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

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

it's shaping up to be an interesting race for 2nd for MVP btw

luka's heating up, dame and giannis both having great seasons, kawhi having maybe the best offensive season of his career. all guys who could plausibly claim second place in the MVP voting

jokic also in the mix

I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it

jokic in feb: 26.6/9.7/8.5 (vs 1.9 tunovers) on .550/.472/.965 (.648 ts%)
jokic in mar: 28.7/11.7/8.7 (vs 2.7 turnovers) on .585/.447/.841 (.644 ts%)

with all the usual caveats re single numbers blah blah blah

raptor WAR:
1) jokic 10.5
2) kawhi 7.1

hollinger estimaed wins added
1) jokic 18.0
2) giannis 12.9

RPM WAR
1) lebron 10.8
2) curry 9.7
3) giannis 9.2
4) jokic 8.0

bkref win shares
1) jokic 10.3
2) giannis 7.2

bkref VORP
1) jokic 5.7
2) giannis 3.8

I don't know how to find some of the other ones

harden is kind of a dark horse but no one will vote for him

kyrie should win, kyrie is the pandemic mvp

The cavs coaching staff went out of their way to say that Javale was super professional and a steady leader for the team. Is this what reality is like now

LMA to nets as they continue to stack up on cooked dudes

win this year or disappear in a puff of smoke

Are the Nets under a different salary cap or something I don't know how this works

well blake and lamarcus signed for the minimum

Does it really make sense to have Aldridge and Griffin

Nets are mad weird but who knows in the cursed ass season