2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

I've seen worse

land o lakes

vs expectations that may be true.

― Spottie, Friday, March 4, 2022 3:45 PM (eighteen minutes ago)

yeah what teams recently have underperformed expectations worse than the lakers? the 'now this is gonna be fun' lakers? lol

yeah thats the one i was thinking of, maybe that hibbard pacers team that looked like they were gonna challenge the heat then completely fell off?

pretty funny that the lakers are doing about as good as last year

some other candidates

- kawhi clippers first season… at least made the second round tho

- “three alphas” era bulls (lol)

- melo era knicks

also would prob throw the prokhorov era “we mortgaged our entire franchise to surround derron williams with over the hill KG, pierce and jason terry” era nets. and also the harden, KD, kyrie nets too tbh

yeah the D Will nets were brutal but everyone smart new those boys were all cooked.

a lot of those teams mentioned were still pretty solid but underperformed. this lakers team were being called a superteam and being picked for the finals and they might not even make the 'offs, i think they take the cake.

first year lebron lakers when they didn't make the playoffs bummed a lot of people out, but it was a wasteland other than the new guy

i mean idk who follows basketball closely and really thought adding russ and a bunch of old schmucks was gonna do much but brow having a nothing season is really rough

a lot of people picked them to come out of the west but yeah never really made sense

lol its getting sadder by the day

Nina Westbrook, Russell Westbrook's wife is a legend pic.twitter.com/LNoexJ9yBc

— J 🐳 (@RockTheBabyRuss) March 4, 2022

cavs put up 43 on philly in the 1st

feel like this sixers team might be kind of bad defensively idk

they dont have a ton of pop in their roster

contrast is pretty noticeable with the cavs

cavs shooting a crisp 68%

theyre just getting whatever they want so far

cavs roster is a real "team you want to play for" too bad they're in cleveland ohio usa

hey its not that bad the river isnt even on fire anymore haha (classic cleveland joke)

sorry i can't hear you i am listening to rock & roll music (at the rock & roll hall of fame)

think embiid and harden mightve been *50 cent voice* in da club

Can the Bulls actually beat a top tier team?? At home vs Bucks and I have my doubts

Aaand they're down double digits in 1st half

Folks what about the Kobe/Pau/Nash/Dwight Lakers?? Did they even make the playoffs??

Dayyyum Portis just deposterized Lavine with a block

Ooohweee Derrick Jones Jr threw it down on Giannis

swept by the spurs in the first round? I've been mentally conflating that series with when the lakers got swept by the champion mavs team

xxp

pelicans absolutely beating the shit out of the jazz seems notable

"Coming up next, Suns-Knicks, no Chris Paul no Devin Booker"
...and no TV audience

some smart plays by middleton to end this, clever TD throw

Yeah that was awesome

Ya subtly sick pass

totally talking shit to lavine after too

think embiid and harden mightve been *50 cent voice* in da club

― lag∞n, Friday, March 4, 2022 8:06 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Didn’t matter, Maxey torched the juggernaut Cavs for 33 (5/6 from 3). You want vibes, lil hooper has been a smiling scoring machine since Harden got there.

Thybulle, Green, and Korkmaz had a combined 0 points and Cleveland still lost. Oh well, they still have Baker Mayfield.

demarcus cousins started for jokic tonight and put up 31-9-4-3-1. as I’ve always said, jokic is a system player

CAM JOHNSON BANK THREE FOR THE WIN 😱🔥 pic.twitter.com/Qr5qdsUdgm

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) March 5, 2022

What a season for the suns wow

What a season for the Knicks

the knicks should start tanking

theyve lost 7 in a row, arent they doing that already?

dejected knicks watching gorilla with suns win sign

cam johnson had 38 points in 28 minutes off the bench + the buzzer beater, not bad

btw looks like reddish finally found his way into the rotation and he has been... pretty bad

No disrespect to Cam but I’m pretty sure against the Knicks even Ben Simmons could’ve gotten that to fall

btw looks like reddish finally found his way into the rotation and he has been... pretty bad

3 Cams playing in the suns-knicks game, probably a record

it really stands out when you watch the knicks that reddish is the only player they have on the wing with any sort of athleticism, he looks like a different species compared to burks, fournier, barrett etc. it also really stands out how he’s kind of awful at basketball

it’s good the hawks recouped a pick in the trade bcuz it gives them one more shot at the luka for trae trade not being essentially a straight up swap

harden out tonight, embiid still incapable of anticipating a double team