I miss KB. He would understand and explain everything that I’m not allowed to. Honestly he was the greatest Laker ever. He understood team over self. Meaning your rewards would come if you valued team goals over your own then everything would fall into place. All can reply.— Jeanie Buss (@JeanieBuss) July 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 July 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
i also miss kwame brown
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 July 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Monday, 4 July 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
lolol i guess 2004 never happened and i guess kobe's entire personality never happened either
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 4 July 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
Wtf: https://www.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/vqyok1/thompson_the_warriors_superstars_have_been_in/
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Monday, 4 July 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Ah reading a little more closely that's just highlighting that the players would be ok with a reunion.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Monday, 4 July 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
katie is a bitch
― moullet, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
Free agent TJ Warren has agreed to a deal with the Brooklyn Nets, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 5, 2022
― Spottie, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
REPORT: The Nets are making free agency moves “as if Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are returning next season”.(via @ShamsCharania, @PatMcAfeeShow) pic.twitter.com/YuoENmMTXy— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) July 5, 2022
lmao if nets just sit and ride this out
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
It’s prob the best for both sides? Motivated Kyrie in a contract year. Harris back. Ben could be a good fit if he plays.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
wolves really pushing the we kept jaden mcdaniels line lol, i mean who cares you gave the store away anyway
Danny Ainge pushed hard to include Jaden McDaniels in the Rudy Gobert trade, sources tell @JonKrawczynski and @Tjonesonthenba.The Wolves held firm and by Friday, the Jazz were amenable to greater draft pick compensation instead.https://t.co/oWZenZrvY4 pic.twitter.com/wIPJHLAolw— The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) July 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
it’s very strange. do casual nba fans even know who jaden mcdaniels is?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
i do not know who he is
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
reflecting upon the gobert trade seems pretty clear they were aiming for just being a playoff team for a while and rudy is a very reliable regular season floor raiser, also heard connelly is a big stats guy so he prob loves rudy lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
zach lowe talked to the good wolves guy at the athletic and he said there was an ownership push for this too and marc lore is also a big stats guy.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
They will be better
― Spottie, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
i mean who cares you gave the store away anyway
When it comes to the Wolves, "being better for a few years" could be an all-time high point for the franchise, so it's not unreasonable to think the store that they gave away wouldn't have been very well-stocked anyway.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
think you got lost in the metaphor there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, July 5, 2022 1:05 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i mean they have to at least pretend
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
some pretty funny reactions to them signing tj warren, which i don’t think is indicative of anything other than that they told tj warren they’d have minutes for him.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
okay!
Statement from Jody Allen pic.twitter.com/oAezfb398o— Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) July 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
good to know!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
email me if anything changes i guess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
I think fundamentally you guys aren't Wolves fans so you ask "Why?" instead of "Fuck it, why not?"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
have definitely seen more wolves positivity elsewhere compared to here
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
at some point it's important enough to simply work on improving your franchise's reputation even if your ceiling is below the finals
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
I mean the value they gave up was ridiculous, I was pretty bummed out about it, now I'm just like oh well this is going to be something
But if we, say, top out similar to Utah I will be happy to watch good, competitive basketball
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
Also I think there was a good chance running it back with the same core could have ended up outside the playoffs, we squeaked in
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
should be better than utah i think, worst case the defense outside of gobert is just as bad as utah's was but the offense is better
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
Maybe could they work on improving the reputation of the Minneapolis police while they're at it. Couldn't hurt.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
the "stats" stuff with gobert is really funny to me. do the t wolves have access to his stats in the playoffs
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
feel like theres a big downside risk of gobert starting another global pandemic too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
this trade keeps making me think about when the sixers paired up horford and embiid
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
that Jody Allen statement might as well say they’re riding out the franchise valuation inflation market to the very end, to the moon, hodl etc, but then I really wish they’d sold to knight who would at least guarantee the team sticks around
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
i've heard that sentiment a few places but isn't knight quite elderly at this point?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
yeah but he presumably would create a deeper trust to manage the situation going forward, as much as I can barely stand the guy I’ll admit that knight’s commitment to oregon athletic and educational institutions is rock solid (well, the ones he personally cares about, he’s that kind of billionaire)
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
I dunno, part of this is what is success? Is nothing short of a championship success? Let's say Denver never gets over the hump, was that team a failure? Was this Celtics team this year a failure? Stockton/Malone Jazz?
If this Wolves tops out without a finals, maybe? But it's certainly wouldn't be like the Nets or Clippers (obv Clips could def still work out)
I guess it depends. Jord def seems to approach hoops from a omniscient "Dr Manhattan of Hoops" way, I'm more just a rube
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
even wolves fans could prob find a way to get sick of exiting the playoffs in the first couple rounds after a while, and i do think making moves that put a cap on your team from a performance time flexibility or whatever perspective is def a con worth considering when doing deals, but mostly i just think overpaying like they did is bad policy, also i dont like rudy gobert
but on the other hand they might be pretty good idk theres always a lot of unknown with a new mix of guys whether the supporting cast holds up etc but they could def imho be a consistent playoff maker
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
yeah i think we all agree this was mostly about improving their floor in the regular season and trying to consistently make the playoffs for the next several years but i think there were ways to do that without such a nuclear move.
even if i buy into the idea that they need to play KAT at the 4, getting gobert in response to that need is a very extreme allocation of resources--like using a sledgehammer to put a picture hanger up on the wall. a cheaper defensive center plus flexibility while edwards develops makes much more sense to me.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
a cheaper defensive center plus flexibility
paging Mr Looney
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
they def werent thinking about ants timeline, gobert is 30 which is a problem on its own, but ant is only 20 and theyre giving up all these picks that they should be using to build around him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
damn joker looking trim out there
Well, if Nikola Jovic is going to take and make these. pic.twitter.com/6vs6WsOXi6— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) July 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
you wanna be locked into the lad and probably kat but committing to ages 30-34 of gobert couldReally be an anchor around the whole operation for a decade to come seems like to me
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
The Wolves behaved like a franchise that can't attract top level free agents, has a history of sucking and new ownership desperately eager to show they are going to turn things around in short order.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
jovic cant be the joker jokic is the joker jovic is the jover
xxp
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
the jester
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
Isn't the Riddler the off-brand Joker?
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
fuck you, frank gorshin was a legend
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
i'm going to become the riddler
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
Re wolves sometimes it’s good just to be competitive and a really good team, you might find a path to the finals or conference finals by way of injuries or a run of good matchups (teams that don’t have a good small ball lineup). Raising your floor is always a good idea especially when you have a guy like ant who could raise the ceiling on his own. But the contract and price is really the only problem.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link