|
dokmo posted:The best contact in the league is probably Wiggins. It's understood that none of those players are going anywhere without their consent. Unless I knew something about Towns that I don't currently know, I'd agree. But I don't, so I do. I got less worries about Wiggins' shooting than other folks, his movement is super smooth. (seems less of a "if he learns to shoot" than "when he gets used to shooting in the NBA" to me)
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 20:32 |
|
Lockback posted:His mid-range game even opens up the floor. Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jun 17, 2015 |
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:40
|
|
|
Unless you're the Clips or Nets, salary dumps don't have the same appeal they once did. GMs search for expiring contracts because, well, they want them to expire. Lowe repeatedly had to point this out to Simmons one year when Simmons was wondering why the trade deadline was so boring and GMs were continually spinning deals like it was 2008
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:40
|
|
|
WhyteRyce posted:Unless you're the Clips or Nets, salary dumps don't have the same appeal they once did. GMs search for expiring contracts because, well, they want them to expire. Lowe repeatedly had to point this out to Simmons one year when Simmons was wondering why the trade deadline was so boring and GMs were continually spinning deals like it was 2008 Reducing contract lengths by a year is making a big difference, too.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:44
|
|
|
Who is the likely coach next year for the cavs?
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:57
|
|
|
Prior to the knee thing (which he seems to have recovered from) Westbrook played 82 games like literally every year. He is a cyborg.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:57
|
|
|
Dr. Pancakes posted:Who is the likely coach next year for the cavs? Thibs! (it's Blatt)
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:58
|
|
|
Dr. Pancakes posted:Who is the likely coach next year for the cavs? What? Do you really think they will replace Blatt? I don't think there's a chance in hell he gets fired unless they start the season like 0-11 or something.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 22:59
|
|
|
MourningView posted:David Lee is a good post scorer/rebounder with a solid midrange jumper who is ungodly bad defensively. He has some value as long as you can work around his limitations, but he's wildly overpaid at the moment. He's still a solid player who can make good decisions when driving to the hoop or finding the open man on the pick and roll. Unfortunately, his jumper has been pretty broken all year - which I think is part of the reason Kerr decided not to play him much at all.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 23:02
|
|
|
Darren Rovell just reported that collectively, the NBA Finals ended up with its best TV ratings since 1998. Average audience on ABC was 19.94 million.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 23:02
|
|
|
Terry Glenn posted:Rose had his meniscus removed at the end of this season. BAM! That's who it was. On a completely different note, I hope that Lowe article makes it so Mark Jackson never gets a coaching job again. Even if it means I have to mute my TV, he doesn't deserve the honor of holding the title of coach.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 23:09
|
|
|
Libertine posted:What? Do you really think they will replace Blatt? I don't think there's a chance in hell he gets fired unless they start the season like 0-11 or something. People buy into dumb media narratives really easily. Remember Eric Spolestra was on the "hot seat" every year with Lebron.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 23:09
|
|
|
PantsFreeZone posted:BAM! That's who it was. What article
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 23:11
|
|
|
Metapod posted:What article From the OP: — Mark Jackson, human poo poo: quote:Kerr overhauled a team culture that had grown poisonous, for well-documented reasons, under Jackson and his assistants. In his zeal to motivate players, Jackson fostered resentment among them and toward the front office. He fired two assistants, requested Jerry West stay away from practices, and asked a younger front-office official to stop rebounding for players, sources have said.
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 23:12
|
|
|
hitze posted:just like the hawks You still upset about Paul Pierce getting trolled twice in one series
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2015 23:27
|
|
|
CharlestheHammer posted:People buy into dumb media narratives really easily. And the "Will Pat Riley take over as coach?" storyline that followed. Blatt's not getting fired this quickly. His team overperformed, considering the injuries and the fact that most people pegged the Warriors as the favorites anyway. If anything, he was getting praised for his team's defense.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 00:13
|
|
|
PantsFreeZone posted:On a completely different note, I hope that Lowe article makes it so Mark Jackson never gets a coaching job again. Even if it means I have to mute my TV, he doesn't deserve the honor of holding the title of coach. Yeah, I'll take a lifetime of listening to him say wrong things on ESPN over one more season of him coaching anyone. Also, have a Jamal Crawford documentary short because I only just found it and he is a lovely man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haPEG-CAKsM e: vvv I still think another planet is a good call IrvingWashington fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Jun 18, 2015 |
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 00:51
|
|
|
IrvingWashington posted:Yeah, I'll take a lifetime of listening to him say wrong things on ESPN over one more season of him coaching anyone. I am in favor of Mark Jackson taking a coaching job on another continent.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:04
|
|
|
Yo why are Heat fans so butthurt LeBron left
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:16
|
|
|
HOTLANTA MAN posted:Yo why are Heat fans so butthurt LeBron left Oh look I somehow wandered into the comment section on Bleacher Report.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:25
|
|
|
I thought Blatt did a great job in the playoffs. He outcoached Thibs, outcoached Budenholzer, and went toe-to-toe with Kerr in the Finals. After the injuries he completely changed their identity and it worked until Kerr made some adjustments. The biggest knock was that it took him like half a season to adjust to the NBA. And he had a few people in the media who were trying to bury him. But from an on-court perspective, they had no business taking the Warriors to 6 games and probably no business even making the Finals.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:25
|
|
|
