nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

license to post wild takes granted

feeling mildly excited about the spurs draft opportunities this summer. nobody really screams all star at this point, but there are a lot of really good guard prospects.

yeah you know theres some good players in there just gotta hit, which the spurs have historically been good at

They should try drafting a french guy... seems to work well for them

they did really well finding gems like derrick white and dejounte murray at the end of the first round when they were still a competitive organization. their guard selections since then have been much spottier. branham continues to baffle me as he made basically no growth from one year to the next as an inefficient shooter with no other discernible skills. wesley still can’t shoot although he at least looks like a serviceable defensive point guard. and then there’s primo.

vassell is definitely their 2 guard moving forward and tre jones is at least a good backup, so it hasn’t been all bad news.

they need hoisters badly tho, hoping one of the kentucky guards will be available.

Per league statement: The league’s investigation found that prior to the Raptors’ March 20 game, Porter disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA bettor.  Another individual with whom Porter associated and knew to be an… https://t.co/6oKyi0Fhty

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 17, 2024

already posted elsewhere but for posterity’s sake: lifetime ban for jontay porter

yeah the drafting hasnt been up to spurs standards over that period, they did get wemby lol, tho one or two of those guys develop well and its looking a lot better xp

will cherish the many memories i have of jontay porter. farewell sweet prince

At first I was like "whoa, Otto Porter has a gambling problem?" and then I was like "siri, who is Jontay Parker?" end of an era

pretty lucky for the league that this story is dropping right as the playoffs are starting and not like in October

will at least be a good example for future players that the league is looking out for this sort of thing and has computers

welcome to the ‘eason

eason down the road

yeah the drafting hasnt been up to spurs standards over that period, they did get wemby lol, tho one or two of those guys develop well and its looking a lot better xp

yeah vassell they hit but besides that its looking pretty rough, 3 lottery picks bunch of others and one guy to show for it, tho obvs theres still time for the others to get there

pretty lucky for the league that this story is dropping right as the playoffs are starting and not like in October

― frogbs, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:19 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

REALLY lucky it was an nba nobody and not some hall of famer vet or something in between, get to drop the hammer on a scrub

a good player's little brother

Thanasis better not mess around

thanasis seems like an MLM guy for sure

I’m sorry if you changed your bet based on jontay porter. Such valuable info

Hawks have 2 first rounders to help turn things around before years of handing their picks to the spurs. Kind of the the Duke wite would be a good fit

it was a player prop

an NBA bettor subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay proposition bet with an online sports book, to win $1.1 million, wagering that Porter would underperform in the March 20 game

then porter tapped out early in the game with a flare up of an existing injury

spurs should draft alex sarr and go full team frahnce

Ah thanks goon. Don’t really see the gambling thing going well but what do I know

the vibes are vile but im sure the nba will make tons of money off it, which is nice for them

big games tonight for who will not play the celtics and who will maybe play the celtics

rooting for 76ers to not play the celtics

i really don’t think the heat will win tonight but sticking boston w/ philly is prob the most damaging thing they can do in these playoffs

the one bright side i guess to playing philly now is getting embiid so soon off injury

This game talk is for the INS, not for those of us already languishing in the OFFS EASON.

oops my bad

cracking up at lagoon making two imperceptible thread titles and then being the first one to screw it up

hoisted with my own petard

it’s driving me nuts lol they’re right next to each other on bookmarks too and are indistinguishable on quick glance

heh

it's the eason for the season

spurs should draft alex sarr and go full team frahnce

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, April 17, 2024 3:26 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they could def go for paris texas status, they already have wemby and sidy cissoko (played mostly g league, but should probably get more time in the big club this year). theres not only sarr but risacher and tidjane salaun likely going in the lottery. i think risacher would be a great fit if he's as good a shooter as he seems, sarr im less convinced would work as a non-floor spreading big next to wemby.

wim wenders player intro hype video

Spurs would have the no. 1 pick with the "Gold Plan":

Thanks for continuing to champion the Gold Plan!

Here's the NBA version, with the Spurs running away with a second straight #1 pick by playing hard down the stretch.

