2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

dont draft centers unless theyre you know one of the three who finished top three in mvp voting this year lol

also! seems pretty obvious chet can play the 4, in fact it could be his more natural position in big traditional lineups then switch to the 5 for smallball, his defense is prob more valuable there tbh similar to how giannis or rob williams act as rovers next to lopez and horf

uh you don’t understand, he’s over seven feet so he’s a center

yeah chet is almost certainly going to start his career playing mostly 4

cute

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— Jessica Madhukar (@JessicaMadhukar) May 18, 2022

Incredibly, almost impossibly, the Knicks have lost more games than any team in the NBA this century, but have never had the No. 1 overall pick. Or the No. 2 overall pick. They’ve had a top-3 pick just once

— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) May 18, 2022

they're even bad at being bad

the nba needs to rig the lottery for them once again

if the lakers had a pick this year they would have gotten the fix i sincerely believe this

sign of the times

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— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) May 18, 2022

true hoisting

tbf all centers are role players except for jokic and embiid

tbrf ayton plays shooters, action, sports games as well, not just rpgs

kat and bam certainly not role players, giannis plays a lot of center certainly could play fulltime np

is draymond a center idk man is chet a center also do not know

chet is a pf

he'll play center eventually or become a huge wing player. PF doesn't really exist anymore

that's good because he's not very powerful

Kinda like that the Givony mock for the hawks pick has them taking TyTy Washington. I haven’t watched him play but I feel like Kentucky’s had a lot of these one and done guards recently who’ve been mid round picks that turn out well

thats what a PF is now

That's prob why pf is more often called a '4' nowadays.

feel like there's def some team building tips the hawks can pick up from the mavs, the main one being that having shooters around your high usage ball handler isn't enough, you also need 2 guys who can create their own offense to play when he sits and also next to him

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— Anna Orso (@anna_orso) May 19, 2022

oh sorry. the first tweet is this:

Philly City Council just passed a resolution that names Joel Embiid our MVP - "Most Valuable Philadelphian"

— Anna Orso (@anna_orso) May 19, 2022

Lol, at Embiid's middle name being "Hans".

Joel Hans Embiid sounds like a player in the 30 Years War.

lol yes

i love little historical details like some duke was 7 feet 280

they had to find a really big horse for him to use.

kat and bam certainly not role players, giannis plays a lot of center certainly could play fulltime np

― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022

oh yeah i forgot about kat. bam is a role player though (at least in the playoffs)

bam is a weird player sometimes hes dominant and others might as well be a role player

he was invisible last night

the thing with him is that he doesn’t reliably score in the half court in the playoffs (vs really good teams anyway). in the regular season he can get out in transition where he is deadly & generally put up 20 ppg in a looser more free flowing game. but when the game is being played in the half court 90% of the time vs locked in defenses he’s prob not gonna score 20. that being said he’s one of the 5 best defensive players in the league to me & is point blank non-exploitable on that end of the floor which makes him different than all but very very few centers in the league. draymond & embiid might be the only other two who i would say that about. he was a game wrecker vs the sixers and one of the main reasons why the heat went crazy in the third quarter of game one of this series & were able to win.

this series is interesting bcuz the celtics have a lot of good offensive players and there’s only so much one player can do on defense. if guys like tatum and smart are gonna score in one on one situations vs other defenders or the celtics are gonna make 4 passes and find an open shooter there’s not a ton bam can do. and boston will always have a big on the floor who can fight him for rebounds. it’s possible bam “gets played off the floor” in this series insomuch as if the celtics are scoring 100+ points the heat may need to try line ups that have as much shooting as humanly possible to try and keep pace (tucker at center basically) but that doesn’t strike me as a bam issue as much as being able to play horford and grant williams at center and have great shooting across the board and an amazing defense is the reason why the celtics are prob the favorites to win the title

celtics were def avoiding him and jimmy last night i noticed, picking their matchups and so forth

feel like bams offense has stagnated tho, working on a face up game from the elbow would make sense for him since hes a good passer, his handle is prob good enough he just needs to be able to hit that 15-18 foot jumper reliably

yeah his passing dies in the offs because his defender can sag so much

this is getting back to the spaceballs idea where a switchy center who can shoot will be more useful than one who cant

yeah but there aren’t many switchy centers who can shoot. there are centers who can switch and centers who can shoot but being huge, athletic, agile and skilled enough to shoot threes is a very rare combo. if bam could shoot threes he’d be one of the 10 best players in the league

oh absolutely. in fact i don't think we have even seen that perfect center yet, except for draymonds one season where he shot well.

if horford had taken up the 3 earlier in his career maybe

Durant in the death lineup when he was locked in on D was the archetype

he wasnt the center tho

ciderpress
Posted: May 21, 2022 at 10:00:10 AM
if horford had taken up the 3 earlier in his career maybe

hes doin pretty good currently

everyone thinking they werent gonna get much from him then hes ballin out changed the math for the cs

ESPN Sources: Denver Nuggets president Tim Connelly is traveling to meet with Minnesota owner Glen Taylor this weekend in what’s the next step in the Timberwolves’ pursuit to hire Connelly and make him one of league’s highest compensated executives.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 21, 2022

hes doin pretty good currently

― lag∞n, Saturday, May 21, 2022 10:51 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but hard to think the perfect center would be a 35 year old when we can imagine someone with the same skillset at 25

being highly compensated to run a team with lower expectations seems like an alright gig

i personally would think twice before becoming involved with the timberwolves organization

i'm in it for the compensation