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The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"james edwards" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Go baron bam. You know, Gobert is still the overwhelming favorite as of recently with bam Giannis jaren Jackson and rob tied for fourth and draymond still coming in at 6, even though he's missed the last 20 games or whatever it is. I don't know if it's possible and we've seen silly stuff with like this before with the All-Star Game and I know even on dome theory today, James Edwards was talking about co rookie of the years, could you give the defensive player of the year award to the Celtics starting lineup, just that unit as a whole, all 5 guys. That'd be kind of cool. Marcus is, I've tried to find one that goes deep enough to include him, is 14. Is Rudy really going to win this year? 14th, 14th tied with drew Holliday and Jimmy Butler. As far as Biggs, what do you call jaren Jackson? Four 5 four 5. So I don't know if he'd fall. He might get, you know, I'm just trying to even think of all defensive player positions here because you're probably looking at Rudy Giannis, draymond jarrin, and then who knows what? Is it a mixed bag like that? They kind of do positions, don't they? They do, but you might give two forward slots to Giannis and jaren Jackson. And then try to find a couple of guards, but I'm curious how that goes. Because Robert Williams right now in terms of what you would call a true 5, is up there. You know, I would have thought it would be close with mobley and Allen also getting respect, but he's getting focused might even get some looks this year in terms of the weight he's carrying at that. And it's been an outstanding year for him on the defensive side of the ball too. Rob might end up being a tough snub there. You're right. That is interesting. He should probably fit in the side. I'm surprised, I'm surprised he's getting the national recognition. I thought it usually takes a year after he arrives. So we saw the taste of rob last year, but it wasn't a full season's worth of use and he was kind of a limited player and he had some injuries. So usually someone who kind of breaks out in their first year doesn't get the recognition this quickly. So that's why I didn't think Robert get it, but it's interesting that stats that they're the roof. He's got a great statistical profile. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he did last year, too. It's just, it was, you know, somewhat limited. His numbers last year per 36 were even more impressive. Yeah, and if you care about this stat at all, I think Tatum leads the league and defensive win shares..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"james edwards" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Teams are just going to wait. And those previous three stories that we just went and those were being Mark Stein, Christian wood Robin Lopez dad young. Jumping to James Edwards from the athletic, saying that the wizards kings and blazers have all reached out on Jeremy grant, which is not a surprise. And those are names that we have heard circling Jeremy grant for a while now. In addition to many other teams, there's a lot of teams that are after Jeremy grant. The nets are partly a team that reached out as well, but they don't have the assets to get him, which is not a surprise, but if you're the nets, you gotta try. You gotta make the phone call. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you gotta see what you can do with the minimal assets. You're working with the nets are slightly different than the Lakers who we've talked about having not a lot that they can offer in trades. But the nets have at least they've got a couple of those mid range contracts that you could pile together if you really needed to. Their problem is like a guy like Bruce Brown, who might be of interest to teams in trade. He can block a trade because he's on a one year contract with bird rates that gives him kind of the de facto no trade closet. They're cutting the grass in the neighborhood. So we'll try to speak a little louder so nobody. Here's that in the background here. Yes, it's Florida. We still cut grass all year round. But the other thing is it is a Portland. I don't know. Where are we going here? What else are we doing? Washington, okay, if you think he's a really great fit with Bradley Beal, moving forward, and you think he can sell it. And then the kings, I don't, that makes just no sense to me at all. I agree on Portland, Portland is a strange landing, but because really Portland should be trading away players right now. They should be trying to get value for what they've got. I mean, at best case what Portland kind of reshuffles the deck. Let's say they trade away CJ McCollum, who we're going to talk about in just a bit. And then they bring in Jeremy grant. And maybe it's not the same trade, but, you know, roundabout. That's what winds up happening. Are they that much better? I mean, I guess it depends on which pieces get shuffled around those guys. I think Jeremy grant could certainly help them. Maybe the checks are a box of, I wanna be the second guy at least on the offensive end or whatever. For him, so I mean, maybe, but I just don't know if that's the move that puts the blazers into the position that they want to be in. But again, they're in a tough spot..
