2022-23 NBA Game Thread

[Just a bit outside]

For those that have criticized CJM for his timeout usage, including myself sometimes in game threads, Monty Williams showed the downside of using timeouts early and not trusting your team. He only has one timeout left and then uses it with 24.8 seconds left down 2 so when the Suns don’t score the game is essentially over. It may not have mattered but it would have been much better to trust Paul and Booker get the team into something and hold the timeout in case you needed to advance the ball later.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

Warriors with a 16-3 run over 4 min mid/late 4Q and take a 6-pt lead over the Wolves. Edwards and McDaniels espeically showing why you don’t win games in this league, especially on the road, with young players who don’t understand what is necessary to win game. They are still out there “playing” like it’s the 1Q while the Warriors stepped up their intensity and purpose down the stretch. Not the first time the Wolves have blown double digit 4Q leads this year……it seems like a once a week occurrence.

Edit: After I sent this Anthony Lamb, he of 70 career NBA games, keeps the Wolves in the game with a bonehead errant pass that results in a layup.

Edit2: Flashback to my summer league back in the day. How could that team of old D-2/D-3 players in their mid-30’s keep winning and making the Finals year after year going up against current 20-yr old D-1 players? I was baffled….once I hit my 30’s I realized why, BBIQ and experience matters.

 

[Obscure Name]

Warriors tried their best to blow it.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Dame with 41. At the half.

 

[ernieshore]

Dame with 41 in the first half against Houston.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

Dame with 41. At the half.

Came here to post that the 100 mark is going to be broken in the near future the way todays game is trending. If Dame can get a quick 3Q start is there a better team to allow little resistance to giving up triple digits to a player than this version of the Rockets?

 

[HomeRunBaker]

Clippers came out ready to go tonight. Down 6-0 and a TO after Jokic outran their entire team up the floor to accept a pass and lay it up before the Clippers even turned around.

 

[Sam Ray Not]

11 or more threes in game

Steph 12 times
Klay 4 times
Dame 3 times ... and counting. Just needs three in the second half to get there.

No one else has done it more than once.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

11 or more threes in game

Steph 12 times
Klay 4 times
Dame 3 times ... and counting. Just needs three in the second half to get there.

No one else has done it more than once.

He’s come out for the 3Q playing the distributor role with a couple assists.

Thybulle gets a T, pleads his case with the ref with Billups right there, ref tells him why it’s a foul, Thybulle tells him why he’s wrong…..then ref gives eye roll to Billups and says, (lip reading) “Will you talk to him?”

You had to see it to appreciate I guess.

 

[Kliq]

Jokic is the best player in the NBA at exploiting mismatches. If he gets a favorable matchup (which he often does) it feels like he takes full advantage of it 100% of the time.

 

[Euclis20]

Do you really think Kyrie is a defensive downgrade from Dinwiddie? I rate Kyrie’s defensive better than most (I gave him league average at his position) and while I’ve always been a Dinwiddie guy it’s been for what he creates offensively and certainly not defensively. The Mavs problems go much deeper than this…..they were before the trade too as they are devoid of quality talent throughout their rotation.

I don't, they are both lousy. Even if Kyrie is slightly better than Dinwiddie defensively (meh), the Mavs also gave up DFS, who was a very solid big wing defender. His absence means they are definitely a worse defensive team than they were a month ago. And Dinwiddie was a lousy fit with Luka as well, for all the same reasons that Kyrie is (I've never been a Dinwiddie guy, I think he's an inefficient oft-injured combo guard who can't play defense).

 

[HomeRunBaker]

I don't, they are both lousy. Even if Kyrie is slightly better than Dinwiddie defensively (meh), the Mavs also gave up DFS, who was a very solid big wing defender. His absence means they are definitely a worse defensive team than they were a month ago. And Dinwiddie was a lousy fit with Luka as well, for all the same reasons that Kyrie is (I've never been a Dinwiddie guy, I think he's an inefficient oft-injured combo guard who can't play defense).

Ah yes, this makes sense. I forgot about DFS.

 

[Kliq]

This man is absurd

View: https://twitter.com/Ballislife/status/1630047457299030016?s=20

 

[Sam Ray Not]

53 points on 17-27 fg. 9:55 left in a nine-point game. This could be fun...

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

I can’t believe Kawhi didn’t need a month off for load management after the 3OT game.

 

[BigSoxFan]

I am so, so grateful that Dame never got to team up with Embiid.

 

[ernieshore]

64.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

What a beast performance.

