i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

seemed fake until today. maybe he wants out and this way he can blame it on them?

i don't think he wants out but you can understand why he would be mad over the way they went about the offseason

at this point they should just give him the 2/50 he supposedly wants, idk what else they're gonna do w/ that money

does that strap them for next summer tho?

it would but on the other hand if wade leaves the heat will get bounced in the first round next season (if they're lucky) and i dunno how that makes them any more attractive in free agency next summer

heat not sniffing the offs sans wade

the thing that makes it difficult to read the heat is bosh's health. he's getting paid $23m a year and there's prob like 5 people total who know his likelihood of being able to play beyond this season.

well if bosh is healthy i think dragic/bosh/whiteside & the young guys could be a playoff team but they would be in the bottom muck of the playoff race xp

ya bosh health obvs a big wildcard but their wing rotation wld be p bleak reguardless

David Aldridge ‏@daldridgetnt 45s45 seconds ago
David West to the Warriors on a one-year deal, per source, for vet minimum.

david west really the most shameless ring chaser of all

ha called that shit yesterday

lol

lol oh mannnnnn

presuming festus gets a deal elsewhere i guess zaza starts and west backs him up, don't think west has enough left in the tank for a system that fast-paced tho

My sense is that wade really wants those extra millions, so he's not bluffing in that sense. If the nuggets are ready to pay him what he wants and Miami isn't willing, I predict he'll go to denver.

His questionable health is both the reason he wants the big payday now and in an unbreakable contract and the reason most teams won't be willing to pony up the big bucks for him. He's lucky his health situation is vague enough that someone is willing to gamble on him being able to deliver good value in return for the cash.

there's zero chance he goes to denver

despite the warriors ruining the league, pretty much every team has something interesting going on right now. i think basketball will survive this

no basketball is over

denver wld be an interesting spot for russ actually but it'll never happen

yeah this was already a really fascinating offseason and then the trump card got dropped

west is cooked isn't he

hes done

good locker room guy?

re: david west, he had a career year in terms of efficiency. he'll be good for them off the bench, but he won't get any playoff burn.

keeps his locker very tidy

https://twitter.com/DeionGottaSTFU/status/750426129840869376

haha

the max should be raised to 50% of the cap imo

Adrian Wojnarowski‏@WojVerticalNBA
San Antonio has traded forward Boris Diaw to the Utah Jazz, league sources tell @TheVertical.

jazz are gonna be interesting this year

boris ;_;

A cosmopolitan dude like Boris is gonna love SLC

Diaw/Gobert sets should be called the Maginot Line.

spurs dumping reasonably priced boris contract so they can pay old pau $20 million per year feels a little.... desperate

diaw was a DNP in game 6 on the playoffs, and he's 34. and it's $15m for pau.

besides pau is a duncan replacement, not a diaw replacement

wonder what they wldve done if they had the durant info first

i mean i love bobo, one of my top 10 all time favorite players to watch, but the writing was on the wall in the playoffs.

xp

pau was still one of their targets, if they knew KD was GS bound, theyd still need a C.

everyone has money to burn this summer, so I don't read taking pau over boris as a desperate move. spurs paid only ~4.5 million in luxury taxes last season, and had the second best record behind the dubs' 73-9. now they have more cap space, so they used it to advantage.

pau's offensive stats overrate him, he's pretty redundant next to LMA & i don't think he's really any less ripe to being exposed by youth and athleticism in the playoffs but maybe there were really no better options out there for them

nu diaw has already been drafted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQuzdpuN-o

Craziest thing about this to me is that in Dallas mahinmi looked like the kind of utterly fungible big man who would end up with one more little contract probably as a practice body for a contender with no money then vanish into Europe or w/e and now he's like an ideal b-level center

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 3:10 AM

he was always a great backup for the pacers, and then lucked his way into a starting role and a career season just before the cap jump

things:
-pau show abt a 3 per game, highest volume of 3s he's shot professionally. he made about 35% of em. not amazing, but he can spread the floor. so that's unique for them to have a 7 footer who can hit shots everywhere along with his other skill sets.
-fwiw, he has posted his best DefRtgs the last two seasons in chicago maybe a byproduct of thibs or whatever. i haven't watched enough pau to get a feel for his ability to guard PnR.

xxp

pau is a legitimately awful defender

is he just stacking block stats bc he's tall but getting beat in other areas?

ya something like that prob

he's just slow

ok. so he's...present day duncan!

might be useful if pop cn find a way to let him hang around the rim but hes gonna get lit up in the pnr

pau's always been more of an offensive asset than a defensive one. that's his game. and he can pass.