2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

so the Dubs are playing a lot of zone against OKC and OKC is now 7-36 on 3s. think that's not great.

i don't think okc will challenge 9-73 but it's at least a conversation worth having

wild finish to nuggs-puppies

The hawks might have too many guys

Yeah they’re still feeling each other out. Defense looks real bad which should not be the case

if the officiating continues this way, fewest ft attempts ever! its gonna make the season pretty chaotic

it’s good free throws are the worst thing about basketball. is there data about game times? anecdotally seems shorter to me

i think they're letting defenders get away with a bit too much but if i'm gonna choose one extreme i'd rather it be this one

i also dislike free throws but i dont want the game to be too physical i want it to be the right amount of physical

agreed, it’ll settle out eventually but they’re setting the tone,

xp

i also dislike free throws but i dont want the game to be too physical i want it to be the right amount of physical

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:13 PM (fifty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow freaking goldilocks over here

ok sorry if i have high standards

I’m too biased about this because Jokic doesn’t get touch foul calls anyway

i think it’s clear the refs have taken the mandate to stop calling blatant non basketball bait fouls and are just letting a bunch of normal contact go when they should be calling fouls but i’m willing to accept it as a temporary price for reorienting the notion of fouls in general which seems to be the aim here

otm

I love what I’ve seen but were probably be the same games yah refs always overcompensate at the beginning of seasons but it usually smooths out after a bit

kind of a miserable start for the bucks huh

perhaps it won’t matter but everyone’s notion of the east and really the entire league kinda gets upended to some degree if the bucks & nets end up on the same side of the bracket again. everyone is just sorta operating as if it’s a simple fact that they will play in the east finals

theyre shorthanded rn, jrue and brook and bobby portis and i think white donte all out.

yeah. i mean they’ll be fine in the long run and nothing matters to them except being healthy in april but it’s not out of the question that another team could finish top 2 in the east especially if either the bucks or nets is just in a weird funk for the first month of the season. neither team is going to particularly care about where they’re seeded either

Middleton was out too

I mean Thanasis got 32 minutes tonight it doesn't feel like the Bucks are taking the season seriously yet which is a different issue than the Nets are having right now

Chip hangover is real

lakers scored 95 points on the rockets in a game where davis played 33 mins and lebron and westbrook played 35 mins

it’s not good!

I forget it a lot but Brook is really important for the bucks

so zion gets scanned again in 2-3 weeks to see if he's cleared to start practicing. seems like this is going badly.

yeah you know when youre dealing with time until next scan its not ideal

what a miserable awful season they're having, have to wonder how badly he even wants to come back and play for them

Just trade him for picks

The Celtics picked up the fourth-year option on guard Romeo Langford for the 2022-2023 season, source tells ESPN. He was the 14th overall pick in the 2019 Draft.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 1, 2021

wow rude

the drop off that happened right at the langford spot in that draft is pretty crazy

10. Cam Reddish
11. Cameron Johnson
12. P.J. Washington
13. Tyler Herro
14. Romeo Langford
15. Sekou Doumbouya
16. Chuma Okeke
17. Nickeil Alexander-Walker
18. Goga Bitadze
19. Luka Šamanić
20. Matisse Thybulle

i guess you'd prob rather have alexander walker or thybulle over langford at this point but it's not like you can necessarily blast ainge for how this played out. you really have to go all the way down to 28-29-30 with Jordan Poole, Keldon Johnson and Kevin Porter Jr. to get to like an actually exciting prospect

celtics are cursed (bad)

lol suns

Suns making Jalen Smith rare lottery pick with declined third-year team option https://t.co/zrsSDnnZzH

— Dan Feldman (@DanFeldmanNBA) November 1, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDHcaOGWQAke4my?format=jpg&name=large

kyrie still doing his thing

lol retired guys with nothing to lose egging him on

the jalen smith stuff is nuts that they're giving up on him this early. not sure "james jones executive of the year" is going to hold up to scrutiny...

he got lucky that chris paul still had something left in the tank.

didn’t korkmaz get an option declined and then just ended up signing back with the sixers for cheap? wonder if it could be something like that.

still a pretty bad pick.

KD frosty this past weekend lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wPDclNZmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3Y07rRrd8

supposed to be auto ejection if you throw the ball like that

from hollinger's column today:

Before you ask, the Suns can’t do any shenanigans here. They are limited to offering Smith the same $4.67 million as a free agent next year (ditto for Memphis and Culver), so if he somehow proves us all fools and has a big year, Phoenix will almost certainly lose him. (This is also an extremely rare endgame: The last time this happened was Solomon Hill with Indiana in 2015, and I don’t think the Pacers sit around ruing the day they let him walk.)

yeah hill just happened to get minutes in a short playoff run and hit a bunch of shots, then regressed to his mean immediately after

n.b nate mcmillan has implemented "his offense" with the hawks and it sucks. surprise!

the drop off that happened right at the langford spot in that draft is pretty crazy

10. Cam Reddish
11. Cameron Johnson
12. P.J. Washington
13. Tyler Herro
14. Romeo Langford
15. Sekou Doumbouya
16. Chuma Okeke
17. Nickeil Alexander-Walker
18. Goga Bitadze
19. Luka Šamanić
20. Matisse Thybulle

i guess you'd prob rather have alexander walker or thybulle over langford at this point but it's not like you can necessarily blast ainge for how this played out. you really have to go all the way down to 28-29-30 with Jordan Poole, Keldon Johnson and Kevin Porter Jr. to get to like an actually exciting prospect

KD frosty this past weekend lol

― It's the Final Cluntdiwn (Spottie), Monday, November 1, 2021 6:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the emptiness of the nets project...

the lifeless grey unis and court just add to it

kyrie and harden already various levels of checked out