It also appears the Bulls have hired Pete Myers as an assistant. Myers was unemployed this past season and was part of Mark Jackson's disastrous staff that played mind games with players and couldn't get along with each other (Myers famously is the guy who couldn't get along with Scalabrine which led to Scalabrine's demotion). As Reinsdorf said, they care a lot about their "culture". On the other hand, Ron Adams who was not good enough for Chicago won a championship last night and was credited for much of the defensive schemes the Warriors implemented this season.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:33
|
|
|
R.D. Mangles posted:I am in favor of Mark Jackson taking a coaching job on another continent. Mark Jackson coaching a little league team would be pretty funny, I mean unless your child was on the team and you had to deal with the emotional scarring
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:43
|
|
|
chunkles posted:Mark Jackson coaching a little league team would be pretty funny, I mean unless your child was on the team and you had to deal with the emotional scarring The Great Ones find a way to play without gatorade and orange slices.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:45
|
|
|
Mama, there goes that man being all passive aggressive on the third baseman
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:46
|
|
|
Grozz Nuy posted:Excuse me, but I think you'll find that David Lee proved his defensive prowess by shutting down Marc Gasol in the postseason. Please revise your statements accordingly. Lee actually isn't horrible if you only ask him to defend someone one on one (as long as it's a big that's not super fast) . It's everything else that he's terrible at. It's not even like he sells out for rebounds like everyone says Love does (though he does do that at times) - he's just doesn't have any defensive awareness at all. He's not a consistent jump shooter anymore - he'd have played more often this season if he could still hit it. Still a good passer and finish her and is a great roll big. He tends to set crappy screens (because he always wants to slip and roll) - though in game 3 he actually went hunting for Delly and was screening him hard. He'd probably work in the Spurs offense but I don't think they'd play him because of his defensive weaknesses.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:52
|
|
|
Niwrad posted:I thought Blatt did a great job in the playoffs. He outcoached Thibs, outcoached Budenholzer, and went toe-to-toe with Kerr in the Finals. After the injuries he completely changed their identity and it worked until Kerr made some adjustments. Counterpoint: Mozgov is a good center, especially for the modern NBA, TT is a great pick and roll defensive big (I think only prime noah could have chased curry around as effectively) and Lebron is really, really, really good.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:56
|
|
|
Niwrad posted:It also appears the Bulls have hired Pete Myers as an assistant. Myers was unemployed this past season and was part of Mark Jackson's disastrous staff that played mind games with players and couldn't get along with each other (Myers famously is the guy who couldn't get along with Scalabrine which led to Scalabrine's demotion). As Reinsdorf said, they care a lot about their "culture". Man. I actually like Hoiberg and hope he's successful. But It would be so satisfying to see GarPax fail and maybe finally have to deal with the consequences of a mistake/failure.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 01:57
|
|
|
Paxson will never be fired. He buffers himself from all criticism besides making all the moves. If anything they'll make Forman the patsy if things go south. Or just stick to the path of blaming the coach and having the local media that's in their pocket tear him apart. Myers is their "inside guy" that the Bulls have on every coaching staff they put in place. They never let their coach have full control.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:03
|
|
|
Niwrad posted:Paxson will never be fired. He buffers himself from all criticism besides making all the moves. If anything they'll make Forman the patsy if things go south. Or just stick to the path of blaming the coach and having the local media that's in their pocket tear him apart. It wouldn't shock me to see GarPax fired if Hoiberg flops. Remember, GarPax didn't want Thibs as coach (they wanted Doug Collins or Mike Brown, lmao). Thibs was Reinsdorf's guy. Then again, Reinsdorf let Jerry Krause run the team into the ground over and over again for a decade and didn't give a poo poo
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:12
|
|
|
Emanuel Collective posted:It wouldn't shock me to see GarPax fired if Hoiberg flops. Remember, GarPax didn't want Thibs as coach (they wanted Doug Collins or Mike Brown, lmao). Thibs was Reinsdorf's guy. Gar's hosed. Paxson literally attacked a co-worker/subordinate and his rear end still has a job.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:19
|
|
|
I miss it all already. At least I have summer league to look forward to!
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:31
|
|
|
Dexo posted:Gar's hosed. Paxson literally attacked a co-worker/subordinate and his rear end still has a job. The only way Paxson gets fired is if he did something to hurt the White Sox. Remember that Krause didn't get fired, he resigned and was eventually given a cushy job with the White Sox. As long as you are loyal to Reinsdorf, you'll have a job for life, competence be damned. Shocked that Jimmy Butler can't wait to find his way out of this dumpster fire as quick as possible.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:43
|
|
|
If lebron wants Blatt gone Blatt is gone though. From listening to Lebrons reporter all year it sounded to me Lebron was not high on him.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:48
|
|
|
Niwrad posted:Shocked that Jimmy Butler can't wait to find his way out of this dumpster fire as quick as possible. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:49
|
|
|
euphronius posted:If lebron wants Blatt gone Blatt is gone though. They have done this every year for like 5 years.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:52
|
|
|
Would a player still be a restricted free agent if that player retired as a one then came back after a year?
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:52
|
|
|
Fire Blatt! Thibodeau to the Cavs! Kill whatever chance LeBron had of retiring with functioning limbs!
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:56
|
|
|
Aren't the Cavs still on the hook for a ton of money for Mike Brown? If they were to fire Blatt they'd be paying out almost $10 million a year to guys not to coach their team.
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 02:59
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 20:32 |
|
|
Niwrad posted:Aren't the Cavs still on the hook for a ton of money for Mike Brown? If they were to fire Blatt they'd be paying out almost $10 million a year to guys not to coach their team. Considering they're looking at $150-200m next year in salaries, what's another drop in the bucket?
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2015 03:00
|
|