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DorianGravy posted:Is there anyone the Heat can pick up to take them over the top? Alternately, what about the Nuggets? Both teams won my heart this year, and now that the Lakers got theirs, I wouldn't mind seeing a Nuggets/Heat finals next year. Heat are kind of in a spot where they need to decide if they're serious about chasing Giannis or want to make another run with this unit because it's gonna be hard to do both.
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DorianGravy posted:Is there anyone the Heat can pick up to take them over the top? Alternately, what about the Nuggets? Both teams won my heart this year, and now that the Lakers got theirs, I wouldn't mind seeing a Nuggets/Heat finals next year. The Nuggets just need MPJ to develop, and maybe a better SG. If MPJ could reliably catch the basketball and drive to the hoop, and play consistent team defense, the Nuggets go from a surprise team in the WCF to a contender. They were an average three point shooting team and a slightly below average defensive team, so that’s what needs to get better
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Oct 13, 2020 04:36
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Some interesting FA pieces that could sign for contenders for the MLE or whatever, maybe taking a discount: Millsap Gallinari Wes Matthews Davis Bertans Serge Ibaka Derrick Favors Jerami Grant The market really sucks so who knows what some of these guys will do. Some of them will have a hard time getting their true value.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:40
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Bertans is probably the best one other than FVV to be actually available and he is going to get an insane contract from someone.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:48
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Rick posted:Heat are kind of in a spot where they need to decide if they're serious about chasing Giannis or want to make another run with this unit because it's gonna be hard to do both. I mean the Heat are in a position where just regular player development should carry them a bit, and the league doesn't seem to be in a place where any of the teams are particularly beyond them. And upgrading on Crowder/Olynyk/Iguodala seems like something that shouldn't be too hard but could yield fairly substantial benefits.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:51
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MourningView posted:Bertans is probably the best one other than FVV to be actually available and he is get an insane contract from someone. Yeah, I kind of imagine FVV is just gonna get a deal from someone with cap space or he'll re-sign in Toronto as the heir apparent to Lowry.
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Oct 13, 2020 05:00
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DorianGravy posted:Is there anyone the Heat can pick up to take them over the top? Alternately, what about the Nuggets? Both teams won my heart this year, and now that the Lakers got theirs, I wouldn't mind seeing a Nuggets/Heat finals next year. The Nuggets really don't need to do much other than continue to develop Bol and MPJ. Hopefully they can re-resign Grant.
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jackofarcades posted:Some interesting FA pieces that could sign for contenders for the MLE or whatever, maybe taking a discount: It doesn't seem like any of these guys outside of maybe Matthews would sign for MLE money or maybe Millsap. Maybe I'm misreading this offseason. leftist heap fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 05:29
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I also think Denver could've pushed LA to 7 or even won if they had a healthy Will Barton
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Oct 13, 2020 05:30
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That Iggy extension is even more hilarious now because he was brought in to help on a deep run when inexplicably happened but he ended up being garbo and now you can't even say you're paying for Playoff Iggy anymore
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Oct 13, 2020 05:39
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I could see the Heat keeping their powder dry this season unless Milwaukee makes a huge trade and develops a superteam. No one else on the top tier of the Eastern Conference is poised to make a huge upgrade.
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Oct 13, 2020 05:45
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Dragic and Butter will be worse next year (Jimmy couldn't possibly be better), but you'd expect that to be offset by improvement from Bam and Herro. If Dragic really falls off a cliff due to age or injury issues then they would need to get a competent PG, but otherwise they are well set to run it back and still have max space in 2021 for Giannis/Kawhi.
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tanglewood1420 posted:Dragic and Butter will be worse next year (Jimmy couldn't possibly be better), but you'd expect that to be offset by improvement from Bam and Herro. If Dragic really falls off a cliff due to age or injury issues then they would need to get a competent PG, but otherwise they are well set to run it back and still have max space in 2021 for Giannis/Kawhi. The problem is that vets don't usually take short term deals and they would need Dragic to do that to have money in 2021, because that year Bam and Duncan Robinson come due too.
