NBA Playoffs Thread - Play-in and 1st round edition

he looks fat and he also appeared to be just clearing the rim with his dunks

 

Agree on Siakam and OG. I would take either but OG is not worth our pick. Nor is Butler IMO not when you have to include
Ant and others to match. I would however like to see Boston crash and burn so that Brown possibly becomes available.

 

Would you trade Simons and Sharpe for Siakam?

90% chance that lottery pick is going to be 1-7. Sharpe was the 7th pick.

 

Stay off twitter if you don't want to see CJ regret takes all over.

As for the franchise. I doubt the Pels are too upset about having CJ, even though they know they'll never win a title with him. I'm sure some of their fans are saying that if you can't win a title with him, you have to trade him and rebuild though.

 

That's what I heard as well.

I thought that they said they don't feel going younger is the path to being more competitive in the next couple years. That makes perfect sense to me. Of the 9 youngest teams in the league, only one got an automatic birth to the playoffs.

 

Sharpe goes nowhere. Comparing the 7th pick from one draft to another is apples and oranges. If they see a prospect they think can be as good as Sharpe then great, if they can’t then they need to get the best player to put next to Dame. Siakam would be a great get.

 

SAS carefully asked him “who his favorite players were.” Dame listed both Bridges and Embiid.

 

Bro, you have to start thinking BEFORE you pound your keyboard.

 

Their youth is all lottery picks though right?

 

CJ did just shoot the lowest % of anyone on his team as they lost to the puppy Thunder. All those vets lost at home to the young'ens. While the Thunder backcourt was pouring in 63 points, CJ was bricking away at a 33% clip while playing zero defense. CJ doesn't suck, but he also doesn't play winning basketball either.

 

Some people aren't good with nuance.

 

I'd only want to deal with them if Masai was gone too.

 

I know everyone's going to squeal because this stat sets off irrational hatred, but the fact remains that CJ was the highest +/- on the Pels at +10. Maybe he was "stinking it up" because they made a decision to focus on him defensively - just like the Lakers did on Anthony Edwards, allowing the Wolves to build a 15 point lead because everybody else was open.

Still, must be hard to be a Pelicans fan. In the first half of the season they were at the top of the West, the Lakers were at the bottom (and owing them an unprotected pick swap) and Zion looked like an MVP (as @THE HCP kept gleefully pointing out).
Then it all went to shit.

 

I probably would've 2 months ago.

Not now.

 

Because he's still way overweight and would probably have ruptured something?

 

I really don't understand Toronto. It seems like they have all the pieces they need. What is the deal with Trent? It seems what they really need is 3 pt shooting and yet He's not doing it, I have read somewhere he stopped playing defense and his 3 pt is not really that good for a specialist.. They apparently don't have enough room on the first team for a shooter; Poetl, Siakam, Barnes Anunoby and Van Vleet. Only one three point threat there and he is gonna get a lot of attention. I would trade Barnes if I was them. Why trade the guy who has the best defensive stats in the league against all star players? If they could find a tallish, hot 3 pt shooter for him, I think they would really be a much better team.

 

I wonder if the Pels would of won had Zion played. That's probably something NO fans have asked themselves a lot over the past couple years.

 

How much did he weigh yesterday?

 

looks around 320

 

He's in the same boat that he was playing for Portland. He was not good enough for a starting role and the team needed him to come off the bench and play defense while hitting a few threes. My thoughts on this and obviously I have nothing to back that up are he feels like he could be more? It seems to affect his play.