stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

Scoot Henderson in the first quarter of his first Summer League game:

13 points | 3 rebounds | 3 assists | 73% shooting

3rd Pick??? pic.twitter.com/T05yPlBQo0

— Teg🚨 (@IQfor3) July 7, 2023

1Q into summer league and scoot is already dames best teammate

love when a guy is just immediately too good for summer league

pointing out that one of the blazers' options is a bad one doesn't make any of their other options into good ones. at some point the FO will choose an option and go with it, but which one works best is a finely sliced answer.

the ball

― ciderpress, Friday, July 7, 2023 7:51 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the big ball

the big glowing basketball actually looks too insane for me to really stop and comprehend the full implications of everything that’s going on there

it’s incredible that we said they should make the ball and then they made the big beautiful ball

the ball is life

it def doesnt seem right, but it feels right.. you feel me

right

I want to go to Vegas now

ilh pilgrimage to the ball

it's our field of dreams

imagine when vegas gets a team and kevin harlan is like "we're coming to you live from the ball" and everyone watching is like yeah thats the stuff baby

[people all over the world turning towards each other] they play in the ball

Finally, the way the game should be played

can you see the ball from space

a new era of pace (light speed) and space (outer)

yeesh both scoot and amen leaving with injuries

so i guess joe cronin can declare war on dame and start the season with his team being hounded every day about where dame is at, how happy he is, when is he being traded etc but… i don’t see why he would wanna do that. to squeeze an extra draft pick out of somebody?

― J0rdan S., Friday, July 7, 2023 7:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

well it could be a lot more than just another draft pick (and even if it’s just another draft pick, isn’t that good?), but to piggyback off what you had been saying earlier, KD and dame aren’t the same. dame isn’t one of the 20 best players of all time playing in NYC…he’s a great player who plays in portland…who’s going to be traveling to portland to hound the blazers front office on a daily basis about where he’s going?

like harden for example is in a much better negotiating position, for one thing he hasn’t named a single acceptable destination, secondly the team potentially trading him is actually trying to win. if the blazers don’t trade dame what happens…shams tweets about them a lot?

well for one you do realize that portland has people who cover the team every day whose jobs are to ask everyone on the team questions before and after every game? they’re not a minor league baseball team

also i think that of course it sounds easy from a distance to say that the blazers should just accept the drama and every day annoyance that would come from dame coming back to their team as a hostage until they get whatever trade package they’re looking for. but i’d point out that daryl morey is considered an abnormal person, even within the context of NBA GMs, for a reason

i do tend to think this will get done with the heat but yes, there is no reason it needs to get done this week or this month as far as portland is concerned. lillard's representation has kind of taken a sledgehammer to the idea of a smooth and congenial exit, and i don't think any reasonable person should blame portland for seeing if anything shakes out in the next couple months. as for lillard's bluffs about not reporting or whatever my reaction is "lol"

the best thing would be for dame to start acting more normal

it's def weird that he's done a complete 180 from "i am the ultimate team guy loyalty is my sole value" to "fuck all y'all" pretty much immediately but divorces are tough

congrats to jabari smith jr on the game winner pretty crazy play, now the tall man plays

and putting all the personal stuff aside i just remain unconvinced that the blazers would gain much if any leverage by bringing him back. i just don’t see who is putting a demonstrably better offer on the table & there’s the chance the offers get worse. or that dame comes back and plays and gets hurt for the third year in a row. the KD situation was an anomaly, i wouldn’t want that to be my plan. a much more realistic outcome is what happened with simmons where i think the idea that philly gained anything from that compared to what they could’ve done in the summer is entirely dubious

wemby 0-3 hes a bust

sad

ok he hit a shot but it might be a too little too late situation

lmao

wemby's passing is fucking great, if thats all he does tonight im with it

yup had the same thought

black wesley otoh sucks ass

goddamnit, *BLAKE

ofc he just hit a 3 too

"competing at a high level having fun with it" --brandon miller

ah wemby blocked millers three thats why im a life long wemby fan

im loving the espn crew fawning over how wemby looks cool missing shots

'it's the notes he's NOT playing'

will be interesting to see what his game is in the nba not sure its going to be the 7-4 guard routine

yeah, he's doing a LOT of dribble penetration or playing on the elbow like hes lamarcus aldridge.

they just showed a shot of the big ball and it looks so much like bad cgi but its real lol

wemby gets fouled every time he catches it

Scoot Henderson will undergo an MRI on his right shoulder after sustaining the injury today. There’s optimism it’s not a dislocation.

don’t love the way that’s phrased!

gotta keep dame as scoot insurance now

WEMBY GETS GOT BY KAI JONES 😱

(📼 @NBA)
pic.twitter.com/hF5pop5BZ6

— RingerNBA (@ringernba) July 8, 2023

victor bargnani

very sad

damn he just got dropped by miller on a cross too

julian yampagnie

i know y'all were having fun with the big ball upthread, but that thing is seriously incredible (and bizarre).