November 10, 20187 yr that Bucks - Warriors game was a revelation to me. Milwaukee is loaded with no names with huge talent, a team of robots led by Freak. Had about 70 points on dunks and layups as Draymond was out. GS has no inside presence and they better have Cousins too if they are to meet the Bucks in the Finals. That team is a beast.
November 10, 20187 yr 7 hours ago, Goo Punch said: Who am I? 20.5 ppg 4.6 reb 4.0 ast 1.5 stl .353 3P% hint: Eastern Conference Caris Levert. 3 hours ago, NowThis said: that Bucks - Warriors game was a revelation to me. Milwaukee is loaded with no names with huge talent, a team of robots led by Freak. Had about 70 points on dunks and layups as Draymond was out. GS has no inside presence and they better have Cousins too if they are to meet the Bucks in the Finals. That team is a beast. Draymond is their anchor defensively. Also Curry went out late too. Bucks are very long and athletic but one game in November shouldn't inform you of too much.
November 10, 20187 yr 3 hours ago, NowThis said: that Bucks - Warriors game was a revelation to me. Milwaukee is loaded with no names with huge talent, a team of robots led by Freak. Had about 70 points on dunks and layups as Draymond was out. GS has no inside presence and they better have Cousins too if they are to meet the Bucks in the Finals. That team is a beast. Meh. I don’t put much stock in a regular season game especially without the best defensive player in the league playing. Dray is everything to them on defense. He enables the switching and plays passing lines better than anyone in the league. No one will touch this GSW team in the playoffs
November 10, 20187 yr 40 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said: Caris Levert. Draymond is their anchor defensively. Also Curry went out late too. Bucks are very long and athletic but one game in November shouldn't inform you of too much. Curry went out when the game was already a super blowout. Even with Draymond, this Bucks team is a load. Their management deserves a lot of praise for putting together this roster around Freak. They are very solid. Follow them for a season, see how well they mesh, it's a real threat for the NBA title.
November 10, 20187 yr 9 minutes ago, NowThis said: Curry went out when the game was already a super blowout. Even with Draymond, this Bucks team is a load. Their management deserves a lot of praise for putting together this roster around Freak. They are very solid. Follow them for a season, see how well they mesh, it's a real threat for the NBA title. If they even make it out of the east
November 10, 20187 yr Just now, immortal13 said: If they even make it out of the east impeccable logic my man!
November 10, 20187 yr Lol at thinking anyone but a healthy Raptors team comes out of the east. They are the only challenge to GS simply because Kawhi > Durant.
November 10, 20187 yr 6 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said: Which Shag member is this? Looks like a skinny Derka
November 10, 20187 yr 15 hours ago, Kermit said: The worst will be SA’s cammo. It’s the same ugly bullshit every year. Those did stand out in a bad way, even amongst a whole lot of meh creations. Whose idea was black camo in 2018?? Are the Spurs no longer allowed to use any color whatsoever?
November 10, 20187 yr Sixers giving up a draft pick, Saric and Covington. They panicked after a rough start. They could have probably landed Kawhi with a similar offer. Maybe a little more.
November 10, 20187 yr 6ers are dumb that would have easily landed Kawhi Edited November 10, 20187 yr by Michael Knight
November 10, 20187 yr 2 minutes ago, immortal13 said: I think it's a good move for the 6ers It is..... if they go out and get another shooter by the deadline. Jimmy's a really good player but not a great distance shooter. Saric and Covington are probably their 3/4th best in the rotation. They could have had Kawhi and instead pissed it away. Kawhi makes them the East favorite. Butler gets them back up in the top tier but still probably behind Boston and Toronto.... the distance closed though. I think they can re-sign Butler too. They need to move Fultz.
November 10, 20187 yr 20 hours ago, Vic Mackey said: Westbrook for coach? "So all you gotta do is, blast into the paint, elevate, and destroy the rim. Easy"
November 10, 20187 yr 12 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said: Sixers giving up a draft pick, Saric and Covington. They panicked after a rough start. They could have probably landed Kawhi with a similar offer. Maybe a little more. Yep, that one may haunt them for years, especially if Kawhi stays in the East. Jimmy ain't Kawhi. Not even close. And are we even sure that Butler will allow Embiid to grow into his role as leader of the team? Or, will he walk in like he owns the place as the vet in the room? We know what he wants most of all is that next huge contract; barring a serious run at the Finals with him fitting in perfectly, would you give it to him if you were Philly?
