2017 NBA OFFSEASON

drummond is such an awful defender, wonder if he cld reform at all

also going after a powerforward makes more sense from the pov of center is horfords natural position

but on the other hand drummond is an absolute beast otherwise and they likely wldnt have to give up that much to get him

that team would be bad lol

shooting is important in the nba iirc

hot take: drummond sucks

i like that celts/c's trade a lot actually?? bradley is a beast, crowder is a good 3 and d guy, dont know much about rozier but he's got to be a better backup PG than deron williams. leaves the cavs kinda shallow at PF, though. unless they move bron to the 4, put a smallish wing package of JR and bradley out there as starters. idk! but cool to think about.

pretty sure we were talking about bradley+crowder for love like a year and a half ago, & it still makes sense

shooting is important in the nba iirc

― k3vin k., Wednesday, June 14, 2017 4:48 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whatre u talkin abt man

can't tell if ur joking but a team that starts westbrook, drummond, and DAJ would struggle to score

oh that one lol, yeah

i read it as the guy saying get one of them but maybe he meant get two huge non shooting centers idk

i like that celts/c's trade a lot actually?? bradley is a beast, crowder is a good 3 and d guy, dont know much about rozier but he's got to be a better backup PG than deron williams. leaves the cavs kinda shallow at PF, though. unless they move bron to the 4, put a smallish wing package of JR and bradley out there as starters. idk! but cool to think about.

― nice cage (m bison), Wednesday, June 14, 2017 4:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty sure we were talking about bradley+crowder for love like a year and a half ago, & it still makes sense

― ciderpress, Wednesday, June 14, 2017 5:36 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, was thinking bron at the 4 tho he prob wldnt want to play there all season due to wear and tear issues

tho crowder can play some 4 too, him n bron cld just be sort of vague forwards

Starting vague forward, from an indiscriminate point in Northeast Ohio, standing in excess of 6 but no more than 7 feet, LeBron jaaaaaaaaaaaaames

http://nypost.com/2017/06/15/knicks-other-carmelo-option-if-jackson-cant-pull-off-trade/

lol

imo that has a decent chance of happening.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N9ssawjuM3I/U8HDagkEwSI/AAAAAAAACPQ/-jjVRbZcZf8/w400-h225-no/50Cent_MELO_Phil_really2_.gif

melo getting paid off by the knicks via stubbornness/grudge against phil then joining a contender for free wld be a good subplot for next season

i kinda hope melo stays stuck in NYK but his destiny is to get stretch waived and fall short of winning a championship in cleveland

otm

yea i don't really see how getting melo would help us win against golden state

it wouldnt! the idea of going after paul george is intriguing, the melo idea is just bad.

cld give them flexibility to trade love for role players, but yeah as constructed hed be p redundant to that team, tho some sort of microwave role cld work i guess

cavs dont have any pieces to get george i mean unless they want to trade kyrie which wld just be a sideways move

kyrie and bron are a good complement ive decided

cavs dont have any pieces to get george i mean unless they want to trade kyrie which wld just be a sideways move

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 15, 2017 2:23 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

K love?

cant see it hes worse and older than george/not on the pacers timeline

tho maybe if the pacers absolutely just need to get something for him cause hes gonna leave after the season anyway

trueeeee

yeah the cavs are stuck which fine i guess, theyre already hella good

yea i don't really see how getting melo would help us win against golden state

― marcos, Thursday, June 15, 2017 3:14 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark

the cavs were giving like 20 mpg each to richard jefferson and kyle korver to be essentially useless. i think i'd take melo!

tristan thompson another player who was basically rendered useless in this series

the cavs have plenty of room for more good players

tru, tho melo is a pretty unperfect fit

i think he would be an imperfect fit bcuz the cavs best offense vs the warriors is lebron and kyrie going 1 on 1 and they don't really need one more person to do that. in theory melo would be a great person to shoot open threes or make plays off the dribble on close outs or post up smaller guys on mismatches etc but.... that would take a complete sublimation of his ego so it would be a lot to ask.

i do think in general that's a problem when we're talking about them acquiring like paul george. the warriors could add KD bcuz draymond and KD were not ball dominant scorers, so there was room open for KD in that regard. but the cavs already have two of those guys, adding a third would start to get really complicated. is paul george just gonna stand around the three point line waiting for lebron to pass to him out of a double team?

it's a tough call, melo's track record of not playing like an ass is pretty short but if he arrived w/an open mind it could be interesting.

i think the larger prob is figuring out how any of the wings that the cavs could target learn to play complementary ball to lebron when they've never had to do something like that before. when i scan the league for ideal fits for the cavs the main name i come up with starts with a k and ends with the first three letters of a high-percentage basketball shot.

draymon and klay** i mean in that second graf xp

when i scan the league for ideal fits for the cavs the main name i come up with starts with a k and ends with the first three letters of a high-percentage basketball shot.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 15, 2017 4:28 PM (twelve seconds ago) Bookmark

lol yes

xp jord and i making similar points

pg wld be insanely perfect as a jack of all trades medium usage player who cld shoulder a bigger load while bron or kyrie was on the bench, he prob wldnt be that into it tho

love is a great fit for them on offense vs every other team in the NBA except the warriors. in this series tho he had trouble taking advantage of theoretical mismatches in the post. i mean vs draymond isn't a mismatch, but klay credible defended him in the post which is a problem

pg wld be insanely perfect as a jack of all trades medium usage player who cld shoulder a bigger load while bron or kyrie was on the bench, he prob wldnt be that into it tho

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 15, 2017 4:30 PM (eighteen seconds ago) Bookmark

ya

when i scan the league for ideal fits for the cavs the main name i come up with starts with a k and ends with the first three letters of a high-percentage basketball shot.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 15, 2017 4:28 PM (twelve seconds ago) Bookmark

lol yes

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 15, 2017 4:29 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe the dubs wld reconsider that offer from a few years ago

Report: Chris Paul to talk to Spurs, Rockets and Nuggets in free agency https://t.co/5YX164yPpV

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) June 15, 2017

rockets... interesting

don't they have a pg already and he is pr good

nuggets wld be a good fit though obv spurs is more likely

omg don't do this to me

Lol Kevs heart would explode.

Cp on the rox is redundant unless they want to move harden off the ball again.

having two elite ballhandlers isnt the end of the world