SilasCoade

How the hell does Ainge keep doing this? He absolutely won that trade by a fair margin. Plus it's a huge middle finger to the disgruntled star to send him to Cleveland.

fuck kimchi

Like Colorado? I will see myself out.

I don't think those posts show what you think they do. Those are the comments of a guy not very enthusiastic about a player but the most damning comments are reserved for the posters in this thread rather than for Sam. It looks like Sam might be on his way to proving derka wrong. That would be great. That would mean he became better than a marginal, say 6th round level, talent.

I love a turn-around one legged fadeaway, but it's so much more difficult turning over the shooting shoulder onto that same side leg. He hits those on the regular. Not always a 3 ball over perhaps the most athletic 7-foot human since Wilt, but always buttery smooth.

That's amazing. Different camera angle:

Soft tissue injuries tend to be much more damaging for athletes than broken bones. Broken fibula or acl? Fractured wrist or ulnar ligament tear? Any structure that relies on elasticity and tensile strength to resist and respond to dynamic forces in various vectors is going to be more difficult to recover than a static structure.

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Again, my point was not a player to player comparison. It was about value to the team. I'm not suggesting DiVicenzo should be an all star. I'm just saying you use those late first round picks to fill out your roster with reliable production role players and occasionally find a gem. DiVicenzo was not a gem but he's a rotation guy. You can find athletic defenders late in the first round, not have them be 10 years older than your best player, and not pay them 10 times what they're worth. I don't see how this is a ridiculous hot take.

Read good do ya? I specifically said it wasn't about direct comparison to Gobert, but about pointing out there is easy value in that one draft pick. FWIW, per 100 possessions attached. Pretty close for a guy that costs you just over 10 cents on the dollar for the other guy.

Wolves likely to pick late teens to early 20s for 2023. Odds of getting a valuable contributor at those spots is not bad. Superstar? Not likely. Equal value to Gobert? Easy. In the last 5 years alone you've got: Tyrese Maxey at #21, Matisse Thybulle at #20, Brandon Clarke at #21, Huerter at #19, DiVincenzo at #17, John Collins at #19, OG Anunoby at #23. You can argue that Gobert is a better player than all those guys if you want, but none of them are getting benched in the playoffs b/c they are such matchup liabilities. The point isn't really that you could replace Gobert 1:1 with that draft pick. The point is that the value Gobert brings is not commensurate with his contract. It's made even worse value when you sacrifice the chance to get a cheap young contributor to help your budding superstar when he hits his prime. Gobert is a 31 year old big with next to no offensive game making $40-got-damn-million-American-fucking-dollars per year. Utah giving him that contract was kind of dumb but they were sort of over a barrel. MN taking on that contract and giving up a haul of picks for it is ludicrous. The only reason this desperation signing makes any sense is if you already know ANT is going to the Lakers first chance he gets.

I don't believe anyone is arguing the Spurs have had a stronger 2022 offseason than the Wolves. But I do believe literally everyone sans the guy with the head Ball clown avatar is arguing that the Wolves fucked up by mortgaging the farm for a guy who is a bad fit for the modern game, a bad teammate, and a Frenchman.

So which is it: San Antonio capitalized on first round draft picks and got spoiled because of it, or draft picks ain't shit? Pick one and stick with it. For reference, in the last 20 years exactly 3 NBA champions have not been led by a star the team drafted in the first round: 2004 Pistons, 2019 Fuck Kawhi Leonard, and 2020 bubble Bron. First round picks kind of matter.

Are you seriously suggesting that San Antonio has not been better managed over its history than the fucking Timberwolves? The T-wolves have drafted some great players and just fucked away their best years. They've got a potential superstar on the roster right now who will be entering his prime right about the time the bill comes due for this stupid fucking Gobert trade. The Gobert move is one you make when you imagine this is the year to go all in. If that's what the MN management is thinking they deserve what they get. They would have been much better served keeping those 2023 and 2025 unprotected picks with an eye on getting support for Ant when he's truly in his prime. The 2023 pick really hurts b/c the pick there could still really fit the timeline for capitalizing on Ant.

Most often it's pure fiction. No source at all!

Oh, so like ESPN3 used to do in fucking 2004?

I don't disagree with your conclusions exactly but those games were not as close as the scores indicate. Nets were not really a threat in the series at all. I maintain the refs fucked KD hard in the first 2 games. Like he was the inverse D-Wade. Take out the bullshit ref factor and they might have won the series.

TF is that clown on about?

It is accurate to say the harden trade wrecked them more than harden himself.

Yeah that's dumb for the spurs and the heat.

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You can set up filters in gmail for free that would have deleted them for you.

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