So Monty Williams who needed Chris Paul to save his career and his top assistant Stephen Silas, a basketball terrorist in Houston are making bad decisions and just telling players to play hard? Well I’ll be damned who would’ve thought?

Real Starting 5 without Bojan has played 5 games and 29 minutes. Cade, Ivey, Asuar, Stew and Duren. They are a net positive 10. Even though the sample is tiny which is the problem. Cade is not built like Luka to go this hard on offense. He doesn’t have athletic or extreme power over most of his defenders. He needs to play the wing position while Ivey becomes the main ball handler. Stew is not a rim protecting center. Bojan is missed and so is Monte Morris for the bench Unit. The real team hasn’t played much together yet and the Killian and Bagley experiment was costly. I also hate the coach calling his players for not playing hard or executing when his Xs and Os look so bad thus far. I prefer coaches who take responsibility for both basketball and the attitude of players since that’s literally their job.

No one in this league is going to the playoffs without a star guard who can score and pass. Even Denver is way less effective without Murray and has a center with guard skills. Wemby needs trial and error until he figures his game out. I think the main issue is Chet. People have been comparing these two since u19 basketball. Chet’s offensive maturity isn’t mirroring well juxtaposed to Wemby’s. But Chet’s 2 years older and playing with a star guard that attracts an enormous amount of attention. Chet’s shot has been figured out years ago and is respected so he can pull off more moves off the dribble with better spacing

Tatum had 2 agile 6’10 defenders on him. Isaac and Franz made his life very difficult.

When the vets return he’s gonna play them. Cade will play with Monte Morris and Bojan will get a spot in the Starting 5. I can def see a situation where that wins them some games with Ivey and Asuar playing less minutes. Theoretically Cade+Duren surrounded by Shooters would have been ideal. But now the fit becomes tough without flushing your 2 top 5 picks down the toilet.

To that redditor who yesterday said the GSW announcer sounded like Tucker Carlson, thanks a lot. I simply can’t unhear it now.

Every time another draft expert tells you that you don’t draft for fit, you just take the best available player and figure it out, show them a picture of the Pistons starting 5. I get it when it’s a generational talent but other than that, if there’s little to no gap take the best fit.

The refs are doing nothing wrong. It’s clearly stated in the rule book:

An official may assess a technical foul, without prior warning, at any time. A technical foul(s) may be assessed to any player on the court or anyone seated on the bench for conduct which, in the opinion of an official, is detrimental to the game.

So they have opinions and are exercising their opinions at any given moment. A ref can just go: “Technical foul! Annoying face detrimental to the game!”

I’ve never heard of this conversation formula. 240 Just seems off like how is Paulo Banchero the same height and weighs 250 with his huge head and big arms and legs and skinny KD is 240? How is Giannis 6’11, 242? It’s not crucial just funny

6’11 in shoes maybe. But there’s no way he is 240 pounds

Yeah as long as he plays with a good PG.

Not as a basketball player. But he isn’t a guy who gets into fights and intimates others. I was exaggerating… I was in Draymond’s shoes lol

I’m sorry, ‘put yourself in x shoes’ is an easy one. Here let me try:

I’m Draymond, I have a reputation of being a dirty player who is enabled by my own team and sometimes by refs. I just cost my team the season by punching my teammate and killing the team vibe. We didn’t repeat in 2023 and needed Steph’s heroics to even get through 1 round. So here I am. Klay is pulling shirts with McDaniels and Rudy, the softest player in the NBA is approaching the entanglement.

This is the guy I said this about: “You keep mentioning me in the same sentence with him. We’re not alike,”…“We ain’t nothing alike.” Do I, Draymond, think Klay is in any danger or in trouble? No… Should I intervene? No… I would let my team down on a night when I’m badly needed. I’ll just go and calm everyone down or ask the ref to help break up the fight.

This wasn’t hard.

Very young me remembers the 1986/87 Lakers Celtics finals. I also remember the shock of the Pistons finally pushing through in 88. I didn’t watch the last game of the series and saw it on the news while I was playing with my GI Joes. Till that point I was sure the NBA was just a bunch of teams that played all season and then they just had the Celtics play the Lakers every year. When I was a teen it was the 1990 Supersonics. Xman was my favorite player. That was the first year when I could actually talk the game and understand it well enough.

Hawkins is the guy I wanted for the Magic. In his last 5 games, he is 19 ppg with 40% (9 attempts) from 3pt. Great pick up at 14 for the pels. Also miss Trey Murphy.

He’s not a heliocentric point guard like Luka. When he and the team get this he will improve in all facets. He should play off ball and receive it on the go and not in isolation or regular pick and role. In a stagnant offense he’s very bad. Even for a second year. As his career progresses he can be more on-ball. Right now everyone’s expecting him to score 23-25 points a night so he is forcing shots.

This is not a learning curve issue. His speed won’t get better. His handle is loose because of his coordination level not just bad decisions. He fumbles balls in tight spaces that highschool point guards don’t. Because he’s not a point guard. The reason he plays worse in the 2nd half or 4th quarter is not fatigue. Other teams adjust while he doesn’t. He gets doubled because it’s effective. I believe his shot will get better with proper shot selection and his turnovers will go down if he is more of a scorer on the go who can pass and not a player that has to create in a stagnant offense.

No but… I don’t think he is a lead point guard. He is a wing creator. The ball should be in his hands at specific times. They need a lead ball handler who has a tight handle and can create space with ease. Cade should get the ball on the move and not play the ‘Luka’ slow paced methodical game. Luka is stronger than 95% of the league.including bigs. Luka is a way scarier shooter on the move. Cade can’t handle the double teams that know his playbook. He loses the ball and always seems gassed by the end of the game. He should play a bit more like Tatum.

Who said I’m not appreciative? Actually stated just that. You’re the one nitpicking as if your life depends on it. KG - you’re right. The rest were older at that point.

He was a top 5 prospect until he got injured. In highschool he also showed a nice shooting touch. He has a lot of basketball in him. He’s way more than a flying agile big (aka Jaxon Hayes).

While amazing he’s younger than that list. Players used to play college. A player like Kareem coming out of highschool would set a different bar. He played 4 years. Parish was probably around 41in his last season. Kareem at 38 in 1986 was 23.3 ppg, 6.1 reb and 3.5 assists.

MJ at 38 was 22.9 ppg, 5.7 and 5.1.

This is not to discredit LeBron. What he’s doing is unprecedented. Just to put into context the other players you compared them to in their 40s