2025-26 NBA Season Discussion

[Peregrine01]

This definitely isn’t going to last, but it’s pretty astounding to see that Jokic has a 78.6% FG% on two-point shots 10 games into the season, particularly since he’s a guy who doesn’t dunk a lot.

I think one day we’re going to view Jokic’s touch the same way we do Steph’s 3 point shooting. Just by far and away the best ever with no real competition for second.

We already do. Jokic had also been dealing with a nagging right wrist injury the last two seasons and his touch was still the greatest we've ever seen. Now apparently his wrist is feeling a lot better.

[ball_takes23]

This is a pretty general observation, but I feel like we're seeing a significant shift in the league this season. The stars are starting to age out, the younger players are now established stars, and there's plenty of up and coming players. And sure, that's a natural progression of the league decade to decade, but this season feels more unique. Only a few weeks in and so many teams look different.

With all that said, really enjoying the season so far and looking forward to seeing where we were at the halfway point. Right now my observation is a bit intangible, so maybe by then we'll be able to quantify it better. Meanwhile the Thunder look unstoppable despite no Jalen Williams and rotating through whichever role players are healthy that night.

Wemby right now isn't better than peak Gobert IMO. He looked like he turned a big corner offensively with his shot selection and approach but he's regressed back to old habits as the league has adjusted to him. Until he realizes his only effective spot on the court is the elbow, he will be a middling offensive player. For all the flash and hype, his offensive game is not good at all. SA has a lot of bogged down possessions when you watch them, and it's really based on him a lot of times.

he's got a lot of the same weaknesses on offense that KD does, both players kill against single coverage vs other bigs but are susceptible against smaller sturdier players and both struggle with passing out of double teams, and neither have great passing vision in general esp for their height where they should be able to see the whole floor. Houston's entire strategy against GS was basically to force their offense to run thru KD post-ups, it was by far their least efficient offense and was the best chance at beating them. similarly forcing the Spurs offense to run thru Wemby post-ups is a winning strategy, they are averaging 0.85 PPP which is in the bottom third among qualifying players

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/playtype-post-up?dir=D&sort=PPP

KD eventually became more efficient out of the post after GS by just becoming a midrange god but never really fixed the other weaknesses in his game