Easiest way to remember is what the word is you’re looking for. Something complementary will complete it, not complite it.
Capitol refers to a building. O for office. Everything else is capital. A for always.
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Capitol refers to a building. O for office. Everything else is capital. A for always.
Just made these up.
No, this sounds like dumb tanking when you keep enough quality vets to be semi-good and, as a result, have to torpedo the development of young guys to scrape out the losses. The proper tanking means having only a couple of quality role players (like Dunn) who can teach the defense and offense to young guys and making these young guys play hard from day 1. You can check out the OKC roster in 2019-2022 to see how the proper tanking should be done.
Hardy and Ainge have already wasted 2 years of development for Keyonte, Brice and Hendricks with their unique brand of tanking.
David Hume
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In chess there is a saying: “The most powerful weapon in Chess is the next move.” With that in mind, it’s nice to see the creativity of some franchises. Most everyone respects what OKC has done. Toronto took a wild swing and won it all in 2019. Steph at one point had a bad ankle, GS bet on him and look what they accomplished. Yes, we failed with Mitchell and Gobert, but at least we tried something kind of novel and it worked regular season, and we couldn’t know it would definitively fail until it did in the playoffs. So even with just picks 5 and 21, let’s see what sort of devious strategy Danny Ainge can deploy.
Park Bites
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I was so ready to see a picture of Michael Scott when inopen this thread.
homeytennis
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In one of the mock drafts, it has the Jazz taking in the second round a 7 foot Russian center from U of Michigan who apparently has some skills. He sounds like he could be a great addition to Kessler. Regardless the Jazz need to get four talented guys in this draft as part of the blueprint moving forward.
Park Bites
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I have been thinking about players that are under the age of 25 that are good defenders that they jazz might get in a trade.
I did run a chatgpt and got some interesting ideas. (Not all of the following are from chatgpt)
I like a trade with the rockets
Reed Sheppard is serviceable defensively
Tari eason is a stud but would take a lot to get him.
The problem is they have bigger fish to go after and Markkanen is behind Booker, KD and Giannis.
Jaden Ivey has some defensive potential and might need a change of scenery.
I wonder what it would take to pry Hern Jones away from NOLA.
Patrick Williams is very expensive but Hendricks might be better long term.
I did run a chatgpt and got some interesting ideas. (Not all of the following are from chatgpt)
I like a trade with the rockets
Reed Sheppard is serviceable defensively
Tari eason is a stud but would take a lot to get him.
The problem is they have bigger fish to go after and Markkanen is behind Booker, KD and Giannis.
Jaden Ivey has some defensive potential and might need a change of scenery.
I wonder what it would take to pry Hern Jones away from NOLA.
Patrick Williams is very expensive but Hendricks might be better long term.
Wasn't that supposed to be Springer's role, once he signed last year?
homeytennis
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He always seemed to be injured.
The Thunder trading away Giddey who averaged 15/8/7 on 47/38/78 for a player who averaged 7/3/3 on 45/35/82 shooting splits and getting national recognition for winning that trade seems like a nice tipping point for the basketball world realizing the value of defense and elite role players over flawed offensive hubs.
homeytennis
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Look how Pop's and Sloan's teams played during their good years. Guys that didn't play defense rode pine. I believe Jimmer had a brief stop in San Antonio and was told you don't play defense we have to part ways.
I'm not sure that this isn't a win/win trade, or at least a lot closer than we may think. I don't think the Bulls feel bad about the swap. Fit is perhaps better on both sides. Giddey may still end up providing more long-term value.