counterpoint: melo is fuckin coooooookedxp
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
like melo is going to look at this roster and say "im the 3rd best player on this team and i need some touches" and its a wrap, theyre winning 10 fewer games than last season
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
i get why houston does this move though because it's not a financial risk, but it is a huge opportunity cost.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
think they're banking on CP being able to bring the most out of him.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
melo jab-stepping repeatedly 28 feet from the hoop while cp3 and harden wait around & not moving is def gonna be a delight
― Clay, Monday, 23 July 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
fits right into their offense tbf
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
I look forward to Melo and Harden wing isolations for the 30+ games Chris Paul will inevitably miss.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 July 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
drew "snake oil" hamlen back at it again
Palpable buzz is building around #76ers guard Markelle Fultz. One league source privy to Fultz's workouts w/famed hoops trained Drew Hanlen tells me Fultz's jumper is rebuilt and that a result, the 20-year-old guard is a completely different, vastly improved player.— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) July 22, 2018
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
#PalpableBuzz
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
I was wondering why my fingertips were vibrating.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
it's because of Fultz
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link
#PalpableFultz
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
even in the absolute best case, completely different, vastly improved = the player he was when he was drafted minus two summers and one season of development
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
melo's problem last year was not accepting his role, it's that he couldn't hit a shot to save his life. so he might be cooked! or he might shoot better and look like what OKC thought they were getting.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 July 2018 04:25 (five years ago) link
Even though every graph I've seen says Melo is cooked I can't help but believe that he could way outperform his vet minimum contract by giving 10-15min a night of feasting on the very worst 2nd team defenders around the league and doesn't weasel his way into the crunchtime rotation.
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
Crunched the numbers and here is Melo's composite graph
http://betweenthenumbers.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/downward-sloping-graph.jpg
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
melo was like shockingly bad last season. like shooting threes off the sides of the rim and shit. he could def be out of the league at the end of the season. i'd also rather still rather have him over mbah moute.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 July 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
yeah speaking of shooting off the side of the backboard
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
I think every game I saw melo play I saw him clang at least one 18-24 foot jumper off the side of the backboard and several possessions where he clearly had an open man literally in line of sight with a clear path to the hoop and did not pass
― gritty tigger reboot (agent hibachi), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
i just added it up and i think the lakers have 28.3 million dollars coming off the books after this season (with all the 1 year deals like rondo, beasley et al) and then Deng will be in his last year of the terrible deal so possible 18.3 tradeable as a salary dump...all the other decent pieces are still on rookie deals
so i guess i kinda see the method to the madness (assuming they tried and failed to get george this year), though it's ballsy to punt on a year of lebron's career at this age....
but def makes more sense than getting into a bad salary for a less than great player just to say you "got someone"
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
the amount of guys on one-year or expiring contracts this coming season is staggering.
i'm sure the lakers are confident they can get their guys next summer, but i think a lot of teams feel that way.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
k love extends 4/120
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
wow
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
happy for love and for the cavs tbh
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
cavs had no choice really.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
it kicks in after next season so really it's 5/145 which is pretty crazy, he'll be 35 at that end of that.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
why are the cavs doing this lol
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
they're probably fucked for years no matter what and they need a hero for a lil while
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
idk
the cavs.....had many choices
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
yeah i mean who else of his caliber is going to sign there in the next few years? but why so many years? they could have thrown a 2-3 year deal at like 35 per or something.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
the cavs shouldn't be signing anybody!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
i can't link the tweet for some reason but lol nate duncan already calling this one of the worst contracts in the nba
gilbert wants to stay relevant.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
wade has been offered 3/25 to play in China.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
i am well aware of what gilbert wants and a) he wants the wrong thing and b) paying $8M short of the max for kevin love's decline years is not a good path to staying relevant
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
they probably think they are gonna get twolves love
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
did ty lue turn into rick adelman in the past month?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
For what it's worth, in 19 total games playing without LeBron since 2014-15, here are Kevin Love's averages in CLE:31.5 MPG, 18.9 PPG on .410/.363/.818 shooting, 11.0 REB, 1.5 AST, -108 (total)— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) July 24, 2018
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
who is the second best player on their roster?
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
Kevin Love
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
george hill?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
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lmao
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
haha
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
Cavs in 6
― burzum buddies (brownie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
reading that this deal make it more likely that kevin love gets traded
also for all-star PF/C comparison's sake, lamarcus signed a 4 year $84M extension last summer
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
i've read some parallels to the blake contract which like, sure.....you can hope that there's a team operating with the same motivations as detroit was during the 2020 trade deadline. that is definitely something you can do.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
uhhhhh
Danny Green unknowingly played with a torn groin last season, went undetected by Spurs medical staff https://t.co/MxvyzSA4tx pic.twitter.com/ACYYKalGIh— Bleacher Report NBA (@BR_NBA) July 24, 2018
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
the unknown groin
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
xp if u listen to the podcast it's not that salacious. he had a strain and opted to play through it which probably led to the tear.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link