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

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

rookie coach too

on the hoop collective today they made a good point that both dame and giannis are used to being at the front end of the pick and roll, it's reasonable to expect them to need time to adjust to that. whether they actually have time, the right coach, or a willingness to adjust is tbd of course.

what would draymond's career have been like had he been taken one pick earlier (cavs, traded to mavs) or later (kings, traded to pacers)

P.J. Tucker

suns shot 60/55/93 against the famous wolves defense last night

the knicks have finally vanquished their enemy, the atlanta hawks

is trae young valid

a:no

i liked that the knicks-hawks game finished 116-114 and moved both teams' records to 6-5. spiritually they are already facing off in the play in game

i think the knicks are good enough to avoid the play in tbh

suns are better when devin booker is playing #analysis

currently one third of the league is either 6-5 6-6 or 5-6, its a tight race

i said spiritually...

spiritually... bingbong

missed that the nuggs lost to the rockets on sunday whats going on with the rockets theyre winning games now, weird

FVV and Dillon are serious vets and they got a serious coach. And they got Jalen Green and Jabari Smith doing less. And they’re running things through their best player Sengun.

seems like there must be some unsustainable stuff happening like dillion brooks cannot continue to shoot 55/53/84 and a team with sengun at center cant be a top five defense but maybe theyll be ok instead of the bad everyone though, but idk i dont trust it

They’re playing above their weight for sure. But they’ll likely be in the playoff mix, which is more than anyone thought they be.

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