Everything posted by Mitch Cumsteen
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NBA Offseason Thread 2025 - Fuck OKC
I get Ayton getting bought out. He wants a fresh start. The Blazers have a surplus of centers. Ayton needs (another) fresh start. I don't know if he's trying to get to the Lakers or what, but there are quite a few teams that need bigs. I don't think he's the worst gamble to make, depending on the salary. He's not a terrible guy, allegedly. One of the better what ifs in recent NBA history is what if the Suns didn't match the free agent offer on Ayton from the Pacers? The Nurkic for Collin Sexton trade makes zero sense to me from Utah's perspective. Other than clearing out minutes and shots for Ace Bailey, they gave up a pick, got the worse player at a position they didn't really need, and took on more salary. And both players are on expiring deals. WTF? While I suppose there is another move in mind, to me it just looks like Utah is leaning into the tank more than ever. John Collins and Jordan Clarkson are on the block, too apparently. I don't think they get much for either one of them. Once they unload those two, they've basically got Lauri Markkanan and a gaggle of random very young raw prospects. And one of the best coaches in the league. They just keep throwing shit against the wall and hope something sticks, but that team has been circling the drain since the Mitchell and Gobert trades. Not one of the smoothest rebuilds in recent history.
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NBA Offseason Thread 2025 - Fuck OKC
Bob Hope?
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
I think its less about Queen and more about where that pick ends up next year. I'm 99% sure they still could have made that trade with some protections.
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2025 NBA Draft - Gag for Flagg
Questionable? Like trading Luka to the lakers questionable? Also, I love Rasheer Fleming. Great pick for Phoenix. He will probably turn out better than anybody the Nets drafted.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
Yeah... I think this guy is going to be a good fit.
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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.