NBA Week 11 - Where the Pistons are on a one-game win streak

[Son of Skeletor]

Season's greetings Bball brothers, and welcome to the most festive week of the NBA season.

If you're anything like me, you struggle mightily when it comes to choosing gifts at this time of year. It's not just fighting for parking spots, or navigating the labyrinthine shopping malls that have become so uniformly similar that they're as tough to familiarise yourself with as the parking lots that service them. More than anything, when it comes to pondering potential presents, it's the agony of choice.

It got me to thinking about our NBA teams we know and love so well - what do they need?



Good help is hard to find these days - Boston & Milwaukee

These aristocrats of the NBA world seem to have it all, but fans continue to pot their respective coaches. It's probably too late to change horses midstream - so perhaps some special guest assistant coaches, bringing a few left-field ideas to iron out the gameplan deficiencies, wouldn't go astray in the meantime?

ML Carr and Rick Pitino are available as last minute bargains. Stocks are limited.



Those that are doing it tough in 2023 - Memphis & Cleveland

Life isn't always fair, what with wars, cost of living crises, pandemics and Kendrick Perkins being paid money to talk rubbish on ESPN. Many of us have loved ones who are a little down on their luck at the moment, but there are ways to brighten their day with a well chosen gift. For the Cavs and their fans, I suggest a commemorative DVD of their 2016 championship and a year's supply of RAT in case Sam Merrill or Dean Wade contract Covid. As for people like the Grizzlies who seem to have a permanent ward at the local hospital, why not arrange a special visitor this Christmas? Just make sure the water pistols and toy gun presents are just that, because... well, you know.

To quote a well-known Christmas classic: "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!''



The affluent folks with the spoiled kids who have everything - LA Lakers & Oklahoma City

It's a dilemma that's as old as time and possibly Stu Lantz - what to get the folks whose cupboards are already crammed full and their purses overflowing? And who despite this largesse still often act like jerks? Well don't you worry, because the Thunder are in line to receive a new taxpayer-funded arena for their stolen franchise with a million future draft picks in the piggy bank. I think Qantas would be proud of that Christmas bonus. As for the Lakers, they have the money, the stars, the fans, the riches and the history, so there's only one thing for it...

Nothing says 'screw you' to an insufferably wealthy acquaintance quite like giving a KMart gift card at Yuletide. Or an IST banner.



The poor, the indigent and the abused - Detroit & Washington

Life at the bottom of the social pyramid is often a vicious circle of dependence, hopelessness and despair. These poor souls need something, anything to take their minds off the wretchedness of their tenuous existence. Some may suggest a year's subscription to Netlfix might be in festive order, but these people often don't even own a television or laptop - we're still confirming whether that's for economic reasons, or rather because they threw them out the window after watching their chosen NBA teams. The truth is that, like many of the stray puppies and kittens at the RSPCA, what they really need is a new owner.

An abandoned puppy or kitten might also make a nice present. They'd probably leave less sh1t on the floor too.



The stockbroker Uncle who's liable to have one too many Christmas beers - Golden State & Phoenix

We've all got that relative or friend who likes to live every day like it's their last - the risk takers who can be entertaining, but can also often be their own worst enemy. With economies all over the world stagnating, it's a good time to go back to basics with gift-giving - there's nothing wrong with wrapping up a good old-fashioned book for some enlightening holiday reading. Self-improvement books are often a popular choice.

Paying the luxury tax when your current circumstances dictate you're just a normal working stiff seems cruel.



The Agony of Choice, Part II - Pacific Parity

I'd just like to draw attention to the state of the Pacific Division for the 23/24 season - I'm not sure we've ever seen a division like it.

Not only is it tough to choose who will top the division, but it's equally tough to predict who might finish bottom. Conceivably any of the four California teams or Phoenix might win the division - however it's equally conceivable that any of those teams could finish bottom of the pile!

