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Derek Lively Foot surgery.

I’m glad we made the move we made. You never know with some of these Centers.

 

Man, their luck sucks!

 

Damn, that's shocking. Well, it doesn't affect us much imo, because we probably were not going to trade for Gafford anyway. And, Dallas is already loaded at big man, so they probably wont try to get another significant big.

 

Bad feet is bad for big men. That’s all your lateral movement. He’s already missed games. That is dicey.

people think Dallas is just gonna pick up when Kyrie gets back. Then you gotta intregate him in the system. It’s very hard.

 

I think Lively is their best Center. I don’t put Anthony Davis there. Hes there power forward. They definitely have a lot of forwards.

and Cooper Flagg will help. He ain’t Steph Curry. But he will run offense make plays. Get players in their right sets.

Tre Johnson is a stud yall haven’t watched a lot of him. But he would’ve helped.

I don’t put Gafford in the tier of Lively. And I think Russell for the majority of the season isn’t going to be great as everyone thinks.

I watched him alot on Brooklyn. The All star Russell is gone. His knees he just doesn’t look the same. He might play better because he’s not on Brooklyn.

I don’t see how LeBron could force his way here.

Dallas will be a 6th 7th 8th. Seed. I’m totally confident in that. I don’t see them as the juggernaut that everybody else sees.

 

Lively is really good, but his early injury problems are terrifying.

 

I’m not Kaping on yall. Read my post about Cooper Flagg and Tre Johnson.

my boy Tre Johnson is the best pure scorer in the draft. And I told yall. Sometimes it happens.

Stephen Curry Devin Booker. When I scouted him I saw Steph Curry quick release. Beautiful jump shot.

the dynasty we avoided with him and Wemby and AD is incredible.

that’s the pick and roll point guard you want with Wemby where it’s impossible to defend because of his jump shot ability. That’s what Curry and Wemby would look like. So hard to defend a pick and roll with a player that quick and jump shot that quick and then a player like Wemby at the rim how he finishes.

wow just wow. We dodged a huge bullet.

How did San Antonio and Utah miss this. I’d much rather deal with Dylan Harper.

and Dallas if Dallas had this guy with AD? Well I guess they had to draft Cooper Flagg. But that’s when you know guys ain’t scouting. Cause if you saw this kid and scouted this kid.? He can score and just flat out shoot.

it’s not a Jordan Crawford or a Jodie Meeks. This guy lights the ball up. Like a Jordan. You can’t stay with him.

and he finishes at the rim. Let him be hidden in the east. But he’ll be an Allen Iverson but hey Washington has Sarr to. They are building something. They gotta get Mcclomb outa there. Let this kid flourish.

 

Okogie is a good player, better than Shake in my opinion, but he doesn't solve our defensive problems at the POA.
I'd definitely take him if we had an open roster spot.
He'd improve our depth chart.

It's true that there's still a lot of time left, but I'm worried about this inaction surrounding Knecht.
He's been having a terrible Summer League; since he was traded to the Hornets, he's mentally withdrawn from this team. Not to excuse him, but I can understand the difficulties of playing on a team that has clearly shown it doesn't believe in you.

 

Lively has some minor bone spurs in his foot, it's not serious, he's expected to be a go by training camp.

I tell you what, after rewatching this Minnesota series for the 4th time! I'm still not seeing where our POA, was this big problem. JJ had a rather mediocre gameplan IMO, we got banged around without Hayes on the court, especially when they had Gobert in the game. That small ball lineup wasn't a good look, Minnesota was better at it, than we were too. People will say it was their size and whatnot, but really, we were pretty even on size with Hayes, 1st unit wise. McDaniels was a problem on offense and defense, when they went small with us, Reid,McDaniels and Randle were just outworking us. Austin couldn't really get off as normal, and that was pretty much the difference in that series IMO.

I remain unimpressed with this NAW kid everybody was raving about. Maybe he was more impactful in their other series, but he wasn't some big factor in ours IMO.

I think a long 3/4 and another 4/5 is all we need myself. Simmons and Horford makes us a legit title contender IMO.

 

well you can make one of a couple of choices I guess

1. Show them they are wrong.
2. Shrivel up and quit.

The choice is up to the individual. But since LA is the City of Bright Lights, isn't this an indication he won't ever thrive here like he might in a smaller market? Maybe we need to send him to Utah or Indy or something.

 

Mathurin would thrive here IMO. That's a move worth Dalton and a FRP. I've shifted into, grab a young upcoming talent with our trade assets, and look to the buyout market for veteran plug and play types. We are building for post Lebron, while staying in contention for a chip with LeBron.

 

Welp..thoughts?

 

that's a little over the top. Not sure if he will even play 40 games, much less when they matter.

 

Didn’t they try Beal with other stars in Phoenix?

 

Our team is way better than Phx..Luka/Lebron over KD/Booker too. Who says no?

 

kid gloves, that's about all you can say.

It would give plenty of minutes for the young cats to develop since you already know he'll only be available part time. Just seems his body is breaking down.

 

I honestly don't understand Simmons's name being mentioned in discussions about who we should try to get.

We have a clear offensive problem at Vanderbilt, a player we struggle to hide on offense in the playoffs...
Should we add a player who can't shoot and never gets to the basket, further complicating spacing and offensive flow?

 

I suppose he can dribble and pass though. And make free throws now. I doubt he sinks to minimum contract level, but if he did, it would be hard not to snatch him up if nothing more than for having the tradeable asset.

 

Because that isn't actually the problem? We had a rebounding and defense issue. It's still ridiculous to pin something, on a player that is slated to play 20 min or so a game.

 

But we already have a player with good defensive skills and no offensive ability, and that's Vanderbilt.

In the modern NBA, I don't see how we can have two players in the 9/10 man rotation who can't play for more than a certain amount of minutes in the playoffs because they're offensive black holes.

Even more so on a Doncic team, a player who's subject to systematic double-teaming... and a player like Simmons or Vanderbilt makes extremely difficult for us to attack it.