Game Theory Podcast
"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"We got style icon. Detroit Pistons beat writer. Just legend of the game, one of the best beat writers in all of the country. It's James Edwards from over at the athletic James. How you doing, man? Award winning beat writer man, congratulations. I appreciate it, man. Always glad to be on with you always good to talk with you. Yeah, it's been good, getting through this season. It's been a little more fun covering the team. Last month or so. But the NBA in general has been a lot of fun this season despite the craziness of COVID and all that stuff, but it's been good. I've enjoyed it, love falling along with what you're doing. I'm very excited for this draft class in a weird way. And your part to blame, so thank you for having me on. That makes one of us, James because I have been talking about this draft class for a long time. And it's getting tough. Getting tough to find new angles, even though we don't know who half of the first round picks are going to be this year. It's super interesting. And I think with me and you will eventually talk about it as we do every year many times. Given who I cover, but yeah, it's an interesting class for many reasons. Yeah, today I wanted to have James on to do the all star discussion. So we are going to talk about the all star starters that were named last night on TNT. We're going to talk about who our choices would be for the all star reserves. Don't know if James feels the same way I do, but the Eastern Conference was an absolute bloodbath. The Western Conference, I got down to like 8 names for 7 guys. Like I felt pretty good about where was that in the west? The east, I am going to hand ring myself into picks that I still honestly as we're talking. I still don't necessarily have it completely locked down who my picks are going to be as we get ready to talk about the eastern no same here. Yeah, there's too many guys. Okay. But first I want to start on some just random NBA trade news and notes that have come across in the last 48 hours since I last recorded..
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"You consider john. Laura one but i'm not there a three to save his life for detroit Yeah i mean there's just a lot of creativity they can do in that helps cayden killian who encase case like. He's close to a flawless prospect. As we've seen again the ceiling might not be as high as people think. Like i said i think at the minimum wage is going to be a good nba player. And that's fine like that's good. But they're not the the one flaw you could say he's not the most athletic in neither is killing so I think in killings case you saw a little bit of trouble part of the reason he struggled at the rim. I think is mason was always rolling so there was always an extra body. Now there's a chance for both those guys when they get downhill and there's nobody around it's just their man to beat So i think that helps them a lot from a lacking athleticism standpoint as well as just being able to pass the ball out to a guy who can more than likely mac down at three point shot for you. Yeah definitely and i think you're gonna see a lot. More is a rolling this year and You know. I'm just excited to see how that dynamic kind of plays out in the some of the variety that they're going to be able to play with with the bench in the starting lineup lasting. I want to ask you look. We did mentioned you. Marco at the beginning do think i know he is just a random two-way guy but he players watch summer league. I thought it was very good in summer league and importantly to i do think he has a real shots and make this roster at some point like as we've talked about things like The only thing this is like really quote unquote missing is a is a backup for like backup forward. And i mean you can very clearly see him developing into that if he gets real time with with cities he's also taller in person. I think he's listed at six ninety. Looks like he's six eleven he's tall you. Oh he's all winds man like he's he's definitely used to fill out a little bit more awake yet. He's he's long had shit and he can shoot like he can really on it stroke. It was just kind of funny because we do this thing with prospects all the time like everybody looked at tomorrow. Pick it and they're like well he's inefficient lake. Takes too many mid range or something. Okay well you know why because nobody the fuck elsa georgetown shit with the ball..
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"It's a big question and it's kind of thing to pay attention. The underlying storyline to pay attention to If you're a pistons fan throughout camp 'cause one of those guys isn't going to get regular minutes to start the year. Yeah interesting thing about to like. I don't want it project. One of them getting traded like obviously. I think that's something you can envision like expiring contract exactly. Oh yeah. I always forget that. He's from trade does yeah. He almost wants michigan state. I remember that and they went to kansas instead but paycheck. I'm probably but you know With with hami though. Like i think he's one the i. I wanna say underrated because under eight over raise all Like one of the least talk about athletes in the nba. Like that condemned the fucking gym man like he did. Did you win the dunk contest. I thank you one dunk contest. I don't remember that. I know i think he had the highest burton's combine though. I know he did the dunk contest. I'm looking it up right now. 'cause i can't remember if you want it but i know he was in. It wanted to do it. His rookie year. He was a second year. They did a dunk contest. I don't think he wanted. But i definitely i know any nineteen. Yeah don't want it. you want remember that at all. She exactly like. I think it was like him in hash. Remember who else was in that in twenty years. Probably aaron gordon. Well yeah boy. Being like is well in a in a small sample size last year With with detroit gets to the line like obviously like his handles. Not great belykh. It's functional enough with how athletic years to just kinda get where he wants to and Like i don't know you can just see stuff with them. I liked the oddball. Defense off ball slow work in progress By i mean yeah. I like him a lot and same..