Pre-season the Suns would have been the favourites. The Kings won the division last year, and lead it again at present. After the IST tournament, folks were declaring the Lakers a title threat, then they went MIA. Meanwhile after a stumbling start to the season, suddenly the Clips put together a blistering few weeks, only to fall flat on their faces again in recent days. Oh, and the team currently bringing up the rear has won 4 championships from 6 Finals appearances in the past decade, including one as recently as 18 months ago.

If you're feeling brave, post your final Pacific Division finishing order below. If anyone picks it correctly, peternorth has promised to donate a year's modding salary as prizemoney. OK I might have made that last part up, so instead I'll promise to donate all the money I made writing this Xmas OP.


Coming Up:

Tuesday - Christmas rivalries everywhere. The Nugs and Dubs renew their 'mole' rivalry, while the Sixers and Jimmy Butler will do their thing in South Beach. Oh, and just for a change the Lakers will appear on Christmas Day, hosting the auld enemy in Boston. I'm expecting no emotional posts whatsoever.

Wednesday - the NBA's 'have-nots' take centre stage while the rest of America is out getting into fist fights over discount toasters. Top dogs in the West, Minny and OKC, do battle in what TV executives fervently hope is not a preview of the WCF. Meanwhile the Pels will try not to blow another lead to Ja Morant and the suddenly buoyant Grizz.

Thursday - Markelle Fultz may watch on as his Magic host the red-hot Sixers. The Bucks continue their 'exclusively NY' road trip against the Nets after playing 18 of their first 28 at home. The Suns battle the Rockets in Houston in the Jock Landale Cup.

Friday - If you saw the Bulls possibly catching the Pacers in the standings a fortnight ago, you're a savant. Anyway, they meet in Indy. A resurgent Memphis visit the champs in the Mile High City, plus a real battle of the geezers between the Dubs and Heat.

Saturday - Are the Magic a good team? If the Knicks beat them, then probably not. The Nuggets will seek home-cooking revenge on the upstart Thunder who upset them last week, in a game with playoff seeding ramifications.

Sunday - This could be the day - unless the Pistons can top the Nets or Celtics this week, they'll need to beat the Raptors in Detroit to avoid the all-time mark for futility. Elsewhere the Knicks and Pacers lock horns like it's 1994, while the Lakers seek to avoid consecutive defeats at the hands of the Wolves.


Merry Christmas guys - may your stockings be stuffed fuller than Zion after a Christmas ham.

 

[Son of Skeletor]

Welcome to 2024 friends, as we say goodbye to another year filled with ducking, flopping, beef, trade requests, violence, counselling, suspensions and some basketball. Also the Knicks say goodbye to RJ Barrett, and the Pistons finally say goodbye and good riddance to the equal longest losing streak in NBA history.

The end of a year is naturally a time to look back, and given the poor old Pistons have been frequently chastised as possibly 'The Worst Team in NBA History' TM in many media circles, I thought it'd be a fun exercise to look back at some of the competition in that regard. A trip down memory lane to revisit some the real duffers in hoops history.

In no particular order, I present to you the real creme de la creme of poor passing, sucky shooting, damnable defending, hideous hooping teams. All filler, no killer, the worst the worst, the pioneers of really, really bad basketball.

If you were a fan of any of these particular teams, then I apologise in advance. And if you're just a fan of basketball who'd wiped the memory of these teams who committed crimes against the sport long ago, I'm sorry for making you re-live these slow motion car crashes.

Without further ado, here are the Seven Wonders of the World - the seven contenders for the worst NBA team in recent memory*


*I'm only going back 30 years, as few here would remember much before that. I'm also avoiding expansion teams for obvious reasons.



1992/93 DALLAS MAVERICKS

Record: 11-71

MOV: - 15.2 ppg

Notable players: Derek Harper, Jim Jackson (R), Tim Legler


The 1990s were a baaaaaad time if you were a Mavs fan. Like REALLY bad. The Mavs won a mere 199 games between 1990 and 1999, just 28% of their total games or an average record of 23-59 per season. Life before Dirk and Mark Cuban was a never ending circus of rebuilds, baffling trades, fired coaches and possibly maybe Toni Braxton.

