i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

pelton said this in his chat, kinda interesting

I think the NBA should rethink its entire philosophy on fouling to penalize the player who is responsible for creating the contact rather than the player with the nebulous right to the space, which is what creates the rip-through foul but also block/charge calls.

I agree with that, block vs charge in particular feels like a coinflip a lot of the time

http://i.imgur.com/3iCAPzD.jpg

lol

yes pleeeeeeease

fuck that not going to happen! really hoping for Ettore Messina.

did i tell you guys about my orlando magic theory

go on

i think they're going to win a lot of games next year

yeah i think they'll make the offs

man theres a lot of solid wings in the FA pool this year even if durant is the only star

theres gonna be a lot of talent floating around this offseason for sure but also too much money and some dudes are gonna get way overpaid.

this FA market will be a great test of GMs' and front offices' puzzle-solving ability

good time to have a negotiation/game theorist on staff

scotty brooks to wizards is official

reading "boys among men" and seeing the shaq and penny 30 for 30 have reminded me how many of these coaching/front office/tv guys have been around forever. there's a lot of musical chairs, but once you're in you really have to screw up to get out completely.

http://i.imgur.com/EPgSl5L.png

if he's willing to take less money than the max he's worth a look.

mavs r gonna max him out lol

its so obvious not sure how we missed that

Depends on the team's style of play. I wouldn't take Dwight Howard on the current Blazers at any price. The Mavs could probably absorb him without undue harm.

its so obvious not sure how we missed that

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 1:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol seriously

they still will have to pay a ton to keep Parsons too (if he opts out)! that would mean they are overpaying for Matthews/Parsons/Dwight

good thing dirk took a paycut

i pretty much forgot that parsons was alive

he woulda helped them a ton vs okc

Should the NBA put the playoffs on hold for 2-4 weeks while guys heal up?

Oops, wrong thread.

its so obvious not sure how we missed that

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:11 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i def believe dwight will get the max next yr but have consciously ignored as possible that he'll end up getting it from dallas, even though it makes a lot of (non-basketball) sense.

excluding tyson chandler, dwight really is a logical choice in keeping with mavericks tradition of paying & playing awful 5s

parsons is v good he will get a max deal if he opts out

parsons is 'v good' but injury prone so that knocks him down to just 'good' imo

I can't believe we forgot Dallas for Dwight, cubes has even tried to get him a few times hasn't he? Dwight is gonna be a classic bridesmaid max contract anyway and cubes will probably jump in and sign him at midnight just to make a splash

I was thinking about how cubes also tried to get both Shaq and Kobe at different times and I really want to see a short doc or a long z Lowe column on the dirk teammates that might have been throughout the years

wondering if players are thinking he's an idiot now since durant told everyone that's the case. or maybe they've always thought he was an idiot. kinda crazy he's never been able to land the marquee star to pair w dirk

supposedly dirk doesn't want to play with dwight and has vetoed that idea already

haha smart man

lol

dudes like i'm not sticking around another year for that shit

there are some good dirk/dwight photos out there

http://a4.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2014%2F0129%2Fdal_a_dirkhow_cr_1296x729.jpg&w=1140&cquality=40

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/178/files/2015/04/dwight-howard-dirk-nowitzki-nba-playoffs-houston-rockets-dallas-mavericks.jpg

http://frsports-bucket-0001.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/02/20180639/howard-dirk.jpg

http://sportsdaydfw.imgix.net/1455321993-NS_26mavsrockets48.jpg?q=50&auto=format&w=700

dirk is like 50 years old and cooked ftr

he's def sizzling but not fully cooked. like timmy more or less, actually slightly less cooked than timmy.

wut

i can't believe timmy is 40

also kinda crazy that jamal crawford is 36.

u really think dirk is fully done kev?

it'd be nice if dirk could play 6th man for a contender for a couple years, but that's so not gonna happen

he's making less than 6th man type of money

oh I just mean he's never going to leave the mavs

right right altho he did kinda say if they start a rebuild he wants out

I'm going to opening night tomorrow and not v psyched about it (100% bc of the person I'm going with, should be fun to see gobert in person)

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