2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

ask him to do a basketball move

it's not a team i would want to be a fan of for the next 5 years

the jazz have had a pretty amazing run from stockton/malone into d will/kirilenko/millsap into mitchell and gobert. maybe they’re just a charmed franchise and can generate another new era but mitchell & gobert were basically miracle picks. their future is def concerning. and the new ownership throws everything into question, the guy seems kinda involved on the basketball side and they have this weird partnership between ainge and the GM.

ainge was kinda losing his fastball towards the end there in boston too particularly around some of the lesser details midlevel signing and so forth that you really have to stay on top of to make things work

having a quasi retired successful guy whos maybe not paying attention to the league with quite the focus he used to in the mix seems pretty dicey

the fact that he was out the door within a year of signing tristan thompson gives me faith in the celtics org lol

yeah agree with all of that, ainge can still spot talent, but the management of the roster got really poor and it's a discouraging hire by the new owner since it is transparently about a personal connection they have.

mitchell just doesnt seem like he wants to be in utah. hes destined for the knicks. maybe something around a randle/mitchell trade could be worked out.

the bidding war for him would be crazy and i wonder if because he is still on a long deal whether he would be able to dictate where he went. i don’t see why the jazz would acquiesce to him. all these star trades lately have been so heavily pick based & i can’t even keep track of which desirable franchises even have have enough ammo left. you’d have to be an idiot to want to be traded to the knicks tho

you’d have to be an idiot to want to be traded to the knicks tho

depends on what you want out of your career and which options are realistically open to you. consider that he's currently in SLC on a bad vibes team that underachieves in the playoffs.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33631986/facing-potential-playoff-games-toronto-boston-celtics-philadelphia-76ers-decline-say-teams-fully-vaccinated

jaylen brown & al horford unvaxed?

it's a very personal decision you see

Jazz are helped by being the only pro team in town

jaylen brown & al horford unvaxed?

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, March 30, 2022 6:17 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

has been reported that they are vaxxed before fwiw feel like espn might be making a think out of teams declining to comment which could just be some privacy policy thing

Boston may also be without big man Al Horford for the team’s regular season opener as he awaits clearance from the NBA health and safety protocols after a positive COVID-19 test earlier this week. Jaylen Brown is expected to be cleared in time to play next Wednesday after testing positive for COVID-19 last Friday. League sources indicated to MassLive.com that both Horford and Brown suffered breakthrough cases and are vaccinated.

https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2021/10/payton-pritchard-likely-broke-his-nose-celtics-guard-will-travel-back-to-boston-for-evaluation.html

+toronto game they were clearly just taking as a rest, took em to overtime without their guys too!

I feel like the Ingles injury was the end of this era for the Jazz

have to be honest jokic’s rim protection has by my eye test at least been not great recently

then again 12-7-5-2 in 10 mins is good

43-15 nuggets over pacers in the first quarter. good stuff

doesn’t count not a real game

end of the reg season is a weird time

I’m watching the suns dubs with all my suns fan bros tonight can’t believe I signed up for this punishment. Hoping I can at least win the poker game.

Granted they had to listen to me yelling/running it in during the Christmas Day game in their home arena so I guess this will be payback.

lol enjoy

just saw ja's first national ad, it was for... spiderman

celtics-heat very playoff feeling tonight

no ones getting the fouls they want lol

nuggets were up 51-19 and now it’s 83-82

das bad man

Getting an early big lead doesn’t seem to mean much anymore

tony brothers putting in work against the nuggets as always, fuckin clown

when fans know a refs name thats a bad sign

rip dick paparo

This is embarrassing https://t.co/eGA8epyrSj

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) March 31, 2022

lol that is awful dont they review those

Bones Hyland hugged Tony Brothers after the game lmaooo pic.twitter.com/h2yoSLILdj

— Justin Russo (@FlyByKnite) March 31, 2022

big W for the heatles tonight

the jimmy-spo thing threw everyone off the scent that they got oladipo and markieff back and it screwed up the rhythm of all their rotations. they both have gotten DNP-CDs the last two games and the team has looked normal again

i thought it was a useful game for the celtics insofar as they saw some defense in the fourth quarter that they’ll prob see a lot in the playoffs where teams just decide to roll out the red carpet for white, smart, pritchard etc to shoot. their best offense tonight (besides when dedmon was on the floor allowing open highways to the basket) was tatum or smart deflecting the ball and immediately throwing it ahead in transition. tatum and brown are basically impossible to stop in those situations

heat defense is really good but celtics shouldve won that game lackluster execution on a number of levels but were still in it

you’d think max strus as scottie pippen is prob not repeatable. it was interesting that spo benched tucker for him in crunch time but they needed his shooting out there. a playoff match up would be a nice test for udoka, i think when they watch the film back aside from the missed lay ups and such they’d find more stuff they could try and do to exploit the heat’s defense with herro and strus both out there for a long final stretch if they ended up matched up in the second round

the big thing for me was that lowry has been playing this entire season at like 70% capacity but looked like the heat’s best player tonight

if he can pull one more good out that could change the math for the heat

*good run

i think when they watch the film back aside from the missed lay ups and such they’d find more stuff they could try and do to exploit the heat’s defense with herro and strus both out there for a long final stretch if they ended up matched up in the second round

― J0rdan S., Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:31 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

heat went to a zone and the celtics were just not bothering to try to get middle just lazily swinging it around the perimeter they looked tired missed a bunch of usually reliable shots maybe theyre sad about robs injury

you gotta be able to punish the zone this is the nba the big time

tatum scored like 2 points in the fourth or something?

around about the third quarter i thought maybe spo just didn’t even want to show them the zone in case they meet in the playoffs but he pushed the button at the right time, at the very least it makes it harder for teams to pick out herro every possession down

in other news austin rivers getting thrown out of the game for swinging his elbows around and not even making remote contact with the defender is the funniest moment of the NBA season for me, personally

i think on 5 occasions each season a ref should be able to eject austin rivers from a game without warning and for no reason at all. just to keep the league a bit lively, spice things up, keep everyone on their toes, add to the entertainment product

players should be allowed to eject him, fans sometimes too

there could just be a Twitter poll on nationally televised games where you vote on if he gets ejected or not