stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

yeah, jordan i think to some extent you’re describing things i would categorize more as concerns around scheme than concerns around ability, and what they desperately need is to find some other ways to score. porzingis getting some easy run against second units or jrue being more stable as a ballhandler than their current guys is a bigger deal to me than overall shooting ability as far as things that will affect their fortunes, as is getting marcus, who was generally not a good catch and shoot guy, off the team.

shake milton had a nice first quarter against in the mavs, nice to see

i forgot dallas got grant williams, he just hit a couple threes in a row

good pick up for them they can use the help

he was the exact player they needed

or kind of player anyway

btw cant believe nba tv is still doing that thing that when their bottom chyron is active they squish the picture

That's to make NBA players more relatable.

lol

hahaa

(lagoon otm tho)

https://www.neverhungover.club/p/the-casuals-wont-be-addressed

As a heuristic of Ball Don’t Stop’s media criticism, “casual culture” is uncharacteristically perceptive within the specific context of the NBA coverage landscape. The NBA has become, moreso than any other professional American sports organization, the internet’s league, fodder for legions of painfully enthusiastic bloggers and soyfacing League Pass watchers to comment endlessly. NBA Twitter, and its constant, breathless celebration of #ThisLeague, simultaneously enhances the experience of watching basketball and also threatens to supersede actual basketball as the center of the NBA’s attention economy. At its worst, the social mediatization of basketball discussion renders the actual basketball mere pretense for the glossolalia of metatextual discussion that basketball supports. Following the NBA means following player personalities, dramas, eccentricities, mental health crises, sexual assault scandals, geopolitical dustups, Chinese propaganda tours, cryptocurrency grifting, strip club still lives, vaccination statuses, Instagram likes, Twitter bios, viewership numbers, stories about stories. The biggest meme of the offseason has been that the best player in the world does not actually like basketball, the biggest conversation during the NBA Finals was whether enough people were actually discussing the NBA Finals on their own terms. The analysis has, like the snake eying its tail, turned inward; the conversation threatens to engulf the spectacle.

dog days…can’t remember how I found this article at this point but I thought it was a good discussion

it's not wrong from what i am able to read (the writer's style makes my skin crawl) but this is happening to all the sports, the nba is a thought leader for reasons that are fairly obvious

(the writer's style makes my skin crawl)

otm

looking past that aspect, this is just another tedious trend-watching thinkpiece which, when you dig down to its foundation, is indistinguishable from the trend it purports to describe and is tailored to attract the same audience it has defined. is this important? no, and who the fuck cares? it's just the more of the same frothy blather.

lad

Well ok Anthony Edwards. pic.twitter.com/zdFwfVwR4W

— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) October 7, 2023

seems good

we’re gonna have to add another basketball felony to the charges against tim connelly this year when one of the best perimeter players in the league is forced to play the majority of his minutes with two centers on the floor

they gotta trade kat

really should just do whatever is necessary to build around ant

like trading one center is cool do you know whats cooler trading two centers

lol

https://i.imgur.com/3LJJbRb.png

*blue is player option

they should trade kat before his new contract kicks in

wonder if Rudy will pick that option up

So far, it looks like the Timberwolves look like they are going to win every game this season

Oof two looks likes, I'm pretty hung over from seeing GZA last nite

We definitely need to take a look at our foreign policy moving forward!!!

— kuz (@kylekuzma) October 8, 2023

the guy’s not wrong!!

kuz 4 prez

Kuz OTM

c holmgren and v wembanyama playing ball atm

i am watching it

wemby gets blown by and still blocks it, he's incredible

honestly i just laugh watching him, like he just shouldnt exist according to like physics and math

new kind of guy

i used to make guys like wemby in 2k and give 'em sick stats be like "lol like there could be a guy like that ha ha"

lil behind here but wemby just headbutted chet out the box lol

chet is good tho big chet fan

love to watch all the thunder guys jabbing at wemby's super high dribbles, it's something he 100% has to fix asap

yeah have a feeling were not going to be seeing to much of the 7-4 guard routine this year

malaki branham is a beautiful civil war name

lol vic already floppin like an ancient pro

he's gonna win 10 mvps

im gonna be insufferable for like the next 20 years my god, my posting skills are gonna be off the charts

lol

lmao guess u gotta have wemby in the game or everything is a sick dunk

chet 21-9 in the 1st half

tbf i am not sure the stats count the same when both teams put up one million points in the half

wow show some respect to chet

sorry but when you put up 21 of 500,000 points it is less impressive

Hawks play tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhNhTjB7Bg

Someone should shop Chet standing on Wemby's shoulders and put them next to a person of average height.