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"The best playmaking he's played with since he was in In detroit obviously. But it's only your too but still a big upgrade over last year. I agree and yeah man like right now when i think about jeremy and look at them last year and and try to factor into a better team like i like i said earlier i don't. He's not khris middleton right now i'm not gonna say he can never get to that Because he's kind of again blown expectation The water. I not again. Don't hold me to that. i'm just saying. We don't know what jeremy can be when you put other pieces around him and what he showed. His last year was was provides optimism like right now. I see jeremy and kind of like the same tier. somebody might call me. Cro semi comic tobias harris. No i think that's fair. Lady i i think i mean obviously devices better shooter from all levels belykh. Also he wasn't doing nearly as much with the ball stanzas. Jeremy did last year. So i think he's better going downhill. Andy better defending and it's like i've covered tobias. Great guy good basketball player of tobias is your number one option. You're probably not going too far. If he's your number two it depends on who the number one is And he's probably a little overqualified for being the third best player on a team And that's kind of where i'm at right now. A jeremy's like he's at between two and three on a on a good team. I could see him getting to to if evolves and develops off. What he he built last year. Yeah no definitely on. And i like you mentioned earlier with with cdc That's another interesting way of things. Some fit in terms of just thinking about what the starting lineup is this year. And i it's kind of a projection of moving forward. Like obviously i think so the cast start belykh where you out was to decommission this year because like you mentioned He's got a y. Like he's shown more like especially like what he did. Kind of mashing the post a little bit last year still away school with his hand will getting there and getting into the post going a spots fantastic with that. You saw that in summer league and seen a little bit in preseason tool Up trying to find ways to get every single guy ways the to maximize themselves or something admiral Interested to see from dwayne case this year What do you think of like what. His role is. Coming to your. What is going to be asked to do. Or what are you open to see from him to. Yeah we talk to duane answered about a little last night or i'm sorry a wednesday night and wrote about it following the.
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"Where does this put you with. jeremy grant. click obviously I still feel like people didn't talk enough about jeremy last year and what. He did Part of that you know. His his numbers did tell office. Season went on. I feel like a lot of that was just a fatigue be. His teammates just got progressively worse throughout the as is the roster kinda got sold off more young guys. Were playing a bigger minutes out a lot yet to toward the end and he was just overall i mean he had the best year of his career. While still being really damn good defensively. Mom i mean it is something that i've kind of wondered about ever ever since k. Got drafted lake. of course. You're going to prioritize aid in killing and getting them wraps but I mean what is this kind of germy said anything about this. Was anything that you've kind of thought about in terms of what this means for him because it stuff look at. Yeah no i. I wrote in The other day ahead of the preseason games everybody's interested in and killian. I'm interested in cayden. Grant Jeremy was a guy last like you said showed that he could go another level as a basketball player. he can he can initiate offense. he can. he can be ineffective go-to guy even on a bad team like there. He wasn't the most efficient worldly wasn't super inefficient. Especially when you factor in. Who was around him yeah The numbers were fine. Cade i think what jeremy needed. I think what it showed us. He's he's a number. I think there's maybe always have a hard time articulating this. I don't think jeremy's a number one guy did team. Yeah definitely not. Am i confident. He's a number three guy on a good team. I think last year showed that yes. Now my question is we've kinda always since jeremy's last few years in his career we've always kind of put a cap on what he can be. And i don't wanna do that this year like i'm still. I'm curious to see if maybe he can be a number two guy on a good team. Like i'm not ready to say. He's chris middleton yet. But do i want to go ahead and write him off as not being able to be chris milton. No because now there's a guy in cade who is gonna demand more attention guy who can create for himself. There's going to be more is on him. it's gonna open up one more lanes for jeremy more better shots for jeremy and on top of that. Last night's preseason game. Jeremy just look more comfortable in his role as ago to guy didn't force anything When he went to go get his shots they were in his spots where he likes to get finished at the rim hit easy step in jumpers like he had an efficient nineteen points last night and i think going twenty two minutes or something like that. I think. Cade.
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"james edwards" Discussed on Premium Hoops
"Podcast. This is your host mark schindler as always before we get started today. If you have not already please be sure to rate and review us over an apple podcasts. And of course. Check out our backlog of team previews we got a lot coming up still. I think we're we're past the halfway point already but season's just about here. I am really psyched to be joined by a good friend of mine and somebody who's bound pot a few times and that's james edwards the third from the athletic covering the pistons james. How're you doing today. Man doing well mark. Always good to see your face always good to hear your voice. We text a lot Yeah man things are going well. Happy to be in the swing of things have a little bit of normalcy on the job. Life a little bit Glad to be back on the pod in and glad to be chatting with you hire. Marc people hire mark. Mark's one of the best. I appreciate that task shirt under his say underdog. Put it on t. shirt. Hey as long as i'm not on shacking the fool it all works. That publicity can be good publicity and saying whatever. But i appreciate you man that also james getting poppy soon which mary also. I do have to say though as somebody who got a puppy right before. Nba season started without even covering the team yet. That was like kind of a nightmare. How are you. How are you preparing for a dog dab life. Even though you're trying to not be a dog dead yes so this is we kind of have me and my girlfriend who i live with. We have a pretty a rule. We have an agreement. This is her dog. she's paying for the dog. She's the one that's wanted a dog She knows there are times like after the pistons first game of the year which is a home game there on the were on the road for a week. so she needs to figure out when she's at work who's watching the dog When i'm home. I'll gladly take out play with impediment..
