2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

the jester

Isn't the Riddler the off-brand Joker?

fuck you, frank gorshin was a legend

i'm going to become the riddler

Re wolves sometimes it’s good just to be competitive and a really good team, you might find a path to the finals or conference finals by way of injuries or a run of good matchups (teams that don’t have a good small ball lineup). Raising your floor is always a good idea especially when you have a guy like ant who could raise the ceiling on his own. But the contract and price is really the only problem.

Hope it works out for you Matt. The hawks era around that 60 win season were legit fun to watch even if deep in my heart I knew they could beat bron and the cavs.

Memphis Grizzlies No. 38 pick Kennedy Chandler has agreed to a four-year, $7.1 million rookie deal, his agent Ryan Davis tells @TheAthletic @Stadium. The contract contains the largest guaranteed salary – $4.94M – for an American second-round pick.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 5, 2022

Pretty crazy, they must really love him

ya thats weird

need to know if cade is shrinking

Big Rank pic.twitter.com/EmwXyaqUnJ

— Ashton (@AshtonDaTrainer) July 4, 2022

chet holmgren (and the rest of the thunder) tipping off on espn right now

might have to view that

i listened to the zach lowe podcast w/ jon the athletic wolves writer & i found a lot of what he said about the wolves thinking to be wishful, to say the least. the part that is hard for to me get over is why they hired tim connelly just to execute a "trade every pick for one guy" trade. it's like they hired some great combat fighter and then threw all his weapons into a lake. idk. jon was saying that the t wolves are zigging where the rest of the league is zagging, and as a general rule if the t wolves are thinking they're one step ahead of every other team i'm going to assume they're actually about to zig right off a cliff.

chet got a block

chet got a dunk

i don't get that grizzlies thing, can a second rounder, like, hold out for a huge contract? seems unprecedented, congrats to his agent

the part that is hard for to me get over is why they hired tim connelly just to execute a "trade every pick for one guy" trade. it's like they hired some great combat fighter and then threw all his weapons into a lake.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 5, 2022 9:05 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah good point picks are kinda the tools of his trade

mb the griz contract was a promise

the central issue w/ the wolves all comes back to the fact that KAT is a great offensive player who is a defensive turnstile at the position where it's really hard to win important games if you have a turnstile on defense. so then that leads them to this "zigging the zag" thinking of pairing him w/ a center, even tho *at best* that is a strategy, come the playoffs, that works as part of a flexible roster that can play big and small. you'd think maybe ppl on the wolves had watched the wolves-grizzlies series where the grizz had to bench their center after one game bcuz the smaller team was shredding their defense. the wolves, one would assume, are not going to just bench rudy gobert in the first round of the playoffs even if the match up calls for it, so then they're just trying to jam this KAT-driven ideology down everyone's throats bcuz of what they gave up to protect him w/ a max contract center.

it's also funny to me that the "twin towers is back" narrative is being driven by the success of the cavs, who didn't even make it out of the play in round. i'm not an NBA GM but it might be better to try and emulate a different franchise idk

yeah i thought the same re all this flowing from kats bad d

chet hit a 3

chets got 10 points

he's one of these guys who is gonna look so much better playing in the pros than in college and he already was an amazing college player

chet just dribbled the ball up the court whet behind his back and swished a 3

the twin towers thing is definitely getting silly, what cleveland and boston (where neither guy is above 6'10" btw) and milwaukee are doing are actually all completely different things, driven by unique players with unusual skillsets.

chet got a block led the break and dished off for an and 1

so hyped for the era of holmgren primacy

chet clearly too good for summer league after one quarter of play

this jazz team totally sucks, good to see him taking it to them

the broadcast just informed me that the two ja(y)l(e)(i)n williamses did the spiderman meme for a pic

now y'all can use the legit photo 😅😂 pic.twitter.com/Ggw6AIy6hJ

— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) June 26, 2022

im sorry they just have to trade one of them

one thing i still don't understand about the draft is why ppl weren't talking about chet as an elite shooter. his shot is as good as you could as for from that size

maybe it's the body type maybe i'm crazy and i hesitate to even say it but when i watch chet there's always a few plays that remind me of KD

hah yeah i don't know about that but what i am taking away from this game is that his feel and IQ is as advertised or better

praying 4 victor to end up a spur, i cannot live in a world with chet murking my spurs for the next 20 years

one thing i still don't understand about the draft is why ppl weren't talking about chet as an elite shooter. his shot is as good as you could as for from that size

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 5, 2022 10:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

was weird people were too busy talking about how skinny he is i guess

it's like they say you can't teach weight

OKC looks fun but that definitely looked like a summer league run

spurs just picked up isaiah roby off waivers bc okc has too many guys, can imagine this will remain an issue for okc for the next several years as they will not have enough roster space to play the 2 or 3 guys they draft every year

like its definitely a good problem to have, theyve got 2 1sts next year (and 3 2nds), but they have 8 1RP picks between 2024 and 2025 (and 4 2RPs), feels like theyll need to trade a bunch of those picks and have to take back suboptimal value for them. like u cannot choose a whole roster worth of players in a two-year time span, its crazy.

like imagine getting drafted by okc in the mid-2020s, like a kid being born into a polygamist family u r getting no attention unless its from an older sibling

The weight thing obsession was really weird, like of all the things to worry about, KG was so skinny, Durant's infamous bench press, plus a player putting on weight over time is almost inevitable

Had vibes of a lot of the stuff I remember reading where all these ppl were talking themselves into Okafor over KAT

chet just looks frail is prob part of the issue, hes scrappy tho, see how well he hold sup i guess, one thing is he has narrow shoulders, much like kd, so thatll limit how much upper body weight he can put on

he was definitely getting knocked around a bit in the paint last night, it’s going to keep happening but TBD if it rises to the level of being an actual issue.

hell get bigger and stronger and prob just have to deal with getting pushed around by stronger guys anyway everyones got their strengths and weaknesses so to speak

prob get a lot of minutes at the 4 to start but if he can consistently hold up playing center my god having a guy with his offensive game there would be freaking apocalyptic

they just need an undersized C to match his oversized PF and theyll be set

i bet NBA teams worried less about chet's weight than random ppl on twitter or whatever but to me the key is that he moves fluidly and doesn't have any injury history or seem like a notable injury risk as far as big guys go. "porzingis" was trending on twitter last night during the game bcuz apparently lots of ppl were tweeting "this is what porzingis was supposed to be before the injuries" but porzingis had a certain stiffness you typically associate w/ a 7+ footer. chet isn't a huge leaper or anything but he's a much more natural athlete than is normal for that size & that's more important than the fact that he's skinny

there will be tons of ppl on TV etc saying you just have to be physical w/ chet and toss him around & obv there will be some adjustment for him going up against 28 year old beast big men. you're not gonna want him guarding jokic or whatever. but it reminds me a bit of steph where you had ppl saying for years that you had to rough him up and get him off his game but he was small and skinny his whole life and figured out how to be great anyway, he wasn't going to be affected by guys trying to be physical with him. steph did get noticeably bigger to hold up more on defense, it's not like the strength aspect is meaningless, but it wasn't some cheat code to neutralize him as a basketball player & i think chet will be the same way

saw a nice dirk step back fadeaway from him. hard to stop that