 

[ernieshore]

He’s 5 of 6 from over 30 feet.

So far.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

View: https://twitter.com/BradeauxNBA/status/1630059024166035457?t=4nk45meQI0RfzPLeJRLUxw&s=19

 

[ElUno20]

71 for Dame. He can erase kobe's 81 one day. I know he can

 

[BigSoxFan]

+/- leaders tonight for Portland:

Cam Reddish: +31
Matisse Thybulle: +30
Damian Lillard: +21

 

[Sam Ray Not]

Most efficient 70+ point game ever.

 

[ernieshore]

Players with more points in a game than Dame - Wilt, Kobe, David Thompson.

That’s it.

 

[ElUno20]

I feel like there's a shrinking window for Dame to get 82. Blazers, nothing to play for, let's get it done.

 

[ifmanis5]

This stat caught me by surprise.
View: https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1630059721960075264
Most 60+ games in NBA history
Wilt 32
Kobe 6
Dame 5

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

I'd love to see Dame prove me wrong but it feels like this was his limit. 22-38 from field including 13-22 from deep and a perfect 14-14 from the stripe in 39 minutes and he was gassed the last four minutes. Is it possible for him to be even more efficient?

 

[HomeRunBaker]

+/- leaders tonight for Portland:

Cam Reddish: +31
Matisse Thybulle: +30
Damian Lillard: +21

I watched over half of this game and I’m not even kidding……I don’t recall Reddish being on the floor. Had to look back to see that he played 31 minutes. Oh the (not)fun of plus-minus.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

I'd love to see Dame prove me wrong but it feels like this was his limit. 22-38 from field including 13-22 from deep and a perfect 14-14 from the stripe in 39 minutes and he was gassed the last four minutes. Is it possible for him to be even more efficient?

The resistance provided by the Rockets probably made Dame feel like he was shooting by himself in his driveway.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

The resistance provided by the Rockets probably made Dame feel like he was shooting by himself in his driveway.

He was definitely getting decent looks. The amount of work it takes to score, even efficiently, is crazy. Even against a poor team like Houston he had to earn the attempts.

I just wonder if he or anyone else can maintain the energy to keep scoring more efficiently, even against a soft defense.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

This Plumlee/Bryant back and forth battle is getting violent! Now Plumlee going to get a flagrant after this review.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

This game is great

 

[ElUno20]

This denver team has early exit written all over it. They are so basic outside of Jokic. It's just murray crossovers and deep 3s

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

This denver team has early exit written all over it. They are so basic outside of Jokic. It's just murray crossovers and deep 3s

Your team is scary, on the other hand.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

WHAT
A
FREAKIN
GAME!!!!

 

[ElUno20]

Your team is scary, on the other hand.

Nope. Their season ended friday. This is just purgatory. This team is pathetic in the clutch

 

[ElUno20]

On cue, boom.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Kawhi still looks pretty great to me, especially on D.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

Kawhi with the lockdown D all 4Q and drains a Joel Embiid shot just after the buzzer.

We do not deserve 5 extra minutes of this. We are not worthy.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

Clippers begin the OT just as they began the game. 7-0 Nuggets run in the first 1:10 and next possession MaMo somehow managed to hit the shot clock on a corner 3. Don’t ask.

 

[ElUno20]

Another garbage late game performance by PG. Cant wait to be rid of him once they get bounced from the play in.

Just a garbage ass team. No grit at all.

 

[The Social Chair]

No team with a Morris is winning a title.

 

[ElUno20]

No team with a Morris is winning a title.

And Lue, who ive loved for 3 years, is constantly giving this fucking traffic cone 20-30 minutes every damn night.

Covington is right there and plays defense.

 

[ElUno20]

I hate this team. Just bomb out, they'll be lucky to even make the play in. Trash top to bottom and cant guard anyone.

 

[TripleOT]

No team with a Morris is winning a title.

Outside of a bubble

 

[ElUno20]

So the lakers season is over
View: https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1630363560051187712?s=20


I wondered watching. It seemed very serious, especially with him saying he heard a pop.

 

[snowmanny]

It truly is a miracle to play through an injury so so serious it requires at least two...opinions...

 

[worm0082]

Miraculously. Wow.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Woj bombs >>>Shams bouquets

 

[HomeRunBaker]

It truly is a miracle to play through an injury so so serious it requires at least two...opinions...

Whenever there are multiple opinions it generally means the first opinion was season ending surgery. I know people hate LeBron but imagine if Pritchard played through and finished a game that required season ending surgery?