2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

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

lmao

i have been thinking about that exact trade

Embiid is absolutely killing it right now and Morey's going to shrug. Oh well.

but he might get the famously successful and normal james harden in the offseason

i feel pretty confident that harden will be skimming rosters and salary cap sheets after getting smoked by the lakers tonight while kd is hurt and kyrie sits on his ass

would beal for simmons work?

Clips just came back from down 35!

On a 4 p play nonetheless

MEU AMIGO

Luke Kennard venceu o jogo para o Los Angeles Clippers com uma JOGADA DE 4 PONTOS.

O Clippers virou um jogo em que eles estava perdendo por 35 PONTOS

UAU
pic.twitter.com/vsu3TeOx9V

— NBA do Povo 🏀🇧🇷 (@NBAdoPovo) January 26, 2022

xp works fine under trade rules but i have a feeling that simmons is not the type of guy the wizards like

luke kennard's hairline really took the brunt of that foul

MEU AMIGO

everything for the wizards is gravy after flipping wall into westbrook into not westbrook but a pretty rough tumble for them after those first two weeks

if i made luke kennard money (or even the money i currently make) i would strongly consider medical solutions for hair loss

Or just shave it like Caruso

I DONT BELIEVE WHAT IVE JUST SEEN
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seems like the optimistic case for the wiz assumed that beal and dinwiddie would be good and they would figure it out around them with a bunch of depth and youth, and instead both those guys have kind of sucked.

there seems to be no stigma about hair transplants in the world of soccer and for that i applaud the europeans

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/premier-league/149977/footballer-hair-transplants-wayne-rooney-unrecognisable/

this video about david silva from man city's hair transplant is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGFvbdgIS8

yeah the dinwiddie signing... turned out pretty unremarkable at best

Started hot then just turned into himself

the Minnesota Timberwolves are over .500

this is pretty crazy really. he seems ahead of schedule.

Just a reminder: Anthony Edwards is younger than rookies Evan Mobley, Scottie Barnes, and Jalen Suggs

— Phil Ford (@ThePhilFord) January 26, 2022

cade doing things

Cade Cunningham is acclimating to the NBA, asserting himself quickly

After struggling to finish at the basket his first two months in the league, he’s shooting 69% at the rim in 2022

On Cade’s pacing & using deception to carve up defenses @basketbllnews https://t.co/3u0Z9eU9Q7

— Mark Schindler (@MSchindlerNBA) January 26, 2022

very smooth and controlled player, fun to watch

his numbers if you remove the first month of the season have started to look really nice. pull up threes and extending out his range feel like the keys to me or else he prob settles into the 19-9-7 range which is obv still great but i think also means detroit is still looking for a true no 1 star. it’s hard to get a handle on his projection bcuz the physical tools don’t pop but the speed with which he plays the game is pretty unique, seems very under control, for a PG his age that has to be encouraging. if he could get to darius garland shooting range/scoring numbers with everything else then i think you start to have a pretty scary player

cavs easily in control against the basically-healthy bucks

it would be unfortunate if the nuggets lost to the nets C team tonight but it is a road back to back

scanning the box scores for something to put on and there isn't a game with a single digit margin right now. the hornets are in the process of putting up 160 on the pacers.

oh i guess den-bkn is close but why would i watch that version of the nets

grayson allen misses a single game and the bucks just crumble into a pile of ash. food for thought.

cam reddish just kinda like... not playing for the knicks. not sure i get it, really

gotta make sure alec burks gets his minutes in

related:

Thibs rolled with the starters for 6-plus minutes as the Heat went up 26 — Kemba Walker, Evan Fournier, RJ Barrett, Julius Randle, Mitchell Robinson. That lineup is minus-11.5 per 100 possessions on the season, but has played the third-most minutes of any lineup in the NBA.

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) January 27, 2022

lol

thibs isn't going to optimize lineups ever so you either have to force him to via roster moves or get a different coach

hire thibs as coach + trade for promising but raw young dudes --> ??? ---> profit

works well with my theory that this round of knicks management has no actual plan whatsoever but by keeping a low profile and not being embarrassing could hang onto the job for years

watching some of cam reddish play now and if you went into a high tech lab w/ the express purpose of designing a player who thibs would refuse to put on the floor you would come up w/ something very close to him