***Official 2022-2023 NBA Thread***

[dirk digler]

Can't believe the regular season starts tonight. Just seemed like the Finals ended a couple weeks ago.



Philly vs Celtics: 6:30PM CST TNT

GSW vs Lakers: 9:00PM CST TNT

[Buehler445]

Holy crap. I turned off the the Miami game because MIA looked cooked.

Wow. Butler is a monster.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Another massive collapse by LA to end a half. Unfortunate because they were in firm control of that game.

Yeah. That was some shit ball.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

If you want to extend injuries to guys actually playing their regular minutes, we're definitely putting an asterisk on that Warriors title last year then too. Tatum's shoulder was completely ****ed and he played through it all series, that Celtics team was not itself.

That makes an entire zero titles of any legitimacy for Steph.

I was told (admittedly by a complete rerun) that NBA players don't play through injuries. FYI.

[DJ's left nut]

The Lakers managed to survive one of those 'Davis can't finish anything' halves but at some point they can't bank on Vanderbilt dragging them along here.

And if you're not gonna shoot, you gotta play better defense than this.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Russell with another no show game as well.

Honestly - who HAS played well to this point?

Again, I think the list pretty much begins and ends with Vanderbilt. Reaves looks okay. Schroeder is filling in well for Russell who absolutely has to show the **** up if he intends to get paid this offseason. This just isn't an acceptable post-season effort from him to this point.

[DJ's left nut]

This is one of the weird aspects of bird rights. The Lakers are in a bit of a bind with D-Lo. Sure, they can let him walk but who do they replace him with? Losing him doesn't open a salary slot because they're over the cap. All they could do is tag and trade him and hope to recover a shorter term bad contract in his place.

But since they have his bird rights and can go over the cap to retain him, they may be better served just paying him.

****ing hell the Lakers have no energy tonight. 2 offensive rebounds and they have ZERO ball movement but just take flat-footed jumpers. On the defensive side Davis gets his pocket picked then complains while play goes the other way. Nobody is stopping drives; just getting run past.

This is mostly just piss poor effort from LA. Nobody seems inclined to take control and they don't have anybody providing a spark either.

Gonna **** around and give home court back.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Honestly - who HAS played well to this point?

Again, I think the list pretty much begins and ends with Vanderbilt. Reaves looks okay. Schroeder is filling in well for Russell who absolutely has to show the **** up if he intends to get paid this offseason. This just isn't an acceptable post-season effort from him to this point.

Not AD. I don't know WTF he's doing out there tonight.

[DJ's left nut]

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!

Jesus Christ. This is goddamn embarrassing.

Throw in the inbounds pass and y'all stand there and let Hachimura try to go 1 vs 3 on the wing?

Wake. The. ****. Up.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

This is one of the weird aspects of bird rights. The Lakers are in a bit of a bind with D-Lo. Sure, they can let him walk but who do they replace him with? Losing him doesn't open a salary slot because they're over the cap. All they could do is tag and trade him and hope to recover a shorter term bad contract in his place.

But since they have his bird rights and can go over the cap to retain him, they may be better served just paying him.

****ing hell the Lakers have no energy tonight. 2 offensive rebounds and they have ZERO ball movement but just take flat-footed jumpers. On the defensive side Davis gets his pocket picked then complains while play goes the other way. Nobody is stopping drives; just getting run past.

This is mostly just piss poor effort from LA. Nobody seems inclined to take control and they don't have anybody providing a spark either.

Gonna **** around and give home court back.

So glad the Wolves don't have to make those decisions.

[KC_Connection]

This is always gonna be the problem with AD though. He has these inexplicable game where the effort isn't there. They didn't matter in the 2020 run because LeBron was still at the very top of the game, but they do now.

[DJ's left nut]

How many bunnies has Davis missed tonight?

G'damn he's mentally soft.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

This is always gonna be the problem with AD though. He has these inexplicable game where the effort isn't there. They didn't matter in the 2020 run because LeBron was still at the very top of the game, but they do now.

I'm not even sure it's an effort thing.

He's not really jaking. He's just...lousy. He gets in his own head and starts overheating those put-backs and layups.

You'd like to see them try to feed him a few attempts on the low post to un-**** himself but they can't afford to waste the possessions at this point.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I'm not even sure it's an effort thing.

He's not really jaking. He's just...lousy. He gets in his own head and starts overheating those put-backs and layups.

You'd like to see them try to feed him a few attempts on the low post to un-**** himself but they can't afford to waste the possessions at this point.

Effort, focus, confidence level, whatever it is, he's just not the force he usually is on both ends.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I'm not even sure it's an effort thing.

He's not really jaking. He's just...lousy. He gets in his own head and starts overheating those put-backs and layups.

You'd like to see them try to feed him a few attempts on the low post to un-**** himself but they can't afford to waste the possessions at this point.

Yeah, he mentally checks out and starts whining about calls instead of making plays. He had a couple nice stops early but once he got the bitch face going, he went to shit.

[KCUnited]

Everyone on the Lakers outside of Reaves looks over 40 right now