Game Theory Podcast
"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"They got Diallo on a reasonable deal two years 10 million. That happened literally right as we started reporting. Second year team option, that's a great deal. I liked what I saw from Saban Lee last year. Luka Garza, I'll be honest, I thought it was insane that he made second team all summer league, but at the end of the day, he was a great second round picket summer league. I thought he'd played really, really well. Offensively looked like a potential stretch big. I think Isiah livers has a shot to be a real floor spacer as a wing at 6 foot 7 to space the floor and extend Cunningham. They're building a roster that makes sense next to cade as he is in his developmental years. And that's really all you can ask for from Detroit at this point, right? Yep, Detroit has gotten itself in trouble over the last decade plus by trying to. Speed up the process. This rebuild that they really started last year should have started many years ago, probably. And now they are here and they're being patient and it's worked out. I mean, you get the number one pick and a great draft. You hit on, I think we would all agree two of the three last year with one still up in the air. Saban Lee looks like he could be at minimum a long time back up point guard at minimum. And that second round pick, Isaiah livers, I agree with you. It seems to be a longtime floor spacer. So Dwayne Casey was pleading for shooting. They got three shooters in this year's draft, Sadiq bay last year, Isaiah Stewart has the potential to be a floor spacer with more time. They're building the rest of the right way. They're being patient and I think that is all Detroit fans have wanted for quite some time. Did they get better? Yes, they got better if only because they have kid Cunningham now and kicking him is a star. Let's go to Indiana. Indiana had a quiet off season because they're big addition was firing Nate bjorkan and bringing in Rick Carlisle, which is about as good of a coaching upgrade as any team will have this off season. They traded Aaron holiday in pick number 31 in order to draft Isiah Jackson at number 22..
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"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"All right, we're up on the team, the James covers the Detroit Pistons. They drafted Kate Cunningham, as well as Isaiah livers Luca Garza and basha, copra vizza. Oh boy. They signed Kelly Olynyk to a three year $37 million deal. They signed Cory Joseph to a two year $10 million deal they resigned hamadou Diallo to a two year $10 million deal. They signed Frank Jackson to a two year $6 million deal, they signed Trey lyles to a minimum contract. The sign Sabin Lee two or three year deal, they signed Rodney magruder to a minimum deal and they traded mason plumlee to get off of his contract. Using the 37th overall pick and bringing back that deer sweet balls of copra Vita pick. James, did I miss anything there? They had a busy off season. No, you got everything. Yeah, Troy went into the off season telling us that he was just going to bring back his players and that's what he did. I mean, I absolutely Olynyk wasn't, but other than that, everybody else was entree, everybody else was on the roster last year. So this is weird insofar as they made a lot of moves. And they got their centerpiece, right? But like, it's a very consequential off season because they got cade Cunningham and because like they now have their key building block. I don't know that it was like a particularly interesting off season to talk about. Like it was just a smart off season for Detroit, I thought. They handled their business. I think the big thing with Detroit and I mean, they've always kind of thrown out bits and pieces of this happening and that this was going to how it was. This is how it would play out. Their eyes are on next year's free agency. And the year after that, they have Blake's money comes off the books after this year. They have a ton of cap space. I think what was important for them was getting a lot of luck and getting that centerpiece. Using this year as another development year to get him adjusted, Sadiq, Isaiah kilian..