November 10, 20187 yr 54 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said: It is..... if they go out and get another shooter by the deadline. Jimmy's a really good player but not a great distance shooter. Saric and Covington are probably their 3/4th best in the rotation. They could have had Kawhi and instead pissed it away. Kawhi makes them the East favorite. Butler gets them back up in the top tier but still probably behind Boston and Toronto.... the distance closed though. I think they can re-sign Butler too. They need to move Fultz. Butler is shooting 37% from 3 this season
November 10, 20187 yr 6 minutes ago, immortal13 said: Butler is shooting 37% from 3 this season SSS. It’s 3.5% better than career. He shot 35% last year. Not bad but not good either. They need another shooter...
November 10, 20187 yr He is better than what they have. Agree they need to dump Fultz Edited November 10, 20187 yr by immortal13
November 10, 20187 yr That's a lot to give up for Butler. But finally the saga with him and TWolves are done. Are you sad @MNLonghornFUKM ??
November 10, 20187 yr Author i think it's a great move for the 6ers (not having to give up a 1st is very nice for them) and a good move for the wolves (covington and saric will both play for them and are both locked in for the next couple of years). top of the east just got even more intriguing.
November 10, 20187 yr fuck yeah! jimmy butler come on down! really bummed about losing saric and covington, but this move had to be made. no doubt in my mind philly will add a shooter or two before this is all said and done, and with the way they've been letting Fultz and Simmons play separately (and Fultz honestly has shown some real flashes of what he's able to do in that time) it seems to me like they are trying to pump up Fultz's value to make another move.
November 10, 20187 yr I like the trade for Minnesota and hate it for the 6ers. Gave up too much for a guy that honestly seems in decline already, at least on the defensive end.
November 10, 20187 yr losing Covington and Saric sucks, but Jimmy Butler is a legit top 15 talent/player in the NBA and is the all-around offensive player that this team desperately needed. you can't hate a trade that gets a potential Eastern Conference contender the exact piece they were missing. Adding another shooter and possibly another perimeter defender to make up for the losses of Saric and Covington will be much easier than moving forward without any sort of offensive threat from the perimeter. I've said this a million times over the years- this is basketball; the team with the best players wins, period. It's not baseball, or hockey, or even football where a team can be just over .500 and then get hot at the right time and go win a title; you have to have a cadre of premier players to have *any* chance, especially in the playoffs where depth becomes less of an issue as your best players all start playing 35+ minutes a game. The Sixers now have their own legit Big Three and are now much more serious contenders in the East. Also, it's funny to me how many fans are just giant haters and they don't even realize it. Just sitting around on their computers shitting on teams no matter what they do. The Sixers don't have a GM in the summer, they don't get Kawhi, and you shit on them for that. They go and get Jimmy Butler in-season and everyone shits on that too. Had the Sixers done nothing and made no move to address their deficiencies then you would have shitted on them for that. Make up your fucking minds American sports fans. You shit on teams/players who don't make moves and never win titles, and then you shit on teams/players who do make moves in an effort to win a title. Everybody just loves to hate at the end of the day. The Sixers made their move. Whether it works or not they are actually trying. And I'm willing to bet that Philly is much more of a threat now than they were yesterday. Edited November 10, 20187 yr by Goo Punch
November 10, 20187 yr Oh, I think it's well worth the risk. Get the best guy available in your building, sell him on your culture, and hope for the best. Worked with Paul George; might work with Kawhi. If doesn't pan out, they're only really out Covington, and they'll have cap space. But, if they were willing to pull the trigger a couple weeks into the season, you can't help but ask why they didn't package that same deal--maybe with a 1st--for Kawhi, a legit superstar. Jimmy is fine as a consolation, especially since it didn't cost them that 1st. But the last two times that he's been inserted into a young locker room have gone spectacularly sideways. Philly has a better coach and culture than the Bulls and TWolves, so, again, worth the risk, but they had a real shot to do even better.
