maybe thats where charlotte comes in they just take the salary into their cap space
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 July 2024 20:19 (three months ago) link
warriors really want to back up the truck for lauri idk
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 July 2024 20:21 (three months ago) link
on the one hand they will be better with lauri (and melton!) over klay, on the other hand how good is that and how barren will they be after dealing with ainge
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 1 July 2024 20:25 (three months ago) link
ainge is looking at the bridges trade and thinking it looks pretty good
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 July 2024 20:33 (three months ago) link
farewell poku
This is up in the air pending structure, but I've got the Charlotte Hornets likely creating about $19M in cap space to take in Josh Green and Reggie Jackson.This would involve waiving Aleksej Pokusevski, while keeping Miles Bridges' cap hold.<$1M in cap space after trades.— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) July 1, 2024
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 July 2024 20:53 (three months ago) link
rip heaven needed a beta test version of chet
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 1 July 2024 21:02 (three months ago) link
congrats to jayson tatum the richest man in the world
BREAKING: Boston Celtics and star Jayson Tatum have reached an agreement on a five-year, $315M supermax extension with a player option that is the largest contract in NBA history, league sources tell @NBAonTNT, @BleacherReport. pic.twitter.com/qVpr94JiAa— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) July 1, 2024
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 July 2024 21:43 (three months ago) link
I think only Shohei gets more per year? (except most of Shohei's is deferred)
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 July 2024 21:50 (three months ago) link
thats a big contract
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Monday, 1 July 2024 21:52 (three months ago) link
congrats to jayson "elon musk" tatum
― Clay, Monday, 1 July 2024 22:44 (three months ago) link
thats a whole lot of american dollars, he shd spend on something for himself like a nice pair of shoes
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 1 July 2024 22:45 (three months ago) link
btw i can only ever read "supermax" in the john cena wwe suuuuuperslam voice from the famous prank call meme
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 1 July 2024 22:46 (three months ago) link
Jason Tatum should buy us a large beach home to serve as ILH HQ
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 July 2024 23:18 (three months ago) link
two seconds huh
The Mavericks have sent two second-round picks to the Warriors to complete the Klay Thompson sign-and-trade to Dallas, sources said.— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 1, 2024
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 July 2024 23:46 (three months ago) link
i wouldnt pay more than two seconds for the privilege of signing klay thompson to 3/50 with a player option
― micah, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 00:32 (three months ago) link
i think the main thing they got from this is a 16M trade exception.
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 00:50 (three months ago) link
short deal hes in charge of the cavs now
BREAKING: Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell has agreed on a three-year, $150.3 million maximum contract extension that includes a player option for the 2027-2028 season, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/Vu6QXGyK57— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 2, 2024
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 13:36 (three months ago) link
The worst kept secret in the NBA 🤫 pic.twitter.com/NVMcKZzG1t— Tony Pesta (@Tony_Pesta) July 2, 2024
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 14:02 (three months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 14:10 (three months ago) link
PG to philly is the perfect sixers era morey move in that people can talk about how he flipped this asset for that asset and then got this other asset meanwhile the pot at the end of the rainbow is a 34 year old with a checkered playoff history and nobody seems convinced that they're even that much closer to a title, relatively speaking
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:12 (three months ago) link
knicks roster still feels pretty incomplete to me w/ hartenstein leaving. they're gonna need to find a starting center by the trade deadline imo, i think this past year showed that even when robinson is healthy you want another borderline starter behind him. right now i think they could fall into the t wolves trap of building a team specifically to win one match up but then running into a different match up that they can't counter
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:17 (three months ago) link
that might be true, but I don’t think the east is deep enough for it to matter like it may have for the wolves
― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:43 (three months ago) link
knicks can always play small re matchups both randle and og are pretty hefty dudes, robinsons health is obvs a concern but carrying two starting quality centers isnt really a thing in todays nba, regardless the knicks dont have the resources to do it, robinson and sims seems fine + they can pick up a cheap third/second string guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:55 (three months ago) link
saric might be nice for them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10126970-nba-rumors-demar-derozan-linked-to-heat-amid-lakers-buzz-in-free-agency
lakers twitter in shambles rn
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:15 (three months ago) link
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:41 (three months ago) link
philly has the same high-risk high-reward issues they’ve always had, as you correctly pointed out earlier. I don’t think it’s worth fretting about matchups with a team as unproven and liable to fall apart as they are.
milwaukee…yeah I just don’t see it. I think their run as serious contenders is probably over. they’re so old and rickety.
cleveland and orlando are the teams that normally you’d think are next up, but I think the talent gulf between the celtics/knicks/healthy sixers is so wide that I doubt it’ll matter.
