2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

yeah it’s hard to say. i mean blake griffin was their “stopper” and he might not even be playable this year

i’m kinda caping for the nets here but as the fan of a team that could potentially face either/or the nets or bucks in the playoffs i would MUCH rather see the nets, even if they’re “healthy”

yeah for sure, the bucks you know are going to show up

between harden and embiid thats like 9 TOs a game and theyre both top 3 in FTM per game which... sadly they will be unwatchable

lol

More than anything ever in sports, I want Simmons to say that he wouldn’t play for the Nets either.

— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) February 5, 2022

it would be funny if he was still unvaccinated. alas

I want this to happen because I want Ben to experience an alpha style star (Durant) who won't put up with his shit five minutes.

my guess is that this has nothing to do with the nets getting better or worse now and everything to do with them thinking harden is gone after this season.

yeah makes sense

damn when that ramona story dropped that he was vaccinated that should have been a massive tell

from a drama and generally liking trades perspective i want to see this happen, but on the other hand it would prob make both teams better and i do not like these teams

― lag∞n, Friday, February 4, 2022 6:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah this trade makes too much sense for both teams, NBA should veto it

Does Harden get an upgrade of stripper clubs in Philly? Who’s our man on the street there?

the more i think about it the less i'm convinced it makes the nets better initially. just hard to imagine them throwing a weird player/personality like ben simmons into the mix who hasn't played all year, w/ KD out and kyrie playing half the games, and then suddenly being a real championship threat in the playoffs. maybe in the long run it's better for them but i feel like it takes them out of the running this year

― J0rdan S., Friday, February 4, 2022 6:36 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the east while deeper this year doesn’t really have an elite team, to me it’s the sort of short term high variance, medium term high floor move that makes a ton of sense

i changed my mind, i like this trade now. all for the nets being the weirdest possible team and i think harden is probably a terribly cursed man so morey will not ever get the big W

CP on the JJ pod is good. Lotta talk about his lil bastard tendencies.

the east while deeper this year doesn’t really have an elite team, to me it’s the sort of short term high variance, medium term high floor move that makes a ton of sense

im watching the celtics play the pistons sans cade and wow they are just awful, a team of all guys who cant score

so many bricked 3s, blown layups, sad stuff

Cade is probably going to be great and Stewart should be a good role player but outside of that it’s not promising

i still have hope for bey

2020 draft looks pretty spotty at best but the hayes pick was brutal. throw them on the list of teams that really misevaluated halliburton. they’re gonna get another bite at a top 5 pick this year at worst tho so we’ll see how they look this time next year. cade is looking like he’s gonna be a perennial all star fairly soon to me

last few minutes of hornets & cavs has been totally nuts and very fun

Nice comeback by the hornets right now

lol yes

Horrible play review

refs are bad there should not be any refs

radicalized against refs

2020 draft looks pretty spotty at best but the hayes pick was brutal.

i would love to do a retro on hayes as a prospect--the contingent of analysts that were weirdly high on him vs. the fact that he basically can't play

i think the bucks are an elite team until proven otherwise. if the east doesn’t have an elite team than the west doesn’t have an elite team cuz we just saw the bucks beat the west’s elite team 4-2 six months ago
― J0rdan S., Friday, February 4, 2022 7:38 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if they can get Brook back yes

they need kris to be better

i think the bucks are an elite team until proven otherwise. if the east doesn’t have an elite team than the west doesn’t have an elite team cuz we just saw the bucks beat the west’s elite team 4-2 six months ago
― J0rdan S., Friday, February 4, 2022 8:38 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i agree with you in general about the bucks probably being a better playoff team than their record would indicate, but I don’t think we should reduce our projections for the 2022 playoffs to an assessment made in a single series 10 months ago

richard jefferson: “those extra two inches mean a lot”

just want to point out to all who might not be watching the sizers-mavs that apparently one of the hoops was a little tilted and there is currently a crew out there removing one of the hoops and replacing it with a backup

Just watched the 4th of that cavs hornets game and that was truly insane

xp This is the second Sixers' game this year that has had a serious delay because of rim problems.

if Durant can drag this team to the Finals he's immediately a Top Ten player in my book

i presume you mean top ten all time

i agree with you in general about the bucks probably being a better playoff team than their record would indicate, but I don’t think we should reduce our projections for the 2022 playoffs to an assessment made in a single series 10 months ago

Harden moves around like a 40 year old pick up hooper

Harden effort thread because I watched the film back and, my god, it's pathetic.

Clip 1: just blatantly not caring. pic.twitter.com/NbCccj2Ntt

— Erik Slater (@erikslaterNR) February 3, 2022

the next time a doc rivers sixers team has any iota of a plan vs a zone defense will be the first

their entire offense in crunch time vs the zone was joel embiid acting like he’s steph curry, great stuff

I don't know why teams don't just play zone all the time against them - they're terrible against it.

This year more than any year I can think of in recent memory, especially in the East, feels like a "regular season don't count" year. This is one long preseason for the playoffs and more contenders I can remember are all essentially hoping to turn it on in April/May. We'll see if it actually happens but I feel there's going to be a lot of surprises the first couple rounds

ABC surveyed tonight's schedule and unerringly selected the Lakers v Knicks as the premier matchup

they may be the most evenly matched if that's what they were going for

God, I mean it's all going to end in tears, but I want this Simmons-Harden trade to happen and then the Sixers to play the Nets in the playoffs so that Simmons has to play in Philly. This needs to happen - it's almost as good as a Championship.

otm

I love the NBA lmao pic.twitter.com/Uh63ARNAuu

—  PBD (@NBAYOUNGDREW) February 5, 2022

lmao

full-strength Lakers getting manhandled at home by the 24-28 Knickerbockers I see

man Lakers really did come all the way back just to have Russ brick 2 free throws with a minute left to send it into OT