Everything posted by Mitch Cumsteen
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
I'm not offended but holy shit do teams do stupid shit in the draft and make near sighted trades. The Warriors built a dynasty starting with drafting Steph Curry #7. Jokic was a second round pick for fucks sake. Giannis was pick #15. The Spurs had a generational talent "fall in their lap" at #15 as well (after they traded up to get him, I might add). Every year people do dumb shit in the draft and then you look up and Paul Pierce is available at #10. Halliburton is available at #12. It goes on and on. There are more self-inflicted wounds that prevent rebuilds than there is this amazing degree of difficulty to build a contender. You know, don't mortgage your future picks for overpaid, old vets. Don't overpay your role players. Don't draft guys 10 slots ahead of where they should be drafted. I just don't get the short term view that most franchises take.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
They need some more size, for sure. I haven't looked at their cap, but it's at least worth taking a run at Al Horford and see if they can overpay him to ply him out of Boston. I know he's a 1000 years old, but he'd be exactly what the doctor ordered on and off the court. Yabusele from Philly would be a nice fit, too.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
Respectfully, they tried going the big FA route before and that exploded right in their face. They actually built a nice little young core coming off of the Boston trade disaster. They were making chicken salad out of chicken shit after Ainge raped them and before they did all that Durant/ Kyrie / Harden stuff. It's a borderline miracle they were able to dig themselves out of all that and regain control of all of their picks. You can say what you will about Marks, but he seems to know how to get the most out of a shitty situation. I think this time they take it slow and build it up through the draft and see it all the way through. But last night doesn't seem like a great start to that process. They are going to need two more tank years most likely.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
So after processing last night... I still can't get over the Pels trading an unprotected FRP (the best of theirs or Milwaukee's) in next years draft and #23 to move up 10 spots. It's like Joe Dumars is saying, "Remember that time I drafted Darko Milicic over Carmelo Anthony, Dywane Wade, and Chris Bosh? Well, hold my beer." And I absolutely love Queen's game, but the pairing of him and Zion in New Orleans should be on the Food Network, not a basketball court. In a stacked west, they have next to zero chance of making the playoffs next year. That and the reach with Fears.... that was the hurricane Katrina of draft nights. I also don't get the Nets. Five picks including a horrible over reach for Demin. Saraf is like the Israeli version of Jordan Poole. I like Traore a bit, especially if his shooting has improved and then two more jags, albeit Wolf could end up being something. That something could end up being dunked on 6 times a game, but still something. When you're picking in the 20's its always a crap shoot and that roster is undergoing a total rebuild so I get trying to swing for the fences,... but yuck.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
I mean, everything is gravy after falling ass backwards into Dylan Harper.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
I don’t hate it. Switchable with a 7 foot wingspan who plays hard on defense and can hopefully knock down an open three.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
And they took the guy who came off the bench at Arizona.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
I hope the spurs take the Illinois kid. No way he should have fallen this far.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
Can’t believe the kid from Illinois hasn’t been taken yet.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
Coward off the board at 11. Fuck. He was my guy. Maybe Queen falls into their lap?
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
I’m sure Phoenix will do something smart here.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
Brooklyn and Toronto pushing better players down to the spurs. This happens every year. Let’s hope they don’t fuck it up this time.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
Brooklyn pick is a bit of a shocker. Love his game but he can’t shoot.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
Welp. Nailed that one.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
NOLA gotta take the center from duke, right?
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
They look like a Mormon fever dream.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
So they put Stephen A on abc and Perkins on espn? Like they couldn’t give us any place to hide? Please tell me that nbc gets to run this shit next year.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
First american white player taken number one since Kent Benson in 1977.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
This used to be so much better when they showed it on the USA network.
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NBA Offseason Thread 2025 - Fuck OKC
And they still have like $35 million in cap space. More deals to be had. More picks out there to horde.
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NBA Offseason Thread 2025 - Fuck OKC
The Wiz are clearing the decks most likely to take on other bad contracts and accumulate picks from teams that are at or above the apron next summer. Let's see how that works out for the Nets this summer. All those guys in the front office in Washington came from OKC, I believe. This is Sam Presti team building 101. They may be able to turn Olynyk and CJ into more picks as well at the deadline. They can both help contenders. The Wiz front office had the misfortune of starting out with Bradley Beal and his no trade contract that they turned into dogshit while Presti had Paul George that he turned into SGA and every Clippers pick possible.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
I just learned that they also signed Corliss Williamson as a coach about a week ago.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
FYI.... this is the guy who is given a lot of credit for developing Giannis. Solid move for the Spurs and nice to see them go outside the family for help.
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NBA Offseason Thread 2025 - Fuck OKC
He shot it horribly from three, but he played great defense and hit a ton of mid range shots. He's also their only true big. They need a lot more size up front, even if they do re-sign him. He's also their longest tenured player and seemingly critical to their culture. I would not be surprised if they get him on a team friendly deal. One thing about the Haliburton injury... they got lucky as hell that they traded out their 2025 pick for the return of their 2026 pick. There's no way the Pelicans make that same deal today.
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NBA 2024-25 Playoff Thread
That Pacers team is going down as probably my all time favorite non-Spurs team ever. Just an incredible group, fun as hell to root for and played so many gutsy clutch entertaining games. Absolutely heartbreaking to see it end like that with Haliburton's injury. One of the worst what ifs in recent NBA history. The basketball gods are fickle. As for OKC, I can't stand them but you've got to respect the way they go about their business. You can tell that those dudes really care about each other and care about winning above everything else. I don't like their style of play, SGA's foul baiting, and they get away with murder on defense, but that's on the refs more than them. NBA officiating has always been controversial and I suppose always will be. I'm excited for the draft and this off season. There's going to be a lot of crazy shit happen. We've already seen two huge trades go down before the finals even ended. The apron is looming for a lot of different teams.