nba playoffs aka the 'offs (which includes the 'ins) 2021

yeah cld see playing ad at center and then drummond as his back up cause he can put the ball in the ring and they need that but the ad-drummond front court just doesnt make any sense

if they make a deep run i bet gasol will be getting more burn than drummond by that point

yeah you gotta think theyll at least give him a shot at some point

schroeder was bad but thats like his 2nd game back from a couple of weeks off and snitching on bron being antivax

plus good timing on these reports:
https://heavy.com/sports/los-angeles-lakers/rumors-dennis-schroder-knicks-unhappy-in-la/

lol if he extorts the lakers via the knicks all you can do it tip your cap

gotta love the confidence

the knicks are gonna do something really idiotic this summer

otm, we need to get back to living

absolutely they are haha. pretty much like 70% of their roster are free agents. but theyll have to pay randle next year

who are the biggest free agents this year they can ruin their team with

lowery and schroder seem like good candidates

lonzo

oh yeah lonzos perfect, wld feel bad for him tho

https://www.spotrac.com/nba/free-agents/
dont think that shows all the RFA though.

kawhi could opt out and bounce if they get smoked again.
could see the knicks going for derozan

warriors wouldve won that game if they hadnt turned the ball over every possession of the second half, not only prevented them from scoring it really gave the lakers offense life

yeah definitely felt like at a certain point they stopped running plays and started just whipping the ball around, looking for an open lane. it was really ugly.

Seems like the Suns have the guys to make life difficult for Lebron. If AD continues to look stiff I think they can take it, but if he rounds into form Lakers probably bounce em.

imagine being dennis f'n schroeder and playing with lebron and davis and saying to yourself yeah i think i need my own team. what a maniac.

dude thinks he's kyrie

when you think you're kyrie you have no choice but to act like a maniac

Ayton has been banged up lately. I think he needs to play well for the Suns to win.

imagine being dennis f'n schroeder and playing with lebron and davis and saying to yourself yeah i think i need my own team. what a maniac.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, May 20, 2021 1:48 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes been a borderline starter on multiple teams! does he think all of them just dont understand basketball

his current contract is fair. 4/75 would b good but the knicks will go 4/100 for sure

paying even 4/75 for a point guard who never has been nor ever will be an all star... i dunno. i know it's "market rate" but what's dennis schroeder really doing for you

the funny thing is hes a perfect sixth man just bring him in let him shoot a bunch whatever

if i were employing a non allstar starting point guard id rather have an all around solid guy who can run an offense a fred van vleet or what have you than someone like schroder who is a talented scorer but also kind of a fuck up

jeremy clarkson recognized his calling in life. hard thing for those borderline starters/chuckers/change of pace dudes

yeah was thinking same re clarkson

FVV is in the same boat imo. signed a 4/85 deal and shot 39%fg this season. but hes not a knucklehead and won a title so its looked over.

yeah.. that contract...

fred can make plays for other guys is what makes him better imo, and as you said not a knucklehead, also was prob asked to do too much this year raptors dont have a lot of firepower, him and schroder prob wouldve done better switching teams

mario chalmers never made more than $4 million in a year which feels low and is not really possible in the current environment but there's some midpoint between that and schroeder, FVV making $20m per year. (for the teams, anyway. good for those guys)

fvv also plays this thing known as defense

always best to not over pay for middling guys, unless maybe theyre the final piece

we were talking about dillon brooks at $12m per year last night... that feels like the sweet spot for this kind of player. but when you get to free agency the market can bend in your favor

fvv also plays this thing known as defense

― call all destroyer, Thursday, May 20, 2021 11:30 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

havent seen a ton of schroeder this year but he's looked good in spots on defense (not last night)

schroder just does not have the high basketball iq, if he did and could shoot a little better hed prob be an allstar

lotta hubris in that dude. him driving to the hole at the very beginning of a important possession with Bron sitting there right next him, just bc he was successful doing it the play before, was so unsurprsing. as was the result

Derrick Rose straight up outplayed Dennis this year imo

my main takeaway watching schroder last night was that he probably should've taken that deal

schroder just does not have the high basketball iq, if he did and could shoot a little better hed prob be an allstar

mario chalmers never made more than $4 million in a year which feels low and is not really possible in the current environment but there's some midpoint between that and schroeder, FVV making $20m per year. (for the teams, anyway. good for those guys)

problem with guys who are worth 20m a year is you have to pay 20m a year for them, unlike guys who are worth 60m a year

true

Schroder is downgrade from Rondo believe it or not

his numbers took a dive this year for sure.

or last year was an outlier (more likely)

so if the play-ins provide exactly the same seeding as we would've had without them, will people use that as an argument for or against them in future years?

if that happens they should remove it and pretend it never happened

they did it to keep more teams in the playoff mix, the particular outcomes dont really matter

they should remove it and pretend it never happened tho