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"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"The rest of the Cleveland conversation with James Edwards. All right, let's go to Cleveland. They the big one is that they drafted Evan mobley. They still haven't made a decision yet on the Colin Sexton. Potential extension or anything like that. So it's possible that could happen at some point in the next couple of weeks. Look, I think that anything if they could get them to four 80 or less, it's probably a win if anything over four 97, which is what Terry Rozier got. I think is probably a questionable deal 'cause I don't even really love the rosier deal. I'll just kind of say that in case something happens in the next couple of weeks. But they signed Jarrett Allen to a 5 year $100 million deal and they traded Tory and prints for Ricky Rubio and I believe they moved to second round pick within that deal to get Rubio. This is just going to be just kind of a shorter one because they didn't do a ton. But I've gotten a lot of flack for saying that I don't think I would personally want to be the executive that pays Jared Allen 5 years, a $100 million. It's not that I think he's a bad player. I think he's basically the line for what is like a league average starting center in today's NBA and I just don't know that I want to pay my league average starting center, a $100 million contract at the end of the day. Yeah, I don't know if the confidence is there that you're gonna get your bang for your buck. Yeah, I don't think that really has a chance of being a plus value deal. Exactly. Just like looking at what's in Adam's got like everyone complained about the Steven Adams two year $36 million extension last year that he got from New Orleans, and part of that was team fit, right? He's not the best fit with Zion Williamson necessarily and I get that. But like Steven Adams, I think is a better overall player than Jared Allen. I get that Jared Allen can finish above the rim at a better level than what Steven Adams can in the counting numbers look a little bit better for Jared Allen. But I think Steven hallam is a much better overall defender than what Jared Allen is. And if we're asking, I would rather have Stephen Adams right now than Jared Allen. Jared Allen's 23 years old, but to lock in to a center for 5 years, $20 million and me personally evaluating Jared Allen is not really having a chance to be like an all in BA type center, probably be an all star type center, like I still think Larry Nancy is a better player than Jared Allen. It's just like, it's a little bit tough for me, I guess, to wrap my head around that deal. No, and I get where you're coming from. I like Jared Allen, but I wouldn't have been, I wouldn't have I feel like if I'm in those shoes, Kobe Altman shoes, I wouldn't have done 5 for a hundred. Because of the reasons you said, I don't know if I'm gonna get my bang for my buck..
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"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"About Laurie marketing if only because what this marketing deal has done is it locks them into even more money long term into the front court because marketing is a four or 5. You can't play them at the three, doesn't have the mobility defensively to do that. And I guess that you can make the case that it now allows them to bring Evan mobly along slowly, but I don't see this team as a playoff contender. I think that you're going to want to play even mobile and get as many minutes into them as you can. And by the way, I think he's probably going to be better than Jared Allen immediately anyway. Even with the lack of strength that he has. So you've essentially locked in 15 to $16 million a year on Lowry marketing after locking in $20 million a year flat over the next 5 years on Jared Allen. And that's $36 million locked up in your front court on top of the Kevin Love deal that I mean, it seems like Kevin Love is not long for this roster at this point. But even if he gives back 10 million, let's say, it still means that there's 50 million over the next two years, something like that on this roster that they're going to have to deal with on their cap sheet over the next two years, and that's if they choose not to stretch him over the next 5 years, which would mean an even longer situation to deal with with Kevin Love, contract. And I just would not prolong the sadness on this. I would just rip the band aid off and get as much back as you can on the buyout and move forward. But it just again, it seems like Cleveland continues to just go and get these tall guys that aren't very flexible and versatile within the modern game. In Jared Allen and in Larry marketing because while they're good players, they just are guys that we don't know how effective they're going to be and play off basketball at the end of the day. And we don't know how effective Colin Sexton and Darius Garland are going to be in playoff basketball at the end of the day. So everything you're about to hear in terms of my questions regarding Cleveland's direction with James Edwards, that still stands. At this point with the calves, I didn't really love this move for them to go out and get Lowry marketing. And it just continues to follow the trajectory of Cleveland moves that I haven't really understood. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just like totally missing what Kobe Altman's vision is here. And on some level, it's been a while since Cleveland has been able to attract good players. So going out and being able to convince Larry marketing to sign this offer sheet and then negotiate a sign and trade with Chicago like that's a win for Cleveland on some level. It's just the big picture that I still struggle to really navigate and even small picture looking at the just micro of this. I'm really struggling a little bit to navigate my thoughts on moving Larry Nance for Larry market and given that Nance wanted to be there and that he's a better player than marketing..
