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2020 NBA trade deadline discussion

Handlogten's Heros said:
True contenders...

I'd say both LA teams, Milwaukee are true contenders. There is another group knocking at the door that if everything broke right maybe it happens... I'd say Houston, Miami, Toronto... maybe Denver. Then there is a tier below that with Utah, Philly, Boston that has some roster issues... may beat a couple teams in the playoffs because of matchup advantages, but would lose to 3-4 teams because of matchup issues and will surely face those teams at some point.

I mean if season ends today we get Houston without home court advantage, win that then you get the Lakers without home court advantage, then maybe you get the Clips or Denver... all of those teams create some issues for us. Can we beat them on any given night in the regular season... for sure. 4 out of 7 times without homecourt... nah.

We aren't trash... we are very good... with very solvable problems... that we don't seem to want to solve.
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I agree with your top 3. I disagree with everything after that. For me rn it's....

Tier 1 (solidified as contenders)
Lakers
Bucks
Clippers

Tier 2A (ceiling of tier 1 but minor flaw)
Jazz, flaw: inconsistency

Tier 2B (ceiling of tier 1 but significant flaws)
Celtics, flaw: bigs
Raptors, flaw: offensive creation
Heat, flaw: experience, offensive creation in a playoff setting

Tier 3 (Longshots with bigger flaws)
Rockets, flaw: Defense, gimmick scheme
Pacers, flaw: Offense
Nuggets, flaw: No second/third star, offensive creation in a playoff setting
76ers, flaw: Roster makeup, spacing
Mavs, flaw: Defense, experience
 
SCS said:
I agree with your top 3. I disagree with everything after that. For me rn it's....

Tier 1 (solidified as contenders)
Lakers
Bucks
Clippers

Tier 2A (ceiling of tier 1 but minor flaw)
Jazz, flaw: inconsistency

Tier 2B (ceiling of tier 1 but significant flaws)
Celtics, flaw: bigs
Raptors, flaw: offensive creation
Heat, flaw: experience, offensive creation in a playoff setting

Tier 3 (Longshots with bigger flaws)
Rockets, flaw: Defense, gimmick scheme
Pacers, flaw: Offense
Nuggets, flaw: No second/third star, offensive creation in a playoff setting
76ers, flaw: Roster makeup, spacing
Mavs, flaw: Defense, experience
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We are definitely not Tier 2A. We're 9-17 over teams with a .500 record
 
Our players and coaching staff has adopted the same wait by the phone approach our front office has. If we wait maybe teams will give us wins.
 
Furkan Korkmaz (PHI) is breaking out. He was a free agent last summer, could have been signed to a minimum contract FFS, at the age of 21.
I and @LoPo brought up this kid's name here many, many times. oh well... on to the next one

 
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jjscap said:
Furkan Korkmaz (PHI) is breaking out. He was a free agent last summer, could have been signed to a minimum contract FFS, at the age of 21.
I and @LoPo brought up this kid's name here many, many times. oh well... on to the next one

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Korkmaz was favored by many JFCers coming out of the draft, fwiw. Pls don’t feed teh Lopo. He was late to that party. Late but loud.
 
Shad said:
We are definitely not Tier 2A. We're 9-17 over teams with a .500 record
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9-13 actually. And again I've gone over this countless times, that number is skewed and not a correct representation of how good the team is/isn't. 15 of those games were before the Clarkson trade and took place during a period when Quin was f****** around experimenting with nothing but an isolation offense that had us 23rd in offense. We went 6-9 in those games. Since the Clarkson trade we've gone 3-4 against +.500 teams and we could just as easily be 5-2 in those games.

Using a statistic like this is a bad way to judge a team. It does not give an accurate picture.

The Raptors are 9-12 against +.500 teams and everyone is kissing their ***

The Clippers routinely completely s*** the bed against trash teams (they're doing it AGAIN tonight) and everyone kisses their ***
 
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The Clippers just lost to the bum*** Wolves by 27 points. They got 142 points dropped on their heads. D'Lo didn't play. Kawhi did. PG did. Clippers were basically at full strength.

They are favorites while the Jazz are pretenders tho?

Btw the Jazz haven't lost to anyone by 27+ points this season. Their only 20+ point losses came to the Lakers (25) and Raptors (20). The Jazz haven't allowed 140+ points once either. The Clippers have twice. In regulation.
 
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