The real nadir - and it was up against some pretty stiff opposition - occurred between 1992 and 1994, when the Mavs won just 24 games. In TWO seasons, combined. Yes, you read that correctly.

The 92/93 Mavs went perilously close to setting a record that probably would never have been surpassed as a feat of incompetence. With their top rookie Jim Jackson holding out the first 50-odd games of the season due to a contract dispute - yep, rookie contracts were a very different animal back then - doleful Dallas opened the season losing 57 of their first 61 games. If that pace had continued, it'd have resulted in a SIX win season. In which case, I doubt there would have been any who would've denied these Mavs the crown as the absolute worst of all time.

As it happened, Jackson joined the team late season, and Dallas 'rallied' by winning 7 of their final 21 games, thereby avoiding ignominy by overhauling the 72/73 Sixers and avoiding the worst record of all time. But boy was this a bad team. It's arguable that aside from Harper and Jackson, most of the rest of the roster probably wouldn't have earned spots on any other NBA team at the time, let alone some of them starting and finishing games.

What's particularly amazing about the 90s Mavs is that just a few years earlier, they appeared on the cusp of a potential dynasty. Thanks largely to the profligacy of Ted Stepien's Cavs and some astute drafting using their copious resulting draft picks, the 1988 Mavs got within one game of the Finals. And this wasn't a particularly old team either. However calamitous trading, poor drafting, personal problems and bad injury luck destroyed that roster within a couple of years (Harper the only survivor, he too soon to depart) and it took a full decade and a lanky German teenager for the franchise to fully recover.

One final note - the 93/94 Mavs were scarcely better, posting a 13-69 record. One quirk though was that they went 5-0 against the Timberwolves that season, which gives you an idea of the state of the pre-Garnett Wolves. At one point Dallas was 4-0 vs Minny, and 1-42 against the rest of the league.

No this isn't a cast of characters in a fictional film - this was an actual NBA team.



1997-98 DENVER NUGGETS

Record: 11-71

MOV: -11.8 ppg

Notable players: LaPhonso Ellis, Bryant Stith, Bobby Jackson (R), Danny Fortson (R), Tony Battie (R)


Much like the 90s Mavs, it was hard to believe it ever came to this for the poor old Nuggets.

In 1994, they famously had a Cinderella run through the playoffs, falling one game short of an improbable WCF appearance with a young but talented squad. Over the next twelve months they added Jalen Rose and Antonio McDyess via the draft. And yet just two years later, they were forced to trade McDyess to Phoenix in an attempt to kickstart a rebuild after the roster had been nuked to Armageddon. So what the hell happened?

Well, in brutally concise terms... Bernie Bickerstaff happened. I'm sure that's cold comfort to modern day Cleveland fans such as our own nahnah , but it's nonetheless not far from the truth. While some things - LaPhonso Ellis and Bryant Stith's injuries and Mahmoud Abdul Rauf's strange demise come to mind - were perhaps not wholly within Denver's control, it's still hard to fathom how a young team filled with talented high draft picks cratered so hard, so quickly. Mutombo gone. Abdul Rauf gone. Rose gone. Questionable veteran additions such as Mark Jackson, Dale Ellis, Kenny Smith and Rickey Pierce come and gone like hotel guests. The last remaining family jewels in the form of McDyess pawned off in a desperate attempt to salvage some kind of future.

The Nuggets hadn't just torn it all down, they'd burned the demolished remnants and the flushed the charred dust down the toilet. It was quite a feat.

This is the context within which the 1997-98 Denver Nuggets appear in this list. Ellis and Stith were still around, reminders of both better days but also of how injuries had cruelled their careers. Other than that the roster was a collection of cast-offs, journeymen and the three 1997 first round picks around whom the Nuggets hoped to begin their rebuild - Battie, Fortson and Jackson. It didn't go so well.

The Nuggets got off to a 2-38 start, before eventually sailing home with a wet sail to pip the 1973 Sixers' infamous record. The team shot an eye-watering 41% on the season under new coach Bill Hanzlik. Somehow he never coached again in the NBA.

