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

wait til you hear why hes wearing the goggles tho

funny thing about cade is that i feel like he will actually play up in the playoffs bcuz if you’re 6’ 6” can handle the ball and score from the midrange those are some of the most important things you can be/do in the playoffs and yet he’s on a team that moreso needs a morey pilled trae young type who can goose the efficiency and regular season win totals for you even if the style of play becomes a lot harder in the playoffs

he’s really in the worst situation in the league and should be allowed to file a lawsuit agains the pistons imo

yes tbf cade is on a team that needs a lot of things

i know this is sacrilegious to say but whenever i see chet play my brain is just like “what if KD but better?”

i dont think theres anyway that chet will every have the scoring fluidity that kd does, but on the other hand he plays center, KD WHO PLAYS CENTER

thats just an insane concept

chet isn’t as individually gifted offensively as KD obviously but if you took some of KD’s offensive skill away but left him with the being an elite 7 foot shooter who can handle the ball and then also gave him, like, all of bam’s defensive skills you’d have a better player than KD. and that’s kinda what i see when i watch chet???

yes exactly lmao

wild stuff lol

i can only devote so much thought to the basketball history stuff but i feel like KD is going to be the subject of some really interesting discussions when the time comes

hes a lil overrated imo, and is a worse gm than lebron

haha i was just thinking earlier today about how if this were the 90s someone would let retired KD run their team into the ground and the into the earth's core

*post-retirement, isaiah thomas style

yeah one upside to the player empowerment era for the owners is they get to see someone like KD put two teams together that he wants to leave 1.5 seasons in. hard to get hired as a GM w that track record…

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— Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) December 27, 2023

bang bang baby

i saw someone on twitter slow it down and point out that after the double pistol celebration he went right into a shoulder fired missile celebration??? just skipping entire swaths of artillery and going right to the top, baby

ja should become a big second amendment guy then the league would have to let him do gun stuff

who thinks about rocket launchers frequently enough to just go to that? is ja out there watching commando once a week?

the rocket launcher was such an inspired flourish

thats the gamer influence

fortnite ish

jesus

Aaron Gordon suffered serious dog bites to his face and shooting right hand on Monday -- requiring 21 stitches, sources say. It will take some time to heal, with no timetable yet. https://t.co/blxcSB01PM

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 27, 2023

oh no

Shams description sounds much more serious than the team's official statement did. 21 stitches to face and hand is not "a dog bite" but a dog attack.

jeez that's horrible

that's not the dog you want in you

the celtics should let them win next game, rest all the starters

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 26, 2023 9:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

its happening

Jaylen Brown is questionable (back contusion from collision with LeBron) for tomorrow’s battle of the NBA’s best and worst teams when the Pistons visit the Celtics.

Jayson Tatum is also questionable as he manages his left ankle sprain.

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) December 27, 2023

super bummed about AG just as he’s started to round into form and the team is rolling

the tense drama generated by the pistons' record losing streak is more like mild curiosity. when a team proves they're this forgettable, then them getting a win somewhere makes zero difference to their season's dismal arc.

disagree, it is exciting. no one wants to be the team that bailed them out

i want to bail them out i feel bad for them

if the celtics werent still undefeated at home id be more amenable to it

Chet Holmgren’s go-to spin move *4 months ago* vs now

it sometimes takes years for a player to really tighten their handle, let alone a 7 foot rookie. Chet's ability to learn from his mistakes so quickly has been crazy to watch pic.twitter.com/Aa6DaCtN8c

— jase (@derthun_) December 27, 2023

chet is life

no one wants to be the team that bailed them out

that would be moderately painful for a short while, but the pain from that loss would fade pretty fast as it receded back into the gaping maw that is the NBA regular season.

the thunder are too good i dont like it. its uncouth.

its a bit much

i like it. i think they should try to win the nba playoffs

very possible that they have two top-10 players next year at the rate chet is improving

all i see on twitter is ppl freaking out about okc, which i understand when your three best players score 90+ points on like 60% shooting

also they p much own the nba draft, they should just call it the okc draft

reading articles listening to pods and its funny seems like the critical consensus hasnt yet shifted in favor of the obvious truth that the sixers are better than the bucks, theyve just been much better their roster is solider bucks have a huge defensive problem that they have little ability to fix, philly doesnt have any major problems and they have a lot of resources to fix them, can understand being weary of the sixers history of post season struggles but you know who else has had some post season struggles its the bucks

celtics and sixers are lapping the league in point differential, okc creeping up tho

xp This is my thinking but I keep looking at the standings and the Bucks have a better record.

bucks have been really good in close game, dame time, but theyre living dangerously

sixers going from utter offseason turmoil to being really good is wild, salute

It's been better than I could have imagined. Maxey seems like he is coming back to earth a little - definitely been streakier lately - but he started the season like a Top 10 player. They have the assets to get another piece, which they definitely need, even if it's not a star.

makes me wonder what could've been had the Bucks landed Nick Nurse rather than a guy who's basically making all the exact same mistakes Kidd made when teams were scoring like 125+ a game vs. them