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i remember michael adams he was short, salute to a true hoister

it was a feat. like breaking the 4 minute mile. it doesn't matter that it's been done tens of thousands of times since.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, August 2, 2022 2:53 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dont get me wrong they were trailblazers worthy of admiration but on the other hand they would get absolutely cooked by a decent 2022 high school team

they would get absolutely cooked by a decent 2022 high school team

If the 2022 high schoolers were from one of those high school 'academies' that draw top talent from all over as incubators for NBA hopefuls, then there's no question they'd be bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than the 1960 Celtics (just to pick a year) and they'd have the benefit of the full skill set that's been invented since then, which is an enormous advantage.

However, if the 2022 high school team were playing under the 1960 rules and the refs were calling the game exactly the way refs would call it in 1960, I think the Russell Celtics would still have a damn good chance of coming out on top, because the rules and refs would keep strangling the high schoolers's game down to the 1960 way of playing.

smh these guys need special rules to beat some kids now

but what if 1960 rules were seen as the norm and today's rules were the "special rules" that let some HS kids beat a bunch of professional athletes?

i think whoever time travels has to play by the rules where they land is the fair way to do it

agreed. let the time travel tourney commence!

wow those michael adams stats are bonkers. 26.5p 4r 10.5a 2.2s on 39/29 splits is insane. an 11 point jump from the season before and got to the line twice as much as well. then all his numbers came crashing back down.

i assume the team lost a primary scorer and he had to be the guy for a year

its the only explanation i can think of

looked at the three consecutive years and denver had weirdly high roster turnover but theres no missing big scorer in there, in fact over that three year span the second highest scorer was in the same season adams was balling out

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/1990.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/1991.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/WSB/1992.html

oh wait that last season he was on the the bullets actually lol, would explain the totally different roster

this is denver https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/1992.html

still no idea why he went nuts that one year tho

found lagoons alt

Oh man, just seeing that Bill Russell died, a legend of the game who at his prime could not make a modern-day G League team.

— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) August 2, 2022

busted i am secretly matt bruenig

i mean fat lever and alex english did leave the team before the year he went nuts but they werent putting up huge numbers

i guess together they were like one bigtime scorer

congrats to lagoon on learning of your beautiful family

my wife the well loved leftist catholic opinion writer and our number of children are doing wonderful

They don't come up with nicknames like Fat Lever anymore, i.e. poetry is dead.

looked at the three consecutive years and denver had weirdly high roster turnover but theres no missing big scorer in there, in fact over that three year span the second highest scorer was in the same season adams was balling out

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/1990.html🕸
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/1991.html🕸
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/WSB/1992.html🕸

when the question first came up i thought i bet matt will know lol

same

The proposed three-team trade scenario included Westbrook going to Utah and getting bought out. Utah would send Donovan Mitchell to the Knicks, a combination of two players, including Patrick Beverley and Jordan Clarkson, Bojan Bogdanovic or Malik Beasley to the Lakers, and the Jazz would receive significant draft pick compensation from the Knicks and Lakers. The Knicks also would’ve had to part with veteran salary filler(s), such as Derrick Rose to help make the salaries work.

those are not players that will help the lakers

idk they wouldn’t vault the lakers into contender status by any means but if you look at their roster any of those guys definitely would help them. bogdanovic in particular feels like someone a lot of teams should be after. whether sending out all their picks for a combo of those guys is a good idea is perhaps a different question but the lakers need all the NBA level talent they can get.

dumping russ is classic addition by subtraction

minimal defense six man types are always hit or miss in the playoffs depending on the game but clarkson feels like one of the only guys from the jazz who hasn't completely shit his pants in the playoffs the last two seasons. his stats in that dallas series were actually pretty good, he gave them what you would expect from him

ainge blatantly trying to construct a trade that will return the most picks ever, out there trying to set records, going for the gusto

He's gotta feel invincible after that Gobert trade.

whether sending out all their picks for a combo of those guys is a good idea is perhaps a different question but the lakers need all the NBA level talent they can get.

― J0rdan S., Friday, August 5, 2022 5:42 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i get this, any of those guys would play in the rotation and maybe we're past the point where the lakers have any path to contention, but i think they all would get exposed in the later rounds of the playoffs--even bojan, who is fearless and an absolute baller, might be a little too far out of his prime. i'm also comparing these guys to the turner/hield package, which has its issues but also might be pretty interesting if you squint hard enough.

any one of those guys - turner, hield, bojan, or clarkson - would replace westbrook as their third best player

Lakers really need ad to play 65+ games as a top ten players and a lot of stuff will work itself out

imo ad has the early big man decline bug and will never be top 10 again (if he ever was)

he could have a random bounce back season but its prob the most likely outcome, idk maybe if he goes on the juice

AD is injured all the time and has the pain threshold of a Habsburgian dandy

also he’s someone whose jump shot was lights out in the bubble and has cratered since

he doesnt seem super passionate about the game of basketball either

or about anything really

Relatable

yeah totes

In a meeting with Nets owner Joe Tsai, Kevin Durant reiterated his trade request and informed Tsai that Tsai needs to choose between Durant or the pairing of general manager Sean Marks and coach Steve Nash, sources say.

Story: https://t.co/W1voNf9MDC

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 8, 2022

nets are in a tight spot!

gotta think kd trying to get his gm fired will make other gms less interested in trading for him

He chose nash lol. And what’s his beef with marks?

Which side leaked this to Shams do you think?

KD's side, he's trying to get things moving

And what’s his beef with marks?

― Spottie, Monday, August 8, 2022 2:53 PM (two minutes ago)

that the franchise is a complete shitshow?

iirc hes mad at marks for the way he treated kyrie (did not give him a max contract)

if all it takes to smooth everything over w/ KD is to fire steve nash (should not be an NBA head coach) and sean marks (orchestrator of a giant mess of a team) that might actually be a small price to pay