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

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?

ant isnt really a point guard is he

it's possible next year he might kind of be actually

I'd put Ant in a category with Booker or Lebron where it's like... yeah, of course he could be a point guard... dude's a basketball genius. But he's even more dangerous when he doesn't necessarily have to be the primary distributor.

to me theyre all guards i think its fine to put them together what is a point guard even these days

i would exclude ant bc he clearly has the physical makeup to not be a negative defender, which is not necessarily true of the rest of those guys.

shai is good a good defender

battle of the NBA’s next point gods

nevertheless…

shai is good but that wasn’t a given

i think ant will prob always play with a PG in the starting line up and for most of his minutes w the ability to run the offense himself for stretches and crunch time. the other guys prob wouldn’t ever play w/ other point guards (hence the fox/hali break up). but it’s a blurry distinction

Ant is good at defense already

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/nba-defensive-rating-leaders-this-season

who da fuck is aj green

I feel like I’ve watched at least half of the games so far and I have no idea who that man is

now that i think about it i remember noticing him because he has almost the same name as famous lakers virgin ac green

aj green had 6 1,000-yard receiving seasons for the cincinnati bengals iirc

this is a high scoring game

brunson almost hit the deep one at the buzzer too

Chuck saying the Bucks needs to spread around the ball more instead of just letting Giannis and Dame shoot everything as though they didn't score 75 points in a half

lol the reason you have dame and giannis is so they can take all the shots

AJ Green at the front of the high five line, love to see that kind of leadership

dame doing ads for bose earbuds is somehow perfect

he seems like he would actually tell you to get the bose earbuds, theyre a little spendy but worth it

thanks Fanduel for letting me know Anthony Davis will probably have 2 or 3 dunks tonight

I mean blunks

fuck damn it

suns are getting out muscled and there’s no help coming on that front

the shot of LeBron and Austin Reaves reminded me of this

NBA Jam pic.twitter.com/tmAWiWFiPC

— mr. joshua (@pants) May 3, 2019

Switched over to nbatv and they’re showing the 2009 game 6 bulls v celts. Man alive the game has changed so much. Just so many non shooters on the floor. Celts rolling with big baby and Kendrick together.

Perk fouled out so they’re rolling with big baby and scalibrini

big baby spacing the floor (shooting pull up jumpers from the dunker’s spot)

M Reave P

another fun game

fuckin bron and kd duel game, this is great

you gotta love hoops

gotta be the hardest LeBron's played in a regular season game with the Lakers, outside of those ones after the team starts 2-9

I mean Bron with 5 steals that's wild

bron is looking bouncy tonight

reaves revealing that dog in him

of course it comes down to Austin Reaves

ppl have doubted him his whole life

oh man that’s a horrible call lol