Random NBA Observations 2021 - 2022

[Serious]

@Gil Scott-Heroin @GOAT

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

 

[Serious]

Can't wait for nets vs celtics tomorrow....

Sunz and CP3 should be fun to watch tonight though

 

[Ashyneezz]

NBA messed up putting the two wack games on TNT and the game folks wanna watch on NBA tv. No one wants to watch the suns and heat blow teams out

 

[CSquare43]

 

[BK The Great]

 

[ALonelyDad]

 

[Nero Christ]

yea old players are more prone to injuries but these past couple of seasons show the importance of depth...it's probably the biggest key to having a successful regular season

teams need 12 - 15 guys at anytime to go out there and produce...these big 3s aren't going to cut it anymore by just how much they handicap roster building and the unpredictable nature of a season/sports in general

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Back in January:

To be honest, I don't think the Suns have another gear.

While they'll certainly be better off with the experience of that Finals run last season, this is about as good as they'll get. Booker's size in combination with the volatility that comes with his shot selection, doesn't give him much more room for improvement; CP3 isn't getting any younger; Ayton has been in and out of the lineup so many times that the team is still maintaining the same level of success without him; none of the other role players are or project to be reliable offensive options.

They'll be reliant on keeping the pace they're now at, and hope that nobody out West hits a purple patch when the postseason rolls around.

For the Suns to take the next leap, they need Ayton to be that guy.

Problem is, as you know, they have no intention of featuring him more and he doesn't have the disposition to demand that for himself. But what's bizarre to me is, they're perimeter-orientated team and yet they're only 25th in 3s attempted. If you're going to be a low-volume three-point shooting team in today's game, you need to balance that out with a dominant inside game, which the Suns don't have. It's why in the two out of three meetings with the Warriors this season, despite the size advantage they had, they didn't utilize it nearly enough, and ended up being eaten alive and had their bones spat out by Golden State's three-point shooting: 43% on 38 attempts per game from behind the arc, whereas Phoenix only shot 36% on 26 attempts per game from behind the arc.

You're not going to beat the Warriors - let alone win a championship -- shooting low-volume threes on top of not dominating down low. You need to be proficient in one or the other, or ideally, both.

 

[The God Poster]

The 1 game that should be on tnt/ESPN today is on nbatv

Hawks/heat , pelicans/ suns

nba schedule is fukked up tonight

heat and hawks should play at 7:00, put the suns and pels on nba tv at 8:30 and the grizz/ wolves on tnt at 9:30

NBA messed up putting the two wack games on TNT and the game folks wanna watch on NBA tv. No one wants to watch the suns and heat blow teams out

keep ya day jobs brehs

 

[IIVI]

It's crazy how much the Suns are usually regarded as having one of the best medical staffs through all of sports, but man, their players get some untimely freak injuries.

 

[jerzboy]

Back in January:

 

[Edub]

Chuck said he gonna hunt Scott Hastings down go to his house and punch him at Dinner Time

 

[GunRanger]

 

[Damnshow]

Already a second game and some teams are dealing with injury problems. Now imagine if everyone goes hard in the regular season for 82 games, mix it with accidental injuries and you'd see bench warmers getting play time in crucial playoff games. I don't think we will ever see playoffs where each team has no major injury problems. It's just impossible.