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"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I think there's a world in which we see more effort from Levine because he may be, I don't know if inspired is the right word. But this is by far the best team he's ever played on. The green, watching him at the Olympics. He looked a lot more engaged offensively and was much better. So I like what they did. I understand. The team building aspect and not trying to put a ceiling on yourself. But in the NBA, for a market like Chicago that logo has so much power and it's just faded away in the background for the last since the peak of Derrick Rose. It was time to make a move and to just be relevant again. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I think the time was now. It had just been it's just been too long since anybody's really cared about the Chicago Bulls. Yeah, totally agree. And then the Lonzo sign in trade, I think was really, really smart as well. Those are the two big moves and the two big swings they made. The Lonzo Ball and pairing it particularly with Alex Caruso because the thing that the demar Derozan and Zach lavine perimeter core doesn't have necessarily is a high level plus defender. Because even if we think Levine is going to be improved defensively, he's still probably not going to be much better than average to slightly above average. And I think that might even be a stretch. It would take an improvement for him to get to slightly above average for sure. But going out and getting Lonzo Ball, who's a really, really high level off ball playmaker defensively and going to get Alex Caruso who I thought had a genuine case to make the all defense team last year in Los Angeles. Those two guys fit really, really well with Zach lavine and demar Derozan as backcourt partners. I would think that you get a lot of three man lineups with that four player group that make a lot of sense and really, really work. I would imagine they're gonna start all of Lonzo, Zach lavine and demar Derozan, but Alex Caruso works with any of those guys on the court and should be a very high level complimentary piece for this group. No, I agree with everything you said. I like the balance. I like even the subtleness of adding a Caruso who, I mean, obviously, people know who he is, he played with the Lakers and his meme moment and all that stuff. But to your average casual basketball fan it's a subtle move, but it's a good move. It feels a void for Chicago, like you said, he can play with any of those guys. He adds a I mean, he's a top tier. He's a top notch defender. And that was something that was missing something they needed. Obviously, they're not going to be this super deep team. But having loading up on guards and being able to stagger, I think is going to kind of disguise that a little bit. Again, I just like what they did. I'm more so than anything. I'm interested in figuring out what it looks like and just monitoring that team for a whole year because I think it could be fun..
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"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"And he's older, so there's a chance that the third year of that deal is not particularly good. I just kind of don't care. I will do. I don't care. He is really good. And I think that the people who have kind of brought him up as this ball dominant like black hole of basketball, just haven't watched him play the last couple of years. Like you watch him in San Antonio, he was one of really has developed as a great passer. This is something that I mentioned late in his Toronto tenure that he was really getting better as a passer. Nobody seemed to believe me then. It seems like the people who have watched him in San Antonio are starting to believe now that he is an actual passer. Like you can throw him the ball on a second side action. He can get into the paint and he makes high level kick out past as he makes for high level dump off passes. He's a really good pick and roll playmaker for a team that needs secondary creation next to Zach lavine in the backward. Lonzo Ball is a transition like out on the break, grab and go, we're gonna get the offense going guy. And he's a great floor spacer in the half court and he's good defensively. He does a lot of different stuff. And I think that's a great signing for them too. And we'll talk about that in a minute. Zach Levine needs help, though. In terms of creating offense. And I think that Nikola vucevic is going to work as a really good pick and roll partner for both of those guys. They're going to have 48 minutes of really high level offensive creation out on the court now because you can stagger the Zach lavine and demar Derozan minutes. I think this is a home run off season for Chicago. The more I think about it, the more I really love what they did, even if I do agree with some of the criticism that they may have topped themselves out a bit, but I think that where they topped themselves out was more in trading for vucevic as opposed to what they did this off season. This off season is a reaction to moving Wendell Carter and multiple first round picks for Nikola vucevic and trying to keep Zach lavine, but once you do that and decide to go all in on the vucevic Levine corps, this is the best move that you can make following that move in order to give this core a chance at least. Yeah, I think what you just said hit the nail on the head. I think people you could read the tea leaves and it was very clear that Chicago last year making the vujovic deal was tired of being blah. And they weren't very good after the trade, but it was set up for like we just talked about to do something this summer and to get it was a trickle down effect. It was the vuchevich trade was setting the tone for what was going to come this year that they were going to be trying to be in the playoff picture that they were going to try to not like you said, push past the play in and be a playoff team. Offensively, they're going to be just a joy to watch. I think on paper, it looks like it could be very fun. Defensively, obviously there's questions. But you add a solid to good defender and Lonzo, pat Williams, I think, is ready to take that leap..
