part two of the nba 2020-21 anything but regular season

the clippers relying on playoff rondo to save the kawhi-PG nucleus from utter failure......... may god be with you

Melli on the Mavs is perfect. Euro heaven

what could go wrong xp

re: oladipo, yeah, maybe don't trade for a player who has been broadcasting loudly for months that he's either going to miami or free agency and expect to flip him for anything good.

When dust settles, the cost of acquiring impending free agent Evan Fournier will essentially be 4 second-round picks, Daniel Theis, Javonte Green, and Jeff Teague.

Celtic take on Wagner, duck the tax (for now), and maybe have slot for buyout guy. And TPEs. Always TPEs.

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— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) March 25, 2021

i think its only 2 2nds fwiw

its sad they had to dump theis instead of thompson

wagner is kind of interesting?

i think its only 2 2nds fwiw

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:38 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i believe the other two were passed in the hayward trade exception thing

ah i see

love theis but he was a limited player and i'm not sure they would have re-signed him this offseason (actually i'm pretty sure they wouldn't have). i'm cool getting a look at wagner.

i hope theis blossoms on another team.

he'll be backing up vooch hes gonna have way less opportunity

it's not clear to me what gordon is good at, exactly, aside from being athletic. his three pt shooting has shot up this year but idk what the value of that is given what's been going on around the league this year. his 2 pt % is kind of ghastly for someone w/ his athletic ability, he seems like a decent defender. i'm not sure it's a huge overpay exactly but i'm also not sure how much it moves the needle overall, altho he's almost certainly an upgrade over milsap, jaymichael etc. i don't fault them for doing it... i think he just leaves me kinda cold. but maybe orlando is such a bad basketball situation that you can't really judge him w/in that context

The big thing about Gordon is will he be more engaged if he’s on a contender. He floats around games mostly.

yeah. the intel and background on him has not been amazing but denver seems like a good place to turn that around.

feel like its all about his ability to understand and embrace his role, cause he can def do some stuff, but not other stuff

Losing out on Hampton kind of hurts, he’s clearly an nba player with amazing upside. Reminds me of Derrick rode at times. But that’s why the deal is possible; good for both teams

it’s definitely a great deal for orlando. will likely work out for both sides tho

orlando basically turned the nucleus of a team 14 games under .500 into wendell carter, gary harris, three first round picks and two second round picks? pretty incredible

and rj hampton

def interested to see some of these guys in new situations. vooch and lavine both having all star seasons but have never been able to shake the empty stats on bad teams tag.

orlando basically turned the nucleus of a team 14 games under .500 into wendell carter, gary harris, three first round picks and two second round picks? pretty incredible

― J0rdan S., Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:58 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf they have also made the playoffs with that team, but yeah they did good, and now to pray for cade (or whoever)

TRADE TIDBIT: The 2022 pick swap with Miami that the #Rockets received in the Oladipo trade is lottery-protected.

— David Weiner (@BimaThug) March 25, 2021

Amazing how the Rockets went from probably the most consistent playoff team in the entire league for almost 20 years straight to... whatever this is, almost overnight lol. Tilman wasted absolutely no time eclipsing Dolan and Sarver as the worst owner in the entire NBA.

it's going to be a very long road back for them

i saw the vision in flipping caris for oladipo and aiming to collect more assets at this deadline but my god did his trade value crater

pelton gave the rockets a B in his trade grade and part of the argument is that they wouldn't have gotten a better deal for caris. i have a really hard time believing that.

that seems basically impossible

You could always just keep Caris

yeah

I think Drummond should be on the Celtics

sure why not

malik monk just put up 21 points in 9 mins (4-5 from three) against the heat (in a game the hornets are winning by 30 in the first half lmao) after scoring a career high 36 points on 9-13 from three the last time these teams played

hes kinda putting it together this season after looking like a bust up til now

he’s another guy who looks good all of a sudden bcuz he’s shooting 40% from three after never being anywhere close to that in his career so idk. he at least looks like a guy who should be in the league tho

that third quarter was a good example of how the nuggets offense with jokic/murray/porter is basically just impossible to stop

lol, espn hyping hawks vs warriors with “trae x wiggins” graphic at the bottom of the screen. tv networks not loving having a bunch of injured stars

haha i saw that. i was imagining being the guy getting the "can you make a trae v. wiggins graphic for tonight" email and questioning my choice of career.

Zion went 16/19 1/1 6/7 and they lost. Has to be some kind of record for a losing effort.

whats going with the pels, seems like they have real talent and a good coach, the heck

i think griffin has done a pretty bad job there. it's not a coherent team.

their offense is good and their defense is bad, its a very young team tho

i think they psyched themselves out trying to figure out what would work around zion rather than just waiting a year and getting more info. trading jrue for 4 years of bucks draft control is a rebuilding move. trading for and extending steven adams is....not. i don't know what drafting jaxon hayes was. it's all been done thoughtlessly.

Watching wiseman is just painful right now.

Don’t think I’ve seen him smile once.

imo zion needs some kind of andre miller-esque lob-capable floor general, a bunch of shooters, and some kind of bruiser to take the dirty work off his shoulders, is that too obvious or

Lonzo is a good lobber. Seems like they all just need to be better defenders.

whats going with the pels, seems like they have real talent and a good coach, the heck

― class project pat (m bison), Friday, March 26, 2021 11:04 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

do they have a good coach? between playing as slow as they do and the truly indefensible late-game stuff where zion never touches the ball, I’m not sure!

he had been good b4!

stan might be cooked