By way of footnotes, Mike D'Antoni took over coaching duties the following season. He too lasted just one season before the Nuggets went back to Dan Issel in an attempt to recapture the magic of the early 90s. It never really took. Also McDyess famously resigned with the Nuggets as a free agent just 12 months after they'd dealt him to Phoenix in one of the stranger free agent sagas in NBA history. Nobody could accuse the 90s Nuggets of being boring then.



1999-2000 LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS

Record: 15-67

MOV: -11.5 ppg

Notable players: Lamar Odom (R), Michael Olowokandi, Derek Anderson, Maurice Taylor, Eric Piatkowski.


While Lakers fans and people who otherwise enjoy a little schadenfreude probably miss Donald Sterling, it's fair to say that slum tenants, franchise employees and the traumatised few who constituted the Clippers' fanbase in those days certainly don't.

The 1999-2000 Clips were in the midst of a barren 12-season stretch where they never cracked .500. You had to give them points for consistency, because they'd had an identical 10-season stretch during the first decade of Sterling's ownership, beginning in 1981. That left Sterling's record as owner by 2005 as 24 seasons for three playoff appearances, two seasons above .500, a high watermark of 45 wins, no playoff series wins and one pointless franchise move to a city which already had an established institution in the Lakers representing it. Feats of incompetence don't come much more staggering than that.

Anyway, picking the worst Clippers team in that era is like trying to choose the most obnoxious media performer on ESPN - very difficult. I could easily have gone with the 94-95 Clippers (17-65), the 97-98 Clippers (17-65) or the magnificent bastards who led the lockout Clippers to a 9-41 record in 1999. The latter can consider itself particularly (un)lucky.

It's a damning indictment on the 1999-2000 Clips that a 20-year old Lamar Odom was able to produce an exceptional rookie year, immediately becoming by far the best player on the team - and yet the team was still only able to cobble together a measly 15 wins. This was a team that managed a 46 point loss to the Suns, a team that lost by 37 points to the Jazz, a team that somehow conspired to lose by 31 points on their home court to a Warriors team who finished with just 19 wins that season. A team who managed three double digit loss streaks that season, including 17 in a row at the tail end of the season. This was the team who Shaq infamously posted a 61 & 23 night against, in an era of extremely low-scoring games.

In short, this was one of the most gloriously ill-constructed teams of all time. And nobody epitomised that more than the man who guarded Shaq that night, the man who was taken at #1 in the loaded 1998 draft. The man, the myth, the legend - Michael Olowokandi. In an era filled with big men busts taken at the pointy end of the draft, the Kandi Man might just have earned the mantle as the biggest flop of them all. Not that it mattered to the Clippers in those days - even on the rare occasions they drafted good players, Sterling's inherent cheapness often meant they'd be gone quicker than a non-white person in the owner's box seats.

Shoutout to one of the weirder cult heroes of all time too, the Polish Rifle himself, Eric Piatkowski, who somehow not only managed to survive nine years in Sterling's circus franchise, but even more impressively managed to gain the affection of Clips fans and maintain his sanity in the process. Bravo.

At least Lamar knew how to play basketball. He also knew which way to point to the nearest exit.



2004-05 ATLANTA HAWKS

Record: 13-69

MOV: -9.8 ppg

Notable players: Antoine Walker, Al Harrington, Tyronn Lue, Boris Diaw, Josh Smith (R), Josh Childress (R)


As you may have noticed is becoming a pattern with these all-time worst, the 04/05 Hawks were in the middle of an incredibly barren stretch. A relatively stable franchise in the last two decades of the 20th century, Atlanta had several times - notably in 86/87, 94/94 and 96/97 - come close to cracking the elite group of title contenders, but never quite had enough to get over the hump.