November 10, 20187 yr yeah i really think that Brett Brown is the perfect coach to handle Butler, and i think he's walking into a great scenario where he's going to enjoy going to work every day. The disfunction that used to define the franchise is still lingering, but nowhere near as prominent as it once was. The players like each other, there's no discord; the coaches are a bit younger and more forward thinking than some others around the league, and Brown learned from the best when he was in SA with Popovich, Kerr, et al. This move had to be made, and i'll bet money that Jimmy Butler isn't this locker room cancer that so many paint how out to be these days.
November 11, 20187 yr 7 hours ago, Michael Knight said: 6ers are dumb that would have easily landed Kawhi In fairness they didn't have a GM back then, and with Brett Brown running things he probably didn't have good perspective in terms of value.
November 11, 20187 yr 6 hours ago, Vic Mackey said: That's a lot to give up for Butler. But finally the saga with him and TWolves are done. Are you sad @MNLonghornFUKM ?? not really. Its a long lead up that led to this...Wiggins' max deal for starters. Id rather we just let him walk and keep Butler but Taylors a dumbfuck owner that basically signed Andrew to 30/yr on his own. KG is right when he said GT doesnt know shit about bball. I also think Butlers a fucking asshole and I hope he fails miserably getting his max deal after he turned down 4/100 last year. Glad its over. The team is built around KAT. Surrounding him with a couple of 3 pt shooters should only help, KAT and Anthony Tolliver have done real well together compared to KAT and Taj Gibson. Jimmys a space issue too. His 3 pt % is nice...but we know hes no natural shooter. I wont miss his hero ISO ball in the 4th qtr. If him and Embiid start to butt heads at all, it will be entertaining as all hell. in short...it sucks it came to this, Im "happy" with the package, its better than 4 houston 1sts and that Richardson guy from Miami...we'll see how it goes going forward. May as well snag another young player this draft because we know nobodys beating GS
November 11, 20187 yr 6 hours ago, immortal13 said: He is better than what they have. Agree they need to dump Fultz Basketball Buds or Nerder she wrote discussed Fultz and Simmons numbers playing with each other and when one of them aren't on the floor. Their numbers are significantly worse when they're on the floor together.
November 11, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, Goo Punch said: yeah i really think that Brett Brown is the perfect coach to handle Butler, and i think he's walking into a great scenario where he's going to enjoy going to work every day. The disfunction that used to define the franchise is still lingering, but nowhere near as prominent as it once was. The players like each other, there's no discord; the coaches are a bit younger and more forward thinking than some others around the league, and Brown learned from the best when he was in SA with Popovich, Kerr, et al. This move had to be made, and i'll bet money that Jimmy Butler isn't this locker room cancer that so many paint how out to be these days. yea good luck. Butler was Thibs' nookie blankie and he couldnt handle him round 2.
November 11, 20187 yr 26 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said: Basketball Buds or Nerder she wrote discussed Fultz and Simmons numbers playing with each other and when one of them aren't on the floor. Their numbers are significantly worse when they're on the floor together. yeah, brown has been using them separately and fultz has been showing flashes of what he's capable of. He's getting steals and blocks, dunking on people, driving and finishing at the rim- basically he's been a poor man's ben simmons when he isn't playing alongside ben simmons.
November 11, 20187 yr 19 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said: That move will have zero effect on how things shake out in the east.
November 11, 20187 yr He's right. It's still Boston and Toronto. Philly still isn't better than either. Hell they might not be better than Milwaukee.
November 11, 20187 yr 1 minute ago, Vic Mackey said: 18 minutes ago, Goo Punch said: He's right. It's still Boston and Toronto. Philly still isn't better than either. Hell they might not be better than Milwaukee. he's not right. there is no way that philly loses covington and saric and adds jimmy butler without it having an impact on the east.
November 11, 20187 yr Rockets probably can't blame Melo for this one. Harden with that sweet 25% shooting.
November 11, 20187 yr 11 hours ago, Pam Cummings said: Lol at thinking anyone but a healthy Raptors team comes out of the east. They are the only challenge to GS simply because Kawhi > Durant. Nope
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