2018 NBA OFFSEASON

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

my bf kyle :( i think he'll fit in well with memphis

i still don't know what to make of the spurs next year until kawhi gets traded. i presume a starting sf will come back in a trade (ingram or covington probably) and therefore the spurs didn't want to put long-term money on someone who'd presumably be a backup.

i hope the spurs keep my sometimes-dinner companion davis bertans on the team. seems like the market is p dry so they should get him $2-3M.

Yeah, until the Kawhi situation settles it’s hard to read these moves.

The whole thing bums me out

i have no idea whether i should be cautiously optimistic or dismayed.

The track record of that front office makes me optimistic in the long run but I can’t see how the team can compete in the short run. I wanted Pops to have another shot at a title.

in a tight market i really don't understand going after kyle anderson for decent money. i don't think i have a great sense of him as a player but does he have a standout skill at all?

xp their options cloud be like...ingram/kuzma/picks? covington/saric/fultz/pick? jaylen/pick? cool! future looks good and they'll be competitive enough now.

derozan? ehhhhhhhhh. competitive now, future looks questionable. could work if he learns to shoot 3s late in life a la jason kidd.

whatever miami or LAC has? grim.

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kyle anderson is an elite defender and can do almost everything else well, too, except score.

when i say "competitive", i meant home court first round in the west. title contention is not feasible with any trade the spurs do at this point.

read a couple of pieces now (lowe, the ringer) about how untouchable ingram is for the lakers which for me is a deal-breaker. my question is how much do the lakers think he will develop if they get kawhi in free agency next year? he'd be the third option.

i agree with that, it's fine to like ingram but he's not valuable on a team with those two guys.

But he might one day be an all-star!

Whoopee. So was Jamaal Magloire.

like if they have those guys it doesn't make any sense to wait around to see if ingram figures anything out as a shooter or off-ball player

like do the lakers want to actually compete with GS? trade for kawhi and keep enough cap space to add a third star in the summer. but adding max'd kawhi next summer to an older LBJ plus youngsters who dont play defense yet plus oldsters who cant shoot is not beating the warriors. ymmv.

as i understand it their paths to a third max slot are very close to closed off, oops

oops indeed. no idea how to look at this lakers team, either.

my guess based on everything i've absorbed so far--they're done for this year and the plan is to flail wildly for any max player next offseason. i think it's a mistake at this point to assume that there's any depth at all to their plans.

right. this is why i think ultimately the spurs and sixers deal will happen if sixers budge on fultz.

Paying rondo 12 milli was ..... not smart

xp with the caveat that nba teams have better intel on fultz than i do i'd agree with that