2025 Playoffs Chat & Chill Thread

[KqWIN]

Siakam was just an incredible trade for IND. Sometimes you've got to be willing to make a risky move. Trading everyone and tanking is not the only solution.

 

[zyzz]

Tony Bradley still in the league. Good for him

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Tony Bradley sighting wtf.

 

[fishonjazz]

I think thiibs made a mistake of not playing towns enough. And this is coming from a towns hater

 

[NUMBERICA]

Siakam was just an incredible trade for IND. Sometimes you've got to be willing to make a risky move. Trading everyone and tanking is not the only solution.

Sure. That was not the situation the Jazz were in when they blew it up, just so we’re all very clear.

-The Pacers weren’t passively-aggressively at each others’ throats
-The Pacers weren’t old
-The Pacers had superfluous assets, not down a pick whose protections made it prohibitively difficult to trade anything until 2028 (basically we only had one first and swaps to trade)
-Halliburton is better than anyone we had (fight me)
-The Pacers are not in the Western Conference

 

[KqWIN]

Sure. That was not the situation the Jazz were in when they blew it up, just so we’re all very clear.

-The Pacers weren’t passively-aggressively at each others’ throats
-The Pacers weren’t old
-The Pacers had superfluous assets (not down a pick whose protections made it prohibitively difficult to trade anything until 2028 (basically we only had one first and swaps to trade)
-Halliburton is better than anyone we had (fight me)

I’m not specifically talking about our situation. Every time a decent team loses, there’s a call for a team to start tanking. As difficult as it may seem to make a good trade or improve on the margins, tanking is incredibly difficult to pull off as well. When it comes to tanking vs making really hard move, I think the former is incredibly overrated.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Tony Bradley still in the league. Good for him

Made it to the conference finals before Mitchell. Drafted same year.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Sure. That was not the situation the Jazz were in when they blew it up, just so we’re all very clear.

-The Pacers weren’t passively-aggressively at each others’ throats
-The Pacers weren’t old
-The Pacers had superfluous assets, not down a pick whose protections made it prohibitively difficult to trade anything until 2028 (basically we only had one first and swaps to trade)
-Halliburton is better than anyone we had (fight me)
-The Pacers are not in the Western Conference

Haliburton and Mitchell are on the same level.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Haliburton and Mitchell are on the same level.

I don’t think they are. But it also doesn’t alter any of the other points.

I would’ve traded Mitchell for Haliburton in 2022.