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  1. I just don't know if he'd be interested enough because of the minutes..... how many could we possibly offer him? Young player on the rise.... I'd welcome him.
  2. Well, lucky for you two, Clark's team plays Plum's team tomorrow on NBA TV tomorrow evening. If you want to watch basketball tomorrow, even if Clark is unlikely to play, then you could educate yourselves on Kelsey Plum. Hint, Plum held the record for mo st points in the NCAAW game which Clark ending up breaking. Enjoy learning!
  3. But they seem to be enjoying doing it. Beware of a crazy man with intention..... They want to compete so if leveraged to blow it up, they'll play hard ball and he'll cost a fortune.
  4. The Kornet Kontest!!! 3 year deal with team option. 10m is a lot for a bench big man, but that's the going rate for being tall these days. Reportedly a great teammate.
  5. I was hoping we'd trade back in the bottom of the first and take the Michigan kid, Wolf. He has a really interesting skill set and if he ends up developing a consistently good 3, he could be a good big for a decade along with being an elite passer at the position. Great passers out of the post are hard to come by and he has just enough post game to stick. I think he was way underdrafted if he can get that 3 up to 37+% eventually.
  6. Last 10 years, they've been above average or decently good. Murray at 29 is White at 29 were pretty good to great draft picks, but then.... Lonnie, Luka (that one is huge fail), Keldon, Vassell, Tre Jones (pretty good for 2nd rounder), Primo and Weiskamp (empty year when you suck), Sochan, Branham and Wesley (could still turn around but right now, not good), before turning it around with Wemby, Castle, and now Harper. Part of the issue was Pop not wanting to accept where the team was and play for draft status so we didn't get high lottery picks until the last 3 years. We've hit when in the top 5, as you should, but outside of the top 10, we have a pretty checkered record. A generational talent like Wemby can clean up a lot resumes, but he has to stay healthy. We've done much better in acquiring draft picks through trades.
  7. I think that's a fair assessment historically of the Washington franchise after the 70's. I get it, all I was saying its that historically shitty diner who's under new management and when you find out it new management is the new sous chef of the most popular diner in town, you have to hope things get better. Frankly, Tre has a lot of weakness in his game so wherever he can develop the most will be the best place for him and new management is from a place which traditionally drafted well and developed well, that's all.
  8. I'll say this..... we young. Need a couple of vets in UFA to round out this team.
  9. If you can't average more than 6 points your only college season...... you should be pretty thrilled to be a lottery pick at all. He'll live in Austin most of the season, he's a major project.
  10. Took a major project at 14..... If he hits, then he's that long 3 and D forward who can play both positions, but man..... no production and he's all potential. Wouldn't have been the direction I would have gone. It may take him 4 years before he's any good.
  11. Their front office is from the Presti tree as well. I think being out the lime light may be good and Washington is going to be bad so he'll get minutes and time to develop.....
  12. If they're that bad at 50 games it most likely means AD is hurt. How badly he's hurt would probably dictate his value but he'd be 33 coming off injury.... again with 120m due the next 2 years. Hard to imagine Dallas being that bad unless AD is leveraged so it's a sort of double edged sword.
  13. Charlotte is probably closer to winning anything than Phoenix is. He's from St Louis but has spent the last decade before Phoenix on the WC. Also, maybe Charlotte is promising to not buy him out this year?
  14. I think it's the 135m+ over the next 3 years with his 15% trade kicker which probably turned Phoenix off. Garland's a fine player but probably not worth that especially without any draft capital. Seems like a sucker's bet....
  15. So, with health, I think we make the playoffs as well, but it's greatly up to Wemby at this point. Fox is solid player but what Fox are you getting? He's a high USG%, shoot first PG, who's a defensive liability because of his size. He's a pretty good player, but not a great player, and what the team really needs is a facilitator - CP3 from 6 years ago. Scoring 25 on 18-19-20 shots isn't really a great stat for a small PG, who's a lousy 3 point shooter. Now, I do think he has in him being more of an on court leader. A guy who scores 18-19 points on 14-15 shots and decreases his USG% under 25 and increases his AST% above 30 while hopefully shooting 34-35% from 3. You get that guy, we're probably easily making the playoffs but he's never done it before because Sac-town needed his scoring. We don't need that if the others show up and with the rookie who's calling card is scoring at this point. We need Fox to be a better facilitator and decent shooter who can break down a defense and dictate pace. I do respect him because he's a guy who wanted to come here. As far as the others, Castle is who I have my eye on. A lot of good stuff by the eye test, but he's got to become a better shooter and more efficient offensive player, but as a rookie, nothing but love for his first year. I hope he can make a huge step forward and it begins with shooting. Hopefully the others can take a step forward, but again, my point is, they've really only take baby steps forward. So we do really need to make an impact with some smart moves in FA. Getting to the 8 seed is 14 games. That's a bunch. I don't give a fuck about the play-in games. That's not about being a good team, it's about TV ratings. These guys are so young, it's hard to really critique guys learning the pro game, but it's how we've built this team. We need them to take all of these minutes and experience they've gotten and turn it into more sustainable production. And again, we're not asking for them to be ship contenders, just make the playoffs.
