OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: OCTOBER 2023

It made no sense to me at the time why Neil would draft a 6'3 combo guard THE YEAR AFTER DAME.

 

Made no sense to me too.

I really liked Steven Adams after his showing at the combine. He was built like a stone house and barely broke a sweat while the other centers were all bent over catching their breathe.
Lopez seemed like the weak link in the lineup at the time and maybe drafting Adams would have been seen positively by Aldridge compared to drafting another small shooter.

Giannis would have been a nice gamble. I think anyone (I guess not Olshey , though) could have been swayed by the description of a Scottie-Pippen type player as a good fit for Dame. I think that's exactly what everyone was hoping for. Except Neil.

 

Thunder are getting smoked at home by the Nuggets, down by 23 with 2:55 left in the 3rd quarter.
Shooting 41% overall and 18% on 3-pointers.

edit: one comment by the TV crew is that the Nuggets players know who they're supposed to be.

That seems to be a basic problem for Billups.

 

When Dame scored 50+ for us, our record was 12-5

 

The Blazers were dabbling with small ball before Olshey. Drafting wimpy Victor Claver over Taj Gibson? How about Portland barely using Channing Frye, then he gets to Phoenix and immediately becomes a spark plug role player?

Injuries to Centers had Aldridge playing the 5 often. Olshey takes over and commits to more small ball. Leaving LaMarcus on an island to absorb full force drives, because the 2 young scoring guards don't play a lick of defense. After the team's toughest player Wesley Matthews went out with achilles surgery, the L-Train hopped on the tracks to San Antonio.

 

Channing Frye was a clear case of coaching ineptitude by Nate McMillan trying to put a square peg into a round hole, a hallmark of his coaching.

Frye was forced by McMillan to post up to begin a game which wasn't a good look for Frye. Then he went to Phoenix and somebody figured out he was a good 3-point shooter.

 

Wow, OKC the young pretender just got slapped back into their place by the champs

 

Anybody who claims they were arguing to draft an unknown player from the Greek SECOND DIVISION (quick, name his Greek team - you can't, can you?) with an unpronounceable name with the tenth pick in the draft is LYING.

Now, does that mean that we can't blame our FO for not doing it? No, of course we can! They spend boatloads of $$$ on scouting for exactly this eventuality.

 

I wanted us to trade down for two picks and take Schroder and Gorgui Dieng. (Has he finally dropped out of the league?)

 

I honestly don't remember who I wanted, but I thought drafting a short scoring guard made zero sense to me.

 

Jalen Duren

That’s all

 

If you're feeling bad about our team, hey, the Rockets have the same record and:

 

Sacramento is fun to watch and their crowd is amazing

 

Scoot wasn't the only top 3 pick who had a breakout game:

 

I knew we should of drafted Miller with the 3rd pick!

 

Looks like Joe has had some major financial problems.