re: NBA Offseason officially kicks off, Ingram’s days in NOLA coming to an end per Stein

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Name me one other top 60 player who can be completely taken out of a series to the point he's unplayable by Lou fricking Dort.

BI is so fricking soft it hurts.

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Emotional thinking: confirmed.

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Houston would trade Sengun AND Green, Whitmore, JSJ and #3 for a 36 year old Durant to play w D Brooks, Vanfleet, and Amen Thompson

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Yeah, the Suns would have done that already. lol

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I’m starting to warm up to the idea of Trae and Zion in the pick n roll

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I’m not sure if Trae can be that person to unlock Zion as a roll man, but stats show that he isn’t very good at that. He has been almost exclusively the PnR Ball Handler, and he seems to be lost as a screen setter.

Now this could be because we haven’t had a decent table setter since Lonzo/Jrue, but he isn’t comfortable in that role. Almost all of his offensive usage has been in ISO, ISO Post-Ups, or PnR Ball Handler.

He obviously struggled to adapt to playing off-ball in Borego’s offense, but maybe that’s because he didn’t have the right player there to unlock him.

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I’m not sure we want him to change his game that much, or if he even can change it that much. If that’s the case…then Trae is certainly not the player to necessarily play off of him, because he doesn’t move off-ball well.

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Don’t discount what teams wanting superstars will give up, especially when Houston would still keep those Suns picks

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Part of the realistic discussions, per the Starting Lineup on XM this morning, is Houston giving those Suns picks back. I'm not sure who Hou is willing to send out, though.

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It’s moot now though, Detroit is renouncing his rights so they won’t be able to S&T him, so I would pivot to the CJ/Nance for Cam and Clax deal, still do the Trae deal. Send all those picks i don’t give a shite

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I just don't see Griff blowing up a 49 win team in one offseason. I know we are all disappointed that the 49 win team did not progress in the playoffs, but hard to see Griff just blowing it up completely by trading CJ and Bi and replacing JV while dumping a lot of future picks in one offseason. I could be wrong, but do not see it.

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Yesterday everyone was saying there’s no way in hell Brooklyn would get 6 picks for Bridges, yet here we are.

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1 package is (6) picks for a guy in his prime, that went to College with half of the other team, arriving in a major big market, costing the team 0 player assets.

The other package is valued at (10-15)1st rd picks for a 36y/o who isn't going to win a championship on his own (Couldn't even do it in his prime) while losing all of the assets they've acquired the previous 5 years.

You wild

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Name me one other top 60 player who can be completely taken out of a series to the point he's unplayable by Lou fricking Dort.

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Can I hyperextend their knee a few weeks before the series?

We've made the playoffs twice in the last 3 years, and the play-in once.
BI has played in all of those game.
Zion has played in ZERO.

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They blowing it up because what happened was what most knowledgeable basketball people predicted, a backcourt of Trae and Murray wouldn’t work.

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Because Trae refused to buy in, both to this more efficient/better role AND Snyder's offense/scheme.

Had he done both, ATL would have done a lot better in terms of W/L

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That's a no for me dawg

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Agreed. With 49 wins we were still the 8 seed with the west getting better. Look at the Kings last year- stayed the same and fell out of the playoffs.

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Agreed. With 49 wins we were still the 8 seed with the west getting better. Look at the Kings last year- stayed the same and fell out of the playoffs.

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Yeah, realistically nothing we do will matter because we just arent good enough. Trae Young or not we're still a play in team

Now would be probably the perfect time to trade zion after he just played 70 games.