Official Utah/Minnesota/Philadelphia Pick Watch

[Douchebag K]

Me too. As long as losses are the result


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I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed my friend

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Looks like that Nets pick will free fall down, so I guess it's the Sixers pick they'll get

Doubt it's going to free fall. They still have a good team

 

[Udidthizz]

And Kessler is having a better year as a rookie. Go figure.

Look at their so called bad years. Then look at Gobert’s so called “bad year”. Not a top 15 player at all. And many here and myself included were wrong. Very wrong!

And I’m not upset with you. I’m upset with the organization by putting their chips all in with Gobert. Knowing we had a better player in Donovan in and offensive minded league. The NBA doesn’t give a **** about defense. And yet the Jazz built their identity on a center that had no offensive game. Thank you Minnesota for taking on that contract.

For comparison:
Gobert: 15.6/13.5/1.5 per 36. Salary $38M
Kessler: 14/13/3.6 per 36. Salary $2.7M

Gobert: 0.41/0.36/0.04 per 36 per $1M
Kessler: 5.19/4.81/1.33 per 36 per $1M

Obviously not a very fair comparison because of Walker's rookie contract, but good to see when assessing value for money.

 

[One Brow]

And Kessler is having a better year as a rookie. Go figure.

Thank you for an excellent example of adding irrelevant points to a conversation.

Look at their so called bad years. Then look at Gobert’s so called “bad year”. Not a top 15 player at all.

I don't think anyone claims that Gobert is having an All-NBA year this year.

I’m upset with the organization by putting their chips all in with Gobert. Knowing we had a better player in Donovan in and offensive minded league.

What could we have done to improve Mitchell's game that we were not doing? Get him more screens? Put the ball in his hands more?

The NBA doesn’t give a **** about defense.

Last I heard, champions need to be at least average on offense and on defense.

 

[One Brow]

Are we really comparing Rudy Gobert to Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlin, and Bill Russell?

Only in the sense they were vastly superior players, and still had off years.

This is what I'm talking about, lol.

You don't think these players were better than Gobert? Then I'm laughing at you.

 

[HermanG]

Last I heard, champions need to be at least average on offense and on defense.

2021-22
GSW - 2nd in DRtg, 16th in ORtg

2020-21
Bucks - 9th in DRtg, 5th in ORtg

2019-20
Lakers - 3rd in DRtg, 11th in ORtg

2018-19
Raptors - 5th in both

2017-18
GSW - 11th in DRtg, 3rd in ORtg

Based on last 5 years.. Id say defense is equally important.

 

[Jaanipoeg]

A no LeBron/DLo/Vando/Beasley Lakers squad is up 8 on a healthy bucks team at half. I'm disgustingly pulling for a hot finish that gets them ahead of Minnesota. It's a lot of ground to cover, but I think they have life in them again. Probably jinxing it here and they'll end up losing by 15, but oh well. Even if it's bad for a Lakers loss is still fun.

 

[sip]

So after all the moves made over the last few days where do you guys think the wolves end up? They are currently 8th and based on all the moves yesterday I think all 7 teams ahead of them have a pretty good shot at staying ahead. Right now the warriors are a half game back of the wolves and the blazers 1.5 games. The warriors passing them as usual hangs on Curry's health. Luckily the all star game is coming up so that hopefully gives Curry enough time to get back after the break. If that happens then I think they can jump the wolves. I don't have a hole lot of confidence in the blazers passing them. Then you have the lakers who are currently 4 back of the wolves. I think that may be too big of a hole for them to make up with how they like to rest Lebron and AD. The lakers goal may simply be to get into the play in rather than try to move into the top 6 and avoid it. The thunder are there as well but I think they probably fall off the last quarter of the season rather than make a playoff push. As of now I think the wolves probably end up with the 9th seed.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

DLo a little bitch

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Kind of mad at the huge favor Utah did to Minnesota.

We got rid of a locker room cancer for them and paid them extra.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Kind of mad at the huge favor Utah did to Minnesota.

We got rid of a locker room cancer for them and paid them extra.

Conley is good buddies with Ryan. Our saboteur Rudy wasn't doing a good enough job so we sent Conley to finish the job. He gonna have a slow start and pull his hamstring... then in a couple years he gets a cushy front office job here in Utah for his work.

DLo is an *** clown though. Had thought he had matured from his LA days but he's still the dude snitching on Nick Young. I do think they will miss what he gave them the last 5-6 weeks cuz he was shooting the **** outta the ball. Not sure he was going to continue doing that. Mike will likely be quite good for them but I think they were always going to be at least a play in team. I don't see them cracking the top 6 though... so there is still hope for a late lotto pick there.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Conley is good buddies with Ryan. Our saboteur Rudy wasn't doing a good enough job so we sent Conley to finish the job. He gonna have a slow start and pull his hamstring... then in a couple years he gets a cushy front office job here in Utah for his work.

DLo is an *** clown though. Had thought he had matured from his LA days but he's still the dude snitching on Nick Young. I do think they will miss what he gave them the last 5-6 weeks cuz he was shooting the **** outta the ball. Not sure he was going to continue doing that. Mike will likely be quite good for them but I think they were always going to be at least a play in team. I don't see them cracking the top 6 though... so there is still hope for a late lotto pick there.

Have a hard time seeing Minnesota not getting better. Obviously Conley's health is a huge swing factor. Adds a level of uncertainty that could help the pick.

Yeah, there will be some learning curve with a new team, but Rudy being there should make the transition easier for Mike.

The defense will get better. Edwards will get more touches. When KAT comes back the offense will function better than if it was Ant/KAT/DLo all trying to get shots.

And you liked NAW. I kind of like him too, but the vibes between him and Hardy just werent there. I think NAW is better than Austin Rivers, like way better. IDK if they will actually play him over Rivers cuz of vet status stuff, but he's way better.