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

feel like there will be no way to prevent him from getting those shots in the playoffs unless you double. especially in crunch time if he’s hunting switches every time down. will just be a matter of whether he makes them

Chet -19 in that game somehow

nurkic got many of his 31 rebounds over chet

I don’t understand how they’re so good. Dort still hovering around 40% from 3 on 5 attempts I just don’t think that will hold but idk it’s 2/3 of a season now

dort might be one of those guys whos just like oh i need to learn to shoot threes ok

thunder seem pretty great at developing guys, read this thing where they try to teach everyone everything try to get everyone real well rounded rather than just teach a big man big man things or whatever

chet and jdub being borderline allstar level players already when they were drafted two years ago is wild, pretty nice draft for the thunder

Yeah those two aren’t supposed to be this good yet

just trying out fun things 15 minutes before tipoff

Draymond Green said the Warriors implemented the strategy to sag off Jaylen Brown “like 15 minutes before we left the locker room.”

“I thought it was fun to try. I was actually all for it.”

“It didn’t work. Oh well. We move on.” pic.twitter.com/SVuwRkCGCH

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) March 3, 2024

love how he puts on a big dumb hat in the middle of that

lol Draymond is moving to Colorado to follow String Cheese Incident

luv 2 see dray adopt the joey mazz growth mindset that losing is good, actually

I mean, they have a comfortable lead in the West, it's good to try out some things

assessing the efficacy of the dont guard jaylen brown strategy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rtVF2Wxu-Q

my analysis concludes that it would be preferable to employ a do guard jaylen brown approach

Mavs 1-4 in their last 5 despite Luka playing out of his mind

sad, maybe going forward they should consider defensive talent as part of their roster construction process

praying for these mavs fans 2023/24 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "THANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

i like how the excuse was we wanted to defend the paint and brown still makes a bunch of highlight plays in the paint

i know lol

update

pic.twitter.com/OeyITsqDOM

— Luka Updates⁷⁷ 🇸🇮 (@LukaUpdates2) March 3, 2024

beautiful way to cap a 50 point win is a whimsical 720 spin pass

Jaylen Brown with the 360 pass to Jayson Tatum for an open three

A double spin in the lane lol https://t.co/qQVKu8lezs pic.twitter.com/QmbSJvMh7g

— Jack Simone (@JackSimoneNBA) March 3, 2024

the celtics net rating is hurting my eyes there’s too many digits

theyre breathing some rarified air for sure

time to get the tatum mvp campaign rolling

hmmm they do give out a “best team” award at the end of the playoffs let’s see if the celtics can win it

both

tatum's a great compare/contrast with luka, on the whole jawdropping stats vs team success axis...

i dont think tatums been the best player but i do think theres an opening due to there not being a totally satisfying candidate this year so if the celtics continue to crush and tatum goes nuts which will prob not happen voters might just be like hey give it to this guy

doesnt seem like the celtics are doing a pr campaign which is interesting and prob the right move mvp noise is just a distraction at this point theyve done so well cultivating the team first situation so i think its unlikely he wins it and i dont really care but still i vote for him

he can win it next year :)

the basketball gods actually banned the celtics from award campaigning for 5 years after marcus smart won DPOY

one of the all time great grassroots movements

That really was bizarre

for tatum to have a real shot i think we’d have to see minnesota win the west by like 3+ games, dallas finish in the play in, and boston win like 63 games

in other news, just perusing some box scores and noticed that not only did thibs play josh hart for 45 minutes again, but deuce mcbride for 47(?!)

even if they get all their guys back in good condition for the offs, i foresee more injury-related impediments in the knicks future

even if theyre not injured theyre fatigued and already playing playoff minutes its the thibs way

kind of surprised Giannis isn't getting any consideration here, he's scoring more points than he was the times when he actually won it, also he's shooting 62% on the year while taking the most 2 pointers in the league. maybe getting a second superstar kind of muddled the narrative for him but truth be told that second star isn't really doing so great

in other news, just perusing some box scores and noticed that not only did thibs play josh hart for 45 minutes again, but deuce mcbride for 47(?!)

i think they only had 3 bench players after Brunson went out. idk what choice they really had given this was actually a pretty big game for h2h seeding

i think between giannis already having two mvps and the bucks not being that good voters just arent that interested, last years washout in the playoffs also prob not helping xp

the betting markets have giannis a clear fourth. bball ref’s MVP predictor has him third. he should def be talked about but i think he was prob taken out of the MVP race after the dame trade. not sure a guy will ever win it after a superstar trade move like that

tatum is like the 10th best player in the league hes good but he needs to have an outlier good season to win an mvp i think

he is handsome and nice tho

shai's efficiency numbers are kinda nuts, when was the last time a guard shot 55% for a season as their team's highest usage player

yeah hes crazy good, only weak spot is his three point game is almost nonexistent

yeah i guess it has to be like that if you don't shoot 3s, but thats still basically jordan numbers

We're going to need see how Tatum responds to not being guarded before we can assess his MVP worthiness.

hold that thought until 15 minutes before the game

what no defense does to a man

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James and Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 19 of the 2023-24 season (Feb. 26 – March 3). pic.twitter.com/dh6XV0DN8f

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) March 4, 2024

thunder are bad now smh