Speaking of players to never have made an All-Star team. We are witnessing one of the games best offensive backcourts the game has ever seen and CJ flies so far under the radar.
I've been trying to figure out a trade that would bring Beal to Denver for awhile now. I don't think a Harris package would entice the Wiz and Murray doesn't make enough where you can get contracts to match. Murray might actually entice them too. Denver does have Will Barton returning soon and he's a very underrated player. They'll have IT4 at some point as well. They should both provide some offense.
The Lakers and Deng agreed on a buyout prior to waiving him. They can't trade the rights to a player that they do not own.
Apparently nobody has noticed the 26min over 3 games that he put up this year for Minn.
I think the problem is that they assumed it was Dieng and that the pimply faced kid in charge of posting the Wolves box score data made errors of omitting vowels and duplicating stat lines.
My boy was saying the same thing to me last night. If Rose doesn't have a Thibs voodoo doll that he damages slowly every night, he should have one made.
It's crazy how badly Riley fucked Miami by mistaking LeBron being DWade's buddy for some sort of Lakers-esque recruiting advantage.
Depends on what we are defining as contention. Their books are clean, but at least Washington and Miami have been in the playoffs and could get back this year. Phoenix, Atlanta and Chicago it's hard to even find the road map back. They are years away at best.
Dunn has only been kept from his Hall of Fame trajectory by a few freak injuries.
Well, just squeaking into the playoffs, or perhaps winning one series, is not how I would define contention. I think at the minimum you need to have a decent chance at making the conference finals to even start having the conversation. WAS and MIA were two I just thought of quickly, but they are both in cap hell, have very little in tradebale assets, and do not have anywhere near enough future talent on the roster to improve. And add to that MIA owes their 2021 1st round pick.
I hope that they don't change it. IMO early on like this, I'd rather three or four days between games. This allows day one for shootaround and walkthrough, and a couple of days to work on actions, make adjustments, team bonding, etc. Every other day is probably easier on player psyche, but then those between days are only recovery days and light work. Even the veterans on our team are young guys besides Al. A solid 2-3 days of practice time is invaluable. If I were GSW with that schedule, I'd be ripshit.
+1, and back-to-backs aren't nearly as big a deal when there's this much rest around them. Fatigue didn't look to be an issue at all for the Celtics on Saturday, even with the crappy flight in between.
I'd agree with this. The Celtics upcoming schedule defies logic though, Home then Away, every other day, for the next 10 days. Seems like homestands followed by road trips would be a little more efficient.
The former is a nice piece but he isn't a go-to when a team needs buckets. And I am, perhaps, the biggest Thomas fan in this forum of friendlies and its unclear what he can give this team.
Yeah B2B's aren't the issue it was the 5 games in 7 days with travel every night that is draining. The players are trained to play every day it's the other stuff that wears them down.
Meanwhile, the Rockets and Jazz are 13th and 14th, respectively.
Hmmm...
They have a lot of decent scorers but none of it is elite. Murray has the potential to be. I think there team is more built for the regular season but if they traded for a Kemba or Beal, they'd be much more of a playoff threat. None of the guys they have now really demand 2 defenders. Kemba would do just that and Denver has the shooters in place to take advantage.
They’re up to 13 with 7:45 left in the 2nd, and only three Suns players have scored so far, Ayton (6 points), Crawford (5 points) and Elie Okobo (2 points).
Rick Carlisle coaches up his players as well as anybody, with the exception of Pop and maybe Spoelstra. A lot of their rotation players (Finney-Smith, Powell, Barea, Kleber) were under-the-radar acquisitions but Carlisle gets those guys playing good, smart basketball.
