re: Random Playoff Observations Thread

I thought CP3 was a free agent ? Do they have an option on him ? Pardon my ignorance

I wouldn’t use 1 1st. An asset is t just how good a player is it’s how good are they for the money. Imo he is overpayed. He is getting over 30m per and never made an all star game and never will. He is also nearly 30 so he isn’t on our timeline. Unless we gave them Bledsoe I’m not giving a positive asset to get him

I think this board is so focused on the home run moves, or landing the big names. I think we'd see full-blown meltdown if we had an offseason like the Hawks last year.

Gallinari - 3/$61M
Rondo - 2/$15M
Bogdanovich - 4/$72M
Solomon Hill- 1/$2M


One could say their trade of Capela is similar to ours for Adams.

And here they are 1 up in the EC semis

after watching Bogdanvich in the bubble against us, i didn't think much of him b/c of how terrible he was on defense, despite him having a great offensive game. Lonzo was actually driving by him for layups, which is somethign we never see.

He looks awesome in Atlanta. He oozes confidence. I thought that contract was going to be a killer to Atlanta, but it's without a doubt working out.

Speaking of high IQ players, I know this board loves to laugh at Kendrick Perkins. You have to watch this clip from The Jump starting at the 3:45 mark. After Richard Jefferson and Zach Lowe get finished talking about how the nice words from Carlisle on Porzingis were really a back handed compliment and he's not good enough to be the #2 player, Perk steps in with a different take and the facial expressions of bewilderment while Perk goes off are hilarious.

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Also, I know Porzingis' name has started to be included in the list of trade targets because you could get him cheap. Zach and RJ's take that he'd work better for Dallas if he could play center but they can't do that because he's too fragile is exactly why he wouldn't work here.

Do not want Porzingas. We don't need negative value max contracts than then can potentially take us out of the running for an actual legit max level guy.

I mean, if Dallas offered Porzingis straight-up in exchange for Bledsoe and Adams, I guess I'd think about it. Our bad contracts for your bad contract? Maybe.

I guess the only reason why you wouldn’t do that is if you couldnt use their contracts to aggregate salary for someone better. I would also throw in a first and a second or two in that deal. People have really begun to underrate Porzingis. I think people forget the night he dropped 40 on Adams head just a few months ago. If you watch Dallas, Luka controls the ball 99% of the game, so Porz’s offensive game has been really minimized and marginalized and that is why he hates it there.

Porz is a good player and if the only thing we did this offseason was trade Adams, Bled, 10, and a second to Dallas for Porz and a future first, as well as run it back with Zo and Hart, I think our team would be tremendously improved. Getting rid of Bled and Adams are additions by subtraction and Porz is a guy who can drop 30 any given night, space the floor and protect the rim (Just 1-2 years ago I remember several 5 plus block Porz games. Sure his defense isn’t great, but he’s better than Adams at this point, especially when Porz gets further removed from his meniscus surgery.

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If you watch Dallas, Luka controls the ball 99% of the game, so Porz’s offensive game has been really minimized and marginalized and that is why he hates it there

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Well, that's what we should do with Zion, so not sure how it would be beneficial for him to be in New Orleans.