2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

magic gm getting out his tape measure hey chet cmere a min

Orlando draft Slenderman

my annual tradition of observing the moment that jerry west's soul died on national television pic.twitter.com/e8ftF8HaSv

— J. Kyle Mann (@jkylemann) May 17, 2022

imagine memphis bron

think they could have won in his first few years there

now hollingers got smith #1 too AND he has chet at 4 my god

Can someone post the mock?

its so bad heez

lol ok

when did hollinger switch from nba stats guy to college scout man?

think hes just kind of an nba generalist now

pretty funny he still uses per in his articles dont think hes even serious about it kind of a running joke, most interesting of his stuff is imo the insights from working in a front office, seems pretty clear he doesnt take a lot of his work too seriously tho, prob hard to come back to a silly fans pov once youve been on the other side

his intro about “picking from all star buckets” is hilariously dumb small sample size theater

both him and the vincente are arguing for smith as the safe pick at 1 which i mean is he even are we sure hes not gonna be another wiggins but mainly just dont make the safe pick at 1 ffs you absolutely have to be looking for a star there

i only skimmed it but it seems like hollinger's argument is basically don't draft centers high which yeah sure but based on their comps and pedigree not sure i see a lot of high-end upside with the guys he's putting in front of chet

remember when luka wasn't a consensus #1 pick

dont draft centers unless theyre you know one of the three who finished top three in mvp voting this year lol

also! seems pretty obvious chet can play the 4, in fact it could be his more natural position in big traditional lineups then switch to the 5 for smallball, his defense is prob more valuable there tbh similar to how giannis or rob williams act as rovers next to lopez and horf

uh you don’t understand, he’s over seven feet so he’s a center

yeah chet is almost certainly going to start his career playing mostly 4

cute

My cousin @robothethird is in town and I told her I’d give her a lil tour of Milwaukee on this chilly summer night. Look who we bumped into😳🫠 pic.twitter.com/RAXdSDEdFy

— Jessica Madhukar (@JessicaMadhukar) May 18, 2022

Incredibly, almost impossibly, the Knicks have lost more games than any team in the NBA this century, but have never had the No. 1 overall pick. Or the No. 2 overall pick. They’ve had a top-3 pick just once

— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) May 18, 2022

they're even bad at being bad

the nba needs to rig the lottery for them once again

if the lakers had a pick this year they would have gotten the fix i sincerely believe this

sign of the times

The 4-point shooting drill, a new addition to the NBA Draft Combine. Bryce McGowens and Leonard Miller showing their range. pic.twitter.com/D2O4ya7jeU

— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) May 18, 2022

true hoisting

tbf all centers are role players except for jokic and embiid

tbrf ayton plays shooters, action, sports games as well, not just rpgs

kat and bam certainly not role players, giannis plays a lot of center certainly could play fulltime np

is draymond a center idk man is chet a center also do not know

chet is a pf

he'll play center eventually or become a huge wing player. PF doesn't really exist anymore

that's good because he's not very powerful

Kinda like that the Givony mock for the hawks pick has them taking TyTy Washington. I haven’t watched him play but I feel like Kentucky’s had a lot of these one and done guards recently who’ve been mid round picks that turn out well

thats what a PF is now

That's prob why pf is more often called a '4' nowadays.

feel like there's def some team building tips the hawks can pick up from the mavs, the main one being that having shooters around your high usage ball handler isn't enough, you also need 2 guys who can create their own offense to play when he sits and also next to him

Athletic reporting that the Wolves are in serious talks with Nugs president Tim Connelly to become Wolves POBO

No literally. I am not funny enough to make that up pic.twitter.com/OzBISy4Ofo

— Anna Orso (@anna_orso) May 19, 2022

oh sorry. the first tweet is this:

Philly City Council just passed a resolution that names Joel Embiid our MVP - "Most Valuable Philadelphian"

— Anna Orso (@anna_orso) May 19, 2022

Lol, at Embiid's middle name being "Hans".

Joel Hans Embiid sounds like a player in the 30 Years War.

lol yes

i love little historical details like some duke was 7 feet 280

they had to find a really big horse for him to use.

kat and bam certainly not role players, giannis plays a lot of center certainly could play fulltime np

― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022

oh yeah i forgot about kat. bam is a role player though (at least in the playoffs)

bam is a weird player sometimes hes dominant and others might as well be a role player

he was invisible last night

the thing with him is that he doesn’t reliably score in the half court in the playoffs (vs really good teams anyway). in the regular season he can get out in transition where he is deadly & generally put up 20 ppg in a looser more free flowing game. but when the game is being played in the half court 90% of the time vs locked in defenses he’s prob not gonna score 20. that being said he’s one of the 5 best defensive players in the league to me & is point blank non-exploitable on that end of the floor which makes him different than all but very very few centers in the league. draymond & embiid might be the only other two who i would say that about. he was a game wrecker vs the sixers and one of the main reasons why the heat went crazy in the third quarter of game one of this series & were able to win.

this series is interesting bcuz the celtics have a lot of good offensive players and there’s only so much one player can do on defense. if guys like tatum and smart are gonna score in one on one situations vs other defenders or the celtics are gonna make 4 passes and find an open shooter there’s not a ton bam can do. and boston will always have a big on the floor who can fight him for rebounds. it’s possible bam “gets played off the floor” in this series insomuch as if the celtics are scoring 100+ points the heat may need to try line ups that have as much shooting as humanly possible to try and keep pace (tucker at center basically) but that doesn’t strike me as a bam issue as much as being able to play horford and grant williams at center and have great shooting across the board and an amazing defense is the reason why the celtics are prob the favorites to win the title