Rightly perceiving the need to rebuild an aging squad at the conclusion of the lockout-shortened 99 season, the Hawks proceeded to completely blow the rebuild. Steve Smith was traded for veterans in Jim Jackson and Isaiah Rider who helped little and were soon gone. Mookie Blaylock was traded for the pick than became Jason Terry - an example of a correct rebuilding move - however the Hawks subsequently flipped Terry to Dallas on the eve of this season for Antoine Walker in a move that remains perplexing to this day. They signed Stephen Jackson fresh off a championship run with the Spurs, and then traded him for Al Harrington. They meanwhile turned Dikembe Mutombo into Glenn Robinson by way of Toni Kukoc, swapped the draft rights for Pau Gasol for Shareef Abdur-Rahim, and traded Abdur-Rahim himself to Portland for Sheed, only to turn around the next day and gift him to the Pistons for the draft pick that became Josh Smith.

If you've kept track of all that, the Hawks eventually ended up with Walker and Harrington, having shipped off Abdur-Rahim and Glenn Robinson. Oh, and they had Sheed for one game. I guess the Hawks just really, really liked their volume-scoring forwards in those days.

Having tried but failed to return to contention building around Terry and Abdur-Rahim - Atlanta went 28-54 in 03/04 - the Hawks went nuclear on the roster, but somehow ended up with an even more confusing mismatch of parts. The result was a god-awful 13 win season that not very many people remember, and subsequently the #2 pick in the 2005 Draft, which is something people generally do remember, as they used it to pick Marvin Williams instead of Chris Paul.

Overall the Hawks won 35 games or fewer for eight straight years between 1999 and 2007, with the above teardown eventually bequeathing a team built around Joe Johnson, 2004-05 alumni Smith, Al Horford and Williams. This group in turn got the Hawks back to what they do best - losing in the first and second round of the playoffs.

As a postscript, I love the fact that a young Boris Diaw and Josh Smith shared time on this hideous team - the man who refused to shoot, paired with the man who refused not to shoot.

Legend has it Boris chose his number based on the number of wins he expected Atlanta to have, not his daily number of espressos.



2011-12 CHARLOTTE BOBCATS

Record: 7-59

MOV: -13.9 ppg

Notable players: Boris Diaw, Corey Magette, DJ Augustin, Kemba Walker (R), Bismack Biymobo (R)


Ah yes, now we're really moving into well known, terrible territory.

Nothing about the Bobcats seemed quite right from the beginning - not their convoluted (re)birth, not their widely-panned nickname, not their colours, and certainly not their attempt to create a roster built for sustained success.

Instead of Dwight, they ended up with Emeka Okafor at their first draft. Instead of Deron Williams or Chris Paul in 2005, they ended up with the rotund Raymond Felton. And for an encore they made on of the all-time great top-3 meme picks in NBA history in 2006 with the legendary Adam Morrison.

It's low-hanging fruit to beat up too much on an expansion team though, and to be fair the Bobcats got some things right - witness the theft of a young Gerald Wallace away from the then-loaded Kings. And by 2009-10, they had got things together sufficiently to make a maiden playoff appearance under Larry Brown, albeit the briefest of appearances at that.

That 2010 team actually boasted the toughest defence in the league, built around veterans such as Wallace, Stephen Jackson and Diaw, and anchored by Tyson Chandler. But it was spacing and scoring challenged, light on depth, and it was all about to fall apart incredibly quickly.

Jackson was aging, while the athletic pair Wallace and Chandler began to see their bodies break down. Meanwhile Felton fled to the Knicks, and Diaw was left the fattest player on the team in his departure. Brown saw the writing on the wall and left soon after, followed quickly by all the major components of that 2010 team.

Where that left the Bobcats by 2011 was with a bunch of mid-to-late lottery picks - Augustin, Gerald Henderson, Biyombo and Kemba - and the ghost of Corey Maggette past. Diaw became so rotund and maligned that he was cut, only to subsequently walk to the Spurs and rejuvenate his career. Paul Silas was wheeled out of semi-retirement to steer the ship, but the team started 3-26, and it only got worse from there. Dead last in offence. Dead last in defence. League leader in memes and wisecracks - it was a potent combination, the perfect storm.

