re: William Simmons Says the Pellies have the 3rd worst Bleakest Outlook in the West

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It's obvious he doesn't respect Benson, Dumars or Weaver

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Nobody here does either, many are too afraid to admit. Simmons is spot on and the franchise should move to Vegas or Seattle.

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Nobody here does either, many are too afraid to admit. Simmons is spot on

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This is a legitimate argument

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the franchise should move to Vegas or Seattle.

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This is being a douche

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There's almost no shooting outside Trey and Poole.

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People keep forgetting about Saddiq Bey. That's probably because he missed last season with the ACL injury, but for his career, he's a 35% 3pt shooter on 6.3 attempts per game. He's going to be in the rotation and he's going to get up a lot of 3pt shots.

I love all of the super negative media takes and our sorry arse fans who support it. It’s kinda ignorant though! Im betting on them to “overachieve” as folks are gonna call it. Easy money

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super negative media takes and our sorry arse fans who support it. It’s kinda ignorant though! Im betting on them to “overachieve” as folks are gonna call it. Easy money

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According to The Ringer, we have four of the NBA's top 100 players: Zion, Herb, Trey, and Poole. Our fifth starter, Yves Missi, has a good chance to grow and improve in his sophomore season. Our bench is now solid: Jose, Fears, Queen, Bey, and Looney.

It's just about whether people believe that we'll be healthy. People are predicting for us to be bad because we haven't been healthy. Betting on Zion to play 60 games feels like a sucker's bet. But if our core of Zion, Herb, Trey, and Poole each plays 60 games, then we should absolutely be a playoff team. We have 100% of the necessary talent; it's just a question of whether that talent will actually be on the court or not.

Not Pels related but I enjoyed he and Rusillo clowning LeBron at the end. Ole bitch arse.

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Close?

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This is the thing, the offseason isn't over. There are still moves to be done. Even then, we aren't tanking. We are going to try and win. All of the teams that finished bottom 10 were tanking.

The biggest factor, that can't be accounted for is injuries. There are a handful of teams that are going to get injuries and then shut it down. Take Houston for example. They only have 3 guards in their top 13 players. If/when Van Vleet goes down, they are screwed. Durant is almost 40 and will miss significant time too. If can go to shite really quick for them. You can do this for a ton of teams. So many are top heavy, with limited depth..

How good we are all boils down to Zion.

I'll preface this with admitting that I'm legally retarded, but I really do think that Zion turned a corner last season when he came back from a lengthy injury in the best shape he's been since his 2nd season. I also believe that, when he's engaged and in shape, he's got the talent to drag an otherwise subpar team into the playoffs.

Once he came back in shape last season, the team was still a mess with injuries, and at that point was pretty much guaranteed to miss the playoffs. He still managed to put up ~25/5/6 + 2 stocks per game in 28mp after his midseason return, despite having absolutely no reason to give a shite.

IMO (as long as the injuries to the rest of the team aren't laughably bad again), I really think that Zion is going to play 65+ games and have the best overall season of his career, which will get the Pels into a top 6 seed. If he starts the season out of shape again, or (probably even worse) starts the season in great shape but suffers another major injury, then not much else matters, as he will become another massive albatross contract on our books with Murray.

Despite my confidence in Zion, I was not a fan of trading next year's Pels/Bucks pick. That was our only hope for the future if/when things go to absolute shite this season.

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Geauxldilocks

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Must be tough to go through life as such a little bitch.