lebron

yah ppl see the words lakers and lebron and ad and forget what year it is and believe they'll cruise plus they've got everyone's favorite fake good player austin reaves

They never looked dominant in any playoff games they won and then got swept. I thought they did better in the off season than expected but getting an 8th seed is no given imo

theyve really got it all, im predicting a lakers sweep of the nba playoffs

Yah they are mediocre with a lebron/brown ceiling. Which could be anything on any given night, neither the model of consistency any more.

They basically just retained all their guys and picked up some more ok 9/10 men. they were banking on Reaves making a leap, hasn’t happened yet. Everyone else is who they are and are a year older.

That harden TikTok is perfect

why take the open 3 when you can launch the ball into the 6th row

they were banking on Reaves making a leap, hasn’t happened yet

like half the nba prognosticotti thought he'd be an all-star this year lmao

hard to predict much for the Lakers, feels like even if everything goes right they'll still wind up laboring to get to 45 wins. whereas if things don't go right they may look like one of the worst teams in the league as they did pre-trade deadline last year. they haven't been fully healthy yet but I kinda doubt they ever will this year. also LeBron turns 39 this year so like what's the best case scenario there

fwiw I think this Rockets team might actually surprise a lot of people

Lmao Giannis got ejected for mean mugging and now the Bucks are gonna lose

coming into the year the west looked like a big blob of teams after denver. i think banking on lebron and brow to be healthy is foolish but i don't really begrudge ppl who thought one of the west finalist teams might be one of the 4 best teams in the conference. people were fawning over their offseason in a weird way tho

kelly oubre got a tech tonight for hanging on the rim and seemingly pointing at a ref while doing it, very odd, idk maybe he was pointing at someone else, still pretty weird, i wanted to get another look but no one has posted it to twitter cause that site is dead, big loss for nba highlights

They never looked dominant in any playoff games they won and then got swept.

not sure how i'm ending up as lakers guy here but they were the first western conference team in 10 years to beat the warriors in a playoff series. it's not like they just bumbled their way to the west finals...

whatever was going on with the jazz last year does not appear to be happening this year

the clippers had 8 turnovers in the fourth quarter in brooklyn tonight and also had one possession where they gave up three offensive rebounds, culminating in westbrook's man running in from the three point line for a put back dunk. kawhi and PG glared over at him with exasperated looks on their faces.

it was a bold experiment to put the two worst clutch players of their generation on the same team but sadly its not working out

jaime jaquez jr hit the dagger 3 to beat memphis tonight in what i have to assume was the first battle of JJJs in nba history

got a good look at memphis tonight. i think their issues right now are a. they only have like 4 good players b. two of those players are marcus smart and JJJ, who for as solid as they are you wouldn't really say "decision making" is one of the things either is bringing to the table. JJJ in particular -- for as much as people rag on KAT, JJJ isn't a lot better in terms of doing dumb shit, throwing his body around recklessly, fouling at inopportune times etc. i don't feel like you can rely on him to be the leader of a team and then the veteran presence is marcus smart (frequently doing dumb/reckless stuff on the basketball court)

look at the guys who played for them tonight

biyombo - 30 mins
kennard - 27 mins
aldama - 26 mins
zhaire - 21 mins
jacob gilyard - 15 mins
roddy - 13 mins

brutal