  16. ZaZa out of retirement. Fuck you Zaza!!!!
  17. Well, we haven't won more than 34 games in the last 5 years. We're basically saying Wemby has to continue to develop and play 75 games next season and then HOPE the others can continue to develop and add to their game. Maybe the Sochan shooting tech change is for real, but I don't want that guy shooting more than 10 shots a game anyway. Maybe Castle is developing. I can't depend on a rookie guard, as talented as he is, doing much except playing rotation level ball for the majority of the season. At some point, talent has to translate to production. This has only happened with Wemby. Vassell, Sochan, and Castle, to a smaller degree, have to get better and not baby steps anymore, that's what Vassell and Sochan have been doing. They're marginally better than they were when they joined the league. Let's take Vassell as an example: Season Age Team Lg Pos G GS MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% 2P 2PA 2P% eFG% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS ORtg DRtg Awards 5 Yrs 303 186 8402 9.1 20.6 .444 3.5 9.5 .369 5.6 11.0 .509 .530 2.6 3.3 .806 0.8 5.7 6.5 4.5 1.8 0.8 1.9 2.7 24.4 110 116 2020-21 20 SAS NBA SF 62 7 1056 5.7 13.9 .406 2.4 6.9 .347 3.3 7.0 .464 .492 2.0 2.3 .843 1.1 6.9 8.0 2.6 2.0 0.8 1.0 4.0 15.7 108 112 2021-22 21 SAS NBA SF 71 32 1937 8.1 18.9 .427 3.4 9.4 .361 4.7 9.5 .492 .516 2.1 2.5 .838 1.1 6.5 7.6 3.4 1.9 1.0 1.4 3.5 21.6 109 112 2022-23 22 SAS NBA SG 38 32 1178 10.5 23.9 .439 4.1 10.7 .387 6.3 13.2 .480 .525 3.1 4.0 .780 0.3 5.6 5.9 5.5 1.7 0.7 2.3 2.3 28.2 110 120 2023-24 23 SAS NBA SG 68 62 2248 10.5 22.3 .472 3.5 9.4 .372 7.0 12.9 .544 .550 3.4 4.2 .801 0.6 4.9 5.5 5.8 1.5 0.5 2.3 1.6 27.9 113 118 2024-25 24 SAS NBA SG 64 53 1983 9.6 21.7 .443 3.9 10.5 .368 5.8 11.2 .513 .532 2.3 2.9 .792 0.8 5.4 6.2 4.5 2.0 0.8 2.1 2.6 25.4 109 118 and.... Season Age Team Lg Pos G GS MP PER TS% 3PAr FTr ORB% DRB% TRB% AST% STL% BLK% TOV% USG% OWS DWS WS WS/48 OBPM DBPM BPM VORP Awards 5 Yrs 303 186 8402 14.1 .555 .463 .158 1.7 13.0 7.3 13.9 1.8 1.3 7.9 21.1 5.3 6.6 11.9 .068 0.0 -0.5 -0.5 3.1 2020-21 20 SAS NBA SF 62 7 1056 10.6 .524 .495 .168 2.4 15.4 8.8 7.1 2.0 1.4 6.3 14.3 0.4 1.1 1.5 .069 -2.2 0.7 -1.5 0.1 2021-22 21 SAS NBA SF 71 32 1937 13.3 .540 .497 .130 2.4 14.3 8.3 9.7 1.9 1.8 6.7 18.9 1.3 2.0 3.3 .082 -0.5 0.0 -0.5 0.7 2022-23 22 SAS NBA SG 38 32 1178 15.5 .550 .447 .168 0.7 13.5 6.9 17.3 1.7 1.2 8.2 24.4 0.7 0.5 1.2 .051 1.3 -0.9 0.4 0.7 2023-24 23 SAS NBA SG 68 62 2248 15.7 .578 .422 .190 1.3 11.3 6.3 19.1 1.5 0.8 8.6 23.5 2.0 1.6 3.6 .077 0.9 -0.9 0.0 1.1 2024-25 24 SAS NBA SG 64 53 1983 14.2 .553 .483 .135 1.8 12.0 6.9 13.8 2.0 1.5 8.5 22.1 0.9 1.3 2.2 .054 -0.3 -0.8 -1.1 0.4 What does he do better appreciably than say his 2nd year? I'd say he's a little better passer and playmaker, which is something better but nothing else. He hasn't turned into the on the ball defender we need him to be and he really needs to deliver a 3pt% at close to 40% to really help us as that 3 and D guy we need. He's talented. He can dominate a game once and awhile and I realize he was hurt last year, but the time is now for him or he may just end up kicking around the league for a decade as a bench guy who never filled his potential. Remember, we took him over Halliburton. Sochan is much of the same..... I'd say we need that forward off the bench who can really shoot and he needs length. We need a big man with some nasty to him and it'd be nice if he had some post game and then probably a scorer off the bench who can get his own shot. BTW, getting only marginally better is Keldon Johnson too, but he wasn't a lottery pick. But he was better than thought off the cuff, but then has stagnated.
  18. Who can the Spurs get for those exceptions is probably the difference between playoffs and not. Going to need some veteran help. Still have picks and KJ, Barnes, Vassell and Sochan if the right deal comes around but I don't want to see or hear anything about Jaylon Brown. Fuck that.
  19. Not really.... 10 and Green, who's upside will have a ceiling unless he greatly improves his shooting, although only 22, so has a long development curve.
  20. Welp, looks like KD is going to Houston. Basically, the difference was the 10 vs the 14th pick. Got close but ultimately, we decided to keep our powder dry. They're farther along then we are so it also aligns with timelines better for them. Still hurts.
  21. Signed? $50 to $1500 depending on the card and the run.... What does you autograph go for?
  22. Such as? Indy: Siakam OKC: Williams Knicks: OG Minny: McDaniels I mean there's way more examples of wing players, what do you mean? And I'm on board with Harper too especially since he's grown 1.5 inches and has long arms.
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