Official NBA General Discussion 2024-25 V1.0

Kai Jones has come in and just absolutely fit like glove in Dallas. Athletic tall Cs is a commodity and we need one.

Queen or Maluach in the draft for me, although Queen doesn't have the vertical pop or length

PushDaRock · Post #1267 » by **PushDaRock** » Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:45 am

I remember the discussions on here about whether Reaves or Trent was the better player back in the 22/23 season, funny how that's turned out.

Clay Davis · Post #1268 » by **Clay Davis** » Sun Mar 30, 2025 4:01 am

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sbsat · Post #1269 » by **sbsat** » Sun Mar 30, 2025 4:30 pm

Theres like 15 teams tanking the nba has to do something. Watching the nets trying to throw the game last night was ridiculous

WaltFrazier · Post #1270 » by **WaltFrazier** » Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:37 pm

Kingsway_fan wrote:Lol GIANNIS - should he leave he will go to a Warm weather US city... it was rumored last time when he was a free agent ... Toronto never was on the radar...

But but the Masai connection

WaltFrazier · Post #1271 » by **WaltFrazier** » Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:42 pm

Pistons Timberwolves had a brawl the other night.

Read on Twitter

I wonder if Stewart will be kicked out of the league at some point

ciueli · Post #1272 » by **ciueli** » Mon Mar 31, 2025 9:03 pm

sbsat wrote:Theres like 15 teams tanking the nba has to do something. Watching the nets trying to throw the game last night was ridiculous

It's more like 9 teams. Jazz, Pelicans, Spurs, Blazers in the West, and Wizards, Hornets, 76ers, Raptors, Nets in the East. Probably typical for an NBA season at this point.

UnbelievablyRAW · Post #1273 » by **UnbelievablyRAW** » Wed Apr 2, 2025 2:29 am

The Warriors ironically would be much better if they kept Klay and had this same roster sans Buddy.

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #1274 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Fri Apr 4, 2025 1:59 am

Morant with the game winner over the Heat

sidsid · Post #1275 » by **sidsid** » Sat Apr 5, 2025 4:36 pm

ciueli wrote:
sbsat wrote:Theres like 15 teams tanking the nba has to do something. Watching the nets trying to throw the game last night was ridiculous

It's more like 9 teams. Jazz, Pelicans, Spurs, Blazers in the West, and Wizards, Hornets, 76ers, Raptors, Nets in the East. Probably typical for an NBA season at this point.

One thing the play-in did fix is the funny playoff seeding tanking that happens at the end of the year when there's a pretender in the top 4 of a conference.

There's a tight 4 way (honestly 6 way) race in the west for the bottom 4 seeds, and it's right around the last couple games where you'd see a strategic tank game to end up at the 7th spot to face the Rockets for one of those teams. But the play-in is too risky for that gambit now.

Boogie! · Post #1276 » by **Boogie!** » Sat Apr 5, 2025 4:43 pm

I’m not sure why everyone thinks they can fix tanking. Some teams are legitimately bad, it doesn’t matter how hard they try… the raptors were legitimately trying to win games early in the season they just had injuries/ sucked even when healthy. Seriously, how is a team like the Washington wizards gonna win games with that roster? The spurs just lost their franchise player… what are rhese teams supposed to do? How are they supposed to win if they just suck? It doesn’t make sense to punish them because they’re **** teams with **** players.

Boogie! · Post #1277 » by **Boogie!** » Sat Apr 5, 2025 4:43 pm

UnbelievablyRAW wrote:The Warriors ironically would be much better if they kept Klay and had this same roster sans Buddy.

I don’t think klay wanted to come back though?

treerollins · Post #1278 » by **treerollins** » Sat Apr 5, 2025 5:59 pm

Boogie! wrote:
UnbelievablyRAW wrote:The Warriors ironically would be much better if they kept Klay and had this same roster sans Buddy.

I don’t think klay wanted to come back though?

it also gave them money to fill out their bench and subsequently make trades. buddy was nice in the first 15’ish games but for a guy known to have hot streaks he’s been surprisingly invisible most of the year. just 36.8% from 3 as a warrior.

PushDaRock · Post #1279 » by **PushDaRock** » Sat Apr 5, 2025 8:53 pm

Read on Twitter

He Stay

sidsid · Post #1280 » by **sidsid** » Sun Apr 6, 2025 12:40 pm

Boogie! wrote:I’m not sure why everyone thinks they can fix tanking. Some teams are legitimately bad, it doesn’t matter how hard they try… the raptors were legitimately trying to win games early in the season they just had injuries/ sucked even when healthy. Seriously, how is a team like the Washington wizards gonna win games with that roster? The spurs just lost their franchise player… what are rhese teams supposed to do? How are they supposed to win if they just suck? It doesn’t make sense to punish them because they’re **** teams with **** players.

Part of the problem (if you have an issue with blatant tanking from the 1st game of the season) is the Wizards are incentivized to build a team like that in order to be atrocious enough to guarantee being in the bottom 5 of the standings.

Because you have other competitors like the Jazz, and then the Nets this year, going out of their way to be even worse with aggressive trades.

I don't think you can fix tanking entirely, but the goal for the league should be to incentivize basically Masai's mindset: half assed tanking. Teams trying to win games before the deadline, and then shifting gears post deadline and selling off some vets.

If teams are incentivized to keep a bare minimum of competency, you'd avoid the full teardowns you see now.