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

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

fuck em up tacko

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

halliburton
fox
shai
maxey
lonzo
ja

do you guys have really strong opinions about who is going to be the best out of this group? would it change if i put edwards in there? you could put these guys in any order for me and i’d be like, that’s fair.

prob not lonzo

i mean lamelo…………

shais first since hes already so good you dont need to project him, but you still can, also he plays defense

edwards is the only one i feel like could easily top out as better than shai, the rest of them its not impossible just kind of a long shot

feel pretty comfortable putting hali third since hes a basketball genius with an already fully realized game but still with room for big growth

fox is prob the most known quantity and maxey is the least, both of them are a little regular seasony since they depend on the fast break, maxey can really shoot tho where fox not so much, lamelo and ja have both kind of lost their way, still plenty of time to get back to it but its better to have not lost your way

all very cool players tho, which is nice

shai is already mvp level

halliburton looks like hes gonna get there if not already

maxey and fox are cool but prob a step down from them. lamelo i havent watched really but suspect hes here too?

no clue about ja given the off court stuff, seemed like he was on the higher trajectory before

thoughts about which year one of the new stars will break through with a 'chip?

this year

oh no

guess if it's maxey + embiid it could happen this year

this might be the year a young upstart named Damian Lillard gets one

halliburton
fox
shai
maxey
lonzo
ja

do you guys have really strong opinions about who is going to be the best out of this group? would it change if i put edwards in there? you could put these guys in any order for me and i’d be like, that’s fair.

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, December 5, 2023 11:52 AM (thirty-six minutes ago)

we should poll these like we did with the unicorns

why not Ant?