2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

if you come at ben, you come at us (unless you mean me specifically, at home games, where i am still ineligible to play)

we all eventually succumb to the nets physicality

i too hate to get smacked with a pillow

Really solid game from looney on Jokic. Looney just turned 26 but plays like and moves like a 35 year old vet.

my god is he really 26

Really solid game from looney on Jokic.

basically the only way to slow jokic down is to do things that might get you an assault charge if it were on the street and hope the refs have an off game

If only Jokic got foul calls like Embiid and Giannis did… Guy has a 4 inch gash on his neck and hasn’t got 1 call the whole 4th quarter #JokicMVP pic.twitter.com/KTpRosbLdN

— Djordje D. (@ChiSrb4C) March 11, 2022

Not unlike curry!

I’d feel more for Jokic if he wasn’t a total bully-baller. I thought Looney was fantastic.

jokic 0/8 from three was what did them in i think. and when he got his 4th foul in the 3rd and had to sit and curry started coooking

it was a really good game i hope they meet in the playoffs

James Harden went partying last night 👀 pic.twitter.com/4Mu6QPzURZ

— Ahn Fire Digital (@AhnFireDigital) March 11, 2022

lol footage of nba players having fun after/before losses as a gotcha is a common trope BUT... its never not funny with harden.

just went 3 for 82 in the biggest game of the season lemme go celebrate with some cupcakes with fireworks in them

incredible stuff

Live by the Beard, die by the Beard.

so good.

brutal slate tonight. none of the MVP candidates playing, only 2 games between teams with winning records

yes BUT pop get get the all-time win record tonight

dudes cade cunningham is so good

yup

lukaesque just controlling shit out there

i feel like he's going to get slept on because his game seems so sound and under control already. he's like a guard tim duncan.

if he continues on his current trajectory hes gonna be pretty hard to ignore

pistons should consider getting chet next

they don't suck today--one more piece and they could be very interesting in a few years

i can't remember the last time i saw a team hit a wall like the pistons just did--scored 5 points in the relevant portion of the 4th quarter

they were hitting everything then they were hitting nothing

cade and chet would absolutely be a contending core in the east 4-5 years from now

Pop has the record?

pop get get the all-time win record tonight

dunking on the likes of don nelson & lenny wilkins is a pretty big deal

allow me to be the first to congratulate pop on being basketball’s #1 dad

GOAT

Speaking of 50 more for Lebron

i can't remember the last time i saw a team hit a wall like the pistons just did--scored 5 points in the relevant portion of the 4th quarter

― call all destroyer, Friday, March 11, 2022 9:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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east standing are kinda wild rn if the nets won the first play in game youd have bucks philly and nets all on the same side of the bracket

it’s the absolute dream scenario for the heat but the margins are thin pretty much everywhere even between them and the bucks if the bucks keep on this run

the nets basically have no chance of getting out of the play in game & i wonder if we’ll actually see whichever team is in the 2 spot try and low key tank their way down the standings to avoid the nets. is having home court in the second round worth having to play the nets in round 1 instead of the cavs? (no.) there’s also the chance if you’re the 3 seed that the nets beat the 2 seed and you get home court anyway

it’s the absolute dream scenario for the heat but the margins are thin pretty much everywhere even between them and the bucks if the bucks keep on this run

― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 12, 2022 3:22 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its also the dream scenario for... the celtics lol

the funny thing is the heat and celtics might actually be better than those other teams, but just the star power scares you, and of course you dont want to throw the nets into the mix

the simple solution is to pass a local ordinance that makes it impossible for kyrie to play

would assume the bulls celtics and heat would all feel pretty great about their chances of making the ECF if the bucks sixers and nets were all on the other side of the bracket

the funny thing is the heat and celtics might actually be better than those other teams, but just the star power scares you, and of course you dont want to throw the nets into the mix

celtics consistently play the bucks well but yeah i would basically agree with that assessment

nets and sixers could both easily implode in the offs, doubt the bucks will, but they just havent been that good this year, at some point if youre going to believe in them youd like them to play good, guess theres still time tho

They also haven’t had Brook

i feel like they should be able to figure it out without him idk but you know who has just not quite played up to his usual standard is middleton

well they’re on a 6 game win streak with wins over the heat, bulls, suns, and hawks so it might be happening. if they beat the warriors tonight they may rip off a big run

i do think their team is worse than last year in terms
of the talent around their big 3 esp with their bigs i don’t trust a big man coming off a broken back and portis/ibaka is not a championship level center rotation by traditional standards. but they have a lot of ways to beat you at the ends of games which is the benefit of having 3 guys that good. middleton hitting a 3 vs the heat and then jrue making the game winner, middleton killing the suns at the end etc

yeah their supporting cast is a little shaky like i was thinking they should just go small why not but even their small lineup isnt that satisfying

Middleton is weird, he's disappointing/invisible for long stretches of the game but will go supernova for like half a quarter