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

Wemby with a 20-yard bullet over the middle to his tight end, easy touchdown
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— Tom Petrini (@RealTomPetrini) January 11, 2024

kid's got the juice

triple double in 20 minutes, too

omfg tatum so close

OT here we come

this one felt like a celtics loss most of the game but its a tie ballgame with five minutes to play

i thought of an idea, players should be allowed to email refs about calls after the game

fuck

jrue steal was ice cold

we made some very dumb plays and fouls

not a super well played game on either side but some good intensity quasi playoff vibes maybe first round

and its not over yet

now its over

celtics pulled that one out of their pocket congrats to them

wovles defense still really good with gobert

without

damn jayson took matters into his own hands

felt like his shot diet wasnt that good but he killed it anyway, fouled mcdaniels out

Jaden can be so dumb

that take foul was rough

hawks sixers sans embiid going into ot now

I also don't know what happened to Kyle this year but he's afraid to shoot

Joe Mazzulla was asked if he told Jayson Tatum to turn into a MFer in crunch time.

“He’s Jayson Tatum. I’m me. So no, that’s not it. It’s conversations throughout the game…What makes him great is he knows when it’s his time.”

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) January 11, 2024

celtics have been real good this year about fighting to the end, won a couple games that they couldve let go

I also don't know what happened to Kyle this year but he's afraid to shoot

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 10, 2024 10:03 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf he is shooting 12% from 3

the hawks have won

celtics have been real good this year about fighting to the end, won a couple games that they couldve let go

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 10, 2024 10:14 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is definitely the biggest energy shift from the last couple years, they don't get in their heads anymore after a bad quarter

pels blowing the warriors out of the water kinda rough to watch

tight game

https://i.imgur.com/1XseHuH.png

Zero identity Kerr has no idea who to play and no one knows what to do. Curry looks half asleep most games lately

:(

u think they should trade for siakim

They have to do something

I’ve never seen anything like this Wiggins season. It’s not like oh he’s just missing shots it’s like oh uhh he actually can’t event catch a pass or dribble pull up without the ball slipping out of his hands and throwing it out of bounds. It’s like he’s playing with 3 broken fingers and vasoline on his hands out there. Baffling stuff.

its crazy that kelly olynyk has had the same long hair his entire time in the league

jazz up 18 on the nugs at halftime

Pistons on a 6 game losing streak

6 losses arent cool you know whats cool 6 billion losses

as a Wolves fan I relate to the Wiggins angst

I mean I’d take the worst year of wolves Wiggins vs whatever he is right now

I’ve never seen anything like this Wiggins season. It’s not like oh he’s just missing shots it’s like oh uhh he actually can’t event catch a pass or dribble pull up without the ball slipping out of his hands and throwing it out of bounds. It’s like he’s playing with 3 broken fingers and vasoline on his hands out there. Baffling stuff.

Before he mysteriously left for half the season he was playing so well, add the playoff run and all star bid and it was like 1.5-2 seasons of quality play. I never worried about him, his effort was there 90% of the time and he was a reliable scorer and defender. This was who he was now. Contract went from overpaid to a seemingly team friendly signing. A genuine massive warriors culture win. And now…

I just wonder if he had a mental break over that absence or something. He’s so private I don’t think we’ll ever know

yeah seems like something like that just cant get his head in the game

for all the handwringing over what moves OKC should make, it seems pretty clear to me when you watch them that giddey just doesn’t make much sense there as a long term fit. he has to play off the ball a lot almost by definition and that just isn’t his skill set. they make it work anyway bcuz they’re so good and he has some ways to mitigate his deficiencies on offense but his skill set is just very ballhandler forward, and he’s not giving you a ton on defense. meanwhile cason wallace is pretty much perfect as the third guard who can play off either shai or j dub or w/ both of them. once you take the extension aspect into account too i just think breaking giddey down into a few role players with more complimentary role player skill sets just seems kinda obvious to me, if not inevitable

yeah his shooting has been better this year but still pretty low usage, amazing passing obvs but im not a huge fan, prob be better for him to go somewhere where he can get more touches anyway, he still has upside and theres a dece chance theyd be selling low but seems like the right thing to do

watched this breakdown of the end of celtics wolves, which is not that great tbh its a i guess "live breakdown" where hes just watching the game and talking about it rather than making and edited video, anyway watching ant seems like hes in a pretty typical point in his development for stars his age which is that hes got all the major stuff in place yr dribbling shooting etc and now needs to hone the subtler aspects of his game, in this game particularly the celtics were showing him a lot of attention late doubling shading switching and he was having some trouble with it, worst was dribbling right into the sideline trap in overtime and turning the ball over which lead to a celtics dagger three, but his passing out of double teams wasnt great either he just passed to the nearest guy every time which wasnt always the right play caused a turnover and a couple bad shots from that, doesnt seem like he can see the skip pass yet or at least wasnt last night, thought he was playing a little slow too letting the celtics really set up on him, stuff like that processing the game faster seeing the right plays etc will prob determine if he really maxes out his potential and becomes and mvp level guy, hes got plenty of time and is on the right trajectory just gotta put it all together, makes you appreciate what an advantage natural court vision geniuses like jokic and luka have, someone should figure out what theyre doing over in the balkans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96F5WlrEgYQ

Edwards went 0-for-5 with three turnovers to his two assists in the final eight minutes, his only points coming to tie the game in the closing seconds of regulation when he finally beat Brown off the dribble.

yeah i'm not a huge giddey fan either, just hard to be very valuable these days if the two main deficiencies in your game are shooting and defense

his shooting is on the right trajectory at least, tho his shot stll looks pretty bad and slow seems like he really only takes the most open of threes so not sure if hell ever get there, might not be a great scorer altogether, sort of a no defense ricky rubio if you will

the heat-okc game was fun last night... something i'm keeping in the back of my mind is that chet had a stretch early in the 4th where he was just dominant on both ends and in particular on defense really had bam spooked around the basket in ways you rarely see. but then it seemed like bam, largely out of pride, was like, "i can't keep getting punked by this rookie" and started to figure out ways to get to his spots, get fouls etc. it made me wonder if to some degree teams who see chet in the regular season are kinda just like "what the fuck" but over the course of a 7 game series where you can really lock in on a team and pick at stuff, and just generally get more used to your opponent, whether he will be exploited as a rookie center in the playoffs in ways that we haven't really seen in the regular season.

it was a great match up overall tho -- 23-9-2 w/ 3 blocks on 10-15 shooting for chet, 25-11-6 w/ 2 blocks on 9-16 shooting for bam

if playoff teams cant figure out how to exploit a rookie center who weighs 100 pounds then were all living in chet world for the next 15 years