Around the NBA 2025-26 - Vol 2... Hard Knock Season

[RHODEY]

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Used to hate him.Actually I still do...but in a good way. Like the WWE heel you love to hate and low key root for.

[Montmorencie]

watched DEN-HOU and it was fun. clearly the 2nd and 3rd best teams in the league imo.
Houston has more talent and options, but Jokic is so much better than everybody else, it is borderline comical.

Hmmmm, I am not sure about the talent this year. Nuggets have a starting five of Murray - Braun - Johnson - Gordon and Jokic. This is better than Rockets' 5. Then you have THJ, Bruce Brown, Valanciunas and Watson from the bench (and this Spencer Jones guy looking promising as well). But the rotations are mostly Jokic with Watson (to cut and cover on defense) and THJ (to spread the floor) and Murray with Valanciunas (to mimic Murray - Jokic) and Bruce Brown (to help with bringing the ball up). This is a scary, scary lineup man.

They are second defensively in the league while being flawless offensively. They have the best player in the world by a mile and Murray, no matter how trash he plays, always steps up in the 4th.

A significantly worse version of Nuggets took OKC to 7 games. And they really choke game 5 and 6 uncharacteristically. I am quite confident this is the best team in the NBA rn.

[Guano]

Cap our guy is killing it

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meLo, its known you need recs on good bigs. So feel free to hit cap or me up we will point you in the right direction.

I’ve never watched him at all before this highlight reel. If he developed a 3 point shot perhaps he could be the next Julius Randle

Hell of twist on that ending. When i think of great passing bigs Randle is definitely at the top of the list.

[Guano]

guan0 harris0n im happy your guy is balling. see i am such a great person i will give you props

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The audacity

If i wasn't lazy id pull up your quotes after the trade praising nico for this trade. Then after a week you pulled a greenie and admitted it was bad.

[3toheadmelo]

guan0 harris0n im happy your guy is balling. see i am such a great person i will give you props

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The audacity

If i wasn't lazy id pull up your quotes after the trade praising nico for this trade. Then after a week you pulled a greenie and admitted it was bad.

as if you aren't pulling a greenie with your derik queen praise mf. we are all green satan.

[Guano]

guan0 harris0n im happy your guy is balling. see i am such a great person i will give you props

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The audacity

If i wasn't lazy id pull up your quotes after the trade praising nico for this trade. Then after a week you pulled a greenie and admitted it was bad.

as if you aren't pulling a greenie with your derik queen praise mf. we are all green satan.

Tru

But regarding derik queen ive never actually watched him play, as if id waste my time watching pels games. Ive only watched a handful of highlights. Even with queen looking legit the process is bad.

[kNicksGmen]

watched DEN-HOU and it was fun. clearly the 2nd and 3rd best teams in the league imo.
Houston has more talent and options, but Jokic is so much better than everybody else, it is borderline comical.

Hmmmm, I am not sure about the talent this year. Nuggets have a starting five of Murray - Braun - Johnson - Gordon and Jokic. This is better than Rockets' 5. Then you have THJ, Bruce Brown, Valanciunas and Watson from the bench (and this Spencer Jones guy looking promising as well). But the rotations are mostly Jokic with Watson (to cut and cover on defense) and THJ (to spread the floor) and Murray with Valanciunas (to mimic Murray - Jokic) and Bruce Brown (to help with bringing the ball up). This is a scary, scary lineup man.

They are second defensively in the league while being flawless offensively. They have the best player in the world by a mile and Murray, no matter how trash he plays, always steps up in the 4th.

A significantly worse version of Nuggets took OKC to 7 games. And they really choke game 5 and 6 uncharacteristically. I am quite confident this is the best team in the NBA rn.

they (nuggets) also got a really flukey win in game 1 though otherwise could have lost in 5. but I agree they are a lot better this year. OKC was often not that impressive in the playoffs last year, including the finals. but they got it done. I would expect them to be better this year in the playoffs also.

[Reign23]

watched DEN-HOU and it was fun. clearly the 2nd and 3rd best teams in the league imo.
Houston has more talent and options, but Jokic is so much better than everybody else, it is borderline comical.

Hmmmm, I am not sure about the talent this year. Nuggets have a starting five of Murray - Braun - Johnson - Gordon and Jokic. This is better than Rockets' 5. Then you have THJ, Bruce Brown, Valanciunas and Watson from the bench (and this Spencer Jones guy looking promising as well). But the rotations are mostly Jokic with Watson (to cut and cover on defense) and THJ (to spread the floor) and Murray with Valanciunas (to mimic Murray - Jokic) and Bruce Brown (to help with bringing the ball up). This is a scary, scary lineup man.

They are second defensively in the league while being flawless offensively. They have the best player in the world by a mile and Murray, no matter how trash he plays, always steps up in the 4th.

A significantly worse version of Nuggets took OKC to 7 games. And they really choke game 5 and 6 uncharacteristically. I am quite confident this is the best team in the NBA rn.

agree, i was specifically talking about this game were they missed Gordon and Braun. Overall, Jokic has the most talent around him since he is there.

[3toheadmelo]

The audacity

If i wasn't lazy id pull up your quotes after the trade praising nico for this trade. Then after a week you pulled a greenie and admitted it was bad.

as if you aren't pulling a greenie with your derik queen praise mf. we are all green satan.

Tru

But regarding derik queen ive never actually watched him play, as if id waste my time watching pels games. Ive only watched a handful of highlights. Even with queen looking legit the process is bad.

lol i've only seen highlights as well. he passed the eye test for me in those highlights when he was in college that was enough for me lmao

[Guano]

as if you aren't pulling a greenie with your derik queen praise mf. we are all green satan.

Tru

But regarding derik queen ive never actually watched him play, as if id waste my time watching pels games. Ive only watched a handful of highlights. Even with queen looking legit the process is bad.

lol i've only seen highlights as well. he passed the eye test for me in those highlights when he was in college that was enough for me lmao

It really sucks he is on the pels cause his game is genuinely fun.

The only concern i have about his game is he looks a lil slow footed which might hinder him on defense but like I said I havent watched sht so idk if he is a bad defender or not. But in those highlights he looks smooooooth af, completelyunder control. Just sucks he is wasted playing for that franchise.

[3toheadmelo]

Tru

But regarding derik queen ive never actually watched him play, as if id waste my time watching pels games. Ive only watched a handful of highlights. Even with queen looking legit the process is bad.

lol i've only seen highlights as well. he passed the eye test for me in those highlights when he was in college that was enough for me lmao

It really sucks he is on the pels cause his game is genuinely fun.

The only concern i have about his game is he looks a lil slow footed which might hinder him on defense but like I said I havent watched sht so idk if he is a bad defender or not. But in those highlights he looks smooooooth af, completelyunder control. Just sucks he is wasted playing for that franchise.

already having concerns about him when he's just a rookie BE BETTER GUAN0

but when it comes to his defense it is a bit sus. there's no way a front court of zion and queen will ever work. i think the pelicans are gonna move him

[3toheadmelo]

mikal for harden lfg we back up guan0

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[Guano]

lol i've only seen highlights as well. he passed the eye test for me in those highlights when he was in college that was enough for me lmao

It really sucks he is on the pels cause his game is genuinely fun.

The only concern i have about his game is he looks a lil slow footed which might hinder him on defense but like I said I havent watched sht so idk if he is a bad defender or not. But in those highlights he looks smooooooth af, completelyunder control. Just sucks he is wasted playing for that franchise.

already having concerns about him when he's just a rookie BE BETTER GUAN0

but when it comes to his defense it is a bit sus. there's no way a front court of zion and queen will ever work. i think the pelicans are gonna move him

Some of us have standards and expect greatness. We dont gloss over flaws but point them out to encourage greatness. Its why im always pointing out how terrible you are. Trying to inspire you to be better.

[Guano]

Fire Leon!!!!!!!!

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[3toheadmelo]

It really sucks he is on the pels cause his game is genuinely fun.

The only concern i have about his game is he looks a lil slow footed which might hinder him on defense but like I said I havent watched sht so idk if he is a bad defender or not. But in those highlights he looks smooooooth af, completelyunder control. Just sucks he is wasted playing for that franchise.

already having concerns about him when he's just a rookie BE BETTER GUAN0

but when it comes to his defense it is a bit sus. there's no way a front court of zion and queen will ever work. i think the pelicans are gonna move him

Some of us have standards and expect greatness. We dont gloss over flaws but point them out to encourage greatness. Its why im always pointing out how terrible you are. Trying to inspire you to be better.

wym im a terrible person i just gave you props mr harris0n. your guy max christie is hooping!

[spree2kawhi]

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Used to hate him.Actually I still do...but in a good way. Like the WWE heel you love to hate and low key root for.

I feel that way with Westbrook.

[thebuzzardman]

Fire Leon!!!!!!!!

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All this was maneuvering to fit in KAT, right?

KAT so completely not worth it

[spree2kawhi]

Trivia question: who said this?

"I’m not my best self when I take eight to 10 shots," […] said about his recent play. "I can be as efficient as you want me to be. But if I’m taking eight shots, it’s like, what are we doing?“

lol. Here’s a hint: he’s always been a losing player and - naturally - one of many such players who remain Knicks board’s favorites due to stellar, yet empty offensive numbers.

[3toheadmelo]

Fire Leon!!!!!!!!

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All this was maneuvering to fit in KAT, right?

KAT so completely not worth it

yep we sacrificed a lot for kat and it looks very bad right now

[kNicksGmen]

Fire Leon!!!!!!!!

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All this was maneuvering to fit in KAT, right?

KAT so completely not worth it

That's not true. They could have drafted and kept both. It was related to them still hoping to keep Ihart if anything.

blame overpaying OG if we're acting like a few mil made a difference in the Kat trade - but it didn't.

the team has simply been bad at having any foresight in the draft. they made just as bad decisions punting on Duren/J Dub in order to sign brunson (there were absolutely other ways to free up the money)

but going back to Ihart, the team absolutely was still holding out hope he would resign up until the very end. they potentially make different moves if they knew he was gone earlier in the process.