don't know if Jokic is to make trade demands, seems more the type of stay with a franchise and wait till everything falls in place. That's that then for MPJ ever reaching his potential then, hey?
Jamal and Jokic is still a mean one-two punch though, but yea it's looking like that MPJ contract has set them back for a while now.

the chase for Most Improved Player is interesting this year:
Tyler Herro
Jodan Poole
Miles Bridges
Tyrese Maxey
who else did i forget?

Herro will probably end up getting Sixth Man, so that will clear the way for the others...

Lu Dort

Zion cleared to rejoin 5 on 5, it's too late between the injuries to him and BI our season is completely dead.

But still intrigued to see how all it fits together because as of now this season has like 3 and a half bright spots lmao.

Lakers are hilarious losing triple overtime blockbusters against the Kings at crypto.com arena

Lakers' role players are really bad. Only Melo is good at his catch-and-shoot role lmao.

Hopefully Morant's injury isn't season-ending, sucks when stars get injured.

Even when we win, which we did i fucking hate playing Utah.

For some reason we always get fucked by refs and Gobert is bitching every single possession.

Fuck Utah.

if the season ended today, Steph definitely makes an all-defense team

hope this continues, would be beautiful to see him make one

Valanciunas abused the Clippers last night

Speaking of which the Grizzlies are lucky as all hell that we've had so many injuries so our record sucks.

Because if we didn't them deciding to trade Valenciunas for Adams, Bledsoe etc would be rightly ridiculed.

it's already ridiculous tbf, and we all knew it when it happened

Smart people sure but people have been defending it and when the trade happened i saw multiple saying Grizzlies won the trade lol.

So glad for Valanciunas he got out of Toronto when he did. Been balling since then and reaching new heights.

I don't blame people for saying "XXXX won the trade" right after it happens

From what i understand Grizzlies wanted to use JJJ as 5 and it made no sense to keep Valanciunas as back-up. They advanced at the draft to pick a player they wanted, Ziaire Williams, wait and see how he does.

Of course, as it is, Pelicans have won the trade. But it doesn't mean Grizzlies made a stupid move.

I don't either, I'm more criticising the people who are still on that hill lol.

Also JJJ has played LESS center than he did last season, we should probably be honest about what this is.

They traded Valenciunas for future assets because they didn't want to pay him, which isn't a terrible idea in theory but the assets they got just weren't good enough.

Every move they made this off season suggests management aren't all in competing but Ja is developing faster than they probably envisioned and he could probably use more help now.

Are the Lakers just like, a bad team?

^^yea... they came back though after your post

Suns deserve our respect... they play hard. Inside defense our biggest problem as i've said before, and why i fear the Deer the most as a potential Finals matchup.

There's only 3 good teams in the West lol, some of it is due to injuries but rn there's only 3.

there's really nothing like the system (Stephen). Add this to his GOAT debate

Zion with yet another setback. I wonder if the bone on his foot not healing properly is because of his posture or leg position or whatever you should call it, combined with his weight. He's always looked like he's standing and walking a bit funny.

Currently Lavine, Derozan, Harden and now Giannis are sidelined by covid protocols, plus a bunch of different level role players. I was thinking, aren't the playoffs going to be super lame is the covid situation stays like this? Sporting integrity will be out of the window.

think it's the winter wave/surge... let their immune systems grow stronger defense now and we'll be all good to go in May

It's not a winter surge, it's the Omicron surge. Not saying the situation couldn't improve by the spring, but this isn't a "normal" surge when the vaccination levels are pretty high.

omicron
somnicron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNS09Rt4u8

I'm not an expert, but I'm inclined to think that this guy is the greatest shooter in NBA history. But then again, I'm not an expert.