stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

i think james is in the right place (where he hates everyone and they all hate him and it is philadelphia)

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

what hath the process wrought?

the recess

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

wtf rudy

Gobert getting it in the post against 6-foot-1 Jevon Carter pic.twitter.com/hl3W0a0Gvx

— Steph Noh (@StephNoh) October 20, 2023

lmao

this is why none of the other players respect him

recall reading that he was always arguing for more post touches but is terrible in the post

yeah, it's not great!

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

there's this guy on the Bulls Julien Phillips and holy crap this guy can jump high

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

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

it is pretty cool he got here from being undrafted but his foul baiting is bad among the league worst

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

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.

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

Kurt Rambis is pretty much the archetype for that whole thing

rambis was at least funny looking

Yeah the basic training glasses were a cool look

Can't see Reaves ever looking tough like Rambis in a Bird vs Magic style doc

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

I like that Reaves' hair flops as much as he does. It's like his signature

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

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

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

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

i mean desmond bane shot 40% from 3 on 7 attempts a game, thats hard to do, reaves had half as many attempts

bane is also 40%+ all three years in the league, reaves was at 32% last year

*the year before last, hist first year

bane is like 25x better than reaves lol

ya

if reaves was really worth so much more than what he got someone shouldve tried to sign him

the latest in a long line of solid players extremely overpraised because they are lakers. caruso and kuzma walked so reaves could run

let us not forget talen horton-tucker

if reaves was really worth so much more than what he got someone shouldve tried to sign him

sorry jordan just does not make any sense

like maybe around the edges a slight discount sure, big discount nope

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

yeah 15 games or whatever it was isnt a big enough sample size, its not a fraction of a big enough sample

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…

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

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

jerami grant $160m, kyle kuzma $90m, reaves/grant williams/herb jones $53m exactly hmm idk weird the guys who were RFA all signed the same deal but prob nothing there. anyway these salaries all accurately reflect the gaps in value between these players

not sure how to tell you this but grant williams isnt as good as kyle kuzmia or jerami grant

yes i can see that bcuz one has a 90 next to their name and one has a 53, therefore i am able to understand how good one player is versus the other

youre making a lot of sense right now