NBA General Discussion: 2025 Offseason

[76ciology]

25-12-4 for Edey

[76ciology]

Here’s what I’ve observed in the first few games:

- A lot of hunting mismatches
- Taking 40–50 3pt attempts
- Using a stretch 5 to clear the paint
- Crashing offensive boards
- Placing wing defenders on opposing point guards
- Added a lot of value on players who can take 10 3s and make good %

Better spacing opens up driving lanes to the basket, and more effective mismatch attacks lead to higher quality open looks from three.

Strong offensive rebounding creates extra chances for those threes.

Meanwhile, a solid wing defender on the opposing guard disrupts their ability to create mismatches.

Teams adjusting to how refs call the game.

Suns vs Sixers game

[76ciology]

With what Yabu showed last night against the Suns, it makes sense why we were also after DFS.

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Stretch 5s to open the lanes for drives

[Stanford]

Doc Rivers on the losing side of another contest.

[WentzerWuver]

With what Yabu showed last night against the Suns, it makes sense why we were also after DFS.

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Stretch 5s to open the lanes for drives

They would want 3 first round picks along with Yabu for him.

[76ciology]

Warriors v Celtics is fun

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Warriors v Celtics is fun

Yeah, all Boston does is shoot threes.

[76ciology]

Warriors v Celtics is fun

Yeah, all Boston does is shoot threes.

And they’re really good at generating open looks and making 3s. Just spamming 1-3 pick and pop, and stretch 5 screen and pop. And if Tatum decides to attack the mismatch, the paint is very spaced out.

[Iverson Armband]

This Buddy Hield thing is annoying.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Warriors v Celtics is fun

Yeah, all Boston does is shoot threes.

And they’re really good at generating open looks and making 3s. Just spamming 1-3 pick and pop, and stretch 5 screen and pop. And if Tatum decides to attack the mismatch, the paint is very spaced out.

Golden State literally just showed the world the recipe on how to beat them. They went away from blitzing them and Boston took the lead. Thing is, Boston was without Brown and KP.
NOBODY is beating them if they're fully healthy. They win 60 even without Porzingis.

[Negrodamus]

What a disaster the DeRozan experiment has been in Sac. It’s only been him, Fox, and Sabonis averaging 20+ ppg and they’re 5-3. DeRozan only shooting 38% from three on 3 attempts per game. I was definitely wrong to suggest signing him here. It seems we have all the creators we could ever want and he would have destroyed our current good vibes.

[Mik317]

What a disaster the DeRozan experiment has been in Sac. It’s only been him, Fox, and Sabonis averaging 20+ ppg and they’re 5-3. DeRozan only shooting 38% from three on 3 attempts per game. I was definitely wrong to suggest signing him here. It seems we have all the creators we could ever want and he would have destroyed our current good vibes.

not going to lie I was like...wait that all seems like a good thing

then I got it

sixers are draining my brain juice

[Stanford]

What a disaster the DeRozan experiment has been in Sac. It’s only been him, Fox, and Sabonis averaging 20+ ppg and they’re 5-3. DeRozan only shooting 38% from three on 3 attempts per game. I was definitely wrong to suggest signing him here. It seems we have all the creators we could ever want and he would have destroyed our current good vibes.

not going to lie I was like...wait that all seems like a good thing

then I got it

sixers are draining my brain juice

I did the same.

[Negrodamus]

Sorry, I woke up choosing violence since the majority of the board was absolutely befuddled over the idea of DeRozan coming here. Non-starter as an acquisition. Would never work with Embiid. We already have a primary ballhandler, etc, etc. Maxey is a better fit with him than freakin' DeAaron Fox, lol.

The Paul George experiment is just starting, so I'll withhold judgement on that. And we have been bitten early by the injury bug. So I'm not really making a comparison of the two teams. It's more of a highlight that DeRozan wasn't some throw away FA option that we would have had to tolerate if it came to that.

[WentzerWuver]

Sorry, I woke up choosing violence since the majority of the board was absolutely befuddled over the idea of DeRozan coming here. Non-starter as an acquisition. Would never work with Embiid. We already have a primary ballhandler, etc, etc. Maxey is a better fit with him than freakin' DeAaron Fox, lol.

The Paul George experiment is just starting, so I'll withhold judgement on that. And we have been bitten early by the injury bug. So I'm not really making a comparison of the two teams. It's more of a highlight that DeRozan wasn't some throw away FA option that we would have had to tolerate if it came to that.

If you get booed constantly during the game at a brand new arena from where you was born and raised, you wouldn't want to the ball on your hands as much either. It hurt him deeply, so he gets a pass here.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AYxLeYIPFOY?si=gNwlLFs2b3TewNup

[Stanford]

Sorry, I woke up choosing violence since the majority of the board was absolutely befuddled over the idea of DeRozan coming here.

I don't know what you think has been proven. The Kings have beaten zero teams over .500, they've had their full lineup and DeRozan has played fine.

The majority were out on him as the acquisition because he's not a ceiling raiser and people are sick of second round exits.

[Negrodamus]

Sorry, I woke up choosing violence since the majority of the board was absolutely befuddled over the idea of DeRozan coming here.

I don't know what you think has been proven. The Kings have beaten zero teams over .500, they've had their full lineup and DeRozan has played fine.

The majority were out on him as the acquisition because he's not a ceiling raiser and people are sick of second round exits.

So we paid a premium for a guy who is post prime, often injured, and *should be* off ball (but has a very high opinion of himself).

DeRozan stepped into SAC and instantly became the primary scorer on a team that has DeAaron Fox.

[Stanford]

If you think DeRozan raises the Sixers ceiling more than George, fair enough. But I don't think a few wins against mediocre teams proves you correct.

I believe most people would have agreed that DeRozan raises the floor, they're just not interested in that floor at this point.

[Iverson Armband]

Derozan is not in the same class as George at all either offensively or defensively, I hope that’s not the debate here.

[Negrodamus]

Derozan is not in the same class as George at all either offensively or defensively, I hope that’s not the debate here.

Alright, we won't debate it.