2022-2023 NBA Season Thread

[DJ Fieri]

Which is the most likely of these 3 scenarios:

1) Kyrie stays sane

2) Gordon Hayward stays healthy

3) Ben Simmons remembers how to play basketball










(the answer might be green zero lol)

GH

LOL.

 

[DJ Fieri]

To be fair one of them is more recent than yours

Yep.

LOL.

 

[DJ Fieri]

I'm not an old head, but I caught some clips of a really good Smokey Robinson/Stevie Wonder/Chris Stapleton performance.

Saw Robinson in concert in Spokane a few years ago.

He puts on a good show.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Have we heard from KD yet?

 

[tlance]

GH

LOL.

Maybe, but GH hasn’t been good in quite some time.

 

[thunderc]

Have we heard from KD yet?

All that is out there is that he and the rest of the team were all surprised when the trade request went out. That’s how good of a teammate Irving is.

 

[tlance]

All that is out there is that he and the rest of the team were all surprised when the trade request went out. That’s how good of a teammate Irving is.

Nobody has ever accused him of being a good teammate.

 

[thunderc]

It sounds like KD is getting pretty close to a return

 

[DJ Fieri]

It sounds like KD is getting pretty close to a return

They need him.

Cam went HAM and they managed to come back and beat the Wiz.

 

[DJ Fieri]

That Cam kid will thrive now that Irving is gone....he has the talent to be really special.

 

[shopson67]

You dated yourself with the word Album.

I could've done worse (?) by using CD? Maybe, maybe not lol.

 

[shopson67]

Most definitely better than sitting on their hands and doing nothing.

They have a few tries to get it right.

Swinging and missing is better than watching a called 3rd strike which looks like what the Lakers are doing.

We can’t know how Luka will think about this. But if it was me, I would be a lot more likely to stay with an organization willing to mix it up to get better.

I understand at this point it's the right move, but the real right move would've been to match for Brunson IMO. Can't undo past errors though...

 

[bksballer89]

It sounds like KD is getting pretty close to a return

Nets will be fine

 

[tlance]

I understand at this point it's the right move, but the real right move would've been to match for Brunson IMO. Can't undo past errors though...

Brunson is not that good.

Overpaying him to be your second option is getting anybody a title.

They did fine letting him walk.

What they really should have done was sign him when his stock was low after the Clippers series.

 

[shopson67]

That Cam kid will thrive now that Irving is gone....he has the talent to be really special.

Hopefully, but the downgrade at PG may just mean less efficiency and more defensive attention to Cam? Tough to gleam too much from his scoring outburst vs the Wiz, since Sumner also had a breakout performance in that game. The two took more than half the Nets shots combined. He should get more focus now, and the Nets have been bringing him along slowly. Will be interesting to see.

 

[shopson67]

All that is out there is that he and the rest of the team were all surprised when the trade request went out. That’s how good of a teammate Irving is.

If you were going to demand a trade with no turning back, would you want to alert the guy who you drew to this franchise, or try to slip out of town lol?

 

[shopson67]

Brunson is not that good.

Overpaying him to be your second option is getting anybody a title.

They did fine letting him walk.

What they really should have done was sign him when his stock was low after the Clippers series.

Sure, cheaper the better. The Kyrie deal is a time bomb (for any franchise); can they get enough out of him before he's out?

Brunson is narrowly outperforming Kyrie this year, BTW. 3 fewer points on 3 fewer shots, more assists. Shooting percentages are more or less a wash overall, but Kyrie does get more rebounds. All for $10M+ less a year.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Sure, cheaper the better. The Kyrie deal is a time bomb (for any franchise); can they get enough out of him before he's out?

Luka needed help.....knock Irving all you want but he can play.

That duo will be tough to stop.

 

[shopson67]

Luka needed help.....knock Irving all you want but he can play.

That duo will be tough to stop.

Who's playing off the ball?

 

[DJ Fieri]

Hopefully, but the downgrade at PG may just mean less efficiency and more defensive attention to Cam? Tough to gleam too much from his scoring outburst vs the Wiz, since Sumner also had a breakout performance in that game. The two took more than half the Nets shots combined. He should get more focus now, and the Nets have been bringing him along slowly. Will be interesting to see.

That wasn't Cam's first good game. He has struggled to get PT with Irving, Curry and even Mills at times. Although Mills hasn't been used as much this season.