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Man, make someone else beat you.
I dont actually think the TWolves will be a walk for the Nuggets. Denver struggled much more with the Lakers than TWolves did with the Suns, and the Twolves have the best possible front line and wings to handle the two man game. I still expect Nuggets to win, but i bet itll take at least 6 to do it.
Such a luxury to not need to call timeout in that situation, so the Lakers have no plan about who/when to double in that pick and roll.
it's fine rob thompson gave them the game by putting in our 10 era reliever in a tie game. he got to 0-2 2 outs after putting runners on 2nd and 3rd no outs, and then threw a pitch the catcher called for a high fastball so wild that it bounced in front of the plate and two runs scored so they won anyway.
The Wolves are the biggest threat to Denver, yeah
And that’s without factoring in if Ant has a “World of Cardboard” moment
Postgame game 3:
It turns out reality is better than fiction here, because if you type in Galveston, Texas to google maps, you're immediately greeted with:
Not supposed to be season ending but we’ll see
For any team wishing to start a rebuild, OKC is pretty much your only partner with all those draft picks.
I didn't know Trout had knees
Longer -- AD is awesome, and can fit in with just about any team. It probably wouldn't be like a 4+ year stay, so it seems like we could figure out a way to fit his contract in now while so many of our young guys are still on rookie deals.
But I think the Lakers would want a player for him, and I don't think we will or should do that. They would do it for very high value draft picks, but we don't have a bunch of top tier "will probably/almost certainly be in the lottery" picks. Fair to project OKC's own picks won't be in the lottery, and the rest are pretty low % chances of being a top tier lottery pick. A lot of top 5 protections, some top 10 protections, and/or from teams that right now just don't look like they'll be in a position to turn into a top 5ish pick either. There's a chance! But long shots. Clippers seem very tentative year to year and I could see a mass exodus, but I don't see Ballmer hard tanking with the fancy new arena coming online.
That leaves SGA, Jalen Williams, or Chet to get him, and I don't see it happening, SGA is obvious. Jalen Williams is still way too unknown to a lot of people, but is absolutely ridiculous for a 2nd year player and is almost certainly a future all star. Chet is basically our entire (very effective) rim protection when he's on the floor, he fits the team really well because of that, Presti loves him, and the upside is pretty silly. Lu Dort has somehow gone from a defensive specialist/terrible shooter (in)famous for being left completely open from 3 in our bubble playoff series against the Rockets to shooting 40% from 3 on volume, and may be the best 3 and D guy in the league right now. He's on a super team friendly deal and I don't see him going either.
So that leaves Giddey, our picks, and a few high quality bench players on incredibly team friendly deals. I don't really see LA going for that without demanding so many picks that we say no, as the team friendly deals of Isiah Joe (thanks Philly) and Cason Wallace don't really help a tanking team despite helping us a lot.
My expectation is that the picks are going to be used to trade for high quality role players more than one big headline superstar. Eventually we have to worry about paying a lot of guys, and the picks + trading them around to get other players are what we need to build a roster around the big money deals. We do have cap space in the short term, but yeah not seeing how we get AD here despite it being a good fit.
Siri 452
Juan Soto 447
Pérez can donger both sides of plate
Embiid 6/18 with a staggering 9 turnovers. Not gonna cut it in an elimination game.
This series going 7
But the A’s have been a little better than expected so far this year.
::Phoenix dangling Durant in a 3-way for OKCs picks enters the chat::
Like teats on a bull
the world is cruel sometimes lol
If that's not a thing then Bronny made a terrible decision in declaring for the draft. I mean, it was a terrible decision regardless, but it's an even more terrible decision without that motivation.
I think Bronny has 0 chance of "legitimately" being drafted, but he can still go back to college either way.
The Pelicans can take their 1st this year (though they will likely take next year’s and leave the Lakers with their own pick at 17)
The Lakers also have their 2nd
Bronny is around a 13th round talent
Agreeing up front to draft Bronny when you desperately need low-salary young guys is stupid
Do you have the balls to tell Lebron that you won’t draft him but will consider signing him as an UDFA? That risks Lebron dangling his free agency to someone else
Agreeing to it then allows other teams to fuck with you by saying they’ll draft Bronny before you can- very likely nobody would but that’s potentially a butt-puckering risk
That’s just with the picks- having a father and son on the same roster, with conditions/expectations, is 1) an HR nightmare 2) an inevitable drama-fest that will tear the team apart and 3) absolutely fucking horrible for Bronny, this whole thing has to be murdering his soul and self-esteem
Bronny has an agent without having to sign with an agent, ha, yeah