2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

life would be so much better if everyone just thought bucket first

yah harden is the poster boy for foul baiting imo.

― It's the Final Cluntdiwn (Spottie), Monday, October 25, 2021 6:10 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he said so himself

"I just ask officials to call what they see"

James Harden says he feels like the "poster boy" of the NBA's rule changes, but adds, "I'm not the type to complain about it" pic.twitter.com/VRg170JN8B

— Nets Videos (@SNYNets) October 24, 2021

i do feel like his foul baiting is craftier than say traes who will jump three feet sideways into a guy, harden creates more legit fouls, people do hate him for it tho lol

pretty sick celtics-hornets game here at the half lots of ridiculous shot making running around and so forth

the hornets are a really fun watch

yeah theyre awesome lamelo is a blessing

franz wagner might end up the better of the magic’s two top 10 picks from this draft. it’s looking kinda rough for jalen suggs. franz can shoot it tho

smh turning your back on suggs after 3 games

anecdotally speaking i feel like harden got so many and ones on threes because guys would jump onto his feet when he shot step backs. i don’t feel like he did a lot of the stuff like coming around a pick and letting the defender run into his back and just throwing the ball up at the rim. but i could be wrong

smh turning your back on suggs after 3 games

i still think he’ll be good, he can fill the stat sheet and will be a good defender. but he’s been turning the ball over a ton and it looks like athleticism isn’t giving him issues as far as scoring goes

felt like he shouldve gone one spot higher but scottie barnes has looked like straight baller tbh

Masai was right yet again

VanVleet with 5 turnovers in the half. He's never had more than 5 in a game.

— Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) October 26, 2021

guess theres a reason hes the best gm and im just the gm of the sacramento kings xp

sadly I am the gm of the milwaukie brewers :/

ah well nevertheless

JOHN COLLINS IS NOT FROM THIS PLANET pic.twitter.com/nz0o3eseZ1

— Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) October 26, 2021

Evan Mobley just looks really special. Kinda Ralph Sampson vibes?

saw a few clips of him guarding trae on the perimeter and staying with him to contest at the rim, rookie seven footers shouldnt be able to do that

Ralph Sampson before my time but based on clips yeah he’s got that same walking the line between gangly and graceful

Does the bulls’ crazy small ball experiment work?

Evan Mobley just looks really special. Kinda Ralph Sampson vibes?

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, October 25, 2021 10:35 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nods in the year 2021

cavs with the wire to wire road demolition is one for the “huh” files

Does the bulls’ crazy small ball experiment work?

cavs with the wire to wire road demolition is one for the “huh” files

― J0rdan S., Monday, October 25, 2021 11:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

it’s not what you want to see as a nuggets fan in particular

Nuggets built their whole offseason around 3 point shooting but it will take time for Michael Malone to admit that means he has to play a rookie

one could say that.. both balls are undefeated

Lonzo Ball and LaMelo Ball are the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the East. They are both undefeated. pic.twitter.com/YRNGYOXfyh

— Basketball Forever (@Bballforeverfb) October 25, 2021

deez balls are undefeated

obi toppin is showing signs of life this season

they overdrafted him but he can do some things off the bench

meanwhile sixers have played two of the worst teams in the NBA and won and played two playoff teams from last year and lost in pretty pathetic fashion both times (pathetic in different ways).

knicks going nuts from 3 tonight but the sixers look to have way less offensive firepower than them which i think is a bit scary. off night from embiid and they’re gonna struggle to hit 95 points

sixers arent that good of a team without simmons just talent/composition wise

i don't really believe in their talent after embiid. an easy tell is how from shake milton to seth curry to maxey, there's always a narrative that some random guy is going to break out and save them.

Embiid also doesn't look explosive going to the net compared to early last year. He looks like he's not confident he can beat guys and settles for a lot of jumpers.

damn sixers had beat the knicks 15 in a row

love to watch jokic bully gobert

ilh is v pro bullying (of gobert)

embiid settling into a mid-career rasheed wallace sort of role is inevitable imo

this spurs-lakers game minus lebron has been excellent. high energy, shot crazy shotmaking. AD might be hobbled tho going into OT.

Jason Kidd says Mavs played all 15 players vs. Rockets per request of Dallas’ three-man leadership council.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) October 27, 2021

"The Time Keepers request that I cancel christmas again"

how bad was the jokic knee injury?

sounds like just a contusion and he was held out out of caution

oh good

Yeah pretty classic banged knees situation. Was always my go-to move defensively

kamikaze is kinda your vibe

someone named austin reaves played 30 minutes for the lakers tonight

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-09-28/lakers-rookie-austin-reaves-explains-why-his-nickname-is-hillbilly

he was awful on defense most of what isaw, but he hit shots and they desperately needed 3s