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" AP sports, I'm sure Freeman, the Los Angeles Lakers could be without LeBron James for several weeks, James has suffered a foot injury with more test results pending. A huge loss for the Charlotte hornets, lamella ball broke his ankle, while injured himself on a non contact play, he had 18 points on 6 three pointers in Charlotte's one 17 one O 6 weight over Detroit. Jimmy Butler took over in the final minute and a half to help lead Miami to a one O one 99 win at Philadelphia. We got some stocks, got out in transition. In Juan, no matter how we do it, we got one on the road. Here in Philly, and that's all we want. James Harden had a chance to win the game for the sixers, but his three pointer at the buzzer bounced out. New York over Boston one O 9 94 and Orlando beat New Orleans one O one 93. Jimmy haslam from the NFL's Cleveland Browns is now in the NBA as well. He has purchased 25% stake in the Milwaukee Bucks from bucks co owner, Marc lasry. In the NHL, Colorado best at Las Vegas for nothing that's a 6th straight win for the ebbs and right wing mikko rantanen. I think the defensive habits we have been we've been really, really good at those better than we were before, you know, and even if we're not playing that great overall, we're just still defending hard. Vancouver top Dallas 5 four and overtime, Anaheim for Chicago two, Ottawa beats Detroit 6 to two Boston overcame two goals from high scoring Conor McDavid to win their 7th in a row. Grew in Nick foligno, says giving up to two on contested goals to McDavid as a reminder, the bruins aren't perfect. Don't get me wrong. Guys, best player in the world, obviously. But, you know, you give them a couple, right? And I think in our game, if we can limit those, we just become a more dangerous team. And I think that's something that we can work towards and just understanding how crucial those little moments are and not giving teams momentum. Barry traps will be the new GM in Nashville. He takes over the summer for the retiring David poyle. NFL quarterback Carson Wentz has been released after one season with Washington, college basketball, 7th ranked Baylor by 6 over Oklahoma state. Check Freeman. AP sports.
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"AP sports, I'm sure Freeman, the Los Angeles Lakers could be without LeBron James for several weeks, James has suffered a foot injury with more test results pending. A huge loss for the Charlotte hornets, lamella ball broke his ankle, while injured himself on a non contact play, he had 18 points on 6 three pointers in Charlotte's one 17 one O 6 weight over Detroit. Jimmy Butler took over in the final minute and a half to help lead Miami to a one O one 99 win at Philadelphia. We got some stocks, got out in transition. In Juan, no matter how we do it, we got one on the road. Here in Philly, and that's all we want. James Harden had a chance to win the game for the sixers, but his three pointer at the buzzer bounced out. New York over Boston one O 9 94 and Orlando beat New Orleans one O one 93. Jimmy haslam from the NFL's Cleveland Browns is now in the NBA as well. He has purchased 25% stake in the Milwaukee Bucks from bucks co owner, Marc lasry. In the NHL, Colorado best at Las Vegas for nothing that's a 6th straight win for the ebbs and right wing mikko rantanen. I think the defensive habits we have been we've been really, really good at those better than we were before, you know, and even if we're not playing that great overall, we're just still defending hard. Vancouver top Dallas 5 four and overtime, Anaheim for Chicago two, Ottawa beats Detroit 6 to two Boston overcame two goals from high scoring Conor McDavid to win their 7th in a row. Grew in Nick foligno, says giving up to two on contested goals to McDavid as a reminder, the bruins aren't perfect. Don't get me wrong. Guys, best player in the world, obviously. But, you know, you give them a couple, right? And I think in our game, if we can limit those, we just become a more dangerous team. And I think that's something that we can work towards and just understanding how crucial those little moments are and not giving teams momentum. Barry traps will be the new GM in Nashville. He takes over the summer for the retiring David poyle. NFL quarterback Carson Wentz has been released after one season with Washington, college basketball, 7th ranked Baylor by 6 over Oklahoma state. Check Freeman. AP sports.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"With Davis was out, Thomas Bryant was really good. He was like a 2015 guy. And I don't blame him for being mad that he wasn't playing well. But on the other hand, you're trading for a guy who was just mad that he wasn't playing as much as he wanted to. And now he's on a team with Nikola Jokić. So what does that look like, rob? I mean, at least he's playing for something though. 15 minutes a game feels different when you're on a contender versus when you're on the Lakers wherever it is that they're going. So I do like that. I like the pickup. I like the idea of them having more options at backup center. They certainly could use the variety. It's just I look at that bench and I'm thinking like if you look flesh out their 8 man rotation. Obviously the 5 starters, rock solid, that's a great group. Then it's Bruce Brown, it's Thomas Bryant, and I guess Christian Brown. You better fucking believe it's Christian Brown, rob Mahoney. It's Christian fucking a Brown and apparently. Blue chip stock, Christian Brown. I like the way he's played. As a team that's trying to win the championship that makes me a little bit nervous. If our 7th and 8th guys are Thomas Bryant and Christian Brown. It's a buyout team. I don't think there's any question. But I do think one thing with him and again, I watched too much of the nuggets, but that guy is not afraid. He's one of those dudes that comes in and he's just like, I belong here and however many minutes you need for me to play. But I still feel like they need that TJ McConnell type of backup guard. Just somebody that can come in and ready the ship and be okay. What are they missing in your opinion? I don't know if it's a ball handler. I feel like it