ATL - 20/21 Season

Baddy Chuck · Post #621 » by **Baddy Chuck** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:56 pm

Damn.

buckboy · Post #622 » by **buckboy** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:59 pm

blazza18 wrote:Talent wins out in this league so predict Brooklyn will make it work for a bit. Every team in the east has flaws so they'll get away with a bottom 5 defence.

I don't think they're a finals team with a bottom 5 defense. That almost never happens. Pretty much every defense of a conference champion is top 10-12. LeBron's Cavs were bad one year but I think that's about it.

jakecronus8 · Post #623 » by **jakecronus8** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:59 pm

Coach Carter wrote:
humanrefutation wrote:Why would Houston want a single year of Dipo over three years of LeVert?

I'd say they want neither, dipo can leave in FA.

This. My guess is they’ll try to inflate VOs numbers and reflip him before the deadline

tedbrogen · Post #624 » by **tedbrogen** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:59 pm

Coach Carter wrote:
Turk Nowitzki wrote:The Pacers couldn't have done better moving Oladipo on their own than getting involved here? I guess maybe his market was more limited we think given injury and impending free agency. Thought they'd at least get a 1st rounder or two of it though.

Honestly, i think pacers would've been happy with DDV. The injury destroyed dipo's value.

I wouldn’t but I think Dipo is a legit awful fit next to Giannis. Dipo’s defender will camp out in the lane just like Bledsoe’s defender did. Plus, DDV >>>> Dipo on defense.

yannisk · Post #625 » by **yannisk** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:00 pm

Kyrie will get completely mad when he realizes he is now the 3rd option. They have money to fill some holes in their roster if they somehow trade kyrie for a more suitable (and sane) player they will be a real superteam

buckboy · Post #626 » by **buckboy** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:00 pm

God, I hope this doesn't reignite the Oladipo to Milwaukee stuff. Yuck.

GoldenAntlers · Post #627 » by **GoldenAntlers** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:00 pm

If I'm Cleveland, I'm selling Drummond for anything future-based.

Coach Carter · Post #628 » by **Coach Carter** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:04 pm

0BobLobLaw0 wrote:Is Harden celebrating with 2 or 3 pizzas tonight?

The weight gain was probably strategic.

M-C-G · Post #629 » by **M-C-G** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:10 pm

Coach Carter wrote:
0BobLobLaw0 wrote:Is Harden celebrating with 2 or 3 pizzas tonight?

The weight gain was probably strategic.

Heard he was going to play the 4 there so Durant didn't have to.

Coach Carter · Post #630 » by **Coach Carter** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:12 pm

buckboy wrote:
fansinceforever wrote:Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and bet that the Nets figure it out. That's an absurd amount of top tier talent

I'm gonna go ahead and bet Kyrie submarines them. Oh and the fact that they have zero 4s or 5s other than Durant. I know they'll sign someone, but there's no one currently available that doesn't suck.

Well essentially now, kyrie is the 3rd wheel. Obviously he didn't expect this when he first decided to team up with KD. He hated being in bron's shadow, he is really going to hate this. Could explain why he started missing time from work. I guess he knew about this trade about a week ago. I think he will hang around for one ring and then look to find his own team, yet again.

buckboy · Post #631 » by **buckboy** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:13 pm

Coach Carter wrote:
buckboy wrote:
fansinceforever wrote:Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and bet that the Nets figure it out. That's an absurd amount of top tier talent

I'm gonna go ahead and bet Kyrie submarines them. Oh and the fact that they have zero 4s or 5s other than Durant. I know they'll sign someone, but there's no one currently available that doesn't suck.

Well essentially now, kyrie is the 3rd wheel. Obviously he didn't expect this when he first decided to team up with KD. He hated being in bron's shadow, he is really going to hate this. Could explain why he started missing time from work. I guess he knew about this trade about a week ago. I think he will hang around for one ring and then look to find his own team, yet again.

Lol the Nets aren't winning any rings.

Baddy Chuck · Post #632 » by **Baddy Chuck** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:15 pm

I still think I would trade Bogut for Harden and Ibaka.

Bucksfan28 · Post #633 » by **Bucksfan28** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:16 pm

buckboy wrote:Levert: career 52TS% with no defense who's always injured. When will the madness stop with this?

Never! Levert 4 lyfe :rock:

Pachinko_ · Post #634 » by **Pachinko_** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:17 pm

I love how NBA teams sell all this crap to their fans (we're all about FAMILY! CULTURE! THE FUTURE! YOUNG TALENT!) and then as soon as they get half a chance to get a big name they just demolish everything :lol:

Poor NBA fans, **** life ever. You're statistically guaranteed to have what feels like a failed season 29 years out of 30, and then you have to listen to all that marketing crap on top.

Post #635 » by **Ruzious** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:18 pm

Those Brooklyn picks that Houston got might turn out to be reasonably valuable, because even with all the talent in Brooklyn, they're going to be an awful defensive team without Allen, and who knows what Kyrie's going to do there. He's the opposite of a leader. If they can trade him for a good interior defender, that'd help them a lot. Brooklyn's going to be an easy team to root against.

Coach Carter · Post #636 » by **Coach Carter** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:21 pm

buckboy wrote:
Coach Carter wrote:
buckboy wrote:
I'm gonna go ahead and bet Kyrie submarines them. Oh and the fact that they have zero 4s or 5s other than Durant. I know they'll sign someone, but there's no one currently available that doesn't suck.

Well essentially now, kyrie is the 3rd wheel. Obviously he didn't expect this when he first decided to team up with KD. He hated being in bron's shadow, he is really going to hate this. Could explain why he started missing time from work. I guess he knew about this trade about a week ago. I think he will hang around for one ring and then look to find his own team, yet again.

Lol the Nets aren't winning any rings.

Hopefully not. The talent though is ridiculous on the offensive end. It means, one can have an off night. They need to find defense and off course chemistry.

greekbuck34 · Post #637 » by **greekbuck34** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:31 pm

There is only 1 ball in basketball and this team requires atleast 2 or 3. Kyrie and Harden are useless without the ball.
What I admired from the Nets the last couple of years was the movement of the ball and their hustle on defense.
I doubt I will see much of that this season.

Baddy Chuck · Post #638 » by **Baddy Chuck** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:34 pm

This reminds me a lot of when the Lakers traded for AD and people were talking about how they mortgaged their future, don't have a bench, don't have avenues to improve their roster further blah blah blah.

The Nets just acquired an MVP candidate to go with another MVP candidate on top of another star. They just put together the blueprint to win in the NBA. Maybe they don't put it together year one like the Lakers did but they sure as hell have a better outlook then when they had Caris LeVert and some picks.

https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=76288161#p76288161

VooDoo7 · Post #639 » by **VooDoo7** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:40 pm

Brooklyn about to average 50 FTs per game.

VooDoo7 · Post #640 » by **VooDoo7** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:43 pm

Where has Kyrie been anyways? It's like he just fell off the face of the earth.