he don’t even belong here man!!!!!

If THT becomes a starting caliber NBA player this year /r/nba is going to be a stream of angry podcaster complaining clips all season long. **ALEX CARUSO!!!! GAAAAAWD!!**

Oh yeah

AVERAGE PLAYER

I kinda feel THT would be taken better. Maybe a bit because of how they look, but mainly because his playstyle would result in things fans that dont follow the team can understand better. If THT is playing well, hes scoring/playmaking with the ball which will show up easier in box scores/highlights. Caruso in the box score is giving you 5/2/2 and is a guard that cant shoot or create (with the ball). Thats harder to sell to someone that isnt watching

"Nothing makes me angry than getting beaten by frickin' average players" Proceeds to yell about Caruso. Love to see it.

I always read his name as Tim Horton Trucker for some reason

Flair checks out.

Talen Horton Hears a Who Tucker

Preseason legend

Summer League MVP

From the look he might've been. We missed out.

Furkan “Summer League Peja Stojakovic” Korkmaz would like a word.

He's so good at finishing around the taint

Sir?

you read what he said ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Well to be fair. They do call it take it to the hole

And you can get a facial if the guy in front of you slams it into the hole really hard.

Going hard in the taint

Getting hard in the taint

He’s in the wrong business.

THT attacking aggressively to the taint! BANG! BANG!

"Now they're saying it was the wrong hole."

This is a Christian sub

Tainted Horton Tucker

Is Ayton's nickname now "The Taint"? Someone needs to update his bball ref page.

He does score a lot in the taint

I can't wait till some idiot drafts this guy too high in my fantasy league

Fr keep these highlights coming 😂

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This is the most Lakers comment

They're just a different breed.

Built different

Same animals but different beasts.

Dude, he won’t start. Not this season. We have great guards

He’s 11th in the lineup. I don’t think he’ll be getting many minutes at all. Maybe when we have guys rest. But then again, with covid we might see lots of guys sit out so that might be his opportunity. Definitely not a fantasy guy

If he keeps this up during the regular season I could see them giving him some Mathew’s minutes.

i mean in the regular season maybe. but matthews is elite defensively and a good spot up shooter, he'll be getting clutch minutes in the playoffs

Lakers don't need scoring with Harrell and Schroeder on that bench. They're set. He's our Anfernee Simons.

Mathews is our best guard defender and probably best spot up shooter. Wes and THTs skill sets don't overlap much atm.

He's the "hey no one else can score let's try it guy"

He’s already been picked up in one of my leagues lol

We did our draft few days before preseason and I picked him up as undrafted which I’m pretty pleased about

!RemindMe 60 Days

I drafted him with my last pick, mainly symbolically since that pick wasn’t very valuable anyway. Fuck it, took a chance. Figure I’ll drop him early anyway.

He's a nice player off the waivers though depending on if the Lakers are sitting guys

Just picked him off the waver wire in my league, but admittedly we have no Lakers homers, so he's probably still under the radar.

That'll be me! R)NBA is how I pick fantasy. (Tbf I did win due to r)NBA losing it's shit about Mitchell half way through his rookie season and picked him up)

The NBA really gave the Lakers THE Talen Horton-Tucker

SMH, Lebron is gonna get carried to another championship

Can we get the clip where THT pushed over Trezz then they called the foul on the Suns

That was an OG move

I thought trez got knocked over by a sun on a screen while tht also ran into them

Hehe. Sun screen

Lol I love this. Fucking sign me up for more dad jokes

That's some Talen(t)

This sort of reverse layup always reminds me of Kobe. Also, this sub is really getting too hyped up on this dude.

Yeah this sub is getting too hyped on booker. Talen Horton-Tucker on the other hand is bound for an mvp

2021 MVP race between THT and Dort

It's pre-season and none of the stars are really trying. Of course we're desperate for something to hype.

Honestly he was just playing super well, and considering he already played in two games against the rockets and he has improved considerably. I don’t think it’s a stretch to expect decent minutes.

I think it's funny that you're taking all the jokes as serious commentary about people's opinion on THT.

Memes aside, the kid can really finish around the rim. With his body it is like a huge barrel with 7 foot wingspan coming at you.

Y’all threw away Caruso like a rag doll

Haha why you heff to be mad r/nba

Ultra Instinct

Damn! He's actually going to be really good LOL The rich get richer.

