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He should...he buried them tbh
I never saw Denver as a team who could repeat or a team who would compete for les for lots of years though. Murray is to inconsistent and Jokic is to bad defensively for teams who have a lot of offense.
He should...he buried them tbh
I never saw Denver as a team who could repeat or a team who would compete for les for lots of years though. Murray is to inconsistent and Jokic is to bad defensively for teams who have a lot of offense.
Are you willing to trade all your picks and go into the repeater tax to do it? Cause that's how The Wolves did it.
OKC has one more year and then their bill is going to come do as well.
Derrick White in his last three playoff games:
G4 Mia - 38 pts , 8-15 3pt, 3 blocks
G5 Mia - 25 pts in only 29min, 5-10 3pt
G1 Cle - 25 pts, 7-12 3pt, 5 assists to zero turnovers
Wesley or Branham or whomever was the pick they got better turn out to be regular long-term contributor
OKC crowd in the playoff tshirt color stripes is giving me flashbacks to Vietnam
Damn, it is raining 3s in OKC!
It was Wesley, and he won't
DW was 20-36 from 3PT going into the 4th quarter tonight dating back to Gm 4 against MIA
I don't think the Spurs need to go there, and I certainly don't want them to go there. There's a decent argument to be made that the Wolves would have been better off not making the Gobert trade, despite what their recent success looks like. They just played their best game, and best defensive game in about 20 years with the DPOY sitting at home. I don't attribute their success to Rudy and that trade nearly as much as I do the emergence of Edwards and the under the radar moves they made to get McDaniels, Conley, Alexander Walker and the emergence of Reid.
And speaking of OKC, everybody talks about their draft success with high picks, but they get ridiculous production from guys they pulled off the scrap heap like Isiah Joe and Lu Dort, or later in the draft like Aaron Wiggins (#55 pick) or Jaylin Williams (#34).
That's the formula I'd prefer to see the Spurs follow and they're for sure trying to do it, but it's slow going with the young prospects --- Branham, Wesley, Barlow, Cissoko, Champagnie, Bassey. Do we have any faith that any of them will ever be as good as Isiah Joe? Or Naz Reid? It's tough to be patient with those guys when Victor is on a rocket ship trajectory.
That's a very interesting take, and one that indeed would require to go beyond the frist conclusion that current success is directly linked to the trade, specially that they don't always put Gobert on the floor in the clutch.
We can't rewrite history and you could also argue Rudy helped this team get more confident and embrace defense beyond his inidividual performances, but it's hard not to imagine the possibilties and flexibility MIN would have with the current roster minus Rudy but plus all the draft capital they lost for him and that corresponds to a star/superstar or a couple elite role players.
Watching OKC and Minnesota shows that a team loaded with crafty veterans is not the only model for playoff success.
Length, switchability and speed seem to winning so far this year. The younger teams are running older players off the court. Gobert and old man Conley being exceptions.
This bodes well for the Spurs, but, will take a couple of seasons to rebuild.
This might be an overreaction, but, I believe that OKC will be our nemesis for a decade. Minny for at least 5 yrs. Mavs, Pelicans, Clippers, Grizzlies and Rockets will be a task to overcome for a few seasons, too.
Dont count out the lakers
Wolves vs. Celtics will be the finals
Probably.. and if the wolves win media are going to talk about edwards as the face of the nba instead of wemby.
If Edwards takes them that far he would deserve that easily. But that's a long ways away. Nikola Jokic is not going out without a huge fight
No, even if edwards win a le this year he is still far away to be the face of the nba..wembanyama is the only player that can take that spot after lebron.
All I can say it's nice seeing the West not be dominated by California teams.
Denver, Minny, and even OKC getting their time to shine
Knicks getting Thibs'd, they won't have any players left soon.
Is touching Brunsons Pampers a foul?
I guess I thought Ben Sheppard was a perplexing pick at #26 at the time but he's played well for IND and in a redraft he might not have too many guys pulling ahead of him
Pretty tight big 3 of Hali/Siakam/Tuner to still have Nembhard Nesmith and Toppin in depth I like what Pacers have done
I love this Knicks team. So much heart, like a boxer who pulls out the slugfest. And there is nothing better than MSG rocking.
Weak, lazy D. Moves, or rather doesn't move his feet.
Don't like it at all.
If you tell me he's playing with a bad injury then understood.
I like the rest of them tho, agree.
Indy seriously needs to learn how to box out when shot is in air.
Getting raped on giving up defensive rebounds.
Brunson
yeah I was thinking the same thing MSG was rocking these first 2 games
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