Game Theory Podcast
"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Sergio, you and I both know that I don't have that kind of self control. If something like that happens, I'll be around. Yeah, it's just the nature of how we operate when you're kind of stuck in this, as you know, Sam, this machine, like, you don't want to feel left out. That's right. Especially if that magnitude. Yeah. Yeah, really, like, if say the Detroit Pistons trade like siddiq bay for some ungodly reason. Like they're not going to do it. But say they would, right? I probably wouldn't come back for that. I'd be like, you know what? That's fine, whatever. Like, James is great. He'll handle it. You know? Sure. My whole vacation. Yeah, I'm sure other people handle it. I don't need to be around for that. But dame, Ben Simmons, et cetera, that's when you'll see me come around for sure. Okay. Well, I hope that doesn't happen. Enjoy enjoy the break. I hope it doesn't happen either. Okay, so let's talk I know we only have like 40 minutes here. So let's talk about the Chicago Bulls. The Chicago Bulls signed a trader for Lonzo Ball, gave him a four year right around $80 million is what it came in at when it was filed according to spell track. For in the traded Tomas sat arounds ski Garrett sample and a second round pick in order to stay over the cap when signing and trading for Lonzo Ball. They signed and traded for demar Derozan gave him a three year $85 million deal sending thaddeus young Alfred Aminu a first and a second round pick to San Antonio. They signed Alex Caruso to a four year $37 million deal. They signed Tony Bradley to a minimum contract. They re signed javonte green. They drafted Io to sumo and gave him a two year deal, and then they signed Marco simonovich, their second round pick from last season gave him a three year contract. Overall, I think Chicago had a really good off season. I understand the consternation that some people have for this off season just in terms of limiting flexibility long term and potentially topping them out as like a four seed in the east. But I think that when you're Chicago, you're really just trying to get back in error of respectability. And that is valuable. And the moves that they made this summer in my opinion are going to push them out of the play in range and into the actual playoffs. And that has value whenever you're in a market like Chicago. I agree a 1000%. I know a lot of people were given the side eye to the doors and deal and I understand it like contractually and all that stuff. But this is the first time in a long time. I'm genuinely interested in watching the bulls. I don't know how good this team is going to be. It could not work like you look at it. There's a world in which it doesn't work, but I want to find out. And I think for Chicago after so many years of just being blah, I don't know that I mean, it is still the bowls so people watch, but if you're not a bulls fan, I don't know many people that would turn on the bulls. I have had my friends tell me like they're interested to see what the bulls do. And I think that they were just at that point where they needed to have some type of relevancy again. It's just been so long. Yeah, they needed to be relevant again. I get the questions about the demar Derozan deal. He's like, in a vacuum, maybe not worth $27 million anymore..
Game Theory Podcast
"james edwards" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"NBA. That's game. Like in the NBA Finals, when the bucks had their backs against the wall. You holiday steals the ball, pushes the break. Alley hoop to Yanis for an iconic slam. Seals game 5 in the eventual title. That's the NBA. That's game. This is more than just basketball. It's what connects us all and keeps us coming back for more. That's the NBA. That's game. Hello, welcome to the game three podcast tomorrow, Sam fassini represented by the athletic today on the show, good friend of the program. James Edwards is here. Continuing our series of off season recaps, we are going to go with the central division. Now, that's going to be Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Indiana, Milwaukee, James is here, and we're going to talk about all of those teams. I'm getting James like 5 minutes after home do Diallo resign with the Detroit piston. So his life got a little bit frantic a little bit quicker. How's it going, James? It's going well. Yeah, like I told you before we started recording. Everything's been good until you try to take somebody somewhere or do something that normal people get to do at 6 p.m. eastern standard time. And of course, out of all the times, how to do could have resigned. It's when you're 30, 40 minutes away from your computer. But that's the nature of the business. And I should have known, even though it's late, it's mid August. I should have still just taken my computer with me. I'll never be able to escape it. No. No, you're never going to be able to escape it. When this gets recorded, I will be off for two weeks and will have not thought about basketball for at least a week by the time I think this gets released. I don't know when I'll release that. I think it will probably be in the second week. Of my vacation. So I could not be more excited to get away from basketball for two weeks. As much as I love it and as much as I really genuinely love working, it's been like 18 months. We needed a break here. Yes, sir. I'm taking it. I'm taking at least a week after tomorrow, maybe two. I'm with you. And I'm thinking about doing it for the first time taking Twitter off my phone. I think I can do it now that homies that homie has signed 'cause I thank each bird is done. See, it'll be funny. Wave somebody. Because I have I have told our editors, Sergio, Sergio Gonzalez, who's like genuinely like maybe the best person I've ever worked with. Surgery, I love Sergio. Yeah, interpersonally communication wise, not just like a great boss, but like a friend and someone who is legitimately just like the best person on Planet Earth. That's a great person. Genuinely great person. And I was like, yeah, I'm planning on not opening my laptop unless Damian Lillard or Ben Simmons or like Bradley Beal or some shit. Unless one of these guys gets traded. And he was like, even then you are not opening your laptop..
