It's an overblown meme that some players can guard 1-5. However, Winslow's our best defender against LeBron and tonight he was assigned to guard Ja.
Are there examples of teams that tanked going on to win championships within a year or two? I am not a NBA historian. With GSW, they already had 3 all-nba players waiting in the wings. They knew that going into this season. Philly tanked for years and is still a fucking mess but a strong team. Is building chemistry this year more important than that second draft pick (assuming here that Portland does land the Pels pick)?
He's a DAWG. He gets points through hustle, his bigger contributions are in other ways. However it works, he seems to be find what his game is here, and I'm hoping it keeps tracking this way and he gains confidence in other aspects moving forward. I really thought he was going to be a star coming out of college. He isn't a star. He might be a winner, though.
Indifferent. RoCo is a bench/role player that was on an expiring contract. No team would give you any assets for him. On a team that doesn’t have Kawhi Leonard, Paul George or Norman Powell, RoCo is still coming off the bench for the Lakers. As far as Bledsoe, they were probably trying to use his contract at the deadline for a trade (maybe part of a Grant trade) that just didn’t pan out. And the fact that only $4M of his contract is guaranteed next season, it was low risk move.
Yes, but his points don't often come in having plays run for him. It's not his calling card. That's what I'm saying. His scoring won't carry a team, but what he does in other areas might.
I’m not following anything you are saying. The “result” would hopefully not be making a play in game. Ten years of tanking? What?
I do too. A lot. Always been a fan, but he just has never pulled it together fully (and he's battled through some injuries). #justiseforportlandFAMS
probably not for a 12th or 13th pick. But an 8th seed in the lottery with a shot at a top-4 pick changes the equation quite a bit
Unless……Keon becomes a fixture here for the next 10-12 years. I think Chauncey singled him out as someone he wanted and that excites me. Or that’s what I’m telling myself anyway.
You're all over the place. At one moment, we're losing 13 in a row. Now we're winning 11 in a row. One moment, Ja isn't an All Star, the next moment we're only good if we can beat Grizz with Ja who drops 44 points on us.
He's saying that we want to get experience in the playoffs, which includes the play-in which we would win with Dame, and that our team with Chauncey might be a contender. He's saying we have a star in Dame and another in the making in Ant and 10 years of tanking might not get us two stars at once. This is why I've been against trading Simons for a star, because that star would cost more money than Ant (well maybe not so much any more kid's gonna get PAIIIID) and we don't know Ant's ceiling. Also, we have two stars now IMO and we need a 3rd and then we can compete. Can we get a third star if some of our young guys continue to ball out and we package them with the Pel's pick or the pick plus the TPE? We shall see!
One moment I didn't think that Ja would be voted in by the coaches over Dame if that's what it came down to because Dame is a perennial all star and was still putting up all star numbers and I never got to find out because Ja was voted in by the fans and Dame wasn't in the running this year. I didn't know the Grizzlies were going to do as well as they've been doing this year and that Ja would sustain the level that he has. So my opinion of him has changed but last year if we beat the Grizz without Ja it still wouldn't have told us as much about our team as if we beat them with him because I definitely was of the opinion for a few years now that Ja was their best player. As far as the team goes, yeah my opinions are constantly evolving, especially in a season like this with a new coach and young players showing more than they had previously. I'm constantly learning new things. I didn't know that Ant could do what he's doing this consistently. So yeah I am all over the place. Right now I'm pretty sure that Dame and Ant will struggle to coexist but I'm really hoping that I'm wrong and they thrive together. Right now I think I would want to trade Dame away if they weren't able to complement each other; before this last week I never would have said that. So I'm just learning all of the time and as I learn my perspective changes. I could be wrong right now and Ant could just be on some Linsanity type of thing that the league will figure out, I seriously doubt that's the case but I've definitely been wrong before, both being too positive and to negative about this team and the players on it.
