2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

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Since his Rockets days, Dwyane Wade's three titles have long been somewhat of a self-imposed benchmark for Harden's career.

lol. better get cracking james!

lmao

im sure it makes sense for him to opt out of 46 million dollars... but thats a lot of money to opt out of

oh he'll get maxxxed out again, and then he'll be 37 making like $60M while morey is trying to convince the kings to trade halliburton and fox for him again

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It is expected that Russell Westbrook and Houston ‘would swiftly’ enter buyout talks if a John Wall trade goes through, per @TheSteinLine

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— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) January 24, 2022

feel like ppl keep talking about a westbrook for wall trade but i have no idea why the lakers would want john wall. that part has yet to be explained.

maybe LA is in fuck it let's see what happens mode?

hes still got another year (player option) on his contract

wall is probably better than westbrook atm lol

maybe LA is in fuck it let's see what happens mode?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 5:14 PM (nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

this has got to be it

would be the second time westbrook was traded for wall lol

a shame my proposed three way blake wall westbrook trade never happened, it could have changed the world

westbrook this year

18-6-8 on 43/29/67, .046 WS per 48

wall last year

20-3-7 on 40/31/74, -0.007 WS per 48

at best it's a wash -- maybe you get a tick better shooting -- but you're acquiring the guy who missed 2 years after blowing out like every ligament below his hips. it seems insane to me i'd still rather bet on westbrook

lakers should just cut westbrook imo, theyve got money they can do it

the argument for wall i guess would be that hes a better fit has more of a "traditional point guard" in him, lol lakers in a tough spot

I agree they should just cut him

dont htey still have to pay his salary tho? might as well get something in return

might be that getting rid of a guy who is shooting 21% from three, had 9 turnovers in his last game, routinely goes about 4 for 14 from the field, and who you can't really play in crunch time in exchange for a possibly average to slightly above average player is a good trade

addition by subtraction, my man

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"lebron we tried 2 get u help and we failed, please be the point guard again"

like this was always how it was gonna end for russ but doing it on a late-career lebron team with every other game on national tv while combusting in such a catastrophic way is just painful to watch

no actually its beautiful

oh did i not ever mention i am pinhead from hellraiser and feed on pain, weird i never said that

i often like to check in on this chart of worst chuckers of all time (min 2,500 attempts)
https://i.imgur.com/lMPSpwE.png

hellclayser

xp

crazy hes in first when most of those guys come from the chucking era or before

yup

"lebron we tried 2 get u help and we you failed as a gm, please be the point guard again"

― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 4:45 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fixed

its true

calling john wall an average to above average player is reeeeeeeeeeeeally a stretch for me, at best

his numbers from 20-21 aren't awful! shooting isn't great, i don't think it ever was for him, but, what was it, like 21-6-3? but tbf he was playing on a bottom-feeder for 40 games before the all-star break and i definitely wasn't watching 2021 houston rockets games so i have no idea about the eye-test

we really dont know what he is any more, they played him for a bit then shut him down. he may not be able to pass a physical at this point

physically speaking wall def looked better than you would expect for a guy of his age coming off of his leg injuries but statistically he wasn’t a very effective player, i would rather bet on westbrook figuring something out than bet on wall to stay healthy and give you something above and beyond what russell has been

They could've signed some random guy like Gary Payton 2 and kept Kuz and Montrez

and signed caruso at a cheap deal

lakers gotta lake tho

he needs to lose weight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-UnAUXa34

the funniest detail about the lakers offseason was their total refusal to put THT in any deal and now theyre trying to trade him and no one cares

i watch him and i really don't understand what exactly he is supposed to be good at

they could've signed caruso too they're just cheap

the caruso thing is really just egregious, all they need is a PG who can play defense and make an open three. he played crunch time minutes for them on a title team and they were just like, yeah sorry we can't do $9 mill a year for you see ya later.

why have the kings not traded harrison barnes and richaun holmes, hoarding quality vets

theyre "gonna make a run"

theyre perpetually in the playoff hunt until its post-trade deadline

they need to set those guys free

where shd they go

barnes to the heat and holmes to the bucks

i see the vision, what if the kings got back duncan robinson, sacramento would be a chill place for his career to die