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Oct 13, 2020 06:00
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Gobert is the big fish this off-season that is mostly flying under the radar. He has one year left on his deal and is eligible for the super max due to his DPOY awards. But that is a ton of moolah to pay a guy who will be 29 when that extension starts and allegedly doesn't have the best relationship with your other franchise player. If Utah try to cheap out and don't offer a max extension this season what does Gobert do? And if he turns down their offers and decides to play out the year and become ab FA in 2021 then as Utah do you let it play out and probably lose him? Or try and move him now for value, breaking up a good team (but one that is maybe not good enough?). I can see teams making some tempting offers for Gobert if it becomes known he isn't signing an extension in Utah and is keeping his options open. Celtics would be a perfect landing spot. Rick posted:The problem is that vets don't usually take short term deals and they would need Dragic to do that to have money in 2021, because that year Bam and Duncan Robinson come due too. Miami are about $45m under the tax as it stands. They can offer Dragic and Crowder $16m/1yr deals each. With future cap uncertainty it's be really hard to turn that money down as an older player. Neither of them will sniff that one year value for the rest of their career. tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 06:13
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Gobert for Hayward who says no
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Metapod posted:Gobert for Hayward who says no Utah Utah says no
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leftist heap posted:It doesn't seem like any of these guys outside of maybe Matthews would sign for MLE money or maybe Millsap. Maybe I'm misreading this offseason. This is the 2020 cap space and I think teams wanna try to keep their options open for 2021: 1 ATL $44.3M 2 NYK $42.4M 3 DET $30.0M 4 MIA $21.9M 5 CHA $19.4M 6 PHX $18.9M
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Oct 13, 2020 06:50
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FVV on the suns could be nasty. Then again poo poo I forgot they had Cameron Payne.
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Too bad NY is gonna give him the max
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There is nothing I want more than for that dude from my hometown to get overpaid by a lovely organization. He made it out of Rockford, he deserves every bit of it.
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I'd like to get angry or happy about a Pacers coach soon if they could get on that.Dexo posted:FVV on the suns could be nasty. Someone is going to super overpay FVV. Probably on day 1 of Free Agency.
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tanglewood1420 posted:Gobert is the big fish this off-season that is mostly flying under the radar. I don't know I feel like every year we speculate this will be the year the vets take short term money and it just doesn't happen but I guess it works that way. If anyone is curious how we are coming by these numbers: http://www.shamsports.com/capulator?id=8384959285f8540be58d29999017222
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Athanatos posted:I'd like to get angry or happy about a Pacers coach soon if they could get on that. Rumors are Knicks are prepared to offer him 22-25m per
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If I'm miami I just spend that money on FVV and Grant. And if Giannis wants to come you can make room if need be. Unless the Knicks are really gonna pay him like THAT
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Rumors are Knicks are prepared to offer him 22-25m per Knicks give FVV a max and do a sign and trade for Oladipo for also a boat load of cash then make the shocked face when they don't get Giannis next year.
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Dexo posted:If I'm miami I just spend that money on FVV and Grant. Agreed. I would love for the Heat to sign Grant. I think he'd fit perfectly with what they do.
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Athanatos posted:Knicks give FVV a max and do a sign and trade for Oladipo for also a boat load of cash then make the shocked face when they don't get Giannis next year. Oladipo would be a bad trade but FVV just averaged 17 and 7 with 2 steals and he's not even in his prime yet, I don't think 22m per is outrageous money for a really good 2 way PG. Unless the cap shrinks, which it will. Knicks, baby!
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Is there a practical way to get Beal to Miami? My understanding that he contract with the Wizards was a backdoor sign and trade from the start.
