ya bookers a star forget abt it are they playing him in the summer league thats ridiculous
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 04:21 (eight years ago) link
the airballs tho
― micah, Sunday, July 10, 2016 12:15 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yuuup
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53VFp663uu0
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
2015 draft class looking real strong
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 July 2016 04:50 (eight years ago) link
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojVerticalNBA 48s48 seconds agoThe Portland Trail Blazers have matched Allen Crabbe's four-year, $75M offer sheet with Brooklyn, league source tells @TheVertical.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Myers Leonard looking on.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 10 July 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
Rachel Nichols @Rachel__Nichols 3m3 minutes agoSo happy for Stephen Jackson, who just told me he's going to camp w/the #Warriors this fall to give another shot at playing. @DaTrillStak5
willing to get back on the bandwagon
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
bring back baron
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
it's kinda amazing to me to be living in a time when people earn money that can be expressed in reasonable percentages of a billion dollars to play basketballall hail the free market
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojVerticalNBAThe Miami Heat have matched Brooklyn's $50M offer sheet for Tyler Johnson, league source tells @TheVertical.
wow nets cant even overpay for anyone
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link
Brian Robb @CelticsHub 31s32 seconds ago Las Vegas, NVCurrent Nets depth chart: PG: Lin, LevertSG: BogdanovicSF: Hollis-Jefferson, KilpatrickPF: Booker, McCulloughC: Lopez, HamiltonYikes.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:12 (eight years ago) link
leonard staying too 4/41
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
happy Lin's back in NY, at least
― Nhex, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure those arent the positions of half of those guys but yeah that team is grim
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
i cld tell u something abt exactly two of those players
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Trevor Booker probably the guy i'm least happy to be starting there
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
kilpatrick and bojan can shoot but not play defense, hollis-jefferson can play defense but not shoot, and i don't know who the rest of those ppl are besides lin and brook lopez who we all know
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link
nets gonna sign sully prob lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link
omg that would actually work
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link
its destiny
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:46 (eight years ago) link
sully would be v solid for the nets and as such now I can only hope that another team signs him
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
he wld be an improvement on that roster def but not really enough to move the needle imo
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
this was one of the weirder consequences of the sixers not fielding a real team this past season:https://youtu.be/VTrmvi2FgYE
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
in the past week the Blazers have spent over two hundred million dollars on meyers leonard, allen crabbe, evan turner, and festus ezeli
― Clay, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
: /
― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link
i prefer to think of it as over one fifth of a billion dollars
― nomar, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:18 (eight years ago) link
really starting to feel like the offseason winners are the teams that didn't do anything or only touched the max guys
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:22 (eight years ago) link
yuup
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link
big free agent class next year
1. Lillard/Napier2. McCollum/Crabbe 3. Turner/Harkless?4. Aminu/Davis/Leonard/Vonleh5. Plumlee/Ezeli
From the salary floor to the luxury tax folks
― Clay, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Also there's gotta be a frontcourt trade brewing bc yikes that's a whole lot of mediocrity bunched together
imo that is a pretty unexceptional team for the amount of $ they spent
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
all the signings except evan turner of course are defensible imo but ya taken as a group theyre not too impressive
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
yeah if any team is indicative of the downside of the ballooning cap and how it can hurt a team it's portland's ridiculously bad summer
― Clay, Monday, 11 July 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link
and don't forget they'll have to max mccollum prob next summer and i think plumlee will be eligible for a rich extension too. and haven't even matched whatever $50mil offer harkless eventually gets.
― Clay, Monday, 11 July 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think the blazers may have locked themselves into an undesirable situation. their sick backcourt means they're a player away from being really really interesting and i would have been holding out for that possibility.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
they played the warriors really well and everyone is young and will get better and they (over)paid for some depth. Think they'll be fine. They're prob not gonna lure a big name so that's the next best thing. The turner overpay is p weird tho.
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Monday, 11 July 2016 02:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure we'll find out what happened with the Turner thing at some point. I think the idea was with the extensions they're signing next summer they had to use the money now or never use it, so the FO just outright panicked when parsons slipped away
― Clay, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
http://imgur.com/S8QJMWnjoel embiid is very large
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:32 (eight years ago) link
"they're prob not gonna lure a big name" is what everyone says about the celtics but i'd rather keep my options open and come up empty than spend that money on guys who will be 3/4 bench players
― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
damn that meyers leonard contract sucks for him
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 July 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
crabbe or aminu gon be starting ahead of turner before the years out
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:42 (eight years ago) link
Meyers had his chance to prove himself last year but underperformed and then got injured
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Monday, 11 July 2016 02:44 (eight years ago) link
the gap between evan turner and aminu or harkless or whoever you have backing him is pretty tiny (arguably nonexistent in this specific example) compared to the gap between turner and some actually good wing like say gordon hayward
there's a reason you need star players to contend in basketball and it's because the star players are just worth way more than the average players, it's not linear
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
i think they're better than this but sorta wonder if the the turner contract is a suns-ish moment where the rebuild got sped up and inadvertantly gummed up the plans
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 July 2016 02:50 (eight years ago) link
that is a v good theory, something i've been stabbing at but hadn't really internally articulated
― Clay, Monday, 11 July 2016 02:52 (eight years ago) link
i think dame & CJ are too good for that but they spent a lot of money this offseason & i don't see how they got better
tho ezili at less than $8 million per year is pretty nice tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 July 2016 03:04 (eight years ago) link
tho they do still have guys like harkless and vonleh who could get a lot better suddenly
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 July 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
i really don't think harkless is significantly worse than ET and could be a fair amount better
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link