2018 NBA OFFSEASON

he promised to get better tho

a promise is a promise

Furkan Korkmaz

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Furkan Korkmaz hits 8 threes and finishes with 40 points 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Y7pvA2WbgC

— Bleacher Report NBA (@BR_NBA) July 7, 2018

Nurkic 4/48 to stay in PDX

I don’t hate that

4/48 sounds fine to me. Nurkic is young. he shows flashes of excellence, but he's unreliable. compared to the Meyers Leonard contract, this is sober good sense.

that seems like a great price

esp considering he’ll be only 27 in that fourth year

I’m seeing 4/53 but it’s negligible

yeah

krokmaz is the next peja

nurk prob not a guy who will be able to play much in the playoffs as the league is currently constructed unless a match up really falls portland’s way but he’s a really good regular season player

its weird how smallball just trumps trad centers theres got to be a counter there somewhere idk

dunk shld be worth 2.3-2.7 points

this is pretty crazy

https://deadspin.com/reports-former-ucla-star-tyler-honeycutt-found-dead-af-1827416945

I read that url as saying he was dead as fuck.

its true

its cool there are so many guns any mental breakdown can easily be turned into a police execution

the counter in theory should be posting up idk how it works in practice though. you can't score 3 points in the post in the offs because the refs don't call fouls

rebounding too shd work but the problem is if u crash the glass that just increases the smallball fastbreak advantage, i think the whole thing basically comes down to that its so much easier to score in transition than the halfcourt these days

also feel like scoring in the post takes lots of skill, prob just easier to try and teach players jump shots

tim kawakami on zach lowe pod was talking about how the warriors really want post scoring and are using boogie as a sort of test run/proof of concept for future bigs they may want to sign (brow) but aside from someone like brow it just seems like post scoring in the offs is gonna be such a specialized skill, something that is done in 2 min spurts if a match up falls a certain way

this is my prob with a team built around joel embiid that nobody really talks about

If the NBA used FIBA goaltending rules it'd change things for the better. Ball is live when it hits the rim and either team can go get it without worrying about "in the cylinder" bullshit. Make your bigs matter.

I personally like drive and kick basketball a lot more than post up basketball and don't really care if big men are important or not

Unicorns are more fun than brutes

agreed totally i love the current state of the game its just interesting to think abt the strategic shifts and what comes next

i hope hes good enough to be a true nba heel, two incidents in two games, off to a sterling start

Grayson Allen and Wade Baldwin get into it, Summer League has everything.

— E. García Gundersen (@Erik_Gundersen) July 7, 2018

man, boogie is already sounding like he's totally drinking the warriors koolaid, this team could just be ridiculously amazing

uhhhh do any ILHers know about this??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetress_Bell

wow! no

knew malone was kinda shady like that but did not know those details. damn

Insane

revoke his mvps and give them to hakeem

oh shit. i knew about cheryl ford, but damn.

max booker

it's hard out there for a big...

bropez 1/3.4 to the bucks

the booker max is a straight 5 year. no player option in year 5

that one seems pretty defensible

yeah its good. he's gotten better every year

hes still has some major question marks imho but yeah no brainer for the suns i mean they suck anyway

Source close to Chris Paul tells me that CP3 is advocating for the #Rockets to acquire his good friend, Carmelo Anthony. Melo, 34, made a career-high 169 3-pointers last season on a career-high 474 attempts (35.7 percent). https://t.co/C8LT4rSpFF

— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) July 8, 2018

Rip rox. Poor dantoni

lopez is a nice piece for the bucks.

Lopez and Ersan are nice adds. Think buds gonna have that offense humming so much better than what we’ve seen from that squad

tbh i’d still roll the dice on melo at a few million. it doesn’t make sense to me that he can’t just make open 3 pointers.

melo's major problem on the floor seems to be that his decision making is wildly off, like he just doesn't seem to know how to adapt to the game anymore

Also, I don't understand cap rules but what's their situation with Capella and LMAM if they go for Melo?

they have bird rights on capela, i think they can only use the midlevel or something like that on luc, which would leave the minimum or biannual (if they even have that) left for melo.

the rockets went ice cold and it killed them

Spurs not matching the Anderson offer sheet. Looks like rebuilding in earnest might be happening