A barnstorming 23 loss streak to end the season saw Charlotte overhaul the '73 Sixers with the lowest win percentage for a season of all time, and a place in basketball infamy. Who will ever forget Byron Mullens, Derrick Brown or DJ White? Well everyone possibly, but we'll never forget this team, nor the overall weirdness that was the Bobcats. Also, I don't know how to feel about the fact that Boris Diaw was on two of the worst teams of all time...






2015-16 PHILADELPHIA 76ERS

Record: 10-72

MOV: -10.2 ppg

Notable players: Nerlens Noel, Jahlil Okafor (R), Robert Covington, Jerami Grant, TJ McConnell (R)


This is all so recent that you don't really need the additional commentary. Just three words - Trust. The. Process. - brings it all flooding back. We all know the Sixers were bad by design, but there's some notable postscripts we can look back on now with the benefit of hindsight.

The first thing that pops up when you look back at this team is that they unearthed several young role players - Covington, Grant, McConnell, Richaun Holmes, and even a young Christian Wood - who have gone on to have lengthy careers. This may have been one of the worst teams of all time, but it was a viable starting point for a lot of relatively successful NBA careers.

The other thing that is noteworthy in hindsight was Sam Hinkie using three successive high lottery picks on big guys, two of whom - Noel and Okafor - were quickly to fall foul of the rapidly evolving, downsizing, spacing-premium NBA. The third of course was Embiid, who missed this entire season, as he had his rookie year. Hinkie might have messed up on some picks, but he was ultimately proven correct to play the long game with Embiid, both in terms of health and talent.

The great 'what if' of course is how Hinkie would have managed the next stage of the rebuild, with Embiid, Simmons and Dario Saric arriving the next season. Cynics might suggest he would have continued to refuse to splash money in free agency, but as Sam Presti has proven again in Oklahoma, this is not necessarily an impediment to future success.

These Sixers were undoubtedly one of the worst offensive NBA teams of all time, in addition to their bald record - they couldn't shoot a lick, and turned it over for fun, all the by-product of a lack of spacing around two paint-bound bigs in Okafor and Noel. Whether Hinkie would have been prepared to move one or the other, especially with the imminent additions of Embiid and Simmons, is another intriguing 'what if?'.

Ultimately it was taking those three bigs in successive drafts, combined with Embiid's slow return to health, that undid Hinkie's tenure in Philly more than anything. Whether he'd have ever been open to pushing the envelope and trading for the likes of Jimmy Butler or Tobias Harris is an open question, but in hindsight things were not as bad as they looked for the 2016 Sixers.

And as we've seen, they were hardly the first NBA team to go through a long stretch of abominable basketball.

Trust the process, but don't forget the outside shooting.



2023-24 DETROIT PISTONS

Record: 3-29

MOV: -10.9 ppg

Notable players: Cade Cunningham, Jaden Ivey, Jalen Duren, Bojan Bogdanovic, Isaiah Stewart, Ausar Thompson (R), Marvin Bagley III


And so we come full circle to our modern day record-breakers, Deeeee-Troit Basketball.

I'll leave it to the eye of the beholder to judge whether this truly is the worst team in the history of basketball. My own initial impression is that I'd take the talent on this roster over some of the previously listed abominable teams. Perhaps that's damning with faint praise, but it is what it is.

I will say that I am struck by the parallels with the 2015-16 Sixers, particularly when it comes to roster imbalance and lack of spacing despite a plethora of high draft picks. Of course the modern-day Pistons do not have Joel Embiid waiting in the wings. In fact they don't even have a Dario Saric to come. However I still think they're better placed than some of these teams - including the 2012 Bobcats - to make their way out of the cellar sooner rather than later.

I'll kick it to you guys - thoughts on the Pistons, and the worst team of all time? If you're feeling brave, whack a vote in the poll.


Coming Up:

Monday - the Lakers visit the Pels. Which is truly the most cursed team of all? Can the Pels show up for a game which matters? All will be revealed. Also, the up and down Kings visit the up and down Griz, and the under-fire Suns host the Magic.

Tuesday - Grudge Tuesday kicks off as Thibs plots Minny's demise when they visit NY, while the Bucks and Pacers renew hositlities. The Clips host the Heat, but who knows who will be healthy for that one.

