It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

we need a deeply reported piece detailing how exactly one person can be so annoying

the raptors hubie sound alike announcer is best imho

folks I know I harp on this way too often but............. melo is very bad

its notable tbf

what are the wizards going to do

i have no idea. if they fire scotty brooks they owe him 21 million bucks!

wall might have the single worst contract in sports

it’s truly ludicrous. if they blow it up they have to blow it up around wall who is not a guy you can build around at this point

i think someone will trade for wall but they wont get a very good return, one thing that makes it easier than it might seem is hes ~only~ making $19m this year so matching up contracts wont be has hard as when the big numbers kick in next season

porters contract is the one theyd prob have to pay to move cause hes not that good

they cld prob blow it all up and end up with a few middling to bad 1sts a couple questionable young players and some vets riding out their deals

beal's the keeper of the three obv but also the only one they'd get an attractive package for

miami wld prob trade for wall theye got some nice shitty contracts to send back lol

https://i.imgur.com/aAi9rMr.png

+ a 1st + a second --> wash

iirc miami is approaching luxury tax repeater hell so they prob wont do this but other than that they totally would, i mean theres a reason theyre in the tax w a not very good team lol

is anyone talking abt how houston is 1-5 and has the worst record in the west

people are starting to talk

i mean they had that cp3 suspension and harden has been hurt but woof

im sure theyll figure it out but even before this it seemed unlikely theyd play as good as last season

they were 10-43 from 3 tonight pretty sure that is bad

xp i don't totally know miami's repeater sitch but i assume riley wants to stay competitive so if they can get wall they probably should.

he's still a very good player and a change of scenery might help.

based on the stats i've seen houston's defense from last year is completely gone and is not coming back. without a trade they're done as a contender.

yeah wldnt be surprised if they made a cool trade

kinda interesting that ariza just peaced out after such a successful season

did the rockets actually offer him a contract?

idk

btw the pistons are playing well but whoever assembled that team does not have a high appreciation for defense

ariza was superglue on that rockets team for the past however many years

btw the pistons are playing well but whoever assembled that team does not have a high appreciation for defense

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:19 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if drummond had turned into a better defender things would be different but he hasn't been that guy.

my question on ariza was sort of rhetorical but the way i recall that going was that the first reports were him signing with phx for the 15 mil. idk, maybe he really did want to be somewhere else. my best guess is the rockets thought he was about to decline and also thought he was replaceable with a min guy. call me old-fashioned but when you're two quarters away from the finals you go all in to retain the people that were involved in that, especially when the years are short.

yup

btw the pistons are playing well but whoever assembled that team does not have a high appreciation for defense

:}

i feel like porter's skill set is valued enough that they could eventually trade him to a team fancying itself as a contender for a first round pick in the high teens or 20s. kinda like the bojan bogdanovich/jeff green/marcin gortat trades of yesteryear. wall's contract is so insane that i feel like the only teams that would do it would be like... phoenix or sacramento or whatever.

I wonder if John Wall will pick up his $46,872,000 player option for the 2023 season.

lmao

porter's been quite good but in that awkward tobias harris zone where he's not worth more than a max contract and thus dangerous to team construction

Rockets bench is a bunch of who-he-play-fors
http://i64.tinypic.com/347zar7.jpg

yeah, porter's good, but not quite good enough to want to spend a quarter of your cap space on him.

$46,872,000

i still can't get used to current cba contracts.

i think it's safe to say the supermax should only be used on a top 5 player.

its funny the nba thought they concocted a way for teams to keep the best players but really they just make another salary boobytrap

i think porter is not that good, players who cant create at all are just not that valuable, pure 3nd guys are worth closer to the midlevel than the max, IMHO

gotta be able to put the ball on the floor make a pass do stuff

like u can hit a bunch of 3s at a high rate but what happens if the other team decides to guard u

look at all the crazy shit kyle korver does to just get a shot off

plus the number of guys who can hit a 3 these days is basically everyone

there's not very many 50/40/80 guys. he shot over 43% the last two seasons from 3. that's elite. he should be shooting 7 per game. he's never had a good coach, might have something to do with it.

yeah my point was that you can't be paying people big contracts that represent their actual value, which is what porter (and wall) has. in order to get enough talent to contend within the limitations of the cap you need to get the guys that are so good that you can't pay them what they're worth because the max prevents it.

or in the rarer Celtics case find lots of guys who will outplay their perceived value in your system or outplay their rookie contracts

it's true. warriors as well, obv.

can he create 7 per game tho, can he create 3 good looks in the playoffs idk

wld a mid level player who shoots 37/43/75 be a better idea, prob