22-23 NBA Season Thread

[dont care]

6 hours ago, Unocal said:

 

The Celtics can win alone. They basically are Tatum and Brown.

You need to have your eyes checked. They won game 6 despite Tatum having one of his worst shooting performances ever, they have brogdon, and white who are 3 point specialists, they have Williams who locks down around the rim, they have horford who is a big man that can shoot from outside, and you have smart who is a scrappy defender. Then their bench is deep with shooters

[Indigo]

9 hours ago, Unocal said:

 

The Celtics can win alone. They basically are Tatum and Brown.

No offense, but I've been seeing a lot of your posts, and it just doen't seem like you actually watch the games. You are what social media calls a 'casual'. You complain about good, experienced teams winning (even though that's how you win in the playoffs), you only mention star players like this is NBA Jam, and you claim there are no more likeable teams*. I don't think you like basketball as much as you think you do. 

 

*IMO, the only universially unlikable team was Memphis.

[Digby]

Too many bad posts around here, which is a shame as it's distracting us from making fun of this rudderless Philly franchise.

[DG_ThenNowForever]

54 minutes ago, Digby said:

Too many bad posts around here, which is a shame as it's distracting us from making fun of this rudderless Philly franchise.

 

There's all kinds of great stuff:

- Sacramento has made a conference finals more recently than the Sixers

- They Hinkied four seasons to avoid being perpetually stuck in the second round of the playoffs, only to be stuck at the second round of the playoffs

- Of the Hinkie picks, only Embiid and Jerami Grant are starting in the NBA.

- The front office had a choice between Jimmy Butler and Ben Simmons; since leaving Philadelphia Butler has made three conference finals and one NBA Finals.

- Notable players Hinkie passed on: Giannis, Jokic, Zach LaVine, Porzingis, and Devin Booker

- Teams the Sixers have beaten in the playoffs since Hinkie left: the pre-Butler Heat, the pre-Durant Nets, the Westbrook Wizards, the post-Kawhi Raptors, and the post-Durant Nets.

- Teams the Sixers have lost to in the playoffs: Trae Young's Atlanta Hawks.

 

[Digby]

Jrue Holiday and Andre Iguodala winning rings a decade after they got Processed out of Philly.

[Rockstar Matt]

20 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Really curious how 2020 Final Four Part II ends up. My heart says LA/Boston. My head says Denver/Miami.

 

Would really love to see LA-Boston again. The battle for ring 18 for both franchises would be highly entertaining. I know the rest of the league wouldn't, but it'd be great to see LeBron beat Boston in the Finals in a Lakers uniform. It might actually sway the weird Lakers fans who hate LeBron to finally support him too. 

 

My heart says LA-Boston, but my basketball brain says Denver-Boston. 

 

EDIT: I'd find it highly amusing if the Lakers were to get yet another title before Boston again, especially because the Lakers have been really dog-s*** this past decade whereas Boston has been consistently good and appearing in the ECF's. 

[dont care]

So doc rivers has been fired, who’s next to try to go past the second round with him? Or are teams now seeing that the Celtics won their championship in-spite of him rather than because of him? 

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Of all NBA coaches from the 2019-2020 season, only Pop, Kerr, Spo and Mike Malone are still with their teams.

 

That's crazy, crazy turnover.

[Digby]

2 hours ago, dont care said:

So doc rivers has been fired, who’s next to try to go past the second round with him? Or are teams now seeing that the Celtics won their championship in-spite of him rather than because of him? 

 

I think he was a good coach for those Celtics teams... but that was 15 years ago. It's fair to wonder if his relationship with Pierce and KG made it greater than the sum of its parts, and also whether he can be as effective in the modern game (which is no longer a new concept). I know it was really Currymania that set us onto this current path, but in my mind the Celtics/Lakers finals of 2010 always felt like the last gasp of that traditional model of how things were.

[SCMODS]

I think Houston or San Antonio win the Wembanyama sweepstakes. 

[MJWalker45]

Go Spurs Go!!!!

[Digby]

Rigged for big markets again, smh.

[Cujo]

5 minutes ago, Digby said:

Rigged for big markets again, smh.

 

ThAy RiGgEd It 4 PoP

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Good guys almost came all the way back, but it's hard to overcome spotting 18 points and Jokic having one of the best games of his career.

 

If Lakers steal one in Denver, I like their chances.

 

EDIT: One more thing -- Russell Wilson was courtside. The Nuggets are lucky he didn't jinx them too.

[GDAWG]

3 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Good guys almost came all the way back, but it's hard to overcome spotting 18 points and Jokic having one of the best games of his career.

 

If Lakers steal one in Denver, I like their chances.

 

EDIT: One more thing -- Russell Wilson was courtside. The Nuggets are lucky he didn't jinx them too.

 

Probably because he didn't say "Nuggets Country! Lets Ride!"  

[Germanshepherd]

3 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Jokic having one of the best games of his career.

I mean AD had 40. Both teams played out of their gourd today, we’ll see if either can keep this up. 

[Dynasty]

2 hours ago, Digby said:

Rigged for big markets again, smh.

 

A historically successful franchise with lots of titles winning the chance of drafting a generational talent? That sounds familiar...

[DG_ThenNowForever]

25 minutes ago, Germanshepherd said:

I mean AD had 40. Both teams played out of their gourd today, we’ll see if either can keep this up. 

 

I don't want to say it out loud, but the Lakers last two possessions ended with LeBron playing hero ball that didn't work.

 

Jokic had an all-time first half; AD and all-time second. You're right. Game 2 could be anything.

[who do you think]

That was just a really good game in general.

[who do you think]

17 hours ago, Digby said:

I know it was really Currymania that set us onto this current path, but in my mind the Celtics/Lakers finals of 2010 always felt like the last gasp of that traditional model of how things were.

 

I'd say 2012 was the turning point. 11-12 was a pretty turgid year scoring-wise. Lowest overall league scoring average and # of individual teams that averaged at least 100 ppg since 03-04, after those things had mostly stabilized over the previous several seasons. Overall scoring bounced back in 12-13 (and would float around 100, where it had been before, until 16-17), but 12-13 was the first year of 3PA starting to noticeably rise year-by-year, and I feel like that's when we started to see a lot more small-ball, or at least a lot more "stretch four" type lineups. So that's where I would draw the line between "today's game" and "heckin unwholesome problematic stone age ball that redditors hate".