We'll ask again, how's that not better?#PorVida pic.twitter.com/HpmvkmO69L

— Chuck (@ChuckSportsApp) April 15, 2024

im sorry i will never support anything with this obamacare exchange ass sounding name

lol it was invented by a guy named Gold!

which is kind of Obamacare-esque really

ha

what a coincidence that the guy who made obamacare was named obama

I didn't realize that Jontay Porter is Michael Porter Jr.'s brother, or that his other bro Coban was about to do eight years in prison for drunk driving/killing a lady.

damn rough times for the porter family

in this clip you can’t see woj blinking out the morse code for D-O-N-O-V-A-N-M-I-T-C-H-E-L-L with his eyes

Adrian Wojnarowski says that the Miami Heat are well-positioned to potentially acquire a star who aligns with Bam Adebayo's age timeline

(h/t @ohnohedidnt24 )

pic.twitter.com/xrJGy6HYF6

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) April 19, 2024

*shein influencer saying “okay” video*

Woj: "It's gonna be a different summer in the NBA. I think there are gonna be a lot of guys entering the NBA portal and I think there's gonna be a lot more player movement this summer." pic.twitter.com/sQpf6neTto

— Oh No He Didn't (@ohnohedidnt24) April 19, 2024

entering the portal

giannis actually not beefy tbf

loyal american jayson tatum is not beefy but is absurdly swole in a way that really only comes through when you see him in person

the american high school and college systems have incentive systems where player development is more of a bonus than the goal

loyal american jayson tatum is not beefy but is absurdly swole in a way that really only comes through when you see him in person

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, May 25, 2024 10:26 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but what if he was a lil beefy

this is only tangentially related but there has been a similar backlash against quarterback overdevelopment in football. there was a time period where a lot of the top QB prospects were celebrated for having been taking private QB lessons since their early teens but when they ended up getting to major college football or the NFL they were too robotic, didn’t have functional athleticism, etc. christian hackenberg, josh rosen types. as guys like that flamed out and someone like mahomes showed up, you started to hear over QB coaching brought up as a negative, and teams started to look for more creative athletic gunslinger types.

if you follow college football recruiting nowadays, playing multiple sports, having a certain rawness is considered a plus for a highly rated QB. playing baseball in particular intrigues bcuz you have to throw from different arm slots, you’re never taught to be this 5 step drop back then throw this perfect motion type QB. but even just playing basketball and getting out there and being an athlete is now viewed as better for development than spending all that time doing QB drills over and over in a non competitive setting

ofc the negative downside of this is the zach wilson types who can’t do anything in the pocket and flame out. but the idea of extreme skill specialization — drew hanlen shit — has fallen out of favor w/ QBs

i think in the long term — like talking the next 10, 20, 30 years — the european system, if the argument is based on the idea that developing for the team is better for the individual in the long run than developing just for the individual, will have to constantly withstand, essentially, the allure of selfishness. which is to say that as the pipeline to NBA mega stardom becomes even more clear and more direct for european players, will european basketball writ large forever be able to convince teenagers with dollar signs in their eyes that actually, no, thinking strictly about yourself and your own game right now is bad for you and we need you to not think that way but you’re still gonna be the no 1 pick. maybe they will, i kinda have my doubts

i feel like it was a lot easier to run that playbook on a generation who grew up watching dirk than it will be on a generation who grows up watching luka

the idea of extreme skill specialization — drew hanlen shit — has fallen out of favor w/ QBs

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, May 25, 2024 10:45 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats interesting i like it live life you know get out there and mix it up play some basketball why not

I often wonder if the ubiquity of soccer in euro players lives benefits their skill set. Particularly the creativity that is rewarded in soccer vs the physicality of football

its got to, my dad tells this story of traveling in europe when he was young and getting in a pickup basketball game with some locals and they ended up scolding him for shooting too much lol

a bunch of the balkan guys played water polo too guess it popular there not sure how that applies to the nba game its gotta be great for endurance at the very least i know people say those jokic kinda hook passes where he starts with the ball high look like water polo passes

jokic def holds the ball in the post w/ one arm stretched out away from the defender scanning the field of play and then whips the ball around exactly like a water polo player

We used to play water polo as well. In the shallow end. It’s a cool sport

treading water while playing a contact sport that requires you to hold a ball over your head sounds like the most taxing thing ever, the water polo workout should be the next fitness craze

i think if you grow up in miami you’re just in the pool so much that at some point you end up playing water polo. very insane sport.