The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"james edwards" Discussed on The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"And so, I knew I belonged, then I knew I knew, I was going to be in the NBA, my next stop was the NBA and I was taking a number 12. So I was, I was allowed to repent. I was a lottery Pick, and in nineteen seventy-seven. And I look back on it, I think maybe three or four of us, my dad grabbed class, 1 championships and I don't think anybody above me. I could no, no, there was one, one guy above me and Jack, sikma ended up winning a championship with Seattle, and then behind me was Norm Nixon one. And James Edwards, who end up playing with Detroit, for a while long, as they call them, he won. I think he won multiple championships. So yeah. So it was only it was maybe four people in my class to actually won a championship and nobody home. Next class was the most valuable player in the in the I was going to say, you know, no one had that one. Ain't nobody got that. Nobody had that stump was only like $44, right? Yeah. That's the only place that you you look back and almost laughed at because I think about you know the prestige that comes with that and the guys who have won, you know, if you were going to win the MVP, have won the finals, MVP than anything else, you think about. Cuz Michael Jordan, the one that we're about four or five times when he I mean, she doesn't want. 5050 were five championships so he's almost six seven employees. Okay. We want since he was, he was, he was the most valuable player six times in that thing. Do you think about the numbers that you have that magic wand bird? One, Kareem when it multiple times, you know? So it was truth, the truth. One. Yeah. Truth got wage. A lot of bands is just something that's just a rare. Rare, Sanji badal, got one. Yeah, I told you that story how Kendrick Perkins was Whitney OKC at that time and hardening the rent. They were in the locker room after the game. I went in and speak to perk and I was teasing them. I said herb you owe me some money. You said you know perk and his way looked up and said yeah just cuz you they just cuz you the fucking MVP in the finals read.
Native America Calling
The perfect pandemic garden
"Today. We are going to start off in Santa Fe New Mexico we have James Edwards with us. He is a Powell. Mc and organic gardening student James's Ponti and my pleasure to have him here with us today. James Welcome thank you Tara. Greetings to all your listeners in our friends and relatives out there Hope everybody's staying safe I've been living here in Santa Fe with my family for about seventeen years now I grew up around a traditional and conventional style Gardening early on in my wife. My Grandmother There in Oklahoma My family also was around that quite a bit and just over the years I moved more towards Gardening at home Especially the more I moved into Embracing more of my culture. You know many of us grew up in the suburbs in urban settings and weren't always able to you know to see that first hand you know gardening methods and not realizing the importance of it to our cultures as indigenous people in all these different regions and I Been focusing mainly on organic and natural methods and again in a suburban setting mostly containers So that to be flexible. You know either if you're moving or you know. Taking advantage of the sun a little micro climates in their yard. You know taking into consideration the needs or the different of the different varieties of different types of plants. You know some do well in shade some do well in full sun and learning all those You know different types. Assure important to your success and there's a lot of lessons that come with all of this in James just hearing some of the routes that you have a no pun intended may be a little Pun In this in why gardens are important this year. Do you feel that your garden is something else. Besides just carrying on that knowledge. Yes it's taken on a new importance for myself my family and for a lot of people out there The endemic situation going on the food chain supply Having hiccups having difficulties There are some shortages of you know usually widely available foods in our supermarkets and we tend to rely on that and so- relying on ourselves more. You know in the sense you know is giving that importance and a combination of traditional and modern methods is contributing to our success as gardeners and being able to fill our freezers. The thrown vegetables To can vegetables and fruits. That's the importance cannot be understated at all. I mean it can't be overstated as the importance for food security especially in places out here in the literal desert where there are many food desserts especially on reservations and Some herbs some suburban areas. Some folks have to go a long way to the grocery store. We're lucky that we're close here in Santa Fe to a lot of you know a veil ability for Farmers Markets and supermarkets and a lot of people. Don't have that and so it's as important to me even though we have that availability is just as important as it is to somebody out on the reservation Well away from supplies and food availability. Sure in we're seeing the other side of that of wind supply. Isn't there and so James. Tell me about what you decided to plant this year. How it's going. How early did you start and we WANNA hear Your Garden Story to? You can give us a call. Share your thoughts. Share your stories at one. Eight hundred nine nine six two eight four eight glad James I use a combination of some commercials varieties and traditional varieties heritage varieties. I my family is in possession of several varieties of corn that might try took from Nebraska Oklahoma when we resettled into Indian territory when we got our agency We were very fortunate there. Several families among the Ponti who are in possession of these Koren's of one being called an eagle corn. It's a very sacred corn syrup. Ponti People There's a lot of hard work done through the Panis Preservation Project Under the leadership of deb Echo Hawk to preserve these varieties and now they're freely available tribal members and even trouble members like us who are away from our home area. They sent him in the mail to us and so I am delving more into the three sisters method. This year and traditionally that's been corn beans and squash. They're mutually beneficial companion planting concepts Like the beans give nitrogen to the corn and the squash. The squashed provides shade to keep the soil moist and the corn provides the stocks for the means to grow up. And I know a lot of people are doing this now. It's catching on all across the country. And so I'm using Ponti Blue Corn. I'm using a man Dan vining squash and I'm using black and white beans. That were I believe. Erroneously called Cave beings by some archaeologists who found some traditional being variety grown by the Pueblos here since their ancestral times. And so I. Have you know several different traditional variety working in conjunction to Create these gardens
