2023-2024 Official Around the NBA Discussion Thread

[Optimus_Steel]

Raptors did us a solid.

And on the road. Miami plays in Sactown tonight.

Nets play tonight so they will be on a b2b tomorrow and I really want to embarrass that crap team by 40.

[eyriq]

Detroit is battling New York too. Could be a great night.

[SOUL]

Pistons choked so hard

[eyriq]

Pistons choked so hard

Devastation

[RookieStar]

We are all Rap Fans ( for now )

[Residual-Heat]

too bad. Im worried about the Magic finishing strong with JI out

[RookieStar]

I hate rooting for them because they almost always let us down.

Yeah... well its pick your poison for the game then.lol

We just pray that they can squeak it out against IND. Im justw qtching boxscores and they limited Hali to 4pts only???

It's Mathurin's night. And Gradey Dick is showing why we should be playing Jett.

Raps are tanking so they can afford to play Dick

[RookieStar]

SUCKS. DET lost back2back games on GW shots? Of they werent tabking that would hurt.

[thelead]

Yeah... well its pick your poison for the game then.lol

We just pray that they can squeak it out against IND. Im justw qtching boxscores and they limited Hali to 4pts only???

It's Mathurin's night. And Gradey Dick is showing why we should be playing Jett.

Raps are tanking so they can afford to play Dick

they might be in the play-ins... right with us

[RookieStar]

It's Mathurin's night. And Gradey Dick is showing why we should be playing Jett.

Raps are tanking so they can afford to play Dick

they might be in the play-ins... right with us

Lol... naaaah somehow I see the Bulls and ATL in the playins over TOR. But you never know.

[RookieStar]

Cmon SACtown. Do us a solid!!!

[eyriq]

Read on Twitter

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[pepe1991]

Cmon SACtown. Do us a solid!!!

and out of all players, Heat's rookie goes off.

[RookieStar]

Cmon SACtown. Do us a solid!!!

and out of all players, Heat's rookie goes off.

Well... 1 out of 3 is better than nothing. Thanks for nothing KINGS!!

[Optimus_Steel]

Starting to feel like Miami is on it that’s going to be difficult to overcome for us. The one that feels vulnerable is Philly, that team is going to be key for 6th. Indy can go either way.

[RookieStar]

Starting to feel like Miami is on it that’s going to be difficult to overcome for us. The one that feels vulnerable is Philly, that team is going to be key for 6th. Indy can go either way.

I thought the suspensions would deflate them a bit but noooooo... they are lucky.

I also thought NY would fall down but they got lucky with that noncall after Thompson got tackled. Poor DET, getting tackled is a no call if you are the worst team in the league.

So yeah.. IND PHI and US are the flexi teams

[pepe1991]

Starting to feel like Miami is on it that’s going to be difficult to overcome for us. The one that feels vulnerable is Philly, that team is going to be key for 6th. Indy can go either way.

I thought the suspensions would deflate them a bit but noooooo... they are lucky.

I also thought NY would fall down but they got lucky with that noncall after Thompson got tackled. Poor DET, getting tackled is a no call if you are the worst team in the league.

So yeah.. IND PHI and US are the flexi teams

As lucky as we were on no call on last shot travel and Cade almost hitting full court 3 point shot ?

Pistons got better post allstar game, that's clear, but still can't win games. Knicks beat them in very similar fashion how we beat them, on better late game execution. Is that really a luck ? Maybe? But probably not.

As for Heat, they were up by 20 in 4th quater vs Kings. They simply were better team tonight.

We play Knicks, Pacers and 76ers in remaining games, beat them all, take care of home court games, and you may win enough to avoid playin. Very simple.

[eyriq]

Starting to feel like Miami is on it that’s going to be difficult to overcome for us. The one that feels vulnerable is Philly, that team is going to be key for 6th. Indy can go either way.

I thought the suspensions would deflate them a bit but noooooo... they are lucky.

I also thought NY would fall down but they got lucky with that noncall after Thompson got tackled. Poor DET, getting tackled is a no call if you are the worst team in the league.

So yeah.. IND PHI and US are the flexi teams

That is unfortunate

[pepe1991]

"The NBA's competition committee has officially begun reviewing whether the game has become too advantageous for offense and whether some changes need to be implemented to achieve better balance."

Easy fix: teach your damn refs what traveling is and start calling them. And get rid of gather step all together. Basketball was ment to be played with two steps, third step for person that is 6'11 means he can cover like 15 feet of space in full speed (Giannis can literally take ball at half court and score layup in 3 steps). It's unfair adventage that offensive player has,especially because players make 3 steps AND whole bunch of little steps that refs ignore.

And whole gather step rule creates massive confusion because sometimes they call normal travel after two steps, and in some games you see players doing 7 steps and their explanation is "gather step". it's utter BS. It turned nba into streetball , and in combination of zero touching, inability to put hands on defender, having offensive players initiate contact etc it just created massive adventage in favor of offense

[JoshuaPotter]

"The NBA's competition committee has officially begun reviewing whether the game has become too advantageous for offense and whether some changes need to be implemented to achieve better balance."

Easy fix: teach your damn refs what traveling is and start calling them. And get rid of gather step all together. Basketball was ment to be played with two steps, third step for person that is 6'11 means he can cover like 15 feet of space in full speed (Giannis can literally take ball at half court and score layup in 3 steps). It's unfair adventage that offensive player has,especially because players make 3 steps AND whole bunch of little steps that refs ignore.

And whole gather step rule creates massive confusion because sometimes they call normal travel after two steps, and in some games you see players doing 7 steps and their explanation is "gather step". it's utter BS. It turned nba into streetball , and in combination of zero touching, inability to put hands on defender, having offensive players initiate contact etc it just created massive adventage in favor of offense

Although there have been some serious rule changes. We have no doubt found a code on efficiency more so then any other time. The 3-ball is practically green lit. Sometimes with a teams entire offense being built around it. That was unheard of in any other period of ball.