2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

i agree that its pretty much pointless charade but philly at least wants to buy time for a team to decide that it wants simmons more than they thought and maybe it even go so well that teams might think that philly would be ok with keeping him, the second part is prob wishful thinking at this point its seeming like they prob wouldve been better off just letting him be away from the team til a trade happened

brooklyn... has their own issues

― um, i mean... im sure weve all seen the videos, so... that will help (Spottie), Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:31 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

eh I feel pretty good that they’ll be fine, they’re the best team in the east without kyrie imo

i'll tell you what joel embiid better not turn an ankle or something in the first 10-14 days of the season

yeah as you mention the other more pertinent piece of this is another team having its own hand forced. simmons’ value won’t change drastically but another team could see its position weaken. there is an element of fantasy GMing here where daryl assumes this entire ordeal is not going to grate on everyone to a degree that harms the team but simply from a negotiating perspective I can see what he’s trying to do

the sixers picked a really bad time to be at a crossroads now that it seems milwaukee abs potentially brooklyn are looking like major players in the medium term

― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:29 PM (forty-four seconds ago)

yeah if you didn't run an organization staffed by players and employees who are actual humans and who have to show up to work every day to deal w/ complete chaos, holding onto a ben simmons until you get the exact trade you want makes sense. of course this has always been the issue w/ the heinke/morey worldview so i guess nothing new for the sixers

lmao the last graph of this shams article with tons of inside sixers info

The 76ers are not trying to move Simmons and have made clear that they will not deal him at this time, according to sources. The franchise wants Simmons to show up to practices and games, to be engaged and to perform to his capabilities. Simmons is not against playing, but he is not mentally ready yet, sources insist.

brooklyn... has their own issues

― um, i mean... im sure weve all seen the videos, so... that will help (Spottie), Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:31 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

eh I feel pretty good that they’ll be fine, they’re the best team in the east without kyrie imo

― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:33 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bucks might have something to say about that

Love those insistent sources xp

ben is suspended for game 1 which is in new orleans, then they're home vs the nets i doubt he plays. then they have 2 more on the road. starting 10/28 they're at home for 4 straight... does he play in any of those games?

brooklyn... has their own issues

― um, i mean... im sure weve all seen the videos, so... that will help (Spottie), Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:31 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

eh I feel pretty good that they’ll be fine, they’re the best team in the east without kyrie imo

― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Tuesday, October 19, 2021 2:33 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think id take the bucks still. their vibes are better and they have the title glow now.

sixers have pelicans, OKC, detroit twice and the knicks twice in their first 10 games, lucky break for them

very curious to see if some of the different stuff the bucks in the finals with giannis will carry over to this season, feel like they mightve unlocked something there

i think the bucks will be improved

their offense was so prone to going to shit at a moments notice that if they can just not do that theyll be very tuff 2 beat

playing giannis as more of a big man could help with that and makes a ton of sense and also worked in the finals where they won the title

coincidentally it was also a thing ive been saying they should do for years

jrue would prob play better under those conditions too

tbh their offense looked clogged in the toilet like into game 7 vs the nets. we'll see. the hawks series i'm not sure you can even glean much from that match up & so much of their offensive success vs the suns came down to giannis having a few huge outlier FT shooting performances (to his credit). if he can actually get his FT% up above 70% that would be as big as anything else, especially in the playoffs when they need him to just mash the ball into the paint in big games. not that any of this will matter in the regular season anyway. i think they'll have a tougher road to the title this playoffs than last so there might be another level of improvement they need to get to in order to repeat

in the clinching game giannis went 17-19 at the line which is obvs way above his average, on the other hand he did draw 19 fouls

tbh their offense looked clogged in the toilet like into game 7 vs the nets.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:56 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats why i found what they did in the finals namely using him more as a roll man so interesting, on paper the suns were an obvs better defensive team than the nets but the bucks seemed to unlock something in their scheme

the bucks have grayson allen now so obviously they've improved

when they need a guy tripped they know who to turn to

yeah well it is the kings

Marvin Bagley's agent Jeff Schwartz blasts the Kings for their "case study in mismanagement" in how they've handled Bagley.

Schwartz says Bagley, drafted No. 2 overall in 2018, has been informed he's "not in the opening night rotation."

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— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) October 19, 2021

not starting bagley != not playing bagley

Oh he's not in the rotation lol

I guess I should drop him in that one fantasy league :(

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

the bucks were missing their starting SG for their playoff run it should be noted.

its true

i understand bagley's agent wants him out of sacramento cuz who wouldn't but there's no actual evidence that he's a rotation level player right?

he puts up numbers when he gets run but not quite sure yet (pretty sure tho) if its like jahlil okafor or something of more impact. he's also just been consistently hurt.

20/10 on 50/34 per 36 last year

also i would just like to add that i was perusing giannis stats for the finals, which btw are insane https://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/3032977/giannis-antetokounmpo, and he shot 62% from the line for the series so i dont think we can really credit unusual ft shooting for the win, i mean his makes were not evenly distributed but thats normal, what he did do was draw 14 fouls a game which is crazy, took one fewer 3 a game than the regular season while playing 7 more minutes which is nice too

every stat i can find on bagley says he's bad. i mean i know this but

it's also a bit rich for bagley's agent to have allowed him to be like the one guy at the top of the draft who wanted to go to sacramento bcuz it allowed him to be overdrafted and is now complaining about a "case study in mismanagement" on the kings behalf. yeah no shit pal

i agree they should let him play tho i mean hey why not

lets see what the kid can do lol

If Bagley does not start 41 games or play 2000 minutes this season, his Qualifying Offer for next offseason will drop from $14.8M to $7.3M.

ah lol

lol the 1-2 picks in that draft getting picked before better guys now the teams are jealous and playing hardball. no one to blame but themselves.

and also goes to the evergreen question of what are the kings trying to do? why are they prioritizing harrison barnes over their #2 pick? they coulda traded barnes for something last year when he was playing well and they were on the outside looking in.

1st round pick for harrison barnes boom put it in your pocket whats the problem

Jaren Jackson is pretty underrated. The Grizz were smart to lock him up. I think he could have a better career than Ayton.

aytons already proved to be much more valuable so far.

i like jjj a lot he could be a very nice player, also i think its unfair of certain people in this thread to say he just hasnt shown improvement when hes only been in the league three years and was injured basically the entire third year, what do you know about jjjs trajectory basically nothing shush up

Ayton's is more valuable but he doesn't seem like guy who will have a long career

ayton has been better because of his defense but jjj could pass him because of his shooting

the nba is back baby

Shaq's top 3 Laker centers:

Kareem
Shaq
Wilt

Chuck says Wilt is better then Shaq lmao pic.twitter.com/UkcedqAhDL

— Alex👋 (@dbs408) October 19, 2021

blessed content

Bucks coming out hot

fans are sitting on their hands tho its weird maybe they got yelled out during the ring ceremony

thanasis still prob the funniest player in the NBA

they should field a d league team of entirely antetokounmpo brothers