Wednesday - Game of the day is in Oklahoma, where the Thunder welcome the Celtics to town. Length, length everywhere. If the Magic can steal a win in San Francisco, it might be officially time to worry about the Dubs.

Thursday - the Pacers and Bucks meet for no less than the 5th time already, this time in Indy. Thibs hosts yet another of his former teams as the Bulls and Knicks do battle, while there's a showdown between ex-teammates and alleged franchise killers Durant and Harden in LA.

Friday - Slim pickings here, but the Dubs host the defending champs. Watching Giannis and Wemby share the same court will be like watching aliens.

Saturday - A lot of potential eight-point games here. Take your pick between Sixers/Knicks, Rockets/Wolves, Pels/Clippers, Nugs/Magic, Suns/Heat and Lakers/Griz. Who said January was boring?

Sunday - Boston might seek revenge when visiting the upstart Pacers, while the Greek Freak pays the Turkish Terror a visit in Houston.


Have a great 2024 everyone.

 

[stewie griffen]

That's 2 time nba champion Adam Morrison there SoS

 

[Memphis]

JT with the calvin cambridge attempt but no bucket.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Best way to sum up the Knicks/Toronto trade is after the trade New Yorks title winning odds didnt change one single cent

 

[peternorth]

That's 2 time nba champion Adam Morrison there SoS

Lets not forget, Morrison made the #6 before lebron rocked up

 

[peternorth]

Lakers clearly thinking about NYE.


Williamson apparently takes mental data about his opponents each time. Funny way of saying buffet

 

[WWSD]

Kings put in a complete performance against the Grizzles. Monk is a top candidate for sixth man of the year award.

 

[stewie griffen]

Lakers clearly thinking about NYE.


Williamson apparently takes mental data about his opponents each time. Funny way of saying buffet

Send da video

 

[Son of Skeletor]

That's 2 time nba champion Adam Morrison there SoS

I stand chastened and rebuked, clearly more than a walking meme.

Now I'm going to take a shower, which is more than Mr. Morrison could apparently manage.

Lakers clearly thinking about NYE.


Williamson apparently takes mental data about his opponents each time. Funny way of saying buffet

After you guys whooped us by 50 points in the IST, I was taking mental data too.

The mental data told me that I should take semi-lethal amounts of intoxicants and forget basketball was ever invented.

 

[Nicho50]

Randle had started well again 15 in the first. Last I saw we were down by 10 and flicked it back on at work and we are up by a couple.

 

[Nicho50]

Brunson scoreless in the first now has 11 very quickly in the second.

 

[Nicho50]

OG been pretty good so far some nice D work and a bit of scoring. Very much an upgrade on what RJ could offer.

 

[Nicho50]

Brunson having a mare in the last missed so many shots. 22 point Knicks lead is down to 4. Wolves are coming hard.

 

[Nicho50]

The best in the West couldn't handle the Randle.

 

[peternorth]

Send da video

 

[peternorth]

The number 8 jersey is now joint second most worn in NY along with 7, 4 and 3. Number 5 leads all numbers with no less than 28 times worn.

Interestingly, DaQuan Jeffries wore the number on the 20th of December, 2023! 8 is a very much recycled number with the most recent 9 players coming from other ball clubs

 

[carlton_99]

The best in the West couldn't handle the Randle.

 

[scaryness]

New Year's GmSc MVP update

 

[NSWCROW]

Cousin Ish

 

[Gak Attack]

We killed the streak.

Cam Whitmore needs minutes.

 

[Toffee Lion]

Pacers playing their grand final well.

Such a meh team that for whatever reason likes to step it up against the Bucks.

 

[DT_35]

No game ball for Giannis today….

 

[Toffee Lion]

No game ball for Giannis today….

Probably still deserves it for how bad the rest of his teammates were today.

Pacers are such a medicore team but they've got some juju on us at the moment. Would love to have a series against them for a pretty comfortable 4-0 sweep.

 

[NSWCROW]

PACMAN !!!

Todays kids just don't knowwww