have a feeling the whole demanding a trade every year thing might be affecting his value
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:17 (eleven months ago) link
harden does kinda suck if his presence means you are going to lose every elimination game
― Clay, Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:22 (eleven months ago) link
there is that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:23 (eleven months ago) link
the clips just have no reason to do this now, they don't even know if their team is good or if their best guys will play more than 45 games
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:25 (eleven months ago) link
i think james is in the right place (where he hates everyone and they all hate him and it is philadelphia)
― Clay, Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:31 (eleven months ago) link
funny thing about this is are the clippers just fucking with the sixers why even talk to them if youre not planning on trading terance mann and a pick, idk maybe theyre irrationally attached to mann
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:45 (eleven months ago) link
what hath the process wrought?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:49 (eleven months ago) link
the recess
― ciderpress, Thursday, 19 October 2023 05:48 (eleven months ago) link
well, i didn't have as good luck in my draft seeding in our company wolves tickets lottery, so i'm gonna go see the pistons. still was lucky, i got the 15th and final set of ticket available and they are very good seats (row M of the first deck) and you get a pair for $120 so pretty sweet either way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 October 2023 18:52 (eleven months ago) link
wtf rudy
Gobert getting it in the post against 6-foot-1 Jevon Carter pic.twitter.com/hl3W0a0Gvx— Steph Noh (@StephNoh) October 20, 2023
― call all destroyer, Friday, 20 October 2023 00:55 (eleven months ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 00:58 (eleven months ago) link
this is why none of the other players respect him
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 October 2023 01:04 (eleven months ago) link
recall reading that he was always arguing for more post touches but is terrible in the post
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 01:06 (eleven months ago) link
yeah, it's not great!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 20 October 2023 01:07 (eleven months ago) link
I didn't really watch him a whole lot prior to this but the only offensive thing he's good at now is if he gets a nice high touch pass timed perfectly while he's rolling to the rim but Connelly is the only one who can really do it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 October 2023 01:26 (eleven months ago) link
there's this guy on the Bulls Julien Phillips and holy crap this guy can jump high
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 October 2023 02:12 (eleven months ago) link
ive heard so much over the top praise for reaves over the last few months and it needs to stop. bill simmons leading the charge but others have jumped on board. hes a fine player but bill compared him to manu on the latest pod and it made me sick to my stomach lol. anyway here's a clip of him foul baiting, we should all be anti reaves this season obv
Get this fucking clown out the league. pic.twitter.com/B4CmV0ZnvG— Let Ray Cook (@CantStopDaRayne) October 20, 2023
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 20 October 2023 05:09 (eleven months ago) link
Reaves was a fun player for the Lakers down the stretch but he's definitely riding a wave of American sports fans' favorite narrative "scrappy white boy overcomes the odds by doing all the little things"
a.k.a. the Eckstein
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 20 October 2023 05:20 (eleven months ago) link
it is pretty cool he got here from being undrafted but his foul baiting is bad among the league worst
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 20 October 2023 05:21 (eleven months ago) link
lav otm there’s no basketball reason for this guy to be constantly elevated into, like, a borderline all star or whatever people are saying now
― Clay, Friday, 20 October 2023 05:24 (eleven months ago) link
well also people are utterly deranged about the lakers
they added some depth but lebron is 39 in a couple months. and ad is ad. none of those other guys matter if those two arent at their best when it matters.
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 20 October 2023 05:33 (eleven months ago) link
agreed that its well past time for the austin reaves backlash, america just doesnt know what to do when it sees a scrappy white laker
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 12:55 (eleven months ago) link
Kurt Rambis is pretty much the archetype for that whole thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 October 2023 13:18 (eleven months ago) link
rambis was at least funny looking
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 13:57 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah the basic training glasses were a cool look
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 October 2023 14:18 (eleven months ago) link
Can't see Reaves ever looking tough like Rambis in a Bird vs Magic style doc
― Natural Wine • Danny Devito • Virginia (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 October 2023 14:30 (eleven months ago) link
caruso was the last one but that was more of an affectionate joke people didnt actually think he was good, of course he was actually good, reaves is good too but if he were on any other team no one would know his name
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 15:00 (eleven months ago) link
I like that Reaves' hair flops as much as he does. It's like his signature
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 20 October 2023 15:48 (eleven months ago) link
idk reaves shot 52/39/86 last year and he can handle the ball. we still have to see what his true level is but if it’s hovering around 50/40 percentages then the hype is justified. he can’t defend tho
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 October 2023 16:25 (eleven months ago) link
it’s also true that restricted FA severely depressed his salary and the lakers got him on an insane bargain. he will be making $14m in 25-26 when vassell is making $27m and desmond bane is making $37m
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 October 2023 16:31 (eleven months ago) link
i mean if his numbers hold up with high usage hes a valuable player if hes just a complimentary guy whos picking his spots around stars that package of some offensive game without defense isnt too remarkable
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:01 (eleven months ago) link
i mean desmond bane shot 40% from 3 on 7 attempts a game, thats hard to do, reaves had half as many attempts
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:05 (eleven months ago) link
bane is also 40%+ all three years in the league, reaves was at 32% last year
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:07 (eleven months ago) link
*the year before last, hist first year
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:11 (eleven months ago) link
bane is like 25x better than reaves lol
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 20 October 2023 17:15 (eleven months ago) link
ya
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:15 (eleven months ago) link
if reaves was really worth so much more than what he got someone shouldve tried to sign him
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:17 (eleven months ago) link
the latest in a long line of solid players extremely overpraised because they are lakers. caruso and kuzma walked so reaves could run
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 October 2023 17:17 (eleven months ago) link
let us not forget talen horton-tucker
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:19 (eleven months ago) link
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 October 2023 17:51 (eleven months ago) link
sorry jordan just does not make any sense
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:54 (eleven months ago) link
like maybe around the edges a slight discount sure, big discount nope
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
maybe his agent sucks or maybe he just wanted to stay with the lakers for whatever reason or maybe he got around what hes worth
reaves shot 44% on 5.5 threes per game in the playoffs so the point about the volume of his shooting is really only related to his role being smaller during the season he was frankly great in the playoffs. if your guys’ argument is that we don’t have a real sample size on him & he might have just been really hot, that’s cool. i would agree. but you guys are saying he is/was pretend/fake good bcuz he’s on the lakers but when you play three playoff rounds against memphis, golden state, and denver and shoot 45/44/90 with a 4.6/1.6 assist to turnover ratio as a third option, i’m sorry but you are good until further notice. you guys are lying to yourselves. the point about bane being 25x better is laughable
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 October 2023 18:01 (eleven months ago) link
yeah 15 games or whatever it was isnt a big enough sample size, its not a fraction of a big enough sample
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 18:03 (eleven months ago) link
word if that’s the argument i’ll ride with you guys but don’t make me explain how restricted free agency depresses salaries like i’m speaking to a group of children…
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 October 2023 18:06 (eleven months ago) link
it unfortunately seems like he is actually good but once they start calling him part of the lakers' "big three" i will mute his name on twitter
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 October 2023 18:08 (eleven months ago) link
should also be noted that defenses were just not respecting him, and to his credit he burned them, but hes never been in a situation where defenses were thinking about him, i think you could make an argument he can be more of a primary creator based on watching him his skills and so forth, thats fine and reasonable but in that case youre projecting something that theres no hard evidence of yet
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 October 2023 18:09 (eleven months ago) link