I'm not even saying it was the wrong move for Utah to punt last year (or to do the same this year, they'll be lucky to clear the play in), just that from the perspective of someone that would really love it if one or both of the Lakers/Warriors were to finish out of the top 10, it was very annoying.
Yea, Vandy helped the Lakers establish a defensive identity last year. Thought Danny kind of threw him into the bigger deal.
Speaking of Pelinka missteps, he could have had Conley instead of DLo last year; LAL would look a lot better with Conley's shooting and ability to run team and ability to play defense.
Yes, having players who are good at basketball is better than having players who are not good at basketball. Conley would have been a good fit.
Gotcha. Yeah Pelinka killed it at the deadline last year. Moving RWB to open up minutes and opportunity for Reaves, Vanderbilt and Hachimura slid perfectly into their roles and It all came together. This year Reaves may be worn down from his summer overseas or isn’t playing at same level for whatever reason while the latter two have been injured…..Vanderbilt has been truly awful since he’s come back while Hachimura has been good when he’s been available. Not sure what Pelinka can come up with this year though.
Helpful to who? Not sure Ainge's primary responsibility is trading on the basis of making one opponent more competitive than another opponent. The Jazz might well be a playoff team this season, but if he can improve the Jazz's championship possibilities with a trade, he'd be helping his own team which is his only responsibility.
To me (hah) and anyone else that wants the Lakers/Warriors to not even get the D- grade that is the play-in tournament.
Murray/Maxey and Embiid/jokic are pretty fun matchups though. 41/14 assists for Maxey/Embiid, 28/10 for Jokic and Murray. 7 offensive rebounds for Jokic stands out too.
I hear that and agree that’s a traditional valuation.
Why does it suck? Indy is a good team. They are still a step or two away from being true contenders with Siakam
Yeah, it’s more about the capital for me. You make this deal and that’s basically it. I’m fine when these kinds of franchises make aggressive moves. We all laughed at Minny and now they’re the #1 seed at the midway point. But they got Gobert for multiple years so I’d want Siakam’s re-signed if I’m doing this. He’s not young but he probably has a few more good years in him.
Because we have trouble with them as is and may have a 7 game series with them in May.
I imagine Indy & Siakam's agent will have the parameters of a deal in place if a trade is executed.
Still 26 seconds
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A lot of Embiid's moves are specifically designed to draw fouls, not score. Shaq never consistently went hunting only for fouls, although maybe he would have if he shot 85% from the line instead of 55%.
This is such an excellent point. Shaq played nba basketball with the intent to viciously dunk the ball and physically destroy his opponent like 90% of the time he touched the ball. He treated getting like a hinderance as opposed to the goal. It's so different than all the foul baiting embiid does.
The contested three followed by the blindside rip of Shai (it has to be a *little* personal for PG, right?) and coast-to-coast dunk to seal it was one of the more thrilling, random regular season sequences I’ve seen in a while.
Definitely the best since last week:
