Game Thread Mar 09, 2025 05:30PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Philadelphia 76ers
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The tank dodged a bullet there
Sixers could have easily lost that game if they just played Drummond more minutes. Bona made such a big difference. It was impossible to get a clean rebound with him on the court
framer
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Meh, I'm not an all-out tank guy, but a worst case of a 5 pick in this draft is far superior to a worst case of 7 or 8. If not getting a top 2 pick in each draft is a failure, then we shouldn't be tanking at all.
HadAnEffectHere
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This draft has just turned out to be bad from 3-5, it can be valuable to have a floor of 5 in some years, yeah.
framer
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Jazz easily got 2 of the top 10 players of last year's draft, and not with their lottery pick.
Flip hitting 39% on volume 3pt shooting is a nice discovery after there were questions about his shooting in college.
framer
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Bailey, Edgecombe, or Johnson would look pretty good on this team. I don't know about "bad. . ." Cooper or Harper would be better, of course. . .
Flip averaging 22.5p/8r in his last 4 games.
framer
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He's at 51% since the all-star break. Hit some clutch ones tonight. Thank God he had a crazy girlfriend (allegedly. . .)
Flip could add some muscle and polish his post game. That'll get him more points in the paint and more FTs to boot.
Collier with 7 TOs tonight is a bit of a regression. He had it under control there for a while.
Nope.
HadAnEffectHere
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They're all extremely low upside players and are worse prospects than are normally in the 3-5 range. I don't think there's much of any gap from 3 to 10.
If we get #3, we're probably taking VJ and he'll be a nice, Jalen Suggs-like player, who we view as the fifth best player on a contending team.
It is completely relevant as that determines the floor of where a team could pick.
jom2003
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Gonna say something wild. If we shut down Lauri and Walker for the rest of the season, Filip will easily run away with Roty.
Fair to say at this point he's figured out the NBA and will put up numbers on good efficiency whenever he gets enough looks/usage. Maybe it will be a fight any other year, but 17/8 on 50/40 shooting split is enough to win it in this rookie class.
Fair to say at this point he's figured out the NBA and will put up numbers on good efficiency whenever he gets enough looks/usage. Maybe it will be a fight any other year, but 17/8 on 50/40 shooting split is enough to win it in this rookie class.
HadAnEffectHere
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Yes, it does impact the floor, but the floor doesn't matter at all in this class. It's extremely flat from 3 to like 12.
I think Tre Johnson can be a 2nd option on a good team. You're also selling Edgecombe a bit short. Suggs was more or less a non-shooter for his first couple years.