2022/23 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "TANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

i listened to a billion podcasts this summer talking about how much the sixers upgraded their roster and i still feel like they have a critical lack of shooting on the wing
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 18, 2022 9:17 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

doug mcdermott and/or josh richardson are very available

i relish sixers pain but putting josh richardson back on that team feels like a level of cruelty even i wouldn’t stoop to

hes actually good as a role player specifically the role they need!!!

he was good for the celtics last year but he was bad when he was on philly

idk his game is pretty atrophied at this point, i'm not a fan

yeah he can’t do all that much anymore but now i’m reminiscing on the heat trading him for jimmy butler and i feel nice and warm

lol dece trade

it’s so good that the lakers get to get stomped on national TV first night of the season

James Harden said transition defense was the difference in tonight’s game. Said he felt good about Philly’s half court defense, but that giving up the kind of transition points the Sixers did isn’t nearly good enough.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) October 19, 2022

harden covered head to toe in blood standing over a dead body asking anyone if they know who did it

tbf they took the take foul away from him so not sure what hes supposed to do

lol

can't believe how much I missed hoops

it’s great to be back with you guys posting about hoops

<3

otm

love to watch the game of basketball with my friends from message board

i like the purple in these lakers jerseys, looks good on the floor, but they're lakers jerseys so they're otherwise boring

hi5 ilh

goat board

wiseman looking good out there

lmao they look like they're sitting at the kid's table

lakers look alright, but they will have to hustle on defence all season long if they want to make the playoffs and i dont know if they have it in them

the guys who need to hustle to be good defenders arent, and the guys who are not good defenders are hustling

Westbrook airballed a three. NBA is back baby!!!!

can't keep my eyes off Russ. he just moves around so funny

classic player

the lakers stink

im a fan of lonnie the person, but lonnie the basketball player shouldnt be getting these kind of minutes

love to see russ out-rebounding AD

Coming off the bench is physically harmful

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34827948/lakers-russell-westbrook-cites-coming-bench-hamstring-strain

feel like that belongs here

shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

dr russ

starting him is a silly conversation tho just start him and then pull him early and stagger his minutes with lebron as much as possible, or you know trade him to indy

is this good

The Lakers have 2 of the least efficient jump shooters in the NBA in their starting 5

Lowest eFG% on Jump Shots last 2+ seasons*
1. A. Davis ... 35.99
2. J. Butler ... 40.31
3. A. Pokusevski ...40.35
4. G. Antetokounmpo ... 41.13
5. R. Westbrook ... 41.68

*min. 500 attempts

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) October 19, 2022

i just checked and it’s not

damn

what happened to brows shot might be the biggest story in lakerland

guys who dont have big passion for the game seem to decline early, maybe cause your athletic peak is in your early 20s so you need to compensate by getting better at basketball in better shape savvier etc, and if youre not really about that your career just ends up following your athletic curve

reflecting upon it the thing that hes seems to care most about in basketball is not playing center

tbf he looked pretty great last night

its true he did, especially at the beginning of the game he was just everywhere

love to manage the knee

Bulls All-Star Zach LaVine (left knee management) will miss tonight’s opener vs. Heat.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 19, 2022

ugghh. the bulls entire situation right now feels deeply cursed

A *hyped* up Karl-Anthony Towns, pounding the table at post-practice media this morning when asked about tonight’s game.

I’m sure video will float around. But it was clear, he wanted everyone to know that he’s serious and the expectation tonight is a win.

— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) October 19, 2022

weird guy

he has this really odd effect where it's like he's cosplaying as an NBA player while actually being an NBA player

yeah everything he does is performative

he's the Garth Brooks of the NBA

the pounding mightve been a little over sold

"It's always talkin about us being good and are we good enough and sh*t. It's time to be great. It's not time to be good anymore. It's time to be great. We made these trades, so gotta be great. Good is not good enough anymore."

— Karl-Anthony Townspic.twitter.com/mKgtfsQtXc

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) October 19, 2022