2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

James Harden vs. Charlotte today

✅back to back charges
✅airballed open 3
✅dribble picked in open court
✅one free throw despite repeated efforts to draw fouls
✅routinely beaten off dribble

Maybe it's just rust and first week and what not, but that was rough.

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) October 24, 2021

saw a clip of him from what must have been his early houston days and he was so skinny looked like a different guy

He had some real bounce

JB says LaMelo Ball told him to "ride out Ish" in the fourth quarter

— Sam Perley (@sam_perley) October 24, 2021

lamelo seems like the best teammate

Seth Curry doing Curry-like things so far this year (86% from 3 so far this year).

grant williams too

Grant Williams has opened the season shooting 75 percent from 3-point range (6-of-8).

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) October 24, 2021

kevin porter jr is still very wild but he moves extremely well taking huge steps gliding around out there could be a a real player if he puts it all together

i’ve always said there isn’t much difference between steph curry and grant williams

basically the same guy

Uh, Seth Curry is 6 of 8 in this game.

Sorry, 6 of 7.

thats cool grant williams is 3-3 in this game (100%)

jalen green is 6-7 from 3 in the first half here, third nba game

should the celtics try and beat the rockets y/n

i would go ahead and try i mean why not

What if the nets and lakers are both bad

would be wonderful

i don’t see how it’s possible for the nets to be bad with KD playing at the level he’s playing at

the lakers have a big problem which is that their entire team is like 37 years old

yeah they shouldve checked ids before putting that team together

Davion Mitchell so fun to watch

Brandon Clarke isn’t a good nba player and I’m sick of watching him

can i just say how much more i enjoy watching the nba with full arenas after the past two years? feels like actual games again.
ps i hope no one dies because of this

Davion Mitchell so fun to watch

He completely won me over in the NCAA tournament last spring. He's cocky as fuck, but he backs it up in his play like its nbd.

if you’re the lakers you’re definitely just happy to be in a one possession game with a team playing a road back to back

Lakers grinding out a 1 point win at home shooting like 60% from 3 or something

Imagine Jalen Green finishes this😳 you could just say right now that it’d be the dunk of the year. Hand to the face as well.. #roty pic.twitter.com/Far94XCL88

— MNsports (@MinnWRLD) October 24, 2021

Jalen Green voulait rendre hommage à Gérald Green 😭😭pic.twitter.com/warEC8EwKR

— The Daily Dunk (@TheDailyDunkfr) October 23, 2021

Watching Harden, I don't really think this has much to do with the rules. Just not creating advantages with nearly the ease he used to. https://t.co/BnnTrrcV4A

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) October 25, 2021

wrong side of 30 carrying around too much weight

maybe hes injured too who knows

I know it’s early, not even a week into the season, but the NBA rule changes are making a big difference. Fewer fouls called, players have to try to score rather than just draw fouls and better game flow, especially at the end of the game. It’s a better game to watch.

— Stan Van Gundy (@realStanVG) October 25, 2021

yeah its noticeable for sure, tho feel like the physicality has lead to some pretty ragged play, but some of that is prob just early season rust and adjusting to the new reality

harden is coming off that hammy thing im sure hes not trusting it completely yet. however, you'd think hed have a desire to make it as easy on his body as possible by cutting weight, but alas.

seems like he and kyrie kind of stopped caring as soon as they formed their superteam lol, the emptiness of the project is too much for them

One great thing about the new rules changes is that players actually have to try to finish, so you get actual basketball played above the rim instead of some opera performance on the floor

yeah it was really the nonsense fake shots that bothered people more than say the frequency of fouls or whatever although they were too frequent too

even just a few less foul calls per game can have a major impact on flow

re:harden, NBA superstars don’t just fall off a cliff overnight. he’ll be fine

harden needs to work himself back into shape. the skill set is still there.

would be pretty easy for him to be fine and also declining

haven't a lot of people predicted that Harden's high usage rate and the fact that he's absorbed an insane amount of contact make him the ideal candidate to fall off a cliff? not saying that's what's happening but he's 33 and he's been hurt a lot + there's a rule change designed specifically to take a major part of his game away, I wouldn't be surprised if he just sucks this year

injury aside i would be surprised if he didnt at least mostly regain his form this year hes such a smart player he should be able to figure it out

last year he shot 4 fewer free throws per game, and the brooklyn portion of his year was the first time he ever took more shots from 3-10 feet than at the rim. i think the athletic decline has already started, but if anyone is smart enough to manage it and have a couple more productive years i would bet on him.

we could easily be looking at a nets juggernaut rolling into the playoffs or also not

I mean looking at this Nets roster & the fact that they're missing Kyrie it's not really a surprise that they just don't really know what they're doing yet. I would also bet on Harden figuring it out but his game was so physical before that I'm not entirely sure what it would look like

i mean he needs to get in shape then take it from there, playing a little bit more as a distributor prob makes sense for this nets team especially if they get kyrie back

before he came up with the take 3s from a hyperbolic chamber routine he used to get past the first line of D and fling all sorts of crazy passes around

let's not forget dude is one of the best long range shooters ever, even if he is losing athleticism/driving ability he has the no 1 skill you would want in order to adjust to decline. he had a shitty game vs charlotte but in the two games previously he put up 20-8-8 on 7-15 shooting from three. even if he's not racking up 12 FTA and 45 point games he's still gonna be a really good player. he's turned the ball over too much, he's prob still a bit rusty. i feel like in a month if not sooner this convo will look a bit ridiculous