An actual list might prove me wrong, but it hardly seems like more than a 50-50 bet when teams essentially tank to "choose" their playoff opponent.
I share the feeling that generally one should not tempt the basketball gods, but the Nets are a pretty unique case. This is not just looking for a team you think you match up against better. The roster that put Brooklyn in the 6th six seed is not the same one the Net's currently field. While feisty, they are a sub .500 team since the KD trade. Miami is .538 on the season (abliet with a negative point differential). If my choice is playing a team whose best player is Miles Bridges and is coached by Jacque Vaughn or one led by Jimmy Butler/Bam and helmed by Spo, I know which one I am picking every day and twice on Sunday.
Good for him, but PP just had a line just like that in a low-pressure game for us, and he's buried in the back of the rotation. These meaningless games are great for guys trying to break in to the league, but I'm not sure how much they tell us.
Yeah, I'm going to trust the C's talent evaluators on this one. They were able to scout Samanic all season and declined to lock him up.
True, but the C's could have brought him up for a test run at some point, and they didn't. Is there any reason to believe they're ruing the loss of Samanic?
Could be worse, he could become the poster child for not taking a deadly pandemic seriously.
And the Twolves have ruled him out for the rest of the game, and an internal suspension wouldn't shock me. Really remarkable. I've also don't believe I've ever seen Kyle Anderson move that quickly.
They'll need to trade KAT and ANT to reset the Gobert trade. They'll try and hold that off as long as they can, probably too long, but that's the only way you fix this, short of finding a Jokic in the 2nd round or something.
They won't trade those two guys to reset. They can either dump Gobert for nothing. Some team would take him into space or send back some other, but different contracts. Or they play it out for two years then trade Gobert as an expiring.
All kidding aside, assuming the Mavs pay Kyrie don’t they have to try and trade for Gobert on the cheap?
that’s the perfect spot for him basketball-wise….don’t see how they get the contract ballast to do it though
The Mavs have the Bertans and Hardaway contracts that make this a simple match for trading purposes. Hardaway role is limited with Kyrie there and give Minny an asset to dip if they don’t want him.
Gobert is exactly what they need - in a basketball sense, anyway. That personality mix would be amazing to watch.
Purely from a basketball perspective, it's actually pretty nice for both teams. Mavs get the defensive presence they so desperately need, and the Wolves get some very nice late-game offense (and a shot at the best offensive backcourt in the league).
Yup even this slower version of his defensive self would change the way Dallas defends in a massive way.
I was talking about Bartan, Hardaway, and flotsam for Gobert and pairing him with Doncic and Kyrie. We were just discussing the other day how Cuban loves taking on the one big contracts for one-dimensional pure 5’s.
Yep. Let those two cones just funnel everything to the rim and have Rudy clean it up. All they’d have to do is defend the three-point line and make sure they didn’t leave the corner three open when dudes blow past them.
Ah, got it. Minnesota can't trade him away for parts after just a year selling the farm to get him, even if it's the right move in the long run.
Are they? I haven't seen too much of them but they are 10th in defensive rating, it seems like the bigger problem is that they are 23rd in offensive rating.
Gobert is the least liked player in the league and Kyrie might be the most liked. Kyrie's (basketball) issues are with management, coaches, and control.
Yeah I read that wrong and you're right, that team is brutal defensively. I really think they need to explore trading KAT, and hope for continued improvement from Edwards.
Yea I can't fault the Wolves for trading Kessler. Nobody, and I mean nobody thought of him as anything but a guy
Is an internal suspension really feasible? On the one hand, the season is on the line with the play-in game and, as well, the GM went all in on Rudy so...probably too late for him to back off now. On the other hand, the Wolves locker room could explode if there's not some serious discipline.
That would be hilarious. Rudy would be a great basketball fit w/ the Mavs...and would make for the most combustible locker room ever.
I don't think anybody expected Kessler to be this good so early in this NBA career, but he was the 22nd pick last year. It's not like was an UDFA or a G League guy.
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