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

the creed we live by

https://i.imgur.com/cKJIvY9.png

buying a culture jersey if they win

everyones pumped for the big game

A lot of Celtics front office personnel in the house for shoot around here in Denver including Brad Stevens and Jeff Van Gundy

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) March 7, 2024

is jaylen playing tonight

one interesting thing about their last game, in boston which denver won by two, was the celtics mostly played their normal regular season rotation with zinger guarding joker while denver went with more of a playoff pattern with gordon at backup center and starters playing big mins, wonder if the c's will break out some fancier stuff this time around, like you gotta think if they met in the finals theyd be starting two bigs with horf on joker and maybe tillman would get a shot at him too, zinger is an obvious non starter (ha) there, hes just not close to strong enough to tussle with joker

idk first im hearing about it would be too bad if he didnt xp

Jaylen Brown said at shootaround he isn't sure about the origin of his back injury that has him questionable for tonight's game. He says he will see how it feels pregame before making a decision on playing.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) March 7, 2024

maybe he injured it shooting too many threes haha

You can't base a strategy around a players overall 3PT % (which are largely contested 3s) and expect the same result when the shots are wide open. https://t.co/8LVymPkUYr

— Haralabos Voulgaris (@haralabob) March 5, 2024

Jaylen Brown has made over 40% of his uncontested 3s over the last 3 seasons. https://t.co/y6L4H2SebI

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) March 5, 2024

yikes at the offensive on/off for kat :(

- The Wolves offense with KAT on the floor is 118.8 (equivalent of No. 7 Denver) and 111.1 with him off the floor this season (equivalent of No. 25 Washington)

- The Wolves defense with KAT on the floor is 109.7 (still better than No. 2 Boston's 111.4) and 105.3 with him off the floor this season (Wolves No. 1 D is 108.3 overall)

yeah they just dont have enough firepower without him, theyre currently the 18th ranked offense via dunks and threes, subtract the number 2 option and its not great

not that any team has a great chance without their second option

btw not sure where that guy is getting his stats with minny 3+ up on boston in defense, everywhere i looked has it 2-2.5

maybe cleaning the glass u need a sub for that

he should sight his sources like i did thats called professionalism

Talked to Kyle Anderson and Rudy Gobert at shootaround this morning. Some notes and quotes about the proposition of playing without Karl-Anthony Towns (for at least tonight, and some period of time going forward)...

On the mentality of the group
Anderson: "It's tough. We spoke… pic.twitter.com/JHbOgBdZOP

— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) March 7, 2024

i really hate how there's a period after each adjective in that dumbass heat culture court. it's the most sportswritery shit out there and it should be killed.

nba is gonna have to work to come up with something worse than that next year, but i believe in them

the lad hit two big shots down the stretch and got a sick block at the buzzer to assassinate the pacers

goddamn

https://www.twitter.com/Timberwolves/status/1765931607318294576?s=20

he got up

dang

meanwhile miami is coughing this game up smh heat culture is cooked

he hit his head on the rim

https://i.imgur.com/nJV4pfT.png

klayleb martin

that anthony edwards block has to be up there with the best of all time, hitting your head on the rim with a game saving block, insane

he looks like those levitating bad guys in dune

yeah thats nuts he hit the backboard with his shoulder too

now its time for the big game the main event where the giants of the hardcourt compete

one of the more blatant offensive fouls youll see let go there

that anthony edwards block has to be up there with the best of all time, hitting your head on the rim with a game saving block, insane

Heat culture more like choke culture

they need to remove the words from the court

come on

Nikola Jokic barrels over Kristaps Porzingis on his way for the DUNK 😱pic.twitter.com/P0mJe59NBr

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) March 8, 2024

damn nice buzzer beater by Murray

v good first quarter

celtics a lil sped up

lol zinger got punked

be serious

ant should get mvp for that block, that’s how it should work

joker was mad after that zinger dunk feel like hes showing more emotion this year

refs should consider calling some fouls except not on jaylen

refs should stop teeing the celtics up theres no need for that

nugs winning this game on tech and buzzer beaters

joker was mad after that zinger dunk feel like hes showing more emotion this year

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:53 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he’s reading your posts

Hard to shake the feeling that Jokic knows things about hoops that all other players only sense vaguely if at all.

what jokers not mad at my post he respects them

if he is reading them tho regarding what i said about shooting more its actually bad to do that to vs the celtics pass to gordon in the corner instrad

in all seriousness celtics made some good plays but the nugs really took them out of their game the balls not popping and the perfect open threes are not appearing

celts also got the ball poked out a lot in that 2nd quarter, nugs are keeping their hands busy but sure looked like a sign they are out of their game, not moving crisply and with intention

thats the kind of defense that gives the celtics problems getting up on them with active hands

theres a couple nice threes

zinger actually doing ok on joker so far salute