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

he was a very small guy who took a big beating falling off in his early 30s is pretty standard especially for back then

kemba walkers out of the league rn for instance

which is not to say he prob wouldnt have been better off eating his spinach and so forth, but if you didnt know anything about his off court habits all things considered youd prob say he maxed out his talents

physiologically and prob psychologically iverson was an alien, remember some story of when he was in college the sports science department hooked him up to all the machines and had him run on the treadmill and he just never got tired lol

hmmm

https://www.inquirer.com/news/kelly-oubre-jr-hit-car-76ers-police-evidence-20231115.html

oh no oubre

tobias is playing good this year and philly need all the shooting. siakam would be more of a sidegrade imo. he would make more sense for the pacers

would not want to be the team that maxes anunoby though jeez

i think i would happily be that team but i don't think i would want to trade 3 firsts (or whatever) for the privilege

tobias is playing good this year and philly need all the shooting. siakam would be more of a sidegrade imo. he would make more sense for the pacers

― micah, Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:22 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

think i detect and angle here lol

he would be good for the pacers tho, im on board

players like anunoby, your not quite stars but still really valuable guys who under the old cbs teams had no qualms with maxing out, might become kinda dicey to give big contracts to now

From Daily Duncs: Green has gotten ejected in 9% of his games without Curry (7-of-74) in that span! That's a MASSIVE rate.

By comparison, Green has gotten ejected from just 2% of his games with Curry (3-of-160) in the last five years.

— conorjustin123 (@jpnba12345) November 15, 2023

feel like we had a discussion about this phenomenon before

im not actually that keen on siakam to the pacers, it has been talked of for as long as the pacers have had a hole at pf but signing an aging siakam to a big extension isnt the best move for a team with a young core. i know hes not strictly that old but i think he will fall off quicker than most

anunoby is injured a fair bit, has no midrange game, good but not great from 3. excellent defender obv. i think a max would be better spent elsewhere

yeah siakam being older than the pacers core would be the big issue, but hes 29 and has great size will be good through his next contract

*prob* be good through his next contract

yeah hes a shaky shooter and his athleticism is speed not strength. losing half a step could be fatal for him at both ends of the court

idk big all nba wings with spider arms usually age pretty well

hes also by all accounts a very hard worker locked in mindsetted etc

thankfully nba.com makes this info easy to find... here's pascal's catch and shoot 3 pt numbers each year for his career. i'm not as insane as this post makes me seem...

23-24 - 31.6%
22-23 - 34.1%
21-22 - 36.5%
20-21 - n/a (no tracking data in the covid year i guess bcuz of the bubble)
19-20 - 31.3%
18-19 - 38.1%
17-18 - 21.6%
16-17 - 14.3%

he's not a great catch and shoot player by any stretch -- the elite 3pt shooters are in the 40-43%+ range -- but there is one outlier year where he got close to that level and it was his one year playing w/ kawhi. i think if he was genuinely relegated to a mostly catch/shoot/drive/kick etc type role alongside two better players he would excel so long as his body held up

what you want is a guy like OG on a friendly deal like aaron gordon

for a while it looked like og was on a trajectory to star status but he seems to have plateaued

part of me feels like the raptors have spent the years after kawhi fielding abnormal basketball teams that weren’t very good, and maybe wings like pascal and OG who were supposed to lead a revolutionary positionless roster might be better if they ever got to play with, like, a real point guard and center on the floor at the same time

five-game suspension for dray

thats a big one cant recall the last time someone got that much for an in game thing

might be better if they ever got to play with, like, a real point guard and center on the floor at the same time

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:14 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they had that for the last ~3rd of last season, and were pretty good lol

right. schroeder stretches the definition of “real point guard” for me

hes not much of a distributor

tbf it's rare that someone tries to actually murder another guy during regular play xps

personally i wouldve thrown in a couple more for all the flexing and yelling weve has to endure over the years

I don't know what it would take for dray to stop pulling shit like that but I doubt 5 games is gonna move the needle.

hes not gonna change hes actually getting worse

one problem with dray is that he thinks he is a very rad dude but he is in fact an insufferable goon so we have only one choice he must exiled to the world of loser podcasts

Seems like the only person he might respect is Steph and I doubt Steph is gonna talk to him about it in any meaningful way.

Gobert got fined $25k for getting choked, makes perfect sense

had to go back to 2012 to find a longer suspension for an in game thing https://pr.nba.com/tag/nba-suspensions/page/15/

Lakers’ Metta World Peace suspended seven games
April 24, 2012
The Lakers’ Metta World Peace has been suspended for seven games without pay for striking the Thunder’s James Harden in the head with his elbow, the NBA announced today.

ingram got four games in 2018 https://pr.nba.com/lakers-brandon-ingram-and-rajon-rondo-suspended-rockets-chris-paul-suspended/

NEW YORK – Los Angeles Lakers forward Brandon Ingram has been suspended four games without pay, Lakers guard Rajon Rondo has been suspended three games without pay, and Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul has been suspended two games without pay, for their roles in an on-court altercation with 4:13 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Rockets’ 124-115 win over the Lakers on Oct. 20 at Staples Center. The suspensions were announced today by Kiki VanDeWeghe, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations.

majority of multi game ones were for failing drug tests

i wish draymond didn’t hit guys in the balls. otherwise i’ll always love him. it’s not my chest he’s stomping on

i was looking at this twitter thread chronicling draymond’s feud w/ gobert & draymond is pretty funny idk what to say. we need an NBA player who is willing to drop 14 crying emojis under a post quoting KAT saying it’s championship or bust with gobert

Jul 2022: Dray laughs at Minny/KAT at title hopes after acquiring Gobert pic.twitter.com/xqRGiRxsAX

— WarriorsMuse (@WarriorsMuse) November 15, 2023

it was mostly pretty solid work up until the choking ill give him that

one problem with dray is that he thinks he is a very rad dude but he is in fact an insufferable goon so we have only one choice he must exiled to the world of loser podcasts

― Clay, Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:27 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Philly's defense is so much better this year. They've got a lot more guys and their schemes feel more varied.

not quite sure what to make of philly so far, feel like theyre in a post doc-harden honeymoon period, but also might be the best team of the process era, theyve got a lot of sub solid role players who could play well but also not, the ability to make another trade is big

youve still got the playoff questions with embiid and maxey is a little younger than youd like for guy you need to rely on for a deep run, on the other hand theyre looking pretty dangerous, and are in a million times better shape than it seemed like theyd be before the season

bucks destroying the raps btw... without giannis, dame has 35 w a min to go in the 3rd

i dont think star big men like to roll to the rim that much its a lot of work and most of the time you dont even get a touch out of it

theyve got a lot of sub solid role players who could play well but also not

definitely feel this. They have a bunch of guys who can sort of play D and randomly go either 0-4 or 3-4 from 3.

dray has the natural bully's instinct for picking on people no one likes (kat, gobert, poole) so people tend to laugh at it and give him more rope

yeah youd hope a few of them just click in their roles and stabilize the rotation xp

otm xp dray has bullys ingenuity