stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

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

anyway restricted free agency depresses salaries a little bit and obviously there are other random and particular in contract factors teams hand out too big contracts like grant wasnt finding a max from any other team but portland, but the celtics traded g williams cause they didnt even want to give him $53m, i dont think there was much more out there for him even if he was unrestricted

it will be tougher when defenses are paying attention to him. he had a lot of those shots in the west finals where denver didn’t even realize he was on the floor and he got uncontested lay ups when everyone was all the way on the other end of the court. the arena PA had to announce that basketball is played with 10 players just to remind the nuggets

i just watched a video yesterday where noted defense expert alex caruso was commenting on the fact that no one was paying attention to reaves in the playoffs, and watching them myself that was also my observation

but its not like its for no reason when theres a lebron ad pick and roll the defense might have other things on its mind

i think he would be overstretched as a second option, i think he’s clearly several rungs below jaylen brown, jamal murray etc

but as a third option i think he’s a really good player. or he was clearly a really good player in the playoffs regardless of the reason — 44% 3pt and a 3/1 A:TO ratio at 36 mpg is really strong production any way you cut it. he gives some of it back on defense but he’s not tyler herro out there. i personally thought a lot of it was sustainable but we’ll see.

nba money is absurd, $53 million is like twice as much as even the best running backs will make in their careers

ok i just watched a bunch of his highlights and thing that stood out was his playmaking and general feel for the game he was def finding the holes in the defense making good reads etc, but idk hes 25 and doesnt have any discernible pop to his game that would lead me to believe hell ever be more than say a borderline starter a 4-7 guy, and if the shooting regresses hed be a more situational player

i think the way he could surpass that and become a real impact player is if he just ends up being a really good shooter, but seems pretty unlikely because most the shots hes taking now are totally standard catch and shoot, tho tbf he did get some off the dribble, and maybe thats in his game just not being utilized, i didnt see any evidence of your kyle kover style threes on the run tho tbf i didnt want the entire every austin reaves made 3 video, also his shot is not that fast and his dribble not that tight and physically he doesnt impress you tho i have seen him jump high but he generally doesnt play very athletically

in conclusion hes got some stuff going for him but nothing really jumps out other than the playmaking, and hes 25, if he was 20 itd be a whole other ballgame so to speak

he should get some burn this year tho be interesting to see what happens, him russell and vincent have some overlap in their games wonder how the minutes will shake out

Is Reaves better or worse than Grayson Allen?

lol no comment

stirring the pot lol