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

i think his point was just that it’s not good to promise something you have no intention of delivering.

I'm pretty sure this magical "promise" he talks about was never along the lines of "We PROMISE to send you to NY at ALL COSTS or David Griffin will COMMIT HARA KIRI FOR HIS CRIMES". It was probably more along the lines of "Hey, we'll TRY to send you to a Northeast team, but your washed up play and bloated contract isn't gonna make that the easy for us". But JJ Redick isn't gonna say something that makes JJ Redick look like a liar or embellisher on JJ Redick's sponsored podcast of course lol.

i do love his pods tho

he said he had a direct conversation with griffin and that griffin gave him his word he would get him to the northeast if it wasn’t working in new orleans this season.

i have no idea why someone would make that up.

I mean dude also claimed Kenrich Williams departure was one of the deciding factors in him wanting a trade in the first place; I think at that point you're kinda looking for reasons to feel slighted or wronged lol. If he didn't pull this same routine with the last FO that dumped him when he flamed out at the end of his last contract, and this wasn't all being aired out on his own personal podcast echo chamber I'd be more willing to fully believe his side of things.

he didn’t really say that. he said they traded two of their versatile defenders making it less likely stan would give him playing time.

JJ also said he lobbied harder than anyone for SVG to get the job in the first place and was more excited than anyone to play again for him. But now he's saying he also wanted a trade the second he got hired... because they traded a roleplayer on a minimum?? Eric Bledsoe has been statistically and eye-test wise one of the worst players in the whole NBA this season, yet Griff apparently had to pull Stan aside to FORCE him to play their young guys like NAW a bit more over him lol. SVG is not the coach that benches veterans, let alone ones he has familiarity with like JJ, for young players, even if you're falling off defensively (again, hasn't stopped Bled from getting ~35 mins a night).

Boogie Cousins also said Dell Demps and NOLA played him in free agency in his words... when in reality they offered him more $$$ than anyone in the league would have dreamed of coming off that achilles injury. Now he's almost out of the league entirely begging for 10 day deals. Players always wanna look like the good guy in these situations. That usually means they stretch the truth to portray the FOs and GMs who don't do what they want as the bad guy.

it also takes two to tango in a trade... the nets have joe harris and nothing left to trade anyway, the sixers traded for george hill, the celtics traded for fournier... i guess the knicks could have done it? the wizards? it's like 5 total teams in the northeast

no one wants a podcaster on their team

lol jj was literally benched for a while this season iirc

no one wants a podcaster on their team

yeah tbf jj prob has a pretty snitchy rep, i mean if i was a GM i wouldn't want him spilling

Mo Bamba has looked pretty good since the vucevic trade.

Jrue Holiday was a pretty good pickup for Milwaukee huh

the heat have won their last two games by scores of 98-88 and 92-87, like dinosaurs walking the NBA earth

if a "lebron out for season" april fool's link shows up in my news aggregator, i assume it means lakers fans fell for it?

kd put out a classic “it sucks that i got caught” apology today huh

how is he still like this

its very embarrassing but i do respect that he has no desire to change

durant's hijinx are sorta the nba equivalent of Curb Your Enthusiasm: yes he is acting like an idiot but he is also insanely talented and rich so who's gonna tell him to stop

dm'ing michael rappaport is really hitting rock bottom

for real. there's nothing sadder than people paying attention to michael rappaport.

Aaron Gordon has looked like a perfect fit tbh. Really engaged on defense, picking up the playbook fast it seems.

Was thinking of checking out the dubs game only to see they are down by 53 points in the 3rd.

Q3: raps 46 - dubs 14. brutal.

That can’t be real

128-73 most of the way through a more spirited 4th quarter

wiggins island not in effect tonight

No dray or curry not worth watching but that’s ugly

Q1: suns - 43 thunder - 13

Steph seems unfazed by the Warriors loss 😂 pic.twitter.com/CM1MYsMiOu

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 3, 2021

Giannis had maybe the best game of his career last night

warriors made the mistake of viewing Wiggins as a player and not a carrier of timberwolves virus, now they are infected

liking the bucks clicking hope they can defeat and crush the nets

rly hoping phill or milly can catch that 1 seed so brooklyn would have to face both teams if they wanted to get to the finals. feel like the 1 seed is getting two bye rounds in the east

yeah that would be for the best

Giannis beating harden in the playoffs is exactly what we need and deserve

god i hope so but don't see it happening if durant is back and full strength and kyrie is back from his vision quest(s) in time to drop in for a basketball game or two

i don’t think the nets will win the title, idk if there’s much evidence that you can ad hoc your way into a title in year one. they also seem particularly combustible and fragile given some of the personalities, playoff and injury histories on that team. i could see them getting out of the east tho if they have the 1 seed

also the nets defense its not championship level

i think a really good well balanced actual team will beat the nets due to their inability to play defense and other flaws in the whole idea of that team but not sure if there are any of those

and its more than just ad hocing it year one harden didnt come over til half way and their big 3 has barely played together

Right, I don't think they'll win the title either (depth, defense) but I don't trust the Bucks or Sixers to beat them if they have their big 3. I.e., if I had to predcit I think they'll lose in the finals. Of course it is entirely possible that one of those 3 gets hurt long enough in the offs for them to go down in the east.

Would also love to see KD's increasingly cringe off-court persona finally break through onto the court and have them blow a critical game because he and Harden are fighting over who gets to take crunch time shots or something

i think either the bucks or sixers could beat them except not the sixers because they are psychologically weak

however embiid would absolutely take 15 fouls shots a game if they played so that might be enough to overcome it

simmons v kd wld be a pretty cool matchup

hoping for a PJ Tucker revenge game vs Harden.

I think the point above about the east #1 seed being really important is otm

nets have a rookie never even coached before ever coach too

i can’t decide if the bucks are a worse match up bcuz they can actually score with the nets or the sixers are a worse match up bcuz they can actually play some defense. maybe the nets are a good match up for the bucks bcuz they don’t play defense and thus the bucks 4th quarter playoff game issue of looking like they’ve never practiced half court offense before would be rendered moot. i’m talking myself into the bucks having a good shot against the nets now

heat or celtics cld absolutely get hot and take out any of the top seeds too

yeah the nash component was one of the main reasons i was hugely skeptical of the pre-harden nets but it doesn’t get talked about much anymore. pretty much everything we know about the NBA tells us there has to be some learning curve for a team that has barely played together coached by a guy in his first year who also has zero years of coaching experience