that said the knicks obviously are going to look to shore up their big rotation in some way between now and the buyout deadline next year. I just don’t see how you can look at the trajectory of this team and not feel encouraged. then again, maybe they just get steamrolled by the celtics, no shame in that
― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:49 (three months ago) link
thing id be worried about were i the knicks is not having an legit second option/enough on ball juice, theyve got brunson who is great obvs but after that its kinda dicey, feel like the best version of this team is elite defense and really good team offense/ball movement, think even then theyd have to get lucky to beat the celtics
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link
knicks reportedly looking into walker kessler, which means mitch rob would likely be on the way out? (also deuce mcbride, probably)
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:11 (three months ago) link
i don't think philly or milwaukee need to be contenders to present issues for the knicks. very possible they see one of those teams in round 1. i'm not saying that it's some no doubt fatal flaw for the knics but in a 7 game series giannis, lopez, and portis would have some advantages over the knicks current bigs
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:26 (three months ago) link
do the knicks have anything left to trade for kessler
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:32 (three months ago) link
my overall point is just that if we are entering a parity driven era where the playoffs are decided as much by match ups as they are by pure talent than gearing yourself up to beat one certain type of team potentially leaves you vulnerable to being deficient in a different, unforeseen match up. we just saw this play out very visibly
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:45 (three months ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 2:32 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
mitch rob, mcbride, s&t precious, and they still somehow have lots of picks to trade
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:49 (three months ago) link
also feel like if you're gonna lean into playing small then you need a big who can shoot and also hold up on defense either in switches or at the rim, their only candidate for that role right now is randle i'm not sure he can check either box let alone both. they have plenty of time to figure out the right mix of bigs, i just don't think this is it
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:49 (three months ago) link
but i agree with j0rdan, embiid lit the knicks on fire during his minutes once mitch rob went down. and it’ll be hard for them to maintain their identity as a hard nosed rebounding team with their current big rotation
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:50 (three months ago) link
i still don't understand what happened w/ kessler where he was this undiscovered crown jewel of the trade future DPOY etc and then this year barely saw increased playing time and is now apparently on the trade block
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:52 (three months ago) link
it sounded like utah wasn’t happy with his effort, the S word was thrown around
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:00 (three months ago) link
shitty?
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:01 (three months ago) link
not really specific to kessler per se, but i think the post-apron world is one in which teams crave low-cost production, and rookies are (potentially) that for 4 years, but then you have to make real decisions once that four years is up and that usually means a big extension and now you're committed. utah has too much talent atm to tank, but they're not good. you'd rather, i guess, trade kessler before he's due a raise and then hit reset on some new rookie(s) next year or two.
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:04 (three months ago) link
i think ainge is just always willing to accept an overpay and hes thinking theres some sort of mania going on so hes putting it out there that jazz guys are available but really the situation is the same as always if youre willing to pay a premium hes willing to talk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:14 (three months ago) link
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, July 2, 2024 3:45 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don’t think the knicks are constructed to beat a certain matchup though, I think they’re pretty well-rounded! they may themselves have matchup issues if they don’t bolster their bigs (though again, I think they will), but you just can’t account for every possible matchup and still build a team under the current cap structure (unless you’re the celtics maybe). and re: joe’s question about secondary playmaking, I think that’s the bet they’re placing on mikal bridges — probably miscast as a #1 option but a much better fit as a clear #2.
at the end of the day I think the knicks roster got better and you can come up with all sorts of matchup questions for any team, but I just don’t think it’s worth worrying about those specifics too much in july. so much about those teams whose matchups are in question could change between now and then
― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:15 (three months ago) link
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, July 2, 2024 3:52 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I haven’t looked too deeply into it but my guess is it’s 1) a character/coachability thing and/or 2) the internal metrics teams have are lower on him than the publicly available stuff
― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:18 (three months ago) link
i dont think bridges is close to a championship 2, i mean look at what this years teams had jaylen and kyrie, murray last year, and brunson isnt a dominant 1 either
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:21 (three months ago) link
it’s not worrying about specifics to say that their big rotation currently has no depth and rests very heavily on players with worrying injury history
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:22 (three months ago) link
i think the depth is fine they got two centers two 4s they just need to add some deep bench guys, the injury situation is dicy tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:25 (three months ago) link
regular season depth & playoff depth are two different things, also their next biggest guy (OG) is also constantly hurt
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:27 (three months ago) link
you’d still like an upgrade on jericho sims and make him the deep bench guy rather than someone they need to rely on
precious is also an unrestricted free agent, so randle might be the only 4 on the roster at the moment
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:29 (three months ago) link
unless we’re counting anunoby as the other 4, which i guess he functionally will be
yeah og is good at the 4 maybe his best spot
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:30 (three months ago) link
and yeah sims as a third center makes sense getting a second string 5 is prob easily doable
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:31 (three months ago) link