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Well Washington holds all the cards now, they are gonna want a lot. The rumors last year when the Nuggets were trying to get him were they wanted Murray, MPJ and either Harris or Beasley plus picks for him.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:I also think Denver could've pushed LA to 7 or even won if they had a healthy Will Barton With actual home court advantage in Denver, guaranteed that series goes to 7. But I do think that it will take a lot to overcome some of the better teams in the league right now. I don't think Denver, Miami, Toronto, and Dallas can sit back. No one looked unbeatable and everyone had shortcomings on display. I don't think there can be an expectation that some of these younger players are going to make astronomical leaps in progress over a short off season in order to fill those shortcomings.
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Exactly, there’s no tine for huge improvements. Offseason is 3-4 months now and packed with thanksgiving and Christmas dinners
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drat all the hoopers actually gonna get to spend xmas with the family this year .... drat y'all what am i gonna watch on christmas day. poo poo.
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Is there a reason none of the lakers were wearing masks when arriving in LA? They just spent months, no doubt, being constantly told to wear one. No they don't? Management must be making GBS threads themselves
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the reality is a bunch of players in their off-time are going to go out and do the roni, and they're going to do the roni hard, baby. Devin Booker is probably a super spreader event waiting to happen. Adam Silver probably cares in a, we need to look good to the public, kind of way and will tell the players to wear masks or fake it a little better at least. beyond that, nobody's going to care unless it costs them money and that's really only going to happen if the start of next season is impacted. so I guess, the players should go out and get the roni asap so that they can be fully recovered by January! it's the best way
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leftist heap posted:It doesn't seem like any of these guys outside of maybe Matthews would sign for MLE money or maybe Millsap. Maybe I'm misreading this offseason. There really isn't a ton of cap space out there in normal circumstances, and I think teams are going to be a bit more cautious about committing long term money as well given the situation. Rick posted:The problem is that vets don't usually take short term deals and they would need Dragic to do that to have money in 2021, because that year Bam and Duncan Robinson come due too. And Jae probably also wants a longer term deal. I don't think he gets a monster offer from anyone but if I were Crowder I'd really prioritize total money over 1 year average.
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Metapod posted:Gobert for Hayward who says no If he hadn't gotten hurt I think Utah would probably think about this. I tried to make a hypothetical celtics trade when I got super bummed out during the first half of game seven and it's hard to make work because Hayward is the only guy they'd probably trade where the money works out. All I know is that if they trade him to the celtics they better get Grant back or I'm marching on whatever the Delta Center is called this week. MourningView fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Here's my gut feeling ranking for who to expect to make moves Most Likely to Blow It Up: Orlando - Expensive payroll, cheap owner and Isaac is out for the year San Antonio - Old team on the decline, no young guys with star potential, Pop has gotta be close to retiring Washington - Beal and Wall don't really work well together. Rui and Bryant are the only guys with upside on the roster Most Likely to Make A Big Move: Philly - Playing 3 centers isn't going to work for a Indy - Still juggling Turner and Sabonis, also have to decide what they want to do with Oladipo Brooklyn - Lots of players that like the ball in their hands and have to figure out Allen and Jordan Golden State - Most likely won't be as good as they expect to be, and Wiggins or Draymond probably have enough name recognition to get GSW some talent back Utah - Gobert is gonna get very expensive and there have been rumblings for a while Hashtag Banterzone fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Minnesota is going to do stuff, but just because they don't really have a regulation number of players. I know they want to do A Big Thing, but it might just be a bunch of small moves.
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Lockback posted:Minnesota is going to do stuff Big if true. I do think there may be more to the idea that the Lakers will be able to get a pretty good quality of veteran given the cap situation and also just how weird it is going to be. I think bad teams are actually going to be more apprehensive about spending money given the uncertainty of the season. Hashtag Banterzone posted:Philly - Playing 3 centers isn't going to work for a D'Antoni team Simmons running the offense from the effective 5 surrounded by 4 shooters sounds like a D'antoni wet dream Paul Zuvella fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:
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