ATL - 2021-22 Regular Season Begins

Ayt · Post #1381 » by **Ayt** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:49 am

stellation wrote:Josh "Josh Giddey" Giddey

He's a special talent.

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #1382 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:50 am

Part of me hoped the Nets got Harden last year cause there was a chance something would cause it to go in flames. By the end of the season, i hated myself for that part of me. Now that part of me is having the last laugh.

Jez2983 · Post #1383 » by **Jez2983** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:23 am

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:Part of me hoped the Nets got Harden last year cause there was a chance something would cause it to go in flames. By the end of the season, i hated myself for that part of me. Now that part of me is having the last laugh.

Time was always going to win with the bet on that trio.

drone3 · Post #1384 » by **drone3** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:39 am

Bertans hasn't really worked out for the Wiz. Will have to attach a pick to get out of that massive contract

Post #1385 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:05 am

First week of the season lays out a scenario of peak parity. Lakers, Nets, Bucks all go down.

Post #1386 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:08 am

I can't believe anyone gives a **** about the first week of this NBA season.

jakecronus8 · Post #1387 » by **jakecronus8** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:17 am

Russ doing b*tch fake tough guy stuff. Color me shocked

FlagsFlyForever · Post #1388 » by **FlagsFlyForever** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:33 am

ReasonablySober wrote:I can't believe anyone gives a **** about the first week of this NBA season.

I like watching basketball, but I don't care who wins or loses. Even in Bucks games. We entered the playoffs last season with the 7th best record in the league. This might as well be an 82 game preseason as far as I'm concerned. Just get through healthy and I'll consider that a success.

Pachinko_ · Post #1389 » by **Pachinko_** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:38 am

FlagsFlyForever wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:I can't believe anyone gives a **** about the first week of this NBA season.

I like watching basketball, but I don't care who wins or loses. Even in Bucks games. We entered the playoffs last season with the 7th best record in the league. This might as well be an 82 game preseason as far as I'm concerned. Just get through healthy and I'll consider that a success.

The East is the Nets, Heat, Hawks and us. The order we finish doesn't really matter, we are actually the best example in the League that it doesn't matter one bit. Nash was also saying some BS in the media conference before G7 that "this is why we fought all year, so we can have home court in G7 and you all see now how important it is".
And then they lost LOL

If we get out of the East that's a successful season for me.

Baddy Chuck · Post #1390 » by **Baddy Chuck** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 6:55 am

I don't want to anoint someone :lift:

too early but like..... woah.

machu46 · Post #1391 » by **machu46** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:14 pm

blazza18 wrote:Look at this loser

Read on Twitter

It looked to me like Bam was already recovering by the time Harden flailed his arms. Granted Bam is a great athlete but it just seems like Harden has lost some of his already moderate explosion.

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machu46 · Post #1392 » by **machu46** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:26 pm

Baddy Chuck wrote:

I don't want to anoint someone too early but like..... woah.

Yep, looks like a young stud right now. I thought he was being underrated in the draft community but he's looked even better than I expected.

tydett · Post #1393 » by **tydett** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:57 pm

It's actually kind of awesome how much young talent is in the league. The last few drafts have been a great injection into the league. Legitimately think we could add an expansion team or two without totally diluting the talent extremely (while I'm not sure that would have been possible 10 years ago).

Post #1394 » by **MickeyDavis** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:07 pm

Pachinko_ wrote:
FlagsFlyForever wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:I can't believe anyone gives a **** about the first week of this NBA season.

I like watching basketball, but I don't care who wins or loses. Even in Bucks games. We entered the playoffs last season with the 7th best record in the league. This might as well be an 82 game preseason as far as I'm concerned. Just get through healthy and I'll consider that a success.

The East is the Nets, Heat, Hawks and us. The order we finish doesn't really matter, we are actually the best example in the League that it doesn't matter one bit. Nash was also saying some BS in the media conference before G7 that "this is why we fought all year, so we can have home court in G7 and you all see now how important it is".
And then they lost LOL

If we get out of the East that's a successful season for me.

All true. Of course it's preferable to have the top seed and HC but at the end of the day we've shown we can win without that.

LuessiT · Post #1395 » by **LuessiT** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:30 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:
Pachinko_ wrote:
FlagsFlyForever wrote:I like watching basketball, but I don't care who wins or loses. Even in Bucks games. We entered the playoffs last season with the 7th best record in the league. This might as well be an 82 game preseason as far as I'm concerned. Just get through healthy and I'll consider that a success.

The East is the Nets, Heat, Hawks and us. The order we finish doesn't really matter, we are actually the best example in the League that it doesn't matter one bit. Nash was also saying some BS in the media conference before G7 that "this is why we fought all year, so we can have home court in G7 and you all see now how important it is".
And then they lost LOL

If we get out of the East that's a successful season for me.

All true. Of course it's preferable to have the top seed and HC but at the end of the day we've shown we can win without that.

Sure but our winrate at home was far superior than our road winrate. Having one more home game every series would certainly be a big advantage.

Pachinko_ · Post #1396 » by **Pachinko_** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:30 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:
Pachinko_ wrote:
FlagsFlyForever wrote:I like watching basketball, but I don't care who wins or loses. Even in Bucks games. We entered the playoffs last season with the 7th best record in the league. This might as well be an 82 game preseason as far as I'm concerned. Just get through healthy and I'll consider that a success.

The East is the Nets, Heat, Hawks and us. The order we finish doesn't really matter, we are actually the best example in the League that it doesn't matter one bit. Nash was also saying some BS in the media conference before G7 that "this is why we fought all year, so we can have home court in G7 and you all see now how important it is".
And then they lost LOL

If we get out of the East that's a successful season for me.

All true. Of course it's preferable to have the top seed and HC but at the end of the day we've shown we can win without that.

And we've shown we can lose with it. Twice.

emunney · Post #1397 » by **emunney** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:38 pm

Jez2983 wrote:
MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:Part of me hoped the Nets got Harden last year cause there was a chance something would cause it to go in flames. By the end of the season, i hated myself for that part of me. Now that part of me is having the last laugh.

Time was always going to win with the bet on that trio.

I definitely did not imagine it'd get this weird this fast. Dude just got outscored by PJ.

LuessiT · Post #1398 » by **LuessiT** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:00 pm

emunney wrote:
Jez2983 wrote:
MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:Part of me hoped the Nets got Harden last year cause there was a chance something would cause it to go in flames. By the end of the season, i hated myself for that part of me. Now that part of me is having the last laugh.

Time was always going to win with the bet on that trio.

I definitely did not imagine it'd get this weird this fast. Dude just got outscored by PJ.

Since you've mentioned him I wanted to say that PJ looks in ridiculous shape compared to last year. Not sure it's due to being in Miami with their training regiment or just letting himself go in Houston and just needing an off-season to work through that but he looks pretty good.

LuessiT · Post #1399 » by **LuessiT** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:53 pm

Beautiful.

wallus · Post #1400 » by **wallus** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:14 pm

Just wanted to post that I have been impressed that refs are actually following thru with not calling the flops and bs (for the most part). I have enjoyed watching basketball more now than in a while.