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

this has to be the first win of the season where the bench had better plus/minus than the starters

joker right now pretty much as unstoppable as a guy can be

other than jok the nuggs are getting thoroughly outclassed and down 9 heading into the 4th, but jok has 23-13-16 and is a +5

this has to be the first win of the season where the bench had better plus/minus than the starters

― call all destroyer, Friday, November 17, 2023 9:46 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hauser is going nuts

jokic 23-15-16 with 4 mins to go

looked like jaylen pulled his groin at the end there so to speak slipping on what seemed like a noticeably slippery all night in season tournament court

― lag∞n, Friday, November 17, 2023 9:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jaylen Brown says he may have hurt his groin when he slipped and fell on the IST court, and he's not happy about it.'

"The floor was unacceptable. Guys were slipping all over the place."

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) November 18, 2023

over the summer the nuggets podcast guys were feeling themselves a little and were projecting jokic at 15-20th ish all time, which I thought was reasonable if sure to be controversial. now I’m trying to decide whether he’s like top 5 sort of stuff

welcome to real hoops jaylen brown

wipe off your kicks on every possession or gtfo

I’m going to bang on about this all year, but the Pistons starting Hayes and Knox over Ivey and Sasser is not evidence of a franchise ready to turn any corners.

— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) November 18, 2023

pistons have been a dead franchise for so long it’s criminal

Rudderless

honestly thought Knox was out of the league until I saw him pop up in a pistons box score

he wasn’t really that involved w/ the ball much but i was impressed with cason wallace for OKC last night. totally looks like a guy who has been in the NBA for 5-6 years. feel like there’s a lot of jrue holiday vibes there in terms of his size/body type & skillset

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 18 November 2023

hes a great defender and apparently is leading the league in 3pt % rn?

between all the advertising and the intro deals theyre offering these companies must be absolutely burning money right now

― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023

they are but gambling is massively profitable for the bookies so the money isnt going anywhere. i think it will get worse in fact

its especially crazy since it was illegal then one day became legal, immediate total war

― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023

see im in a country that has had massively prevalent legalised gambling since forever but also has some (kinda weak tbh) controls around advertising etc. seeing it kick off in the states entirely unregulated is nuts. this shit will be like smallpox to yall vulnerable populations

yeah its not great lol

we’ve been inoculated against it by having to listen to people read off all the state gambling addiction hotlines approximately 1000x, lol

Lmao did this wind up counting

This Khris Middleton assist is WILD 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/Bl6RoKvcyG

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 18, 2023

I think I saw someone say it didn’t

yeah theyre not gonna give you an assist for that, at least not on the road

Devin Booker. 🔥🔥

pic.twitter.com/nEioXZ6FEu

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 18, 2023

Devin Booker. 🔥🔥

pic.twitter.com/nEioXZ6FEu

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 18, 2023

umm… keyonte. thank you, phone

actually didn’t occur to me that keyonte is a 1:1 anagram for keynote i’m gonna cut my phone some slack on that one

apparently the courts were a rush job and have been fucked up in a number of ways, guys were sliding all over the place in toronto last night, jaylen complained about it in the post game presser

i see i posted that upthread already tho

at least the slippery in toronto part

yeah i was piggybacking off what you had posted about jaylen. the players have been fairly enthusiastic about the tournament thus far but if they feel like the courts are unsafe i feel like that sentiment will change

yeah you cant have courts players dont want to play on, remember when they tried to introduce the synthetic ball, that wasnt even dangerous

the courts even look slippery but theres no reason they should be like didnt they just make them the normal way

the slipperiness plus multiple courts having incorrect dimensions is a really bad look

yeah they should have the court making process down by now

like every business they probably contract it out among companies that compete on price and predictably cut corners in production

youd think the league would have a standard for court grip and a standardised way of testing for it which would be easy to apply. its not rocket science and most courts have big painted sections

i would simply work only with trusted partners

yeah they call it the paint because its painted. and people dont normally slip and fall all over the place in the paint

the tips of chernobyl's control rods were not painted with Heat culture

well the Dame/Giannis thing def started working in the 4th quarter

so much heroball on both sides down the stretch in that game

Wiggggggggggins

OMG CHETT

hahah that is insane

This game has been nuts. Dubs up 18 in the 3rd then started doing their turnover thing

really enjoying the chetaissance so far

Depressing dubs season

yeah looking at shai sizing up the warriors closing lineup and he can happily iso on any of them

the Wolves are number one in the West standings today imagine it's close to 20 years since that's happened

yup

The Timberwolves are in 1st place in the Western Conference standings (at least 10 games into a season) for 1st time since the end of the 03/04 season.

— Alan Horton (@WolvesRadio) November 19, 2023

wolves are making a comeback

wovles have been reintroduced into the contention ecosystem

Happy for you ums, you've suffered plenty.