Wed 1/12 Game Thread

[Tracymcgoaty]

Lakers nation are likely stuck with Westbrook for the foreseeable future.

Might as well get used to it... I know I am lol

Might as well blow it up then. We are capped with WB as our PG. It's like Lebron-AD didn't **** see how they treated this man in the playoffs. Start Reaves at PG.

[HardenGoat]

Need to see some fire from the Nets tonight

I placed a big wager on Chicago. Brooklyn doesnt beat contenders they only beat avg or bum teams and even then it takes Nash playing Kd/Harden 45 mins. Theyre not an elite team.

How much did you bet??

[K_chile22]

Westbrook winning an MVP less than 5 years ago is wild to me.

Westbrook 'had' all time athleticism in his peak.

Thing is if you take out Westbrook's All Time athleticism and just make it elite, you get current Westbrook, who has somehow regressed as a FT shooter.

He was an 80% Ft shooter for a long while, I wonder what happened there.

In other words the more his athleticism declines, the more his game ages like milk.

Bad IQ player overall and bad shooter. Not a good combination.

He's regressed as a shooter period. He used to be money on those stop and pop middies and now he chucks one off the top of the backboard like once a week

[Paradise]

Need to see some fire from the Nets tonight

I placed a big wager on Chicago. Brooklyn doesnt beat contenders they only beat avg or bum teams and even then it takes Nash playing Kd/Harden 45 mins. Theyre not an elite team.

How much did you bet??

Hopefully all of his phone bill money.

[God Squad]

I placed a big wager on Chicago. Brooklyn doesnt beat contenders they only beat avg or bum teams and even then it takes Nash playing Kd/Harden 45 mins. Theyre not an elite team.

How much did you bet??

Hopefully all of his phone bill money.

[GSP]

Need to see some fire from the Nets tonight

I placed a big wager on Chicago. Brooklyn doesnt beat contenders they only beat avg or bum teams and even then it takes Nash playing Kd/Harden 45 mins. Theyre not an elite team.

How much did you bet??

3 hunnid

[GSP]

Someone needs to get Eric Gordon off that trash heap and onto a real team. Hes still really **** good and would help a ton of top teams. Hes the biggest reason Houston doesnt have the worst record in the league and 5-6 wins at most.

[slicedbread2]

Lakers nation are likely stuck with Westbrook for the foreseeable future.

Might as well get used to it... I know I am lol

Might as well blow it up then. We are capped with WB as our PG. It's like Lebron-AD didn't **** see how they treated this man in the playoffs. Start Reaves at PG.

I said it once and I'll say it again: LBJ makes Michael Jordan look like Jerry West when it comes to assembling a team. The dude seems more concerned about making sure the folks under the Klutch umbrella are getting paid than doing the smart thing and separating the personal from the professional. The following gaffes are mind numbing:

-Trading Javale McGee and a 26 2nd to Cleveland to create cap space to give Montrezl Harrell a full MLE for 2/19M. McGee was a solid big making $4M who could soak up 15-20mins/game in order to protect Anthony Davis who's made it known that he doesn't like playing C full time. On top of that they'd have McGee's full bird rights and they could've offered him a 3/18M(last year T/O) deal but instead went after an undersized 5 that was badly exposed in the bubble as a regular season player that can be exploited defensively.

-Not trading for Kyle Lowry. I understand Masai's asking price was out there, but if the reported trade offer that Masai was willing to take was KCP, Schroeder and THT why not make that deal? Yes Davis's injuries derailed the year, but KCP was a role player that you could replace in the grand scheme of things not to mention Schroeder rejecting a 4/84M deal saved the Lakers in the end plus THT is a young player but you could find plenty of dudes in the g-league. Acquiring Lowry could've given the Lakers the inside track on doing a S&T for Demar with a deal consisting of Kuzma, rights to the 21 1st+2 2nds+filler.

In the end THT got a 3/31.5M deal with a P/O plus he's under the Klutch umbrella.

-Supposedly Sacramento was interested in Kuzma for whatever reason and apparently were willing to trade Buddy Hield for Kuz+Harrell. I seriously don't understand why the Lakers didn't take that deal as it would've addressed their lack of 3pt shooting+spacing. Plus they would've kept KCP in a 3+D role+kept Caruso and develop their 21 1st.

