2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

wow he really is playing like he's gunning for it tonight, he bricked 4 3s in the first 5 minutes

ohh I see they've got 5 straight games on the road. lol he's gonna go for it

He’s been playing weird since this record got in reach. Needs to get past it so he can move on.

uh oh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGLIPUqVQAowePF?format=jpg&name=medium

speaking of the Athletic, I think one thing ppl don't appreciate about Trae is that he's a really good dude

The Athletic's Hawks' reporter called a fan 'broke' for not wanting to pay to read his article.

Trae Young wasn't having any of it 😤 pic.twitter.com/t6W1YME6xI

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) December 9, 2021

They ran a lot more plays for Turner last night!

lmao trae. usually it's the players calling ppl broke, real role reversal

love it

pacers need to ditch brogdon and sabonis. they're the same sort of player in that they both soak up a lot of posessions but are very limited in what they can make out of them. sabonis can't shoot at all or score on anyone bigger than him when it counts, and brogdon can't pass to the roll man (pretty important thing to be able to do if you are going to insist on being the "point guard").

per zach lowe "Indiana has some weird, minor allergy to hitting their big men rolling to the rim; they average only three plays per 100 possessions on which someone screens, rolls, and shoots -- 22nd overall."

this compilation is typical https://streamable.com/jpa006

turner needs to play with a solid pnr ball handler to bring out his best and he hasnt had that since darren collison in 18-19. he's right to be pissed about levert and brogdon being given licence to chuck up all sorts of shit while the team is going nowhere

All true. Tough to know where to begin w/ the direction the roster should move. Their Top 5 is just a mess of borderline All-Stars with no glaring weaknesses (Sabonis' defense was probably the worst, but he's looked much closer to average this year), and they're all on decent contracts.

Curious if they end up moving LeVert. I think the outside hope was that he'd continue to develop into a crunch-time scorer, since that's one thing Brogdon/Sabonis/Turner demonstrably cannot do. He's off to such a slow start this year, but I wonder how much patience they'll have with his recovery.

Haaaate to say it, but I kind of want them to keep the team together through this year! I think the rotations will improve, and idk I just wanna see if, by the end of the year, all of these dudes are actually able to share the court at the same time. Honestly mostly bummed that McConnell is out for a long stretch; it's been nice to see Oshae getting more minutes, as well as Martin looking like a perfectly fine 2nd team scorer.

Or they can blow it up, and that would be fun too!

All true. Tough to know where to begin w/ the direction the roster should move. Their Top 5 is just a mess of borderline All-Stars with no glaring weaknesses, and they're all on decent contracts.

― ヽ（´ー｀）┌ (CompuPost), Thursday, December 9, 2021 7:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

if they just traded them all they could get a lot back, i mean borderline allstars on decent contracts who doesnt want that

indiana apparently!

good news: my son got a free ticket for the spurs, so im gonna see spurs v. heat dec 29th, hes gonna stay home tho

lol jp jp, the whole family is going. got lower bowl tickets for the first time in probably 12 or 13 years.

one of the plus sides of the spurs sucking now

nice

cool love to watch basketball up close

yeah I saw the vast majority of my lifetime blazer games during the jailblazer and ensuing bad years bc they couldn’t give tickets away

Having your team be trash is a blessing and a curse

dont remember celtics tickets ever being cheap even when they were bad

let me introduce you to a fellow named Dolan

what weird random of characters

Celebrate Christmas Day on NBA Lane. #NBA75 pic.twitter.com/xBk2bQJKiR

— NBA (@NBA) December 10, 2021

*cast of characters

nice to meet u Dolan

ESPN reporting with @ZachLowe_NBA: Philadelphia's trade conversations on Ben Simmons gathering momentum in recent days. More teams engaged, more two and three-way deal structure talks ongoing as 76ers try to land a Top 25 player for Simmons.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 10, 2021

lets do this baby

hell yeah brother

Much of the renewed impetus surrounds Wednesday, when 84 percent of the league's 446 players become eligible to be traded. Right now, 65 percent are eligible to be moved. https://t.co/f2nYMp353z

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 10, 2021

its time

please stop calling us

The Portland Trail Blazers have made to clear to the 76ers that All-NBA guard Damian Lillard is not available to be discussed in trade talks and franchise has no interest in moving him, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 10, 2021

CJ tho

true

cj is still the guy can they do better than cj + asset(s) i think probably not

and we know the blazers would do the trade via trying to make dame happy

both teams get better i dont see any reason not to do it

theres some incentive for the sixers to drag it out until the deadline in case they can do better but they should just do it get on with their lives

well CJ having a collapsed lung currently would be one reason why not

"While far less frequent in the NBA, there are several examples. During the 2008-09 season forward Gerald Wallace fractured his fifth rib which resulted in a collapsed lung. The injury was significant and required a chest tube to drain the air from around Wallace’s injured left lung. Houston big man Terrence Jones also suffered the combination of rib and lung injuries during the 2014-15 season. Neither player missed a considerable amount of time as Wallace was sidelined for seven games and Jones was back in six."

hes got two lungs

i was reading about the type of collapsed lung cj has and tbh i think “collapsed lung” makes it sound worse than it is.

yeah he'll be fine. prob a made up injury to protect him from injury in prep for this trade tbqh.

pdx just announced their interim gm, who hinted that roster changes will be aggressively sought. I'm thinking cj will be packing his bags as soon as an acceptable deal can be struck, whether for simmons or some other deal.

i don't know why the sixers would just up and do that trade now. does it even make them better?

yes

i mean theyre getting a good player who fills a desperate need for a guy who isnt playing

but i also think theres a good chance theyll hold out... unless embiid is putting pressure on them to make a deal

does it even make them better?

Woj hinted at a multi-team deal, so who knows who ends up where.

i'm not sure they have a desperate need for a shooting guard

oh i didnt realize they had shooting guards sorry

if morey wasn't willing to trade simmons for mccollum 1.5 years ago i don't know why he would be now, given that he's having his worst shooting season in years and is also injured

he would do it because he has to trade simmons now