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chets got 10 points

he's one of these guys who is gonna look so much better playing in the pros than in college and he already was an amazing college player

chet just dribbled the ball up the court whet behind his back and swished a 3

the twin towers thing is definitely getting silly, what cleveland and boston (where neither guy is above 6'10" btw) and milwaukee are doing are actually all completely different things, driven by unique players with unusual skillsets.

chet got a block led the break and dished off for an and 1

so hyped for the era of holmgren primacy

chet clearly too good for summer league after one quarter of play

this jazz team totally sucks, good to see him taking it to them

the broadcast just informed me that the two ja(y)l(e)(i)n williamses did the spiderman meme for a pic

now y'all can use the legit photo 😅😂 pic.twitter.com/Ggw6AIy6hJ

— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) June 26, 2022

im sorry they just have to trade one of them

one thing i still don't understand about the draft is why ppl weren't talking about chet as an elite shooter. his shot is as good as you could as for from that size

maybe it's the body type maybe i'm crazy and i hesitate to even say it but when i watch chet there's always a few plays that remind me of KD

hah yeah i don't know about that but what i am taking away from this game is that his feel and IQ is as advertised or better

praying 4 victor to end up a spur, i cannot live in a world with chet murking my spurs for the next 20 years

one thing i still don't understand about the draft is why ppl weren't talking about chet as an elite shooter. his shot is as good as you could as for from that size

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 5, 2022 10:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

was weird people were too busy talking about how skinny he is i guess

it's like they say you can't teach weight

OKC looks fun but that definitely looked like a summer league run

spurs just picked up isaiah roby off waivers bc okc has too many guys, can imagine this will remain an issue for okc for the next several years as they will not have enough roster space to play the 2 or 3 guys they draft every year

like its definitely a good problem to have, theyve got 2 1sts next year (and 3 2nds), but they have 8 1RP picks between 2024 and 2025 (and 4 2RPs), feels like theyll need to trade a bunch of those picks and have to take back suboptimal value for them. like u cannot choose a whole roster worth of players in a two-year time span, its crazy.

like imagine getting drafted by okc in the mid-2020s, like a kid being born into a polygamist family u r getting no attention unless its from an older sibling

The weight thing obsession was really weird, like of all the things to worry about, KG was so skinny, Durant's infamous bench press, plus a player putting on weight over time is almost inevitable

Had vibes of a lot of the stuff I remember reading where all these ppl were talking themselves into Okafor over KAT

chet just looks frail is prob part of the issue, hes scrappy tho, see how well he hold sup i guess, one thing is he has narrow shoulders, much like kd, so thatll limit how much upper body weight he can put on

he was definitely getting knocked around a bit in the paint last night, it’s going to keep happening but TBD if it rises to the level of being an actual issue.

hell get bigger and stronger and prob just have to deal with getting pushed around by stronger guys anyway everyones got their strengths and weaknesses so to speak

prob get a lot of minutes at the 4 to start but if he can consistently hold up playing center my god having a guy with his offensive game there would be freaking apocalyptic

they just need an undersized C to match his oversized PF and theyll be set

i bet NBA teams worried less about chet's weight than random ppl on twitter or whatever but to me the key is that he moves fluidly and doesn't have any injury history or seem like a notable injury risk as far as big guys go. "porzingis" was trending on twitter last night during the game bcuz apparently lots of ppl were tweeting "this is what porzingis was supposed to be before the injuries" but porzingis had a certain stiffness you typically associate w/ a 7+ footer. chet isn't a huge leaper or anything but he's a much more natural athlete than is normal for that size & that's more important than the fact that he's skinny

there will be tons of ppl on TV etc saying you just have to be physical w/ chet and toss him around & obv there will be some adjustment for him going up against 28 year old beast big men. you're not gonna want him guarding jokic or whatever. but it reminds me a bit of steph where you had ppl saying for years that you had to rough him up and get him off his game but he was small and skinny his whole life and figured out how to be great anyway, he wasn't going to be affected by guys trying to be physical with him. steph did get noticeably bigger to hold up more on defense, it's not like the strength aspect is meaningless, but it wasn't some cheat code to neutralize him as a basketball player & i think chet will be the same way

saw a nice dirk step back fadeaway from him. hard to stop that

the polish on his game for his age and extremely tall body is crazy, he was treating those utah scrubs like assistant coaches lol

His free throw percentages were really good that helps

Chet Holmgren with one of the most impressive halves in Summer League history. pic.twitter.com/rjfSnWr4KV

— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) July 6, 2022

Don't get a big head J0rd, but I am still chuckling at ums "Dr. Manhattan of basketball".

Within One Hour. pic.twitter.com/CxD63JWtNr

— 𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤 (@SpotlightChet) July 6, 2022

i mean, if chet is KAT who can actually play defense he's one of the best players in the NBA lol

One contract signed today that stands out is the five-year $251M one for Bradley Beal. Negotiated by Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports, the Beal contract consists of a no trade clause. He is the only player in the league to have a true no trade clause.

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) July 6, 2022

*pfunk voice* 🎶if i were a wizard of finaaaaaance/
i would probably spend it alllll on brad beallll/
i'd be busy giving him no trade clauses/
just to show I appreciate him being here🎶

ted leonsis should’ve thrown in his house and given beal his social security number too just to be safe

it's really sad. i had to tell this dude who was all psyched about them getting John Collins that he wasn't gonna save their franchise. nothing will

like its definitely a good problem to have, theyve got 2 1sts next year (and 3 2nds), but they have 8 1RP picks between 2024 and 2025 (and 4 2RPs), feels like theyll need to trade a bunch of those picks and have to take back suboptimal value for them. like u cannot choose a whole roster worth of players in a two-year time span, its crazy.

They only have one next year (the best of their own and the Clippers).

It is tricky though - I think they've mostly got a good young core already, who just need time to develop. I don't think 2RPs are much use to them at the moment. They did package up three protected 2023 1RPs to get Ousmane Dieng this year, which was a good deal. Dieng is pretty pivotal for OKC - if he turns into a classy wing/forward, he's like the missing piece to go with Chet/Giddey/SGA/Dort/Jalen Williams, plus Mann as a bench scorer and Poku as a whatever-he-is.

i think having all the picks is good its cool its workable picks are highly fungible

having 20 20 year olds in your org is maybe kind of weird but it seems to be working out pretty well for them so far

lol that beal deal is something else god bless the washington wizards god bless brad beal

no trade clause is the cherry on top pretty funny since the contract was nearly untradable from the moment it was signed

brad beal one of the most ????? guys in nba history to me, incredible talent who made a zillion dollars doing nothing while playing with no one on a nothing franchise, like some ABA guy whose name you stumble on and go “huh weird this dude averaged 26 ppg for 7 years for … buffalo?”

ehh feel like theres a couple good players like that per generation that are happy to just be the franchise guy

its not like he's an mvp level player

They only have one next year (the best of their own and the Clippers).

― aphoristical, Wednesday, July 6, 2022 4:46 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah this is what i get for using fanspo. so it looks like 2025 is just...3 1RPs? with swap rights with TWO teams for their own pick?

https://www.prosportstransactions.com/basketball/DraftTrades/Future/Thunder.htm

bananas

2024, OKC have:
Own; HOU 5-30; LAC; UTH 11-30

I imagine they'll need to keep kicking some of them down the road?

Or they’ll trade them for the right piece