Instead they gutted their team for a guy who's game has been in steep decline and is now on his 4th team in 4 seasons. Plus they had to dump another 2nd to get out of Gasol's deal in order to get cap space to accommodate Russ.

Well at least LBJ got that ring and he was hoping he could win a ring in the #6 jersey and try to get the Lakers to give him the Kobe treatment in having his 2 numbers retired but only 23 will be retired now barring any unforeseen improvements in the #6 era.

[slicedbread2]

Someone needs to get Eric Gordon off that trash heap and onto a real team. Hes still really **** good and would help a ton of top teams. Hes the biggest reason Houston doesnt have the worst record in the league and 5-6 wins at most.

I could see Cleveland joining the fray and doing the following:

Cleveland: Eric Gordon, David Nwaba
Houston: Ricky Rubio, Colin Sexton, 25 2nd(via MIL). May throw in one more future 2nd if need be(better of CLE/GS 23 2nd go to HOU since the lower of those 2 2nds will go to DET via Drummond trade)

-Cleveland gets a proven scorer in Gordon to help the bench as he's a good facilitator who can help when Rondo needs rest. Nwaba is a good energy wing that can give you 10-15mins a game if need be to shore up the rotation. Plus the other benefit is that Cleveland's cap situation is looking good and they can recirculate salary into next year as both players' deals have T/O's for 23-24 and could be used in a deal to add a big piece to grow with their core if the opportunity presents itself.
-Houston saves $25M off of next year's cap sheet and that's always a big plus for a rebuilding team especially one with an owner who's heavily in debt and it will allow them to nab another top pick. Rubio getting hurt sucks but I could see him going back to Cleveland for an MLE type of deal if he wants plus they get Sexton's bird rights if they are interested in him. Cavs would definitely move on from him b/c he and Garland don't fit and Sexton wants a starting role elsewhere.

I dunno what both fan bases would think but oh well.

[The Laker Kid]

You love to see it

[yoyoboy]

Someone needs to get Eric Gordon off that trash heap and onto a real team. Hes still really **** good and would help a ton of top teams. Hes the biggest reason Houston doesnt have the worst record in the league and 5-6 wins at most.

I really want the Cavs to trade for him.

[KazuoOda]

Okoro needs to get healthy in a hurry so that I can quit watching Lamar Stevens attempt to play basketball.

Hot takes

[God Squad]

I placed a big wager on Chicago. Brooklyn doesnt beat contenders they only beat avg or bum teams and even then it takes Nash playing Kd/Harden 45 mins. Theyre not an elite team.

How much did you bet??

3 hunnid

300 against the Nets?

[Pantsman]

Someone needs to get Eric Gordon off that trash heap and onto a real team. Hes still really **** good and would help a ton of top teams. Hes the biggest reason Houston doesnt have the worst record in the league and 5-6 wins at most.

I could see Cleveland joining the fray and doing the following:

Cleveland: Eric Gordon, David Nwaba
Houston: Ricky Rubio, Colin Sexton, 25 2nd(via MIL). May throw in one more future 2nd if need be(better of CLE/GS 23 2nd go to HOU since the lower of those 2 2nds will go to DET via Drummond trade)

-Cleveland gets a proven scorer in Gordon to help the bench as he's a good facilitator who can help when Rondo needs rest. Nwaba is a good energy wing that can give you 10-15mins a game if need be to shore up the rotation. Plus the other benefit is that Cleveland's cap situation is looking good and they can recirculate salary into next year as both players' deals have T/O's for 23-24 and could be used in a deal to add a big piece to grow with their core if the opportunity presents itself.
-Houston saves $25M off of next year's cap sheet and that's always a big plus for a rebuilding team especially one with an owner who's heavily in debt and it will allow them to nab another top pick. Rubio getting hurt sucks but I could see him going back to Cleveland for an MLE type of deal if he wants plus they get Sexton's bird rights if they are interested in him. Cavs would definitely move on from him b/c he and Garland don't fit and Sexton wants a starting role elsewhere.

I dunno what both fan bases would think but oh well.

I think they can do better than Eric Gordon with that package. I’m not sure he moves the needle enough. Especially with him making 20M a year the next few years going into his mid 30s.