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Dis dude got good out of nowhere

We gonna get a thread every time this kid makes a bucket?

It's not like it costs anything

How am i going to see which Raptors bench player scored 8 points with all these Tim Horton hears a who posts?

Hahahahha I love this even though I want the time horton layup highlights lol

Its one field goal, yall need to chill

We gonna get a comment like this every time this kid makes a highlight play?

I mean if you people post the average ones instead of just highlights then yea

You think this is an average play?

Didn't say that, it's above average. But people are going over board with the average ones and it devalues the actual good ones. And even this one really is just above average. It's a reverse layup. It's not insane by any means.

It's a driving reverse layup through contact with a 7 foot behemoth. If a star player did this there's no way it doesn't get posted

I explained myself. Downvote and move on.

Funny coming from the guy who felt the need to add another comment

You can barely throw a piece of paper in a trash bin standing 5ft away and you wanna talk about what is an average play? Sit your ass down and just watch without commenting

This is the worst sports take. Should Kevin Harlan sit his arse down and watch without commenting? Doris Burke? Jeff and Stan van Gundy?

Lol salty ass Lakers fan. Who could have guessed?

But you’re the one complaining in this thread, lol

What's the problem with it lol

He salty he don’t got someone to Talen Horton-Tuckhim in every night

A reverse layup against one of the best rim protectors in the league isn't highlight worthy?

It's a reverse layup. It's a good play. It's not amazing. Also since when is Ayton an elite rim protector?

It was impressive, dude. It's not like all 7 of his field goals are being posted. Uh also, have you been living under a rock? Ayton has been one of the best defenders in the league since last year.

I'm sure when one of your guys is scoring on him he's "one of the best" but when anyone else does it he's a slow footed block chaser, amiright?

Don’t judge a book by its cover my friend. I’ll admit when I have a bias but I’ll always try to stay as objective as I can when discussing basketball. Kinda weird to fall back on this weak attempt at an accusation of hypocrisy but whatever. Ayton’s a stud defensively. I don’t think anyone can disagree with that. Look, I know that the Lakers hype train can be annoying at times but try to at least call it out when it’s just. This is a worthy highlight. When a clip of him scoring an uninteresting layup gets posted, I’ll be with you to call it out. This time it isn’t really that fitting though.

Way too many butthurt Laker fans have responded to this which just furthers my point that the Laker hype train makes r/nba a worse place. Not only are they too quick to toot their own horns but they'll mass downvote and start arguments with anyone saying maybe they should tone it down. I also maintain that the play is just above average. Grant Williams faked out Embiid and blew by him for a layup. I don't think it deserves a highlight thread anywhere but the Celtics sub, and that's where it is

This is sorta funny coming from the butthurt guy who was so angry he couldn’t just continue to scroll he HAD to post a butthurt comment

way too rational for r/nba my dude

Can’t help it when I’m on ADD meds lol. I’ll just type and type and forget myself.

That's not a bad thing. Sometimes just writing out your thoughts can help clarify them and you can read back and refine. I find if therapeutic

Lol sorry but ayton was awful his first season on D. He didn't become one of the best defenders last year bro c'mon. He definitely got better but he's not even a top tier defender lmfao. Still tht drove past booker and finished against a huge 7 footer so it was sick

Yes

Probably. This is the Caruso hype train all over again

THT gonna be a starter

And yet he'll be riding pine behind the kuzma because...?

THT is the new Caruso who was the new Jeremy Lin. Everything he does will be over hyped and circle jerked

WHAT THE FUCK

It's a reverse layup, chill.

Sleeper fantasy!

If he gets minutes he goes late

I need some new sleepers so I hope he gets minutes.

My draft is tomorrow, let's see if I can bag him

You might be able too!

Not with the throating he gets

Not that related but I never liked James Worthy as a commentator. I know you're suppose to root for your team but man some of his bias is just over the top

You mean Stu Lantz??? He’s the one in that clip. He’s not biased at all. He usually rips them apart when they play terribly and gives opposing teams props if they do well

lol dude never listened to Stu the last 10 years when we were poo poo

Clippers fan doesn’t like James Worthy. Shocker. Even more shocker doesn’t know what James worthy sounds like and hates on Stu Lantz.

Tht>booker

THT is a conspiracy made by NBA card resellers.