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I want to hear the opinions y'all think will have people looking at you like you're absolutely insane. I'll start:

Franz Wagner might be the best player to enter the league in the last 3 seasons (yes over Hali, Edwards, Mobley, Bane, Chet, Kessler, etc.). Every time I watch him play he does all the little things that makes me think he'll be a 30 ppg guy sooner rather than later.

I don't have anything crazy to say. Maybe that Thomas ain't better than Billups to start.

Saddiq Bey has a chance to be an All Star. Just like Khris Middleton, we gave up on real talent just to keep rolling the dice. Most Pistons fans I talk to would tend to disagree, citing this seasons performance and poor shot mechanics.

Chucking more threes is not “more skilled”

JRoy wrote:Chucking more threes is not “more skilled”

This is an extremely popular opinion.

something about the popularity of the league feels inflated by massive tv deals and global expansion, but in America, the star players just don't seem as culturally relevant or significant as they once did. probably has to do with the way we consume media being more separated into algorithms, less of a united experience idk how to word it lol. also age!!

Not sure if these qualify as "insane", but I have a couple:

1. David Robinson was better than Hakeem. Too much emphasis is placed on their 1-on-1 matchup (in a 5-on-5 team sport) in the playoffs. Robinson put up better numbers and had higher peaks.

2. James Harden's 3-year run (17/18, 18/19, 19/20) is the most dominant stretch of basketball in NBA history. Historically incomparable and will likely never be repeated again. Should've been a 3-time MVP.

Unpopular for the average American basketball fan, but probably not that unpopular on this forum:

Eurobasket last summer was waaaaaaay better basketball than NBA this season.

The NBA will be better when LeBron James retires.

Bringing back the "unwatcahble" ISO heavy play style of the late '90s-2000's, would make the current NBA a better product.

harden is better than curry and dame is just as good as curry. there's so much out of a player's control that changes how they are perceived. it is what it is

Tim Duncan was a center.

If KG had been picked by San Antonio, and Duncan by Minnesotta. KG would have had just as many if not more Titles, and you probably wouldn't know much about Duncan. I also think Duncan would have demanded a trade after a couple of seasons.

The_Ghost_of_JB wrote:The NBA will be better when LeBron James retires.

Sometimes I regret that you can only give an and 1 just once!!!!

The draft and salary cap is terrible for the league.

99 percent of teams are intentionally non-competitive.

The NBA is merely a vehicle for the trendy newly minted billionaires to park their money.

The NBA rewards mediocrity and punishes continued excellence.

The NBA has the worst fans out of all of the American sports leagues. No group of fans cry more about things that is just about competition. Never seen a group of fans cry about a California franchise being better at making money than than a team in Minnesota.

They should’ve left the rules more or less alone, the Shaq rules were a big mistake. Nothing has impacted spacing like 3pt range and coach blessing. Freedom of movement and zone defence are not good for the NBA. Illegal defence was arcane but you didn’t have to change basketball. Give me forearm-checking like they tried for a bit. Zones are lame, bigs are cool.

GeorgeSears wrote:Not sure if these qualify as "insane", but I have a couple:

1. David Robinson was better than Hakeem. Too much emphasis is placed on their 1-on-1 matchup (in a 5-on-5 team sport) in the playoffs. Robinson put up better numbers and had higher peaks.

2. James Harden's 3-year run (17/18, 18/19, 19/20) is the most dominant stretch of basketball in NBA history. Historically incomparable and will likely never be repeated again. Should've been a 3-time MVP.

Isn't Hakeem winning MVP, FMVP and DPOY in the same season essentially the ultimate peak?

High scoring games are worse than low scoring games.

Jordan, while being one of the top three players at worst and probably the goat is also the most overrated player ever.

chilluminati wrote:Saddiq Bey has a chance to be an All Star. Just like Khris Middleton, we gave up on real talent just to keep rolling the dice. Most Pistons fans I talk to would tend to disagree, citing this seasons performance and poor shot mechanics.

I would disagree just based on the fact that he’s a pretty poor athlete (by NBA standards).

Yeah it’s possible to be an all star with a below average level of athleticism, but the player has to have a pretty insane skill and BBIQ level in order to pull that off. I guess I’d defer to you as a Pistons fan but that’s not something I’ve ever seen from Saddiq Bey. He’s a decent shooter that can get hot sometimes but I’m not sure what else he brings to the table.