NBA Regular Season 2023-24 f./ NBA In-Season Tournament 2023-24

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:02 pm

How many Wemby highlights can this board hold? Follow this account for updates.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:19 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:02 pm How many Wemby highlights can this board hold? Follow this account for updates.

That steal and dunk last game was nuts, as was the Jordan over and under lay up.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:58 pm

He's so fun.

Also, I pre-hate the in-season tournament.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:00 pm

Exact opposite take, TB.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:01 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:19 pm
Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:02 pm How many Wemby highlights can this board hold? Follow this account for updates.
That steal and dunk last game was nuts, as was the Jordan over and under lay up.

The scoop was my favorite, followed by any time he made Chet Holmgren look like Craig Ehlo.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:03 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:00 pm Exact opposite take, TB.

It's just so fucking hokey. Contrived. Bullshit.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:04 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:01 pm
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:19 pm
Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:02 pm How many Wemby highlights can this board hold? Follow this account for updates.
That steal and dunk last game was nuts, as was the Jordan over and under lay up.
The scoop was my favorite, followed by any time he made Chet Holmgren look like Craig Ehlo.

Altho...Holmgren was WAY better than I might have guessed too.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:08 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:03 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:00 pm Exact opposite take, TB.
It's just so fucking hokey. Contrived. Bullshit.

All in. They're contriving it for great reasons. The things I'll end up watching just because there's something on the line...

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:29 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:03 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:00 pm Exact opposite take, TB.
It's just so fucking hokey. Contrived. Bullshit.

I mean we're talking about watching literal freaks of nature whose bodies didn't know when to stop growning throw leather balls through a hoop with a net attached which if you think about it is contrived hokey bullshit too.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:32 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:29 pm
tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:03 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:00 pm Exact opposite take, TB.
It's just so fucking hokey. Contrived. Bullshit.
I mean we're talking about watching literal freaks of nature whose bodies didn't know when to stop growning throw leather balls through a hoop with a net attached which if you think about it is contrived hokey bullshit too.

Why do anything, I suppose. But, yes, sure.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:37 pm

I can't think of a single downside of making Charlotte v. Washington more interesting to the casual fan, the diehard fan, and to the actual players on a Friday night in early November.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:49 pm

The in-season tournament is destined to be won by a team whose coach, players and fans oversell its importance to themselves, a/k/a the Knicks

duff · Post by **duff** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 2:13 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:58 pm Also, I pre-hate the in-season tournament.

Do you also hate in-season tournaments for the EPL and other football leagues around the world?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 7:11 pm

duff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 2:13 pm
tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:58 pm Also, I pre-hate the in-season tournament.
Do you also hate in-season tournaments for the EPL and other football leagues around the world?

Kinda, yeah. And this isn't even like an Open Cup situation. its just the same fucking teams that are in the middle of a season playing games that are supposed to artificially mean more because...reasons. It's fucking dumb.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:54 am

Would be amazing to see some overseas teams get a shot in the in season tournament. Great scouting opportunities too.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:06 am

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:54 am Would be amazing to see some overseas teams get a shot in the in season tournament. Great scouting opportunities too.

Now THAT would be interesting to me.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:53 am

A new dimension to the scoop-masters develops...

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:14 am

I'll say.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Sat Oct 21, 2023 5:31 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:02 pm How many Wemby highlights can this board hold? Follow this account for updates.

HOLY. SHIT.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:13 am

Wildest create-a-player from 2k that's come to life ever. Jeez us.

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:24 am

Blocking 3 pointers repeatedly seems new

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:41 am

EdRomero wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:24 am Blocking 3 pointers repeatedly seems new

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:21 am

But seriously, that’s insane.

Post by **Shirley** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:25 am

Holy shit. What a picture.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:47 am

Few more of those and he won't even have to block it to get the job done

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:52 am

I was 11-13 when Ralph Sampson was roaming the land - this is like infinity level Sampson.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:00 am

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:52 am I was 11-13 when Ralph Sampson was roaming the land - this is like infinity level Sampson.

He's doing what Ralph wanted to do, but was mocked for. It's wild to think of what Sampson and other agile big men like Kareem might have done if they'd grown up in a time when it was OK for a big man to dribble, face the basket, and take jumpers.

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:26 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:00 am
tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:52 am I was 11-13 when Ralph Sampson was roaming the land - this is like infinity level Sampson.
He's doing what Ralph wanted to do, but was mocked for. It's wild to think of what Sampson and other agile big men like Kareem might have done if they'd grown up in a time when it was OK for a big man to dribble, face the basket, and take jumpers.

Imagine Hakeem Olajuwon and Sampson playing swing positions on the same team

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:19 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:00 am
tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:52 am I was 11-13 when Ralph Sampson was roaming the land - this is like infinity level Sampson.
He's doing what Ralph wanted to do, but was mocked for. It's wild to think of what Sampson and other agile big men like Kareem might have done if they'd grown up in a time when it was OK for a big man to dribble, face the basket, and take jumpers.

It has to be so gratifying for guys like Sampson. My jaw is agape.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:57 am

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:13 am

Remember when Manute hit seven 3s in one game? But really, they only had him do that because they didn't what else to do with him on the offensive end and he was too slow to get back on D so they wanted him to have a head start.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:03 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:19 am It has to be so gratifying for guys...My jaw is agape.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:26 pm

NBA starts on a Tuesday? Seems like a crapshoot out the chute but it's the second 10 games that define you before Xmas kickoff. When is the tournament?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:03 am

The Defector's NBA preview piece, is, always, delightful. This bit on the Bulls...

Are they fun?
Well what is fun to you? Do you ever sit in an H&R Block around tax season and just watch the people that work there do their thing and sometimes hit up the Keurig in the back? If so, then maybe the answer here is yes!

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:10 am

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:26 pm NBA starts on a Tuesday? Seems like a crapshoot out the chute but it's the second 10 games that define you before Xmas kickoff. When is the tournament?

Here is a decent primer.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:14 am

Defector from their bit on the Lakers -

The Lakers owed a good deal of their second-half success to the emergence of Austin Reaves, who signed a four-year extension in the offseason and now has total ownership over the starting shooting guard spot. Reaves is good, and the Lakers are a much better team with him on the floor, but he’s also exactly the type of player (white, kind of rude) that feels explicitly designed to appeal to a certain type of basketball fan. Every time Bill Simmons got near his podcast mic this summer, he couldn’t help but speak about what an injustice it was that the Spurs didn’t snatch Reaves away from the Lakers with a max contract offer, or something. I swear to God I heard this man compare Reaves to Manu Ginobili last week. For that reason alone, am I secretly hoping that Reaves flops this season? Maybe!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 11:19 am

I know the rumors have been there, but I guess I didn't see Dwight Howard being accused of sexual assault by a man. And Howard admitting consensual sex. Progress?

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:18 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 11:19 am I know the rumors have been there, but I guess I didn't see Dwight Howard being accused of sexual assault by a man. And Howard admitting consensual sex. Progress?

I dunno. A lot more chatter on Twitter about him being gay/bisexual than about him being accused of sexual assault.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:11 pm

I still don’t understand RJ Barrett and what makes him different or better than 100 other guys beyond “he gets to take a lot more shots”.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 8:23 pm

Omg the signal for a flop is 95% of the way to the whipping your dick out gesture