2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

Idk if you just want the team that was better in the reg season to win the 1st 2 rounds every time I don't know what the purpose of those rounds are

second round upsets of the 1 seed are cool to me, hawks vs sixers was a really memorable series even if it kinda ruined the east finals. less cool would’ve been wizards vs hawks tho

The teams and their owners love playoff games. They make money. They excite fans. They sell merchandise. The play-in bumps the number of 'playoff' games, if only slightly, but they won't ever go away as long as they generate some extra interest and revenue.

I think its been long established in the NBA that the regular season & playoffs are different things and that teams don't really show everything until the playoffs start. its not like the NFL where random Sunday Night games have major implications, or MLB where there's a real set way to manage your team. I think those two sports have a much bigger issue with this than the NBA does.

Seems not good:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33527472/ex-gm-donnie-nelson-sues-dallas-mavericks-says-was-fired-reporting-sexual-misconduct-team-denies-claim

thats pretty bad

Best organization around

Richaun Holmes is out for the remainder of the season due to personal reasons: pic.twitter.com/IpIKkcipAr

— James Ham (@James_HamNBA) March 18, 2022

Credit where it’s due Russ made a sick steal/3 to tie at the end of regulation

It was an ugly as hell jumper that looked like it could’ve airballed & it kinda looked like his foot was on the line but hey. It went in

scott fucking foster man

Bulls not a very good team right now. Derozan seems to be tired out from his epic run before AS break. Bench has been pretty bad. Lavine not being aggressive.

1st time since I moved to AZ in 2012 that I haven't gone to see Bulls come to Phx. Prices were ridiculous!

makes sense that it would be a hot ticket!

chris was sitting on the bench talking to cam while clenching and unclenching his fist, looks like he doesn’t have any kind of support on his thumb now

1st time since I moved to AZ in 2012 that I haven't gone to see Bulls come to Phx. Prices were ridiculous!

Jimmy couldn’t rub off on kat but it’s looking like pat bev is lol

https://t.co/JuXw5Ajyi0 pic.twitter.com/4jEWCXVKPG

— .🫥. (@philfanacc) March 18, 2022

Hawks beat the Grizz without Collins and Trae last night. Not sure how that happened

if you look at the standings and the law right now regarding the play in games nets would play the raptors in toronto without kyrie then if they lost they would play the winner of the 9-10 game in brooklyn without kyrie

yeah & then if the raptors move up to 6 we’d get a kyrie return to cleveland game

Between places he is not allowed to play and cities where he has burned bridges, hope everyone is ready for plenty of Kyrie drama and things of that nature in the coming weeks

Defense ➡️ Offense

The steal leads to a Daniel Gafford dunk to cut down the lead to 2!pic.twitter.com/VxGt9ywAzp

— Wizards Nation (@WizardsNationCP) March 20, 2022

ilh bowl bout to tip off here

uh knicks jazz is about the hit the second quarter my man, time to ffwd the dvr

lol

we shd get a jazz fan

refs are wilding! refs calm down

celtics are wilding

woww

probably good

decent at least

celtics have been up 20+ in all three games of this road trip so far

lol devner starting its bench in the 2nd half, malone mad?

we shd get a jazz fan

― lag∞n, Sunday, March 20, 2022 8:05 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

love this in theory though i assume most jazz fans are defensive

we shd get a jazz fan to antagonize

btw who could have predicted

DeAndre Jordan’s effort in 5 minutes of play was unacceptable. Counted at least 3 shots in the paint in which Jordan didn’t even jump to contest.

— Austin Krell (@NBAKrell) March 21, 2022

hes totally cooked, should be out of the league once his contract expires

Shoulda been 3 years ago haha. That contract the nets gave him was completely insane

there's a pretty prominent ilx poster who lives in utah we just have to get them into basketball and boom xps

celtics have been up 20+ in all three games of this road trip so far

― lag∞n, Sunday, March 20, 2022 9:19 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

celtics have won all three games of the road trip by 20+

Everyone just assumes that the playoffs will start and the Celtics will just turn into a pumpkin but they probably believe in the whole thing at this point. Derrick White a huge addition too.

not sure what reason people would have to disbelieve them at this point, having said that obvs the east is stacked so who knows how it will play out

tatum even remembered how to shoot

tatum's shooting amnesia for all those months was the weirdest thing

not sure what reason people would have to disbelieve them at this point, having said that obvs the east is stacked so who knows how it will play out

which celtics does the discourse underrate def horf marcus

tatum's shooting amnesia for all those months was the weirdest thing

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, March 20, 2022 10:30 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he looked bad he was just out of rhythm taking off balance shots, some of it mightve had to do with the coaching change being asked to do different stuff he looked tentative but hes in the zone now god bless, hes really playing better than he ever has imo particularly from a general soundness style of play perspective being really decisive not pounding the ball making good passes manipulating the defense and so forth, a lot of that has to do with that new coaching so kudos to ime et al

well I was looking forward to this game but fell asleep before it started. doesn’t count because I missed it

pretty good game dece game lol

dubs got screwed by the refs lol

ah yes the famously pro-san antonio refs

The foul call that put Wiggins to the line was just as whack tbf