2024-25 NBA Season Discussion

[bigboi]

Lamelo way better than Hali. Lamelo is poor mans Luka. Buddy is insane. Plays at his own pace

This sites always been aggressively incorrect about LaMelo Ball, if you’re judging ability on the court and not health he has always been in the same tier with Edwards and Haliburton.

I agree. Dude legit could be a 25/7/10 player smh. He’s great for the league. Hopefully he gets on the Steph curry plan for his ankles.

[parsnips33]

6th Buddy of the year?

[ShaqAttac]

league really bout to get rolled by a highschool coach. we back

[KembaWalker]

Lamelo way better than Hali. Lamelo is poor mans Luka. Buddy is insane. Plays at his own pace

This sites always been aggressively incorrect about LaMelo Ball, if you’re judging ability on the court and not health he has always been in the same tier with Edwards and Haliburton.

As regular season players, I think there is an argument that both halliburton and ball can be more impactful in the night-to-night basis then Edwards. Where Edward separates himself from both halliburton and ball is he is an incredible defensive Talent and his offensive skill set scales up in the playoffs.

I'm excited to see ball and halliburton in more playoff runs as they try to stack up against Edwards who has had two tremendous playoff runs so far.

Whatever difference you can point to on defense it’s just as easy to look point to where LaMelo is better. Shooting, distributing, rebounding. The reason Ant has had tremendous playoff runs is because he played with Gobert, KAT, Conley, McDaniels, Reid, and a great coach in Finch whereas LaMelo when healthy has played with the corpse of Gordon Hayward, Terry Rozier, and Mason Plumlee as his vet help coached by Steve Clifford. The closest thing he’s had to actual help is Miles Bridges lol

[Colbinii]

This sites always been aggressively incorrect about LaMelo Ball, if you’re judging ability on the court and not health he has always been in the same tier with Edwards and Haliburton.

As regular season players, I think there is an argument that both halliburton and ball can be more impactful in the night-to-night basis then Edwards. Where Edward separates himself from both halliburton and ball is he is an incredible defensive Talent and his offensive skill set scales up in the playoffs.

I'm excited to see ball and halliburton in more playoff runs as they try to stack up against Edwards who has had two tremendous playoff runs so far.

Whatever difference you can point to on defense it’s just as easy to look point to where LaMelo is better. Shooting, distributing, rebounding. The reason Ant has had tremendous playoff runs is because he played with Gobert, KAT, Conley, McDaniels, Reid, and a great coach in Finch whereas LaMelo when healthy has played with the corpse of Gordon Hayward, Terry Rozier, and Mason Plumlee as his vet help coached by Steve Clifford. The closest thing he’s had to actual help is Miles Bridges lol

Yeah, and LeBron James won with talent and so did Michael Jordan.

The point is ANT is an elevator in the post-season. Very few players elevate their games in the post-season. In fact, it's normal for players to see a slight dip in playoff production.

Until we see Ball in the playoffs again, we can't just assume he will elevate.

[parsnips33]

I like Toumani Camara on the Blazers. Feels like he could make an impact on a lot of teams

[parsnips33]

Also Brandre Podzudala +34 off the bench

[bigboi]

Wemby needs to play the less sexy game and play near the rim. 0 reason for him to be getting the ball near the 3, inefficient basketball. Really surprised that Spurs don’t want Young though

[itsxtray]

Yeah, Wemby ain't Markkanen, he doesn't need to be shooting 8 3's a game.

[Texas Chuck]

I've been trying to tell ya'll. Wemby really isn't a good offensive player right now. And its fine btw. Spurs don't really want to win so let him experiment with whatever. But my guess is Chris Paul gets tired of this in about 3 more games and has him running PNR and starting him down the path where he eventually lands. But for now his impact is going to be on the defensive end.

Boogie should have forever shown us that just because you can in theory kind of do some stuff doesn't mean you should. And that many of our best offenses have featured centers who literally only rim run. Gobert with the Jazz, Capela with the Rockets.

Less is more for Wemby. May always be. This talk of him being a taller KD was always silly.

[bigboi]

I've been trying to tell ya'll. Wemby really isn't a good offensive player right now. And its fine btw. Spurs don't really want to win so let him experiment with whatever. But my guess is Chris Paul gets tired of this in about 3 more games and has him running PNR and starting him down the path where he eventually lands. But for now his impact is going to be on the defensive end.

Boogie should have forever shown us that just because you can in theory kind of do some stuff doesn't mean you should. And that many of our best offenses have featured centers who literally only rim run. Gobert with the Jazz, Capela with the Rockets.

Less is more for Wemby. May always be. This talk of him being a taller KD was always silly.

But I don’t understand why spurs didn’t get Trae Young. Trae wants to play with Wemby, has playoffs experience and is better than literally anyone on the roster. He’d reduce pressure of Wemby being number 1 option. Wemby can be elite at offense but he plays too far from the basket. Hopefully he doesn’t get KAT syndrome. KAT is like that too, where he’s catching the ball at the 3 when he should be posting

[bigboi]

Whats stopping Chet from being same level as Wemby if not better?

[tsherkin]

I've been trying to tell ya'll. Wemby really isn't a good offensive player right now.

He wants to be a SF too much. When he plays like a center, he's pretty good on O.

Boogie should have forever shown us that just because you can in theory kind of do some stuff doesn't mean you should.

Him, Derrick Coleman, Chris Webber, and a host of others who decided that being tall meant you could take bleh shots at meh percentages and be looked at as "highly skilled." Strictly because of height, and not at all due to efficacy.

Less is more for Wemby. May always be. This talk of him being a taller KD was always silly.

Agreed.

[parsnips33]

SGA is so damn fun to watch, I've been enamored with his game since 2019 round 1

[tsherkin]

SGA is so damn fun to watch, I've been enamored with his game since 2019 round 1

Yeah, he's a blast.

[ShotCreator]

Wembanyama should be filthy from a face up position on the elbow until he's an old man. He should be a >.5 FTR player on just face up creation alone. One dribble and he can reach the restricted area. And a rip through is there with his impossibly long arms all day.

His learning curve will be cutting the fat out of his game and learning what he's best at and not just able to do.

[IlikeSHAIguys]

Shai Shai Mr.MVP guy

[itsxtray]

Usually, when people say a player improved their burst, I can never really tell. But what Shai was doing last night was so clear that even I caught it. He looked much faster bursting out of his moves, it was crazy to see.

[tsherkin]

His learning curve will be cutting the fat out of his game and learning what he's best at and not just able to do.

And not just what he thinks is cool, or whatever. But gong after what works really well to effect.

[bigboi]

Hali is terrible and Ja is a sleeper MVP pick. Can’t believe yall overhyped Hali last year