Most of the talk I've seen regarding trading Horford revolves around a sign and trade this summer for a free agent. Someone like Bradley Beal or Zach LaVine, where Horford's main value is as a matching salary/expiring contract.
No clue why he'd leave CHI, but a S&T with Horford's deal makes some sense in a S&T if he chose here.
CJ McCollum and Sabonis were just moved. Who a top 30 type is is pretty arbitrary though.
That top 6 would be one of the best, if not the best top 6 (starting 5+ White). The team would always have at least one of Tatum, Lavine or Brown on the court as the go to scorer. LaVine is also a decent enough playmaker that added with White the team's ball movement and play making becomes a strength. Not to mention LaVine is very close to elite at 3 point shooting (% + volume). Having Tatum/Lavine/Brown on the court provide enough spacing that the team can easily get away with TL and Smart/White. This is especially true if Smart and White are closer to 34% from 3. Merely below average instead of awful, though Smart has been trending in the right direction.
Agreed that top 30 is pretty arbitrary, but McCollum ain't it. 30 year old shooting guard with poor defense, never made an all-star team...at his best he was borderline top 30, and he's a few years removed from that now.
I'm assuming the poster meant Horford as shorthand for the 1st round picks and swap package with Horford as the salary filler.
You'd trade Jaylen for way less than Lavine.
Zach LaVine would be the final piece but agree it's pipe dreamy.
a really disappointed Atlanta team may want to move players/salary this summer
Heh, not really. Out of all the proposed Jaylen deals, the only one I liked was mine for Haliburton and Barnes. I'm just extremely high on Haliburton and think he's all but guaranteed to be as good as Jaylen Brown.
I doubt he's even had imaging yet. They'll let the swelling go down, have imaging this afternoon probably.
Kinda rough holding a sprained ankle against a guy when he stepped on another guy's foot. If it were a hammy or oblique or something, I could see the disappointment. I doubt that there's 3 posters on this forum who haven't done that.
I’ve played basketball my whole life and have never sprained an ankle (knocking on wood).
Yeah keep knocking for sure.
My brother has sprained his ankle literally 30ish times in his life playing hoops. It got absurd but when the ankle is weak, that shit happens so often.
I've done it playing pickup more than once, I feel his pain and I'm not holding it against him. I'm still going to note that he's good for missing a few weeks every year, I just hope he's healed up before the playoffs.
It perhaps is directly correlated to my lack of “ups”, but it is something that friends have always marveled at.
That's fair. As some have noted, his approach is chaotic. This can happen to anyone.
I used to sprain my basketball but I have perfected socially distant basketball. I can play and still remain far enough from people to avoid catching COVID!
Definitely recommend the one footed exercises. I started wrapping it before playing, and that helped too.
All my years playing I never sprained an ankle. Only injury was splitting defenders on fast break into the lane at full speed and broke it. I too would have been effective in Covid times with my SDD……socially distant defense. Lol I never understood why you’d play up in a guys face outdoors in the elements when they couldn’t shoot. My motto was treat everyone like Ben Simmons and if they made one match it at the other end.
Because playing defense is fun!All my years playing I never sprained an ankle. Only injury was splitting defenders on fast break into the lane at full speed and broke it. I too would have been effective in Covid times with my SDD……socially distant defense. Lol I never understood why you’d play up in a guys face outdoors in the elements when they couldn’t shoot. My motto was treat everyone like Ben Simmons and if they made one match it at the other end.
Looks like Marcus (and TL) will be playing tonight. https://www.celticsblog.com/2022/2/23/22947635/ime-udoka-marcus-smart-robert-williams-boston-celtics-brooklyn-nets-kelan-martin-malik-fitts?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The pbp guy on TNT agreed that Morant was giving credit to Smart but thought he was saying "That's tough!". I remember because I was thinking that was an unusual phrase to use. But I'm not exactly up to date on hip lingo.
Any chance Smart gets DPOY? Tatum put it out there too in an interview with Smart (link is in the C's Game Analysis thread). There certainly seems to be a push. The last guard to win was Payton in 95-96 which goes two ways. 1) Guards never win, so MS doesn't have a chance. 2) Guards never win, so there's big man fatigue and it's time to award it to a guard, giving MS a chance. I don't know how they award it - solely on metrics, or on metrics/eye test combo, or just eye test.
The other "goes two ways" thing:
