stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

i think he would be overstretched as a second option, i think he’s clearly several rungs below jaylen brown, jamal murray etc

but as a third option i think he’s a really good player. or he was clearly a really good player in the playoffs regardless of the reason — 44% 3pt and a 3/1 A:TO ratio at 36 mpg is really strong production any way you cut it. he gives some of it back on defense but he’s not tyler herro out there. i personally thought a lot of it was sustainable but we’ll see.

nba money is absurd, $53 million is like twice as much as even the best running backs will make in their careers

ok i just watched a bunch of his highlights and thing that stood out was his playmaking and general feel for the game he was def finding the holes in the defense making good reads etc, but idk hes 25 and doesnt have any discernible pop to his game that would lead me to believe hell ever be more than say a borderline starter a 4-7 guy, and if the shooting regresses hed be a more situational player

i think the way he could surpass that and become a real impact player is if he just ends up being a really good shooter, but seems pretty unlikely because most the shots hes taking now are totally standard catch and shoot, tho tbf he did get some off the dribble, and maybe thats in his game just not being utilized, i didnt see any evidence of your kyle kover style threes on the run tho tbf i didnt want the entire every austin reaves made 3 video, also his shot is not that fast and his dribble not that tight and physically he doesnt impress you tho i have seen him jump high but he generally doesnt play very athletically

in conclusion hes got some stuff going for him but nothing really jumps out other than the playmaking, and hes 25, if he was 20 itd be a whole other ballgame so to speak

he should get some burn this year tho be interesting to see what happens, him russell and vincent have some overlap in their games wonder how the minutes will shake out

Is Reaves better or worse than Grayson Allen?

lol no comment

stirring the pot lol

that’s a good question. who can forget grayson’s run with team usa at the 2019 world championships when he was a fixture of the rotation with some of the best young players in the world

i'm kind of agnostic on what reaves is until we see how this season goes but tbh he could regress and still be a $20M player, guys that size who can score and make some plays on offense are valuable.

This should probably be in the basketlols thread, but The Ringer just ranked Austin Reaves as the 60th best player in the league(!). For comparison purposes they ranked Wemby as 67th best player and Grayson Allen was not ranked at all.

If interested: https://nbarankings.theringer.com/

austin reaves is miles better than grayson allen there is no point of comparison there… except for one…

crucial info missing: is matt armstrong an austin reaves guy

these lists are silly but also there are too many of them

Reeves is 6'5 / 197 lb whereas Grayson is 6'4 / 198 lb... verrry different guys ;)

wiggins trying to drive on wemby lmao he got wrecked

Victor Wembanyama stays with Andrew Wiggins, blocks his jumper, and drills a 3-pointer of his own 🔥pic.twitter.com/wPzvTkX05g

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) October 21, 2023

america's hottest new comedy is the san antonio spurs because all i can do is laugh when i watch wemby destroy these ostensibly large grown up men

its honestly hilarious

hahah i have no idea why wiggins thought he had a chance there

dead attempt from the start it never lived

I think a lot of this stuff should be illegal honestly and it is not because I am jealous

wigdawg not clear on this eight foot arms situation

Wemby just blocked Andrew Wiggins from three.

Look at where he started lol pic.twitter.com/mgmuIFqT8C

— Esfandiar Baraheni (@JustEsBaraheni) October 21, 2023

stephs turn

Steph wasn't even going at Wemby and still got sent back lol pic.twitter.com/1LSsxl6EOj

— Joe Viray (@JoeVirayNBA) October 21, 2023

hahah i have no idea why wiggins thought he had a chance there

This was a test of the Victor Wembanyama Defense System. This was only a test. Had it been an actual regular season or playoff game the result would have been the same.

He’ll prob average like 3-4 blocks a game for the first half of the season

nba starts soon

couple nice match ups lakers-nugs suns-dubs

Grizzlies center Steven Adams will undergo season-ending surgery for a knee injury, team says.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 22, 2023

dang sucks

damn, he'd been pretty durable up until now

aw man. that’s pretty big for them especially with ja missing the first 2 months

investigation of ja handling fame poorly

Before being drafted by the Grizzlies with the No. 2 overall pick in 2019, scouting reports on the high-flying point guard out of mid-major Murray State revealed little in the way of red flags.

"Zero," said one veteran NBA scout who scouted Morant for a lottery team in position to draft him. "He was the consummate coachable teammate, a choirboy. Underrecruited. Didn't have many scholarship offers. Played with a chip on his shoulder. Glowing stuff. Nothing. There was absolutely nothing."

Said a second veteran NBA scout: "I studied him inside and out. There was not one person who had a bad thing to say about him. Very much a late bloomer. Good family. Had a work ethic. Humble. He checked every single box."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38674600/then-alligators-got-memphis-grizzlies-star-ja-morant-18-month-downfall

yeah read that piece, pretty classic too much too soon situation. i hope he gets over himself.

a guy who is constantly beefing with randos naming his boutique streetwear brand “my brothers no others” seems a little too on the nose

Hopefully he’s not in too deep

Signing Rose to mentor Ja is like, uhhh...

will derrick rose be the first NBA MVP *not* to make the HoF y/n

he should be the first for many, many reasons

westbrook should be the 2nd

jk i don't particularly care about the whole hall of fame thing

“It was anything to go against what I would have wanted,” Lillard told The Athletic, “That part was irritating. Just based off how it was happening, I knew (it wouldn’t be Miami).

“(The Blazers) hadn’t talked to Miami. So once it started happening like that, then I started hearing about all these other random teams, I was like, ‘I’m probably not going to Miami.’ So I wasn’t holding on to that too (much).”

What he had done, though, was green-light a message to Milwaukee in mid-September that would have everything to do with what came next.

When Lillard was convinced that Miami was off the table, Goodwin wanted to know if the Bucks were among the teams in serious pursuit of his seven-time-All-Star client. They weren’t.

But when that backchannel blessing was given, with the Bucks learning that Lillard would be excited about a possible partnership with the Bucks, the chase was on. And so the work began for Horst and his small group of trusted front office associates.

https://theathletic.com/4982925/2023/10/23/bucks-damian-lillard-trade-giannis-antetokounmpo/

btw hes not shams level but sam amick is a really bad writer

A businessman who was part of the group that bought the team for $550 million in 2014 and sold at a valuation point of $3.5 billion nine years later.

the nytimes should give the athletic some editors just an idea

https://i.imgur.com/a430Ioi.png

seems like a lot

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels has agreed to a five-year, $136M contract extension, his agents Nima Namakian of @InnovateSports and Bill Duffy of @WME_Sports tell me and @JonKrawczynski.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 23, 2023

One year for each finger he broke when he punched the wall and fucked his team's playoff chances

lol

ok who’s starting the new thread

2023/24 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "THANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

last of the stashing - hawk's extend Okongwu's rookie deal, 4yr 62mil but do not extend Bey who will now be a free agent this offseason