2018 NBA OFFSEASON

Ronald William Artest, Jr. would like a word.

Everything good is Free.

because it's totally possible that the sixers have the 3 best players in that series?

― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 June 2018 18:05 (yesterday) Permalink

2017-2018
|                | PER  | G  |
|----------------|------|----|
| Kawhi Leonard  | 26.0 |  9 |
| Kyrie Irving   | 25.0 | 60 |
| Joel Embiid    | 22.9 | 63 |
| Ben Simmons    | 20.0 | 81 |
| Gordon Hayward |  7.3 |  1 |

I just started working on 2018-2019 models. My PER and G models are far from finished, but only Ben Simmons and Kyrie Irving are projected to have a 2018-2019 PER greater than their career average and only Gordon Hayward is projected to play more games. They are good but extremely flawed players.

Oops.

I just started working on 2018-2019 models. My PER and G models are far from finished, but only Ben Simmons and Kyrie Irving are projected to have a 2018-2019 PER greater than their career average and only Kawhi Leonard and Gordon Hayward are projected to play more games. They are good but extremely flawed players.

uh lol wtf is this jump shot

.@mikal_bridges getting some work in with @coachGH3 !! pic.twitter.com/0CmRMkSJvE

— Jay Wright (@VUCoachJWright) June 25, 2018

ew

is this your nba ready d and 3 guy

the sixers are a shambles

uh they traded that guy tho

I thought they traded for him

both lol

Philadelphia 76ers (from L.A. Lakers via Phoenix;[B] traded to Phoenix[b])

that is the best impression of a trebuchet I have ever seen

i remember reading that he shoots from the left side a bit but why is it so damn slow

WHAT THE FUCKIN SHIT

sixers got an unprotected first AND a promising 1st rounder from this year outta that guy, it's highway robbery

Some of the teams seem pretty down on next year's draft class. Not sure why, but I think Givony talked about it on the Woj podcast.

the unprotected pick is for 2021 tho

btw im already talking myself into the idea that philly sending saric, fultz, covington, and that 2021 miami pick for kawhi is a good trade, tell me im crazy

i approve, let's get this deal done

xxxp
Didn't Lowe say something about GM's also being kinda down on this on too?

Really hard to parse cause the 14 draft with Embiid and co was supposed to be blockbuster and 2013 trash but you could argue that has produced a lot more high end talent than the former.

2013 draft has ended up being pretty decent yeah

San Antonio Spurs guard Danny Green has exercised his 0M contract option for the 2018-19 season and will stay with the team, league source tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 25, 2018

bout it

btw im already talking myself into the idea that philly sending saric, fultz, covington, and that 2021 miami pick for kawhi is a good trade, tell me im crazy

― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, June 25, 2018 6:47 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude that trade fn sux gather yrself

is the ingram/kuzma trade appreciably better?

uhh yeah one trade has two good players in it and the other has zero

i am very high on ingram btw

Saric would be good with Pops coaching him. He seems to have decent hoops IQ.

i suspect his defensive short comings will grade him out as a spot starter

he can score tho def and throw his weight around on the boards too

kuzma isn't good imo

kuzma is good p sure

may want to double check

at the very least hes an athletic player who can guard multiple positions shoot a little run around jump and so forth, much rather have a guy like that than a offensively skilled but not nearly dominant defensive liability positionally inflexible saric type

i watched the lakers a fair bit last year as research for my lonzo hate and was pretty impressed with kuz fwiw he can do some stuff

there's room for his game to fill out but he looks like a classic good stats/bad team guy. i guess i'd probably take him over saric but he's not moving the needle for me in any trade.

yeah i mean hes a role player but cld be a good one imo

i am very high on ingram btw

― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, June 25, 2018 6:54 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ive watched like 2 games with him, whats this floor and ceiling?

oh wow u guys are pals

what gave us away

i watched the lakers a fair bit last year as research for my lonzo hate and was pretty impressed with kuz fwiw he can do some stuff

― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, June 25, 2018 5:03 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good work w/fact checkin kuz

i need to get this off my chest but: it is dumb to give out the awards in late june. nobody watches this stupid awards show. awards shows are bad and dumb. they gotta cut this shit out.

lol "I need to get this off my chest" reminds me that there was a stephen a smith profile in this week's new yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/25/stephen-a-smith-wont-stop-talking?mbid=social_twitter

The awards are more for the insiders to acknowledge one another than a big deal for the fans. The awards show is probably just a throw-in on a much bigger TV contract. No one expects it to make much money, but then, it probably costs almost nothing to produce in comparison with most content.

lol "I need to get this off my chest" reminds me that there was a stephen a smith profile in this week's new yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/25/stephen-a-smith-wont-stop-talking?mbid=social_twitter

― k3vin k., Tuesday, June 26, 2018 1:34 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How much on a scale of "Blasphemous!" to "the audacity! The temerity! the unmitigated gall!" will I regret reading this?

haha I sort of wished it got deeper into his politics but it's a good, breezy read. I even mentally otm'd him twice while reading

i am very high on ingram btw

― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, June 25, 2018 6:54 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ive watched like 2 games with him, whats this floor and ceiling?

― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, June 25, 2018 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the interesting that happened was all the lakers point guards went down and the tried him at point and he totally shredded, and he played well in the other aspects of the game and hes built like kd except with wide shoulders, i mean i think he cld be a really good all around player, not sure if hes a lights out scorer or not but unless the celtics are offering tatum hes prob the best prospect on the table

one thing ive always knocked about kd are his narrow shoulders, thats v promising thank u

if ingram is so good...why are the lakers going to offer him for kawhi?

assume theyre trying to build a superteam, and besides hell prob never be as good as kawhi