2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

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

funny to think that if theyd all just gone to the knicks theyd be demigods by now

if they had gone to the knicks durant would've torn his other achilles, harden would weigh 270 pounds, and kyrie would be living w/o electricity in the hudson valley

lol

lmao

btw per this article my memory held up well about kurkan--3rd-year option declined and then re-signed for 2 years at the minimum. not sure how this sitch is different from jalen smith's from a cba perspective: https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/furkan-korkmaz-sixers-free-agent-signing-20190724.html

good call on that.

ohhh i get it now, they can offer him no *more* than the 3rd year option number, but can offer less.

if they had gone to the knicks durant would've torn his other achilles, harden would weigh 270 pounds, and kyrie would be living w/o electricity in the hudson valley

― J0rdan S., Monday, November 1, 2021 7:55 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if that happened after they won a playoff round theyd still be ny legends

about an hour and a half ago the raptors were down 15 to the knicks and i was gonna post that it was feeling like a bit of a lost season for them and then they immediately started kicking the knicks ass and won by 13. career high 36 for OG

og is good

celtics are cursed (bad)

― ciderpress, Monday, November 1, 2021 4:50 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he looks excellent. if his offense is this consistent he’s gonna make a bunch of all star teams going forward xp

uh yeah i was gonna ask… so, the celtics… bad?

they just don't have a true #1 scoring threat unless tatum can take another step up. in the meantime this iteration was supposed to be a good defense medium offense team but the defense has been outright bad

i think on most teams tatum would qualify as a #1 scoring threat.

from what i have seen the issues have been poor team defense, getting nothing from smart and richardson, and not getting enough from rob in an expanded role.

rob has looked okay to me but richardson has been replacement level yeah

they are only 6 guys deep again despite the retooled roster

there is no reason for richardson to be playing over nesmith at this point, that's an easy one to fix.

more broadly they still don't seem to have any organizing principle on offense which is how these runs snowball so easily on them. when they try to be unselfish the result is turnovers and when they're more selfish the result is bad shots. no one ever just settles things down.

blazers getting hosed by the sixers minus embiid and harris is a choice

is it just me or has Lillard been kinda bad

he's averaging 18.3-3.5-8.3 on 35% shooting and a disorienting 23% from three (13-56 for the year), he's been worse than i've ever seen him through any stretch of games in his career including his rookie year

i don't think a guy like him can do much but try to shoot his way out of it but at some point if it doesn't fix itself he's gonna get the yips and then lol look out

Hey so uh. Franz Wagner

has Lillard been kinda bad

yup. he can't seem to find the bottom of the basket rn.

Lillard's worst FG% stretches in his career came during two periods:
- An 8-game stretch in late January 2015 where he shot 31% from the field and 23% from 3
- An 8-game stretch in March and April 2016 where he shot 32% from the field (but 33% from 3) https://t.co/8edf4hF0bu

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) November 2, 2021

so yeah he’s basically playing his worst ever basketball

I missed the nuggets game, looks like another anonymous effort from MPJ but at least jokic is looking like the best player in the league

Hey so uh. Franz Wagner

we need to see kuminga of course but we at least have to consider whether the warriors again went for alleged upside with their pick and let a much better player and instant contributor go one pick later

like, if they had picked lamelo and franz they might be the undisputed best team in the west. maybe even just franz!

cant overlook the possibility that the dubs are just bad at developing talent

possibly but these just look like missed evaluations. i’m not sure the magic have really developed franz in like 2 weeks

best player in the league has been jimmy butler sorry if this offends

Current leaderboard for my wins above replacement player (WARP) metric. pic.twitter.com/WWvH8uEnz2

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) November 1, 2021

idk guys it's going to take more than 2 weeks of franz being ok on a bad team for me to say every draft board got this one wrong

well he’s shooting 49% from the field and 43% from three on 4.5 threes per game so he’s been more than just ok. also jut watching him he looks like he’s belongs. i’m sure you can find a lot of ppl who had him over kuminga

Notice that Jokic has the highest EstNet. So it actually agrees with you. However, the replacement level Center is actually pretty high (0.9) and he only has 180 minutes.

— Steven Anderson (@S_McAnderson) November 1, 2021

to be honest I don’t know what these letters mean and I’m a peloton skeptic but I am taking comfort in this

just from a numbers and advanced stat somewhat knowing perspective however these heavily weighted systems are not very discriminatory after 200 minutes of playing time

butler has looked awesome too and the heat do seem super poised to take advantage of the eastern conference weirdness should it continue, my money is on the bucks and nets figuring it out for the most part tho. cool scrappy team tho

kev i think that tweet means that it’s like a first baseman kinda thing with baseball where the positional adjustment baked into WAR raises the bar for greatness vs a player at a more valuable position/position where there is a fewer number of productive players

In two months Lillard and MPJ will be shooting 40% from 3, most likely

maybe it’s just bcuz he put up 22 shots tonight while gordon hayward, miles bridges, and kelly oubre scored a combined 21 points but i’m a bit worried that the hornets had a great thing going that is gonna get less great now that terry rozier is back to chuck up a bunch of shots