NBA season 2018/19
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@barbarian To think this was considered a sure thing during the season:
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Days like today make being a Wallabies fan seem a lot easier.
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@Sneakdefreak said in NBA season 2018/19:
The Knicks appear to have be usurped in New York by the Brooklyn Nets following this Woj bomb:
Former Tall Black now Brooklyn Nets GM Sean Marks is on fire - he's signed Irving, KD and Deandre Jordan before NBA free agency has even started.
Impressive job by Marks, who took over a franchise in disarray and weighed down by ugly contracts and no draft picks. The Nets become a major power in the East for the first time since JKidd. If reports are to be believed, and Kawhai is mulling over a move to the Lakers, I wonder if this power shift pushes him away from Toronto and to the Lakers to form their own mega team. Once KD is playing the Nets will be as good as any one out East
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Two more big moves - Jimmy Butler traded to Miami (Sixers get Josh Richardson), and Al Horford signs with the Sixers.
Philly now will have a starting five of Simmons-Richardson-Harris-Horford-Embiid.
I liked what Butler brought to that team, he's an alpha dog who stepped up when it mattered. A lot will depend on Simmons improving, IMO. If he does that could be a finals team.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Days like today make being a Wallabies fan seem a lot easier.
Have a couple of days of fun, but once they name that first Wallabies squad the bad will come flooding back 😀
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Two more big moves - Jimmy Butler traded to Miami (Sixers get Josh Richardson), and Al Horford signs with the Sixers.
Philly now will have a starting five of Simmons-Richardson-Harris-Horford-Embiid.
I liked what Butler brought to that team, he's an alpha dog who stepped up when it mattered. A lot will depend on Simmons improving, IMO. If he does that could be a finals team.
Butler is poison. I read a bizarre article last night that Butler was so smitten by the way the Heat sent D Wade out that he wanted to go there. Go from a team that is close to EC finals to a non-playoff team.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
Butler is poison. I read a bizarre article last night that Butler was so smitten by the way the Heat sent D Wade out that he wanted to go there. Go from a team that is close to EC finals to a non-playoff team.
The Heat are a proven franchise though - Pat Riley and Spo know how to win.
Agree that personality was an issue with Butler, but unlike Kyrie he stepped up in the clutch. Without him I don't know where the Sixers get those late buckets - it's probably Embiid, but with his injury history that's hardly a comforting thing.
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@barbarian Butler went to custard in the Raptors series. Dribbling around for 14-18 seconds of the shot clock, going away from the post etc.
He’s a good player but I’m not a fan and it’s been a trail of destructive locker rooms that have followed him. A poor man’s Kawhi and PG.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
I'm already looking forward to watching that Pelicans team. You forgot Holiday in that lineup ACTC, who is also a gun. They pick up a veteran big man and all of a sudden that's a roster that can compete for a playoff spot.
Right on cue, it looks like they've signed Derrick Favors from the Jazz. Look out.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
@barbarian Butler went to custard in the Raptors series. Dribbling around for 14-18 seconds of the shot clock, going away from the post etc.
He’s a good player but I’m not a fan and it’s been a trail of destructive locker rooms that have followed him. A poor man’s Kawhi and PG.
Agree to disagree. He's no Kawhi, but he's IMO one of the 10 best players in the league.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
@barbarian Butler went to custard in the Raptors series. Dribbling around for 14-18 seconds of the shot clock, going away from the post etc.
He’s a good player but I’m not a fan and it’s been a trail of destructive locker rooms that have followed him. A poor man’s Kawhi and PG.
Agree to disagree. He's no Kawhi, but he's IMO one of the 10 best players in the league.
We will have to on this one because I have Kawhi, Giannis, LBJ, KD, AD, Harden, PG, Curry, Westbrook, Lillard, Kyrie - all above him.
He’d be in that ‘next crop’ for me with the likes of Embeid, Middleton, Chris Paul, Klay, Kemba, Derozan, Aldridge,
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
@barbarian Butler went to custard in the Raptors series. Dribbling around for 14-18 seconds of the shot clock, going away from the post etc.
He’s a good player but I’m not a fan and it’s been a trail of destructive locker rooms that have followed him. A poor man’s Kawhi and PG.
Agree to disagree. He's no Kawhi, but he's IMO one of the 10 best players in the league.
When Simmons and Embiid were faltering he took the big shots. He hated playing with Wiggins and CAT in Minny because of their supposed lack of professionalism. I wonder how he will get on with Hassan Whiteside....
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Another big move - De'Angelo Russell signs with the Warriors, who then trade Iguodala to Memphis.
And just like that the Warriors are major contenders again.
I don't know about that, although they will still be in the mix. So they traded away one of their important glue guys, brought in a one year all star who needs the ball...
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
De'Angelo Russell
D'Angelo Russell comes across as a guy who can be an all-star on a bad team, maybe get them to the play offs, but a problem on a team wanting to win a championship. Better off somewhere like Charlotte than Golden State.
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