2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

the bucks are looking extremely comfortable on both ends

Nets rotations are horrifying

grayson allen gonna get a lot of open threes in this offense

i still cant believe kyrie isnt playing lol what an all-time moron

i personally respect his decision and hope he sticks to it

in all seriousness besides being a moron i think an underrated part of this is kyrie clearly doesnt want to play in the nba anymore

bruce brown should be playing ahead of like six of these guys

yeah where is bruce

matty pills doin stuff

yeah i didn’t realize the nets are actually gonna give minutes to LMA

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love to have "the game" on : )

nothin like the game on baby

lol kenny trying to do a thoughtful even handed take on kyrie and chuck just interrupted him like no kyrie is a moron shut up

i've seen enough. nuggets will win the nba playoffs

dang nwora for the bucks looks pretty good esp for a second round pick

nets signed a number of guys who don’t really look like they should be playing many/any minutes in the NBA

lol Kenny and the boys getting contact high in front of Staples

I just teared up briefly when I realized ball is back

ball has always been

we ball eternal

It’s possible that Blake’s moments of spring with the nets last year were all he had left

man carmelo is gonna miss so many threes this year

i thought blake looked fine. he’s pretty good for what they wanna do. LMA, milsap, james johnson, alize johnson… those are the guys who i have little idea why they’re playing

Millsap is completely washed and is basically just a locker room guy

Pretty simple for the lakers, If this is AD can show up for most of the season and into the playoffs they get make the finals.

lol wtf sorry drunk

i appreciate melo chucking every time he touched the ball

thats just muscle memory

zion in this new commercial uhhhh not doing much to help the narrative

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yeah really looks like he’s uhhh… actually been drinking mountain dew

lmao

im not just the president of mt dew, im also a client

westbrook lebron melo and dwight howard on the floor at the same time is the most 2013 all star game vibes i could possibly imagine being conjured at this point in time

so jordan poole

dead(eye)poole

lakers cant hang with the kids

suprised to see bjelica get closer minutes

it’s just one game and they’re gonna need good health but this warriors team kinda feels night and day from where they were last year.

poole gives them someone else in the starting line up who can do something the ball, and lee can score a bit off the bench. and then just putting guys like igoudala and bjelica in the rotation who are actually competent NBA players is such a step up from a lot of what they we’re running out last year. no wiseman, no oubre, no paschall, no nico mannion

bjelica is going the fuck off lmao. dude has 15-11-4

bjel til i fjell

im not just the president of mt dew, im also a client

Mt Zion, Yahweh too much

it’s just one game and they’re gonna need good health but this warriors team kinda feels night and day from where they were last year.

poole gives them someone else in the starting line up who can do something the ball, and lee can score a bit off the bench. and then just putting guys like igoudala and bjelica in the rotation who are actually competent NBA players is such a step up from a lot of what they we’re running out last year. no wiseman, no oubre, no paschall, no nico mannion

I want Zion to go to the heat and get on that pat Riley work out regime.

Bjelica looked really really good in this system

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— Deaareon Morris (@deaareon544) October 20, 2021

was not really feeling either of the teams in the late game lakers are a classic old guy team maybe they can find some sort of bruising identity idk dont think the outlook is good for them maybe brow should get on the juice or something, dubs despite having some random guys go off still seem like they do not have enough players who can do stuff HOWEVER if klay comes back at a good level things could be different, also they might look different if steph just has a good game lol, the supporting cast def has more offensive skills than last year but none of them are really "slam dunks", idk like the loony-green-wiggins front line is just not pleasing to me personally i find that combination frustrating

I guess those media day pictures weren't lying after all?

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— Bryan Toporek (@btoporek) October 20, 2021

re the warriors, poole had 20 points in 25 mins and didn’t shoot particularly well either but he looks pretty legit to me. bjelica was really active too, i mean he’s not gonna put up a double double every night & he basically couldn’t get off the bench for 2 diff teams last year so i don’t wanna overreact to 1 game, but you have to honor his shot and he can facilitate the ball a bit. i thought that game just didn’t have the feel of warriors games last year where steph was playing 1 on 5 like, can he even pass the ball? who else can dribble? and when he was on the bench you were like, literally how are they gonna score a point? i think their ceiling is realistically like fourth in the west, maybe third if they have a dream year, but that looked to me like a team that has a great shot at avoiding the play in game which would be huge for them.

the lakers i agree w/ you… woof. nunn and THT and ellington are hurt so i guess they will get some more youth and shooting, also they have ariza for whatever that is worth but once AD cooled off there was no pop in that line up at all. lebron shooting tons of threes again & not pressing the basket… he shot 11 threes to 6 FTs, that just isn’t his game (and he was hot from three). i would worry about vogel leaning too hard on the vets too even when those guys come back. melo & dwight should barely be seeing the floor imo… like 5-6 mpg players rondo, avery bradley & denadre… three guys who could barely get on the floor for the hawks, heat, and nets last year if at all. bazemore is a decent player but not at 30 mins. i’ll reserve judgement until they have their full rotation back but that game concerned me. the idea of this version of lebron and anthony davis dragging them to the finals does not seem realistic

yeah i mean the warriors offensive situation is not as bad as last year but its still kind of the same deal