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

damn they turned up

well, it’s a good thing boston is getting a crunch time test drive cuz the car got driven into the ditch

Excited for Indy. Wowsa great win. Vibes check 100%

They simply score more points, Carlisle finally listened.

do the celtics have two point guards or zero point guards

More points > less points. Axiomatic

big IST fan now. gonna need three of these in the reg season.

nba season of all tournaments

i always liked the IST please do not view my old posts

yeah i was skeptical but this is fuckin rad, teams should totally feel fine abt putting a banner up 4 this

imo they should make the cup global, get euroleague teams and nbl and china and shit

they posted the trophies and awards and even those are cool
https://www.nba.com/news/nba-unveils-trophies-in-season-tournament

the all tournament team is kinda excessive though, just mvp is enough

winners get a medal damn

players love getting awards tho and the ecosystem needs more stuff to argue about

when they first proposed it i think i didnt get that the first round would just be designated reg season games i was imagining them putting the whole season on hiatus for like 3 weeks instead of integrating it but i guess its in the name i should have known

Underrated and maybe self-evident part of IST is that you’re putting all the teams playing the best at the moment, so you’re hopefully getting good games.

also the bracket phase being only 7 games total over 4 nights makes it easy to watch every game which isnt something i can say about the nba playoffs

could see this being a problem tho:

So if the Knicks lose tomorrow, they’ll get extra games this season at Milwaukee and at Boston. 10 games total against those teams this season. Meanwhile Nets won as many games in group play, lost point differential, and get the Hawks and Wizards this week. Doesn’t seem fair.

— Stefan Bondy (@SbondyNBA) December 5, 2023

That’s definitely the one caveat of the IST that needs to be looked at…

Missing the “playoffs” likely gets you 2 significantly easier games.

— KnicksMuse (@KnicksMuse) December 5, 2023

if you wanna be the best (in season) you gotta beat the best

1st round losers you could have them play a random non-bracket team not the other bracket loser yeah

if you win the 1st round well then you have 2 harder games in exchange for contending in the tournament

i'm gonna get an IST tattoo

in season tattoo

haha

this game has been fun too

jonas and sabonis are really going at each other

lmao shaq randomly talking shit about sabonis sr with the impression

Y’all are suckers. I’m getting an anti ist tattoo that says we play 82

pels with trey murphy, cj and alvarodo back and healthy are pretty good

this is like a one in a million type of bounce

Brandon Ingram gets the triple to fall with the shooter's touch! 🤧

🏆 NBA In-Season Tournament pic.twitter.com/jUKXwwxxTp

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) December 5, 2023

people in Saigon commuting to work on June 11, 1963: https://t.co/mfypdleRqY

— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) December 5, 2023

zion hasn’t looked like a player who can get his shot tonight

pelicans literally not running an offense and generally look like they’ve not ever played together (kinda true)

can barnes and murray reliably hit open threes feels like a pressing postseason question for the kings…

murphy & jones is a nice young wing duo. neither seem like all stars but you can build around that

they should trade zion

he seemed quite happy to not be prominently involved in tonight’s game in any capacity

hes not closing huh

oh hes back in

he seemed quite happy to not be prominently involved in tonight’s game in any capacity

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 4, 2023 10:21 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

he looks bigger than ever too. trade while he has value

damn, herb jones

yeah zion looks way too heavy

that was sick xp herb

one problem with the kings so far is that keegan murray has not made the 2nd year leap they were hoping for, and they need him to be that third guy

monk is terrifying but he can’t be the third best player on a contending team

kings lack the juice

-- m bison

still time for goga (currently starting center for the east #2 seed) to have the last laugh

https://i.ibb.co/3pKJFD8/images-1.jpg

but before we call it a generational heist i would like to see evidence of the pacers exceeding the success of the kings, which has yet to happen

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 5 December 2023

i dont think this is the right way to evaluate a trade, team success is too dependent on the vagaries of health, surrounding surrounding superteams and other factors etc

the important thing to know about the haliburton trade is that not only did the kings trade him for a worse player they also traded the wrong guy because hali is better than fox

yup

best dunk ever?

Tacko Fall POSTER OF THE YEAR? 😳 (h/t myhoopshubs/IG) pic.twitter.com/9tDU3wqy42

— Overtime (@overtime) December 5, 2023