Ben Simmons back on the court 🔥

(h/t @NetsKingdomAJ ) pic.twitter.com/FTgmJg5ysH

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) May 28, 2024

summer is officially here

lmao

i'd excelsior that, but it's so ILH specific that nobody would understand who doesn't already spend too much time on ILH.

it's a good bit he's got going

It looks like he's bouncing an invisible basketball thanks to the image crop

that's how i'll always see him in my mind

he shouldve waited until the actual offseason when the picture of him dribbling wouldve had the full attention of the nba world

maybe hes practicing fts there idk

Hoodie Mello vs Summer Simmo

simmo the summer savage

In two years he's either getting into politics or acting

The local newspaper reports who the Blazers are inviting for pre-draft workouts. I find it interesting that the Blazers have both Ayton & Time Lord under contract along with Duop Reath, the 27-year-old rookie center who played big - and credible - minutes for them all last season, but they've invited a surprising number of centers to work out for them.

Not many (any?) teams would be interested in taking on Ayton's contract, but it feels like Williams could be moving on soon. Reath should stay. He's too valuable as a young bench guy with lots of in-game experience on a very cheap contract.

ty lue re-ups for 5 years 70 milly

REPORT: JJ Redick is already calling around the league looking for assistants for his staff. Expect an announcement by the Lakers AFTER the nba finals which Redick is announcing on ABC, via @TheSteinLine pic.twitter.com/IKAUoypxmT

— 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐞 (@SixthManJake) May 29, 2024

"I will be very surprised if their next Head Coach is anybody but JJ Redick. Everything that I'm hearing is JJ Redick. From what I know he's doing some background, calling some assistant coaching candidates who might be able to join his staff."

-@ChrisBHaynes on #Lakers next HC pic.twitter.com/XipwSlN6wo

— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) May 29, 2024

The Lakers hiring JJ Redick feels pretty imminent. It's more a matter of "when" vs. "if" at this point. pic.twitter.com/qUZYnR0YYz

— Anthony F. Irwin (@AnthonyIrwinLA) May 28, 2024

what will happen to the pods

I don't follow the Cavs that well so maybe there was other stuff going on, but it's still a bummer that JB Bickerstaff got fired, he's universally loved here in MN from his college and Wolves assistant coach days, supposed to be a great guy and from afar seemed like he was doing a good job.

like what if the brackets were different and he lost to the Celtics when the Pacers did? Would that have been considered a good job then?

i guess its just that mitchell doesnt love him theyre gonna try to bring in someone he does like so they can resign him

likely they trade garland and allen too, which tbf makes a lot of sense

One of the reasons they were in the position they were was because they tanked their last game for positioning in a pathetic fashion.

Not sure whose call that was but some of the players seemed embarrassed about it.

Also not sure who fed all that whining to Shams in the Athletic postmortem article but that shit was ready to print as soon as they were eliminated.

Gilbert is just one of those 'loose cannon' owners who wants to feel in charge.

you can tell whos gonna be fire based on if theres a shams hit piece, vogel same thing

one of the podcasters pointed out that in their post series interview all the cavs described the season as difficult even tho it was pretty successful none of them were like we made the second round something to build on etc so it seems like it wasnt the most harmonious team

but sounds like theyre going to resign mitchell which didnt seem likely for most of the year get a new coach and maybe do some trades thatll balance their roster out, could work idk

i’m pretty sure there were times during the season where the players called him out in the postgame press for his coaching decisions

idk i’m not too much into “deserve” with coaches. most of them are interchangeable. the cavs could easily find a better coach. sometimes everyone agrees the guy is a good coach but also that they want a new boss

yeah most coaches wear out the welcomes pretty fast

the thing about building around mitchell and mobley is mobley isnt a very good scorer so where do you get more scoring from, idk if garland and allen are going to get you enough in trades, if you want to be good you need a #2 quality scorer, its kind messed up cause if he gets traded to the right team garland could start playing like that guy immediately but hes just not a good fit with mitchell

they need a big wing with a dynamic offensive game haha get in line, maybe brandon ingram tho

coaching really is just a personality matching game with your best player(s)

rip aaron gordon's brother.

https://sports.yahoo.com/former-76ers-player-drew-gordon-older-brother-of-nuggets-starter-aaron-gordon-dies-in-car-accident-at-33-033314867.html

the nuggets players are really going through it with their family stuff. feel awful for AG

wow i don’t think he deserved this

Breaking: As Trajan Langdon’s tenure as Detroit Pistons President of Basketball Operations begins, the franchise and general manager Troy Weaver are planning to part ways, sources tell me and @ShamsCharania.

— James L. Edwards III (@JLEdwardsIII) May 31, 2024

not even sure why they went through the dance of pretending he would stay

weird org