[mcfly1204]

Someone needs to get Eric Gordon off that trash heap and onto a real team. Hes still really **** good and would help a ton of top teams. Hes the biggest reason Houston doesnt have the worst record in the league and 5-6 wins at most.

I could see Cleveland joining the fray and doing the following:

Cleveland: Eric Gordon, David Nwaba
Houston: Ricky Rubio, Colin Sexton, 25 2nd(via MIL). May throw in one more future 2nd if need be(better of CLE/GS 23 2nd go to HOU since the lower of those 2 2nds will go to DET via Drummond trade)

-Cleveland gets a proven scorer in Gordon to help the bench as he's a good facilitator who can help when Rondo needs rest. Nwaba is a good energy wing that can give you 10-15mins a game if need be to shore up the rotation. Plus the other benefit is that Cleveland's cap situation is looking good and they can recirculate salary into next year as both players' deals have T/O's for 23-24 and could be used in a deal to add a big piece to grow with their core if the opportunity presents itself.
-Houston saves $25M off of next year's cap sheet and that's always a big plus for a rebuilding team especially one with an owner who's heavily in debt and it will allow them to nab another top pick. Rubio getting hurt sucks but I could see him going back to Cleveland for an MLE type of deal if he wants plus they get Sexton's bird rights if they are interested in him. Cavs would definitely move on from him b/c he and Garland don't fit and Sexton wants a starting role elsewhere.

I dunno what both fan bases would think but oh well.

I think they can do better than Eric Gordon with that package. I’m not sure he moves the needle enough. Especially with him making 20M a year the next few years going into his mid 30s.

I might do a Rubio for Gordon swap, but that's more of a worst case scenario. Nothing against Gordon, really, but I can see the Cavs looking to resign Rubio, not sure about Gordon though.

[Purpose]

It's painful watching Russ play like this because this is probably the way he'll be remembered. Especially since there's such a spotlight on him now playing in a huge market. But from 2014-2017 he was almost unstoppable. It was all based on athleticism and once that diminished so did he. Same thing will probably happen to Morant.

Uh no. Morant doesn’t have an iq of a potato.

[LivingLegend]

I could see Cleveland joining the fray and doing the following:

Cleveland: Eric Gordon, David Nwaba
Houston: Ricky Rubio, Colin Sexton, 25 2nd(via MIL). May throw in one more future 2nd if need be(better of CLE/GS 23 2nd go to HOU since the lower of those 2 2nds will go to DET via Drummond trade)

-Cleveland gets a proven scorer in Gordon to help the bench as he's a good facilitator who can help when Rondo needs rest. Nwaba is a good energy wing that can give you 10-15mins a game if need be to shore up the rotation. Plus the other benefit is that Cleveland's cap situation is looking good and they can recirculate salary into next year as both players' deals have T/O's for 23-24 and could be used in a deal to add a big piece to grow with their core if the opportunity presents itself.
-Houston saves $25M off of next year's cap sheet and that's always a big plus for a rebuilding team especially one with an owner who's heavily in debt and it will allow them to nab another top pick. Rubio getting hurt sucks but I could see him going back to Cleveland for an MLE type of deal if he wants plus they get Sexton's bird rights if they are interested in him. Cavs would definitely move on from him b/c he and Garland don't fit and Sexton wants a starting role elsewhere.

I dunno what both fan bases would think but oh well.

I think they can do better than Eric Gordon with that package. I’m not sure he moves the needle enough. Especially with him making 20M a year the next few years going into his mid 30s.

I might do a Rubio for Gordon swap, but that's more of a worst case scenario. Nothing against Gordon, really, but I can see the Cavs looking to resign Rubio, not sure about Gordon though.

Agreed. After watching his play for the first 1/2 of the season, Rubio and the Cavs seem like a perfect fit. I wouldnt be surprised if they try to retain him and keep him away from trade packages unless absolutely necessary

[GSP]

How much did you bet??

3 hunnid

300 against the Nets?

They've been one of the worst teams against the spread this year I won playing Milwaukee and Memphis against them last week oh well

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[KingFox]

Bulls play too much your turn my turn ball. ISO ball like that doesn’t win chips


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Yea not enough outside shooting or defensive wings and it takes DeRozan have really good night .

They're like the Clippers of the East right now IMO and i don't say that as a slight. They remind me of them in terms of style of play