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

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

tbf jordan poole said something that might get you punched. it’s not like draymond just cold clocked him for no reason

he really punched the shit out of him tho it was bad

he was lucky he didnt hurt him, poole too

yeah but like… if i was talking shit to draymond and personally insulting him to his face it would dawn on me that i may be punched. from a chemistry perspective that’s a different question but i don’t think jordan poole is some innocent victim wronged by a maniac

he might be innocent but he was wronged by a maniac

might *not* be innocent

i think sixers fans should be loving life right now but i still rank their 1-2 duo as 4th best in the east come playoff time

I'm just enjoying the ride right now.

This looks like a game Embiid should have gotten some load management.

east has some nice duos, hard to rank, any of them could be best in the playoff time

wow nice challenge by the celtics

yeah was the legal high five

nice win by the celtics, the new kings of the atlantic division, down two starters

al horford decline watch - looking pretty spry tonight!

love that als not playing many minutes most nights, keeps him ready to go

pretty funny how much he loves beating embiid, i love it too

the Dame-led offense looks pretty good in Milwaukee, wonder if Griff just hasn't figured out how to use him and Giannis together

gotta be a huge adjustment for giannis hes basically had everything running through him his whole career

and his best play with dame is the pick and roll which is kinda grunt stuff

suspect theyll figure it out sooner than later, rest of the team is a bigger question imo, tho if dame-giannis gets rolling that makes everything easier for everyone

gotta be a huge adjustment for giannis hes basically had everything running through him his whole career

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:18 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think Dame as well he seems to be going through this thing where he's maybe getting different types of open looks and doesn't quite know yet where everyone's gonna be, so he's turning the ball over a lot. but yea if they can figure that out and Middleton starts hitting 3s like he used to this team is gonna be trouble

yeah the trade happening right before the season started didnt help with all that either

the gap between gobert era t wolves seasons 1 and 2 may be instructive here. not to wet blanket the bucks. but there’s been a drastic difference there