2018 NBA OFFSEASON

yeah that's a weird player for okc too want

it's kind of a lot to give up for....mike muscala.

by taking back schroder it appears that the thunder are "only" saving $70-something million on the tax. still gonna be a $200M team and they've got two add'l seasons of schroder money on the books!

every russ triple double brings in $1m more revenue

Harden, CP, Tucker, Melo, Gordon is the all-time softest and most round-faced group in the history of the nba.

the pi face mamba

i don’t hate this for the thunder... i do think to have a shot at doing anything beyond making the second round they need to acquire as much talent as possible and schroeder can play, which is more than we can say for what they prob would’ve done if they just bought out melo outright. still hard to picture him & russ on the floor together.

they basically acquired the most reggie jackson like player in the NBA who isn’t reggie jackson which for this franchise in particular is kinda odd

He'll help them assuming he doesn't get convicted of felony battery.

they can't play together, like i just don't see how that works. i think the most positive thing i can say is that schroder is now on a team where being a dick isn't going to work at all

if schroder is convicted of a felony i think okc can void his contract? and if not, they may be able to salvage some of his value

okc def taking a culture risk by signing both noel and schroder

i kinda like all the okc moves this summer. one year under their belt plus they know PG is locked in so they dont need to tip toe around that any more. i kinda think schroders problems are a little overstated at this point. he's a fine guy to have as your 4th or 5th best player. think he's a much better playmaker than reggie jackson as well..

Russ's late game decision making will always be their achilles heel tho

still think the central question w/ them is whether you can win a playoff series if nobody in your own franchise can prevent russell westbrook from shooting 40 times per game

yes

PG gonna have to assert himself a bit more for sure.

suns got richaun holmes from philly. good pickup.

suns will win the nba playoffs

ayyyyyyye been waiting for your 2019 predix. still waiting for the Magic theory to be fulfilled.

in my defense the orlando magic theory was proposed before the oladipo / ibaka trade

i thought oladipo was actually good entirely based on a single celtics-magic game i went to where he went off and looked really impressive, and turned out to be right eventually but it took 2 trades to happen

i liked the theory but they ruined it with bad moves yup

i have some ideas in mind for which teams will outperform expectations next year but i want to see the rest of the offseason play out first

https://hoopshype.com/2018/07/19/oklahoma-city-thunder-dennis-schroder-atlanta-hawks-trade/

Paul George is like the only dude on that team who can shoot a three

Abrines and Pat Pat too. but they wont be seeing many minutes in the playoffs

They could really use Korver imo

yeah but sixers are trading for him. REUNION.

i know that's the rumor, but he seems sort of superfluous for the sixers

Super Cool Beas to the Lakers via Woj

this is gonna be a legendary roster

going all in on weird dude energy

i know its lebron and those young guys have potential but holy shit what a fucked up team

They still have that Luol Deng contract for some reason

they are gonna be must watch tv. if ingram/ball/kuzma/hart all make a leap this year all these other moves wont matter as much. but if they have to rely heavily on lance/beas/mcgee/rondo it could get really ugly.

their center rotation is non existent.

not sure why they havent cut him and stretch provisioned that thing out xp

lebron is gonna play a lot of center i think?

Bold prediction: Zubac will play more minutes than McGee

seems likely

might pretend to care about the raptors now

wooooo

could be. he looked alright his rookie year but pretty shook last year

raptors with kawhi could be a problem

they are the 2 seed if he's healthy and not tanking the season

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Lakers really living that meme where you have $15 to build a team and you spend $11 on LeBron and you're not really sure what to do with the rest.

toronto could run a smallball lineup of lowry/van fleet/green/leonard/jonas that would be quite good.

jonas wouldnt be in a small ball lineup tho. swap him for ibaka

oh true, i was just thinking for "offense" i guess

you could probably swap anunoby for green, too

theyre gonna have a ton of defensive versatility