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Haliburton with only 4 assists in 35 minutes is a bit surprising. Dude is an assist machine.
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Simone fontecchio was 0-4 for zero points off the bench.
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I see that Embiid didn't play last night. What is his injury? How long is he supposed to be out?
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They said he’d be out for the first week of the season. Also won’t play back-to-backs. His knee is still an issue.
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Washington will be competitive for the bottom spot ! SA does not look good too . Only the first game of the season but interesting.
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The Spurs are smart so they're going to embrace the tank for at least one more season. Can you imagine if they added Flagg/Bailey/Harper/Edgecomb, they'd be goated.
Lose games and determine which of Castle / Vassell / Sochan / etc are going to be good long term fits with Wemby
Denver scored 77 points with 98 FGA at home against OKC (also added 10 with 14 FTA). In total they had 99 possessions of which 17 were extended due to offensive rebounds (2nd highest OREB% in game 1 by any team)... and they still managed to put up only 87 total points.
Looks like my preseason take that they are in for an underwhelming season survives game 1 at least.
Looks like my preseason take that they are in for an underwhelming season survives game 1 at least.
They added Harrison Barnes and Chris Paul who were #1 and #2 in minutes played in that Dallas game.
If they suck this year, they arent getting a gold star for "smart tanking".
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CP3 is like 50 and a good locker room guy
Adding those two pushed them over the salary floor
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How did he go from starting on a good team to being the Wizards backup center
If a truely tanking team struggles with salary floor, they sell their cap space to take on bad contracts. They dont go adding two servicable 30 mpg vets.
Its not like their 22 win core from last season was threatening a proper tank.
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They got an unprotected 2031 pick swap from Sacramento to take on Barnes deal. They essentially got a FRP and a trade-able veteran asset on a good deal (2 yr/$37M) just to help facilitate the trade. I don't think Barnes will be there past the ASB but they should be able to move him for something of value too.
Chris Paul is 40 and does not contribute to winning basketball anymore, he's just there for the vibes
Champion Spurs all you want but if they tried to get trash vets then they suck at identifying who the real trash vets are.
Both guys eat minutes from their youth and were #1 and #2 in game 1 minutes.
Pick your poison.
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They'll be able to move Barnes at the ASB for something of value. They had cap space and were able to get a FRP / Barnes for free just to eat cap.
Not sure what type of players you think CP3 / Barnes are at this stage but they're not moving the winning needle very much, especially for a young squad.