i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

the max should be raised to 50% of the cap imo

Adrian Wojnarowski‏@WojVerticalNBA
San Antonio has traded forward Boris Diaw to the Utah Jazz, league sources tell @TheVertical.

jazz are gonna be interesting this year

boris ;_;

A cosmopolitan dude like Boris is gonna love SLC

Diaw/Gobert sets should be called the Maginot Line.

spurs dumping reasonably priced boris contract so they can pay old pau $20 million per year feels a little.... desperate

diaw was a DNP in game 6 on the playoffs, and he's 34. and it's $15m for pau.

besides pau is a duncan replacement, not a diaw replacement

wonder what they wldve done if they had the durant info first

i mean i love bobo, one of my top 10 all time favorite players to watch, but the writing was on the wall in the playoffs.

xp

pau was still one of their targets, if they knew KD was GS bound, theyd still need a C.

everyone has money to burn this summer, so I don't read taking pau over boris as a desperate move. spurs paid only ~4.5 million in luxury taxes last season, and had the second best record behind the dubs' 73-9. now they have more cap space, so they used it to advantage.

pau's offensive stats overrate him, he's pretty redundant next to LMA & i don't think he's really any less ripe to being exposed by youth and athleticism in the playoffs but maybe there were really no better options out there for them

nu diaw has already been drafted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQuzdpuN-o

Craziest thing about this to me is that in Dallas mahinmi looked like the kind of utterly fungible big man who would end up with one more little contract probably as a practice body for a contender with no money then vanish into Europe or w/e and now he's like an ideal b-level center

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 3:10 AM

he was always a great backup for the pacers, and then lucked his way into a starting role and a career season just before the cap jump

things:
-pau show abt a 3 per game, highest volume of 3s he's shot professionally. he made about 35% of em. not amazing, but he can spread the floor. so that's unique for them to have a 7 footer who can hit shots everywhere along with his other skill sets.
-fwiw, he has posted his best DefRtgs the last two seasons in chicago maybe a byproduct of thibs or whatever. i haven't watched enough pau to get a feel for his ability to guard PnR.

xxp

pau is a legitimately awful defender

is he just stacking block stats bc he's tall but getting beat in other areas?

ya something like that prob

he's just slow

ok. so he's...present day duncan!

might be useful if pop cn find a way to let him hang around the rim but hes gonna get lit up in the pnr

pau's always been more of an offensive asset than a defensive one. that's his game. and he can pass.

prediction: pau will not play a second at the 4 where he'd need to switch more. sounds like he'd be a net liability against the warriors death star lineup and younger, more athletic teams

it seemed like timmy could still protect the rim a bit?

oh yeah, he was an excellent defender, but his shot wasnt there in the playoffs

L8 ShowVerified account ‏@LarrySanders

Phone jumping out the gym...

hah i bet

i know it doesnt seem like it by keeping manu and signing pau, but the spurs are about to get a lot younger. theyre calling in a bunch of their draft picks who will be dleaguers for some time. i think davis bertans is going to get play immediately as a 3 pt marksman. kyle anderson and johnathon simmons are going to get more reps. a lot of roster spots need to be filled but the principals are still in place to be the #2 in the west.

like signing pau is a net lateral move imo. the alternative was sliding back due to duncan's retirement.

hows it effect thier cap space for next summer

if im not mistaken pau got an opt out

Damn, Royce
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/16791990/nba-changes-led-kevin-durant-departure-oklahoma-city-thunder

http://i.imgur.com/goa8OSG.jpg

lol

ouch

probably a little, but theyll have flexibility. assume pau opts in after this year and assume he makes $15 mil/year. theyll have ~$80 million on the books next year (LMA, Kawhi, Pau, TP, and danny green, in that order). team option on kyle anderson adds another $2m. if the cap is $108 they still can make a max offer or close to it. maybe they talk pau into opting out and re-signing for less per year, or maybe he just hates SA so much that he bolts, even more room. then u sell russ/CP3/whoever on a Big 3 of kawhi/lma/(x), TP coming off the bench, one of the premier wing defenders in danny, coach pop.

this is early, tho, because they still need to re-sign BOBAN and fill a bunch of other roster spots. depending on the length of those contracts, thatll affect their 2017 cap space.

ugh that royce young piece is so hard to read cn someone summarize for me

basically "we thought durant was different but he's not"

ha

Justise Winslow explains why he walked out of the locker room wearing a "Really Really Good" hat after Tuesday's summer league win.

"It's just sort of a lifestyle," Winslow explained. "A kind of lifestyle motto -- Really, Really good. Everything from the way I look, the way I play. To the way I carry myself off the court. Everything is just really, really good. It's more of a lifestyle."

Rick Reilly ✔@ReillyRick
Adding Kevin Durant to a Warriors team that already had Curry + Thompson is like giving Kate Upton a 3rd breast. Nothing appealing about it.

There were only six rooms available for nine people, so they shared. Clay Bennett, a multimillion-dollar owner, in a Holiday Inn Express, sharing a bed. Nothing was open, so they settled on a T.G.I. Friday's for a late dinner.

no billionaire shd have to endure that

therein lies the problem, he isn't a bay area billionaire

ok. so he's...present day duncan!

― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Tuesday, July 5, 2016 5:14 PM (2 hours ago)

duncan was legitimately a defensive force for the first half of last year tho

honestly i'm not even sure diaw for pau is an upgrade, even leaving aside salaries

prediction: pau will not play a second at the 4 where he'd need to switch more. sounds like he'd be a net liability against the warriors death star lineup and younger, more athletic teams

― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Tuesday, July 5, 2016 5:15 PM (2 hours ago

seems like...this is who the spurs should be worrying about!

honestly far be it for me to question buford tho let's wait and see