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

the heat's announcer lamented that the bulls looked like a "listless, lifeless bunch" as the heat extend their lead to 24 in the fourth quarter tonight. they also noted at one point in the fourth that zach lavine had only taken 5 shots in the game, despite averaging 17 fga coming into the game

lavine blew off his own team's media person after a win the other day, i assume he's ineptly trying to accelerate his exit

bulls stands for

bad
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lol
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it's funny bcuz they just had a rousing comeback win over the heat the other night & followed that up by getting slaughtered, looking like they want the season to end, star player openly quitting etc deeply horrible vibes

had to look up the NBA in-season tournament prize
"The NBA announced on Aug. 15 its schedule for the group stage of the inaugural in-season tournament, which will see the winning team earn the NBA Cup and its players $500,000 each."

Really, you can't call it the Bill Russell Cup or something?

consensus is they’re waiting for some sponsor to come along

ok fine jimmy i like you

Lmao truly the greatest pic.twitter.com/MMf2Dei0vE https://t.co/IGsQPLCfed

— Ryan Cortes (@Ryan_Cortes) November 21, 2023

haa

lol

“Given all that has occurred lately, I have come to the conclusion that the NBA neither needs nor wants my opinion,” Dolan wrote in a memo to Silver that he copied to the other 29 league owners in July. https://t.co/t9pGBlzPtk

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 21, 2023

was his opinion that all games should be played inside his giant eyeball arena

the NBA neither needs nor wants my opinion

Nailed it!

bet some champagne was popped when that memo went out

Adam Silver should prank call Dolan with an offer for his dumb band to play a single song between quarters of some random Tuesday night G-League game in the smallest market in the midwest.

cavs are tough

is orlando interesting now, finally?

let me consult the theory

i watched that game they played vs atlanta in mexico city and i liked their guard rotation a lot. fultz, suggs, black are just good ball players & they can run decent offense thru the first two guys as well as what they get from paolo and franz & it feels like a nice set up

**HALFTIME** Score: Hawks 86, Pacers 73.

With 159 combined points, on pace to threaten the record for highest-scoring regulation game in NBA history (320 points)

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) November 22, 2023

sick

theyre doing tv show knockout tournament with patty mills and when spongebob came up he tapped his chest very seriously like thats my shit but then the next round he picked bert and erine over them

then they interviewed southside at his first ever hawks game, good stuff

the game is tied at 107 with 4mins left in the 3rd

theyre doing tv show knockout tournament with patty mills and when spongebob came up he tapped his chest very seriously like thats my shit but then the next round he picked bert and erine over them

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 21, 2023 9:16 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

hali is going effn nuts, hes drilling threes then skipping back on d like a carefree child

He was amazing when they played the Sixers a few games back.

hes very good

final score indy 157 atl 152, they did not break the record but they did score a lot of points nevertheless, indy wins their tourney group

This Sixers-Cavs game has been an absolute slugfest.

Terrible Embiid long 2 to try to win it.

I genuinely like the 76ers court though I do wonder what it's like to actually play on

he also messed up a previous possession getting a clean look on a jumper off a pick and roll with maxey except for some reason he pump faked 3 times and took a horrible contested shot

I don't think I've ever seen a sadder player than Embiid. he just cannot stop frowning

He's better when he's not thinking too much.

xp

oh my god this OT period has been awesome

Sixers did great (defensive) work to get back in to the game from 18 down, but they've kind of botched it down the stretch and OT.

that was an amazing play by nurse to get maxey a free sprint at a lay up, just left it short

can't feel good to get knocked out of the in-season tournament

It might not make a difference to the result in the playoffs, but I feel so much better with Nurse.

Sixers definitely one guy short right now.

it’s my life’s dream to win the in-season tournament

this is no diss of maxey at all but if i was morey i’d be trying to find a better veteran PG than pat bev bcuz they don’t really have a calming presence at the ends of these games. embiid is always flying all over the place regardless and maxey’s game is kinda built on freneticism. knowing that maxey *can* play off ball i feel like they’d really benefit from a brogdon type

def always a good idea to get someone better than pat bev

Pat Bev doesn't bring much at this point. I do think Maxey can do it.

I thought they should try to get Brogdon as soon as he popped loose from Boston. Perfect guy to run the second unit and/or maybe work with Embiid when Maxey sits. Gives them a lot of options.

xp, lol

yeah never any harm in adding another ball handler

im sure someone will trade for brogdon if he stays healthy good guy to add to a contender

big matchup of the green teams tonight the nbas own boston celtics and milwaukee bucks

bunch of other decent to good games too headlined by sixers v wolves

is orlando interesting now, finally?

― Clay, Wednesday, 22 November 2023

yes totally. their defense is insane. they run a unique scheme and generate heaps of turns. odd because their big rotation is kinda meh defensively but they make it work

they need more shooters so bad

xp proof that good defense is less about "find good defenders" than "have good schemes and ppl who buy into and play their role in the scheme"

they do have first team level defenders in suggs and isaac and other excellent defenders in f wagner, anthony black, fultz and g harris