NBA Season 2022-23

[Phantom255x]

Alright lets just stop talking about Ben Simmons entirely for now. I will as well.

Anyways, I've been looking at the West with a lot of interest, and I really have to say I think seedings and matchups are going to really matter in terms of how things play out. Also I have to give kudos to the Kings. They are having a great year but I thought it was mostly fools gold and they'd probably be a play-in tournament team, but they are still the 3 seed and might actually finish the season there. Their win over LAC yesterday was also very ballsy and they absolutely played their hearts out on the road.

SAC and OKC are the two teams I hope make a deep run from the West.

[SparzWizard]

Alright lets just stop talking about Ben Simmons entirely for now. I will as well.

Anyways, I've been looking at the West with a lot of interest, and I really have to say I think seedings and matchups are going to really matter in terms of how things play out. Also I have to give kudos to the Kings. They are having a great year but I thought it was mostly fools gold and they'd probably be a play-in tournament team, but they are still the 3 seed and might actually finish the season there. Their win over LAC yesterday was also very ballsy and they absolutely played their hearts out on the road.

SAC and OKC are the two teams I hope make a deep run from the West.

Imagine if Chet Holmgren wasn't hurt...OKC would be a force to be reckoned with in the West

[gouki88]

Alright lets just stop talking about Ben Simmons entirely for now. I will as well.

Anyways, I've been looking at the West with a lot of interest, and I really have to say I think seedings and matchups are going to really matter in terms of how things play out. Also I have to give kudos to the Kings. They are having a great year but I thought it was mostly fools gold and they'd probably be a play-in tournament team, but they are still the 3 seed and might actually finish the season there. Their win over LAC yesterday was also very ballsy and they absolutely played their hearts out on the road.

SAC and OKC are the two teams I hope make a deep run from the West.

Imagine if Chet Holmgren wasn't hurt...OKC would be a force to be reckoned with in the West

Would they? They're currently 3 games below .500 and 11th in the West. I don't think Holmgren takes them much higher - maybe a .500 team like Minnesota or NOP

[celticsclay]

Clay, there were others, but you absolutely came after me when I said he didn't have a mental illness and his environment and not liking his coworkers was the main issue he was having in Philly.  You are correct you definitely had concerns about him faking it, so if I certainly could have worded my statement better and for that I apologize.  I just get tired of your crap with regards to me and I really wish you'd stop responding to me entirely, as I've done with you until now.  I will go back to doing that.  It is just better ignoring your nonsense.

For example

I said it when he first reported and got criticized heavily on this board for saying it, but a large part of his mental health issues were him being in an environment and with coworkers he didn't like.  While a change of environment and coworkers isn't going to fix everything, when your issues are brought on and significantly exacerbated by your environment, changing your environment does wonders for your mental health.

You were rightfully criticized. I know we disagree on a lot of topics, but you are just flat out wrong on this one, and ben simmons has done some degree of damage to stigma surrounding mental health with his actions. It really is an awful thing he did to try and get money. Some issues really don’t need a contrarian take.

Mo I will give you 5 Tommy points for the apology. I appreciate you admitting you misrepresented what I said. As noted by others they are tired of the Ben Simmons talk and you don’t want to discuss it further so we can agree to disagree on some of the finer points on mental health illness or mental health issue. But again I do appreciate the apologize and give you a lot of credit for doing so.

[celticsclay]

Alright lets just stop talking about Ben Simmons entirely for now. I will as well.

Anyways, I've been looking at the West with a lot of interest, and I really have to say I think seedings and matchups are going to really matter in terms of how things play out. Also I have to give kudos to the Kings. They are having a great year but I thought it was mostly fools gold and they'd probably be a play-in tournament team, but they are still the 3 seed and might actually finish the season there. Their win over LAC yesterday was also very ballsy and they absolutely played their hearts out on the road.

SAC and OKC are the two teams I hope make a deep run from the West.

Imagine if Chet Holmgren wasn't hurt...OKC would be a force to be reckoned with in the West

Would they? They're currently 3 games below .500 and 11th in the West. I don't think Holmgren takes them much higher - maybe a .500 team like Minnesota or NOP

I wonder if Chet was playing they would maybe have added a low level veteran or buy out guy. I believe he could only have added like two wins as a rookie

[Moranis]

Kessler's win shares are already 5 so far this year.  It isn't unheard of for a rookie to really add to the wins of a team. 

[Phantom255x]

Wish Durant was playing today, but Giannis is likely out today. Please help us out, Suns

[Phantom255x]

Ugh Suns choking this down the stretch

[celticsclay]

Ugh Suns choking this down the stretch

It is crazy how good the bucks are without Gianni’s. If they win again without him we have to put him in the jaylen brown category. Are they better off without him?

Edit: since people have said this crazy stuff serious I am clearly joking. I am genuinely impressed with rest or bucks roster especially lopez at his age.

[Atzar]

Booker choked his ass off.  Sucks.  We could have used that loss by the Bucks.

[jpotter33]

Thanks for nothing, Suns. What a choke job.

Not sure how much you’ll be able to trust them in the playoffs, particularly given how little time they’ve had with KD.

[celticsclay]

Crazy how much better hawks have looked since booting nate.

[celticsclay]

Thanks for nothing, Suns. What a choke job.

Not sure how much you’ll be able to trust them in the playoffs, particularly given how little time they’ve had with KD.

Durant is a huge addition. He also has a ton of playoff experience. I think they are the team to beat.

[celticsclay]

Lakers really need to start getting wins. Today is a big one

[Donoghus]

So does this eliminate Giannis from the MVP race?