2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

team defense that is

losing 5 straight but the 5 are nets, jazz, suns, warriors, jazz w/ 4 of those on the road isn't necessarily a huge cause for alarm, tho several of those have been borderline non competitive based on the final scores and that phx game they blew a big lead which hurts. they have nuggets on the road and then bucks next two so it might get worse but their schedule is much easier in december so it feels like a wait and see where they're at come the new year for me

also contra the prevailing narrative it's possible nate mcmillon wasn't sprinkling any magic on that team and was simply just not the previous coach that they hated and now that aspect of their situation is crashing back to earth

the one thing i read when they were on their run last year was players saying pierce didn't really have them run plays and the one thing mcmillan did was actually like, have plays that would organize the offense. so that seems tangible to me. i do think they have some rotation stuff to figure out and not sure i trust him to do a great job with that, but if they can clean up the defense (which is very much related to getting capela to a better place) they should still be a strong team.

feel like the hawks have a lot of guys but they all have pretty big question marks and the new physicality could be worse for trae than any other player

hopefully well settle into some happy medium as far as the refs not calling fouls

Outside of a few outliers that have been posted here, I'm pretty much fine with how they are calling things this year.

But I tend to think, like the NFL, the NBA has gone too far in tipping the scales to offense, even though I know I'm in the minority. Where it is so far this year seems like a happy medium.

i loved the freedom of movement hand checking fouls that were introduced in ~06 and to my eye those are still in tact this season. feel like the focus is on weird non-normal basketball moves to get calls and thats no issue with me.

new kg profile dropped

The most mind-blowing detail in this @MichaelVPina profile of Kevin Garnett is that his favorite movie is Seredipity????? (Second best anecdote being that he once head-butted a hole in the wall while watching Making The Band.) KG is the greatest. https://t.co/KORAeNi9TN pic.twitter.com/JKOLWmdhrU

— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) November 10, 2021

at the moment all missed calls are being attributed to the new reffing meta but... the refs miss calls every year for no reason at all

ive seen a few games already that were just so physical, obvs i support eliminating foul begging to the extent its possible

jalen suggs 30/22/85 splits thus far yuck

WHEEEEEEEEE!

Report: Marvin Bagley refused to enter Sunday’s game vs the Suns https://t.co/Th5jyvY70E

— Greg (@gwiss) November 11, 2021

some wild deviations in how rookies are starting the season, dont think it means too much, not long ago guys his age just werent getting xp

minutes

if a rookie is genuinely doing eye popping things like mobley or green thats cool and meaningful, but if a rookie is bad especially at the beginning of the season i dont think it means too much

i do now think that taking scottie barnes ahead of suggs was the right move tho lol

agree 100% but those numbers are bad lol. not too far off what ant edwards was doing last season really. turned it around at the half season mark.

at least hes getting that 85 lol

thats promising and probably a better tell

why havent the kings traded or cut bagley it makes no sense

its because theyre the kings

celtics are doing seats for soldiers tonight so much lame nationalistic bullshit especially if youve got the stadium feed during breaks

i was watching that. my pal and i just shelled out for yttv league pass today.

nice

i do now think that taking scottie barnes ahead of suggs was the right move tho lol

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 10, 2021 7:59 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

not that i am a "draft guy" in any way shape or form but i guess i thought suggs was more of a point guard than he is? mike schmitz recently said that before gonzaga they thought of him as a high-end josh hart which is not something i recall hearing last spring lol

if a rookie is genuinely doing eye popping things like mobley or green thats cool and meaningful, but if a rookie is bad especially at the beginning of the season i dont think it means too much

feel pretty confident that the phrase high end josh hart did not appear in any mock drafts

Anonuby is a thicc

boy

the raptors are so close to realizing the dream of a team of all 6-8 guys just need to get fvv out of there

offense has looked problematic for suggs this year even behind his shooting splits. the game has looked too fast for him, it’s just been really sloppy. that said, i don’t see how he doesn’t become a great defender, he’ll be an above average rebounder and i think he’ll be able to pass. i’m optimistic on his set three point shooting giving his FT shooting

schmitz compared him to jrue holiday which i thought was pretty interesting in light of jrue putting up some really horrific shooting performances in the playoffs but still being a really crucial piece of a championship team. suggs might need to be the third best player on a great team instead of the second best one but the thing i liked about him going into the draft is that i thought his floor was super high. at absolute worst he’s like an avery bradley with better athleticism, i just don’t see how he busts

i like suggs i think hell be real good maybe not as good as any of the guys taken in front of him tho

the guy taken directly after him is looking pretty good too lol

i still think there’s a chance suggs is better than jalen green

idk green looks like a future scoring champ

speaking of rooks cade actually being 6'6 seems materially important given that everyone spent a year believing he was 6'8

what is that true

yup

lol thats fucked

https://www.nba.com/player/1630595/cade_cunningham

hes not even a big wing! my god

hes just a wing

ja is cooking lamelo. 17 points in the 1st so far

idk green looks like a future scoring champ

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 10, 2021 8:25 PM (nine minutes ago)

maybe. but there's a world where he never reaches those heights as a scorer and doesn't offer much else across the box score or on defense. since he's so young and a super fun leaper/dunker that pick isn't really being scrutinized in light of how some of the other guys are performing but if i was a rockets fan i might be looking at mobley and barnes like "hm"

i think his wingspan is still above average (for 6'6) but i'm watching the pistons/rockets now and he just looks like a normal sized guy. there were people claiming that he could be a 6'8 point guard before the draft!

i mean you never can tell how a guy will develop so much of that comes down the the famous intangibles but green is an absolute freak out there and not just because of his physical attributes which are insane hes clearly also got the scorers nose for the basket ball handling ability and so forth he looks pretty insane to me, mobely does look like a generational defender tho

crazy draft

so many good young players right now, a blessing

before the game league pass asked me if i wanted to see polls and i said no now they show me this

https://i.imgur.com/5xLS6N8.png