Game6Conley
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WCS on triple-double alert (with Assists!) Might need one to get the Jazz homecourt in the 1st rd.
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Kris Dunn with 16 assists in his start for the T'Wolves...
Who needs Rubio?
Who needs Rubio?
seattlejazzfan
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That's an underrated and potentially brilliant addition by LeGM. LeBron has never had a big time blocker since he's been on top. Tavares has some Rudyesque potential in him.
Didnt everyone say the same thing about adding Sanders?
God Dunn was ****ing awful this year.
Kris Dunn is going to become the Twolves version of Trey Burke. That player you look at when you got a young, talented, and stacked team but you see that one complete waste of a high lottery pick and just think "What if we drafted someone who wasnt terrible?"
lol at all the rookies thinking dunn was gonna win ROY
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He has shot one three in the last 3 games. He went 3/5 4 games ago and he seemed to stop shooting them since then. Must have been enough to put him over the hump.
That's one of those incentives that kind of suck to put into a contract. I would hate to have my player be scared to shoot or have that in his mind during the season.
Hahahaha... so far no 3's today.
seattlejazzfan
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Not sure. But Sanders isn't 7'2"
Game6Conley
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It's one of those things that IDK how a bookie could take bets on such a prop.. knowing thats at stake.. it does affect the integrity of the game but people won't really bring it up..
Game6Conley
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I've long been a supporter of Tavares so I'm rather biased. He's gotten a raw deal. The HAwks actually liked him it's just their backup C hits 40% 3's.. Look at these blocks tho.. It's insane.. He dwarfs Poeltl..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYFHBNRrk68
Ball setting up Booker for open shots would be beautiful basketball.
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Game6Conley
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LeBron(13) has passed Malone, Kobe and MJ(12) for the most seasons at 25+ PPG.
Game6Conley
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The Magic fired their GM Rob Hennigan.. Not breaking news but I don't think it's been mentioned here yet. Magic fans are very happy with the move.
About time... He hasn't drafted too badly, but his trades were pretty bad. Some of the most lopsided trades ever made. He also doesn't seem to have the right plan in place. They never really 'tanked' properly to get the right talent.
Game6Conley
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They did draft poorly.. I'd have done better.. having two sub-30% 3pt shooters as pillars of your team is an outrageously bad idea, in these days and crimes..
For most teams I can think up a fix in the draft or free agency at the drop of a hat. When I look at Orlando's roster, that doesn't happen, what I see is a roster that screams "A trade needs to happen"...
Scott Skiles made a big stink about Elfrid Payton when he resigned/stepped down, and was he really wrong?
I can't help but think they'd infact be much better off if they had kept Saric instead of swapping him for Payton, and then drafted Exum instead of AG..
There was players they could've picked up off the scrap heap that would've helped them immensely, and they balked at those opportunities..
I think they drafted fine for the position, if you look at Oladipo, or Payton or Aaron Gordon, they were BPA for where they were drafting.
It's the 'trades' that had let them down. Even if think about the Saric/Payton trade, I mean it's the trade that's at fault, Payton picked where he was was fine for me.
Game6Conley
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Actually those players weren't even 2nd BPA, or 3rd.. If they really had picked the BPA, surely things would be a lot different.. and thats the point..
There's an issue with looking at these players on a case-by-case basis too.. if u do that the stupidity of the draft picks, and their incongruence, isn't properly illustrated..
There's chronology and as always $$$ involved too (read as $$$ and cap concerns)...
I had Victor Oladipo 2nd on my board btw. I have no qualms with that pick. The issue is now they have a shotty 3pt shooter in Oladipo, and who do they go out of their way to target in the next draft?!??!?! WHY 2-non shooters of course, in the lottery too.. which further exacerbates the issues of Vic, as opposed to finding complimentary players they gambled on players being able to improve their 3pt shot and look how it turned out, pissed off fans, coaches, dudes fired and stepping down.. This is the eastern conference too, in the west it'd have looked even worse..
It's the same thing as the rumor of them shopping Vucevic.. They built a team that's not complimentary around him, and then want to run him out of town because of it, when he's clearly far-and-away their best player (and on a crazy cheap deal)
That's why I'd have easily done a better job, Hennigan's plan was to squeeze blood out of a stone..
Game6Conley
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According to broadcaster Jeff Van Gundy, Golden State isn't going to be challenged during the playoffs.
"It's already over, right? Golden State is your champion. It won't be close. No one is gonna push them," Van Gundy declared on the Lowe Post Podcast.
"You really believe that?" Lowe asked Van Gundy.
"It's over. It's over," Van Gundy repeated. "This is a three-year run that's been incredible and they got better this year. The only thing that I think could make them stumble is another incident, or an injury.
"They had the incident last year with Green ... now that they're whole and healthy -- somebody trying to even get them to a seventh game, it's hard for me to fathom."
"It's already over, right? Golden State is your champion. It won't be close. No one is gonna push them," Van Gundy declared on the Lowe Post Podcast.
"You really believe that?" Lowe asked Van Gundy.
"It's over. It's over," Van Gundy repeated. "This is a three-year run that's been incredible and they got better this year. The only thing that I think could make them stumble is another incident, or an injury.
"They had the incident last year with Green ... now that they're whole and healthy -- somebody trying to even get them to a seventh game, it's hard for me to fathom."