NBA Season 2025-26

[Quetzalcoatl]

Porzingis has looked good the few Hawks games I've watched, but man that team really needs to consider dealing Trae. 

One thought I have with them is that people are always like "you need to have a winning culture or you will eventually regret it when your team isn't serious/experienced during an important run".  My counter argument is the 2008 Celtics team and this Hawks team.  We went from the lottery to a championship and our young players were major contributors in 2008.  Rondo, Perkins, Powe and Tony Allen were all huge for us that year and the pick from tanking made us win a championship.  We were like OVERTLY tanking too.  And now this year the Hawks have given all these bad habits to Trae and I wonder if he can actually shed them and they did it in the name of mediocrity.  They did semi-tank but JJ is a 20th pick you know?  I feel like they'd have been better off having Trae play team ball and not jack up a million shots at the expense of their record now.  He's good enough he can beat bad teams by himself in the regular season as a ballhog but it just won't play vs the elite teams in the playoffs.

[Kernewek]

Porzingis has looked good the few Hawks games I've watched, but man that team really needs to consider dealing Trae. 

One thought I have with them is that people are always like "you need to have a winning culture or you will eventually regret it when your team isn't serious/experienced during an important run".  My counter argument is the 2008 Celtics team and this Hawks team.  We went from the lottery to a championship and our young players were major contributors in 2008.  Rondo, Perkins, Powe and Tony Allen were all huge for us that year and the pick from tanking made us win a championship.  We were like OVERTLY tanking too.  And now this year the Hawks have given all these bad habits to Trae and I wonder if he can actually shed them and they did it in the name of mediocrity.  They did semi-tank but JJ is a 20th pick you know?  I feel like they'd have been better off having Trae play team ball and not jack up a million shots at the expense of their record now.  He's good enough he can beat bad teams by himself in the regular season as a ballhog but it just won't play vs the elite teams in the playoffs.

I think there's something here, but I also think there is a world of difference between bringing KG and Ray - a textbook insane competitor and a textbook consummate professional, respectively, who happen to be All-Star calibre players very hungry for postseason success - onto a team and doing what Atlanta has done.

Kristaps is the only guy who's even hit 30 on the Atlanta team, you know? And he's already got a ring. And - no offence to him - he's clearly not Kevin Garnett.

[Goldstar88]

The Bulls have had internal discussions about how to proceed, including conversations about Dallas Mavericks star Anthony Davis, sources told ESPN, whom they believe could help the team's porous rim protection and defensive interior.
ESPN

[Who]

Jason Timpf of Hoops Tonight saying Austin Reaves has been a top 10 player in the league this season. I've been seeing a number of fan comments saying the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDolhSm_0Y

16 games = 28.8ppg 6.8apg 5.8rpg 1.3spg

52% FG on 17 FGA
36% 3PT on 7.6 per game
88.2% FTA on 9.6 FTs per game
68.1% TS

9.6 FTAs is insane. That is double what he was getting last season. He averaged 5.0, 3.3, 4.1 FTs per game last 3 years. 9.6 FTs per game is Michael Jordan-esque. It is lead the league in FTs level performance. Reaves is 2nd in the league in FTs only behind Luka Doncic who is on 10 FTs per game. SGA is 3rd at 9.0 FTs per game.

An interesting point made by Jason Timpf was that Reaves has scored 20+pts in every game he has played this season except for 1. That is a type of consistency that hasn't been there in the past. Reaves would have huge games. Then average games. It was yo-yo. It wasn't dependable.

The 68.1% TS on that scoring volume (28.8ppg) is incredible.

[Goldstar88]

Bucks lose to the Wizards. 

[Goldstar88]

dup

[Who]

Memphis having a little 3 game win streak (against poor sides) led by Zach Edey. 19ppg 17rpg 3.3bpg.

[Donoghus]

NBA Communications

@NBAPR
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16s
Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault and Detroit Pistons head coach J.B. Bickerstaff have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Coaches of the Month, respectively, for games played in October/November

[Donoghus]

New season, same news.

Shams Charania
@ShamsCharania
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2m
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson will miss extended time with a right adductor injury, sources tell ESPN. He will be re-evaluated in three weeks.

[Phantom255x]

New season, same news.

Shams Charania
@ShamsCharania
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2m
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson will miss extended time with a right adductor injury, sources tell ESPN. He will be re-evaluated in three weeks.

Yeah I'm getting real close to "he's a bust" category even at age 25, and frankly you start to wonder if his career is gonna last much longer. It's feeling like Embiid though Embiid had high level of play for much of his 20s and is 31 years old now. Zion's entire lower half is just suffering a ton of injuries and needed procedures or treatment.

[Who]

Injury prone dudes

* Anthony Davis - played 7 of 22 games
* Embiid - played 7 of 19 games
* Zion - played 10 of 21 games
* Porzingis - 12 of 22 games
* LaMelo - 14 of 21 games

LaMelo is winning!!

[Neurotic Guy]

Injury prone dudes

* Anthony Davis - played 7 of 22 games
* Embiid - played 7 of 19 games
* Zion - played 10 of 21 games
* Porzingis - 12 of 22 games
* LaMelo - 14 of 21 games

LaMelo is winning!!

Great post. Would need more data and some defining parameters of what constitutes an injury prone player, but this alludes to reliability that if you invest in an injury prone player you are kidding yourself to think that the player will reverse the trend.  I?m sure it happens, but it?s likely a big risk to invest in an injury prone player.  Can get lucky but it will eventually come back to haunt you.  Cs were very fortunate to get KP as healthy as he was in the championship season. 

Btw, Rob Williams has played in 13 out of 20.