NBA 2024-25 Season Thread
Lettuce NBA!
and lettuce lol @ James Harden
RJ sucks dude. Just give it time. The most empty 20ppg in history.
The only positive I got out of the Siakam (on the Rap's side of things, as it is CLEARLY thrilling coming from the Pacer's perspective), is that outside of taking a retool direction for the team, Masai has 3 weeks of wiggle room to try to get an asset that fits better the timeline of Barnes-RJ-Quickley... Could Brown and picks return a promising under 25 player? I doubt it, but let's see...
Last thoughts on the OG and Siakam trades : happy for both, as they went to teams that will fully take advantage of their strengths, but darn, it still remains quite a surprise how much the Raps got (MUCH) more from the inferior player in OG, despite both of them becoming unrestricted free agents this summer (and both seemingly accepting, wink-wink, to re-sign with their teams).
The only positive I got out of the Siakam (on the Rap's side of things, as it is CLEARLY thrilling coming from the Pacer's perspective), is that outside of taking a retool direction for the team, Masai has 3 weeks of wiggle room to try to get an asset that fits better the timeline of Barnes-RJ-Quickley... Could Brown and picks return a promising under 25 player? I doubt it, but let's see...
Brown is actually really flexible here. He's got a larger-than-it-should be deal with a team option for next year. Trade it this year or keep him and use him for salary as an expiring next year.
kind of impossible to believe at this point that masai has any kind of masterplan going on. seems like he's clearly just flailing around in that hopes that he can luckbox some magic, like when their 1 & done experiment with kiwi worked out perfectly. they even got lucky moving up in the lottery to get barnes (granted they nailed that pick, kudos) and they're still just a random ~.500 team in a league where like half the teans are actively tanking
Last thoughts on the OG and Siakam trades : happy for both, as they went to teams that will fully take advantage of their strengths, but darn, it still remains quite a surprise how much the Raps got (MUCH) more from the inferior player in OG, despite both of them becoming unrestricted free agents this summer (and both seemingly accepting, wink-wink, to re-sign with their teams).
The return for OG wasn't "that" great. No 1st rounder. Knicks weren't going to keep IQ and everyone knew it. Another team would've offered too big of a deal and/or a poison pill contract that the Knicks wouldn't be able to match.
RJ was not really regarded much around the league. If anything he was a net neutral with his contract if you factor in future development. RJ had the most value to the Raptors than any other team as he's homegrown Canadian.
kind of impossible to believe at this point that masai has any kind of masterplan going on. seems like he's clearly just flailing around in that hopes that he can luckbox some magic, like when their 1 & done experiment with kiwi worked out perfectly. they even got lucky moving up in the lottery to get barnes (granted they nailed that pick, kudos) and they're still just a random ~.500 team in a league where like half the teans are actively tanking
6/30 teams tanking is actually 20%, not 50% - Cha, Was, Det, Por, SA and Mem that now has to tank, find me a 7th team...
The return for OG wasn't "that" great. No 1st rounder. Knicks weren't going to keep IQ and everyone knew it. Another team would've offered too big of a deal and/or a poison pill contract that the Knicks wouldn't be able to match.
RJ was not really regarded much around the league. If anything he was a net neutral with his contract if you factor in future development. RJ had the most value to the Raptors than any other team as he's homegrown Canadian.
I concede that both NY and Indiana did not have to give up much in the deal, albeit on the TO side of things - AKA the "return" for OG -, was actually tremendous. If you actually flip the perspective around, TO did not give up much either, as OG was playing at 80% of capacity and did not plan on re-signing with the Raps and Siakam had stopped putting efforts defensively and the relationship with TO had gone south.
Numerous teams wanted OG. They didn't get a "great" return for him with all the interest there was in him. Don't make me explain 9/5 odds to you again.
teams might have wanted og, but i don't think anyone was offering anything. seemed like he was on the market for 2-3 years, and thats what they got, so ... his value was not much
Pacers wanted him. That's a #FACT
This IND/SAC ending has been insane. Pacers up by 13 with 2:40 left. Down to a 3pt lead with 5 seconds left.
Pacers missing 5 players but still
Oof, these KANGZ are not alright
TJ McConnell man, he's such a gym rat. 20 pts 10 asst on 9/14 fg like it was NOTHING. He may not be able to jump high but dude can BALL.
He was like Woody Harrelson from the early 90s out there tonight.
Numerous teams wanted OG. They didn't get a "great" return for him with all the interest there was in him. Don't make me explain 9/5 odds to you again.
Again : I am sharing with you TO's perspective ; you might disagree with it and think that we did not get a great return, but it matters little what you think, as far as the sentiment north of the border is concerned...
Pacers losing is BEYOND me. WTF burger.
Embiid is listed at 280lbs. But I swear he's gotta be at least 3 bills. Dude is MASSIVE.
The Hornets beat the Wembyless Spurs by 4 by having the starting 5 score 112 of 124 points. The Hornets shot 47/84, 16/29, 14/16 and the Spurs shot 47/84, 15/32, 11/17. Defense is unserious.
Where would Steph Curry land if he were to demand a trade?
His salary of 51M kinda limits his options where he can reasonably go.
Other than Lakers for 10% of his value, most realistic is a deal fleshed out around Steph for Jaylen Brown in the offseason.
Pacers starters: 101
Pacers Bench: 14
The bench played the entire game vs SAC because they were missing 5 players. The Pacers currently lead the NBA in bench scoring at 49/gm. 2nd place is 45. They were exhausted
That said, here's the nut:
Haliburton-Hield-Nesmith-Siakam-Turner
Off Rtg 148.8
Def rtg 95.5
Net rtg 53.4
I dont care if it's only been 19 minutes so far. Inject it straight into my veins.
