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

we forgot about kyrie, its a blessed day

what if you could get trae young for two firsts and keldon johnson

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 14, 2024 6:29 PM (three minutes ago)

idk it just feels like there is a real penalty these days to using your trade assets incorrectly, not only do you need to be compiling a war chest of first round picks but once you start protecting those picks in trades it starts to hamper your ability to make other moves. do the spurs want to have hurdles to clear to make a deal in the 2026 offseason bcuz they owe a lottery protected 2028 first to the hawks for trae young? i just don't think he's worth all that trouble

can’t believe our very own m bise has been talked into trading for trae young I’m shaken

― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, March 14, 2024 5:26 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

like i said i dont love trae young, i do like the trae young type player tho...

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 14, 2024 5:28 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is more what i mean, i wanna see what a high-level passer and long 3 threat can do to unlock wemby's game.

wemby would dunk every play with trae running point it would be some real sick shit, thats what we want

imo its fine to invest a lot at point guard if the player is really good, feel like quick guards who can get into the lane and break the defense have become underrated in the era of the big wing, is trae young that guy he can def do the things but hes also had some trouble with defensive pressure in the playoffs and he has major defensive issues etc so idk, like i said im not a huge trae young fan, but on the other hand he can def do some stuff

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 14, 2024 6:12 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

eastern conference mentality

jamal murray is one of those guys!!

btw rip

Ben Simmons has undergone microscopic partial discectomy to alleviate the nerve impingement in his lower back, Nets say. This is his second back surgery since joining Nets in 2022. https://t.co/5FNFB3ker4

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 14, 2024

Nerve impingement isn't anywhere near his lower back.

pretty good celtics suns 1st quarter, many points

dont understand if the suns have all their guys why their rolling out a no kd no booker only beal lineup here

I am literally three feet from Brook Lopez he is fucking huge

look bropez

i see u on the fb frogs, you could talk to giannis

pretend like u r from the matrix and offer him pills

talk to him

where are you in the corner

where are you in the spotlight

Cam Payne revenge game

great half of basketball in boston but the celtics really gotta do something about this end of quarter strategy of tatum stalling for a terrible last shot, which he misses. i feel like tatum and maybe joe and everybody want him to be “that guy” and if they let him try enough of these something will start clicking but it’s starting to get embarrassing

i kinda doubt anyone but tatum wants tatum to do that

Cam Payne revenge game

― circles, Thursday, March 14, 2024 8:54 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the campaign

nurkic posted up d white down low and d white blocked it lol

if joe doesn’t want it he’s gotta lay down the law, man

nba coaches dont really lay down the law with stars

and i mean tatum does have the green light, im sure theyve had conversations about what a good shot is idk hes been doing it his whole career

just happened again. literally each quarter has ended with tatum trying to force a very low quality shot

I’m in the closest seat to the Bucks bench. Brook and Bobby not happy about the reffing I can tell you that

I got a high five from Giannis though lmao

!!!!

lol sick

just happened again. literally each quarter has ended with tatum trying to force a very low quality shot

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 14, 2024 9:12 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

list going around of high volume crunch time shooters and tatum was last in fg%, which is somewhat deceptive since hes drawn a ton of fouls too, but still his hero ball stuff just isnt great, same thing with his patented side step three its not a good shot, the process is poor

he could put insane shooting numbers if he cut the slow iso stuff out

wow @ giannis hi-5 go frogs

hahah that's so awesome

Holy shit I ran into Donald Driver in the club and got a photo with him lmao

Frog winning ILH this year clearly

sooo awesome frogbs!!!

i've obtained video footage of frogbs walking into Fiserv Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABKXPu0vMMk

I got a high five from Giannis though lmao

― frogbs, Thursday, March 14, 2024 9:14 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dude hell yeah

frogis antetokounmbs

lmao, that is awesome, frogbs.

Got thanasis too. Turn it on folks I’m right by the bench

ppl are always saying you're like the long lost antetokounmpo brother

I played the same amount of minutes

as you can imagine it was an awesome experience, almost certainly a once in a lifetime thing. basically the company my wife works for has these courtside seats which they give away through a bunch of promos and contests. well she won one of them so we got the choice of one of 4 different games. at first I said Spurs because of Wemby but a friend talked me out of it because he thought he probably wouldn't play...which turned out to be true. so we picked the Sixers to get to see Embiid lol.

anyway..vibe report from the bench:

Giannis - was locked in the whole time. didn't say much to anyone, just stared off into space when he was resting. I imagine MJ and Kobe were like that too. ties his shoes a lot. his hands are insanely big to the point where it's weird to see them up close.

Dame - he was at the far end but he didn't engage with the team a whole lot. kinda slacked off until the 4th too. one bench guy's job seemed to be keeping him hydrated. I kept hearing "Hey! Dame is thirsty! I need water for Dame!"

Brook - largest person I have ever seen in real life. really animated and funny, has a hot temper though. complained a lot about the refs. I asked him if he spoke Spanish and he said no. also he took up 3 chairs

Pat Bev - seemed to be a cool dude. was talking hoops a lot with Jae I think. kept saying stuff like "no that was backwards" when someone drove to the hoop in a weird way

Thanasis - probably the biggest Bucks fan on the planet. seemed to have secret handshakes with everyone. him and Gallinari had something going every time his brother hit a free throw. he actually looked pretty good in warmups though tbf he was probably trying harder than everyone else.

Bobby - a lot bigger than I expected. really intense dude but he seemed friendly. when he came out I gave him a high five and said "good work Squidward" and he thought that was funny

Marjon - didn't play and seemed a bit checked out...outside of Thanasis most of the bench dudes weren't really reacting to much. but there was one funny moment where Brook got a dunk in which he CLEARLY travelled - I looked over at the bench to see how they reacted to that and he just kinda shrugged his shoulders, gave me this "I didn't see anything" look and tried not to laugh

Doc - just paced back and forth a lot and made the "are you kidding me?" gesture a bunch. probably needs to be on blood pressure meds. bunch of Philly players came to talk to him, seems like he had a good relationship with everyone there.

oh yeah there was one Sixers possession where they called a foul on Giannis with like 2 seconds left on the shot clock. I actually couldn't see what happened because there were some very large men blocking my view but I yelled "He's innocent! He wouldn't do that!" (again I should mention, free beer) and then I think Pat Bev yelled out "He's innocent! Guys he's innocent!"

fuckin awesome

great recap, sounds like a blast.

amazing

incredible recap frogbs, so awesome you got to do that. i've also been following your dj escapades on the prog thread, you are winning life right now