Exclusive The OFFICIAL 2019 NBA Offseason Thread

Are we gonna get a vet pg?

 

LAL moving closer to a MAX deal with Kawhi Leonard.

 

Starting to sound more and more like LAL will get Kawhi...

 

Even if they get him, they aren’t getting shit to surround them.

 

I'm hoping he'll sign with the Raptors or the Clippers (still hate LA, but better than the Lakers)

 

When you have 3 of the best 6-7 players in the league I don’t think you need that much more.

 

You totally need decent role players still, especially when you have injury prone superstars who are definitely all gonna be on load management.

 

If Kawhi goes to Lakers we are basically to square one in terms of competitiveness of the NBA for the next 2-3 seasons, or worse. It’ll be Lakers instead of Warriors which is even worse.

 

Not really. They will have three superstars of the highest caliber and one good player in Kuzma, are going to get JR Smith on minimum too. They will also get to spend their MLE on somebody. That gets them to 55 wins even if everybody else in that rotation sucks. Then we get to February when they can have their choice of buyout players to fill out the roster and will probably get 2-3 good players there.

You need 7-8 guys for the playoffs. They will have that. Even if one of those guys get injured they still have the other two awesome players, and that’s still better than anyone else.

People are deluding themselves if they think they won’t be amazing with those three. There is no scenario where you have Kawhi Leonard, LeBron James and Anthony Davis on your team and aren’t spectacular.

 

However if they don’t get Kawhi they are a bit screwed. They will struggle to spend that money on anything sensible.

 

They would be beatable.

 

Mario may get a try out for that role

 

I don’t think they would. They would be like a much better version of Warriors, really.

Injuries could play a role but if all three are on the floor, there’s no way in hell they are losing a playoffs series. Not a chance.

 

Hypothethical: Would you have rather NO re-signed Kanter at the contract he received from Boston (or we gave Hood) and then seen what wing we could have acquired for the Moe/Leonard package?

 

No

 

LOL JR Smith. Look, they will be good but LeBron isn’t a spring chicken anymore, last season his body finally looked to give out on him a bit, it’s only gonna get worse. I can’t remember a season where AD didn’t get beat up and miss games either. Kawhi’s likely fine but even he missed nearly a whole season just a season ago.

 

I think you'll be surprised. There's no shortage of mercenaries in the NBA. They'd have three superstars who all can play defense. Surround them with a few guys who can hit open shots and they'll be extremely good. Sucks

 

I expect Iggy to end up there, but the market is getting REALLY thin right now.

 

Yeah so we are basically counting on injuries. Fully fit they are unbeatable.

JR Smith is all right if you surround him with three all-timers. Hell, anyone who can throw the ball would be all right. He’d be there to fill the minutes.

 

Neil probably went through the motions on that hypothetical as well as other scenarios. I have no idea what they were.

I think Whiteside is a better addition than Kanter. Better defense and rebounding which we will need during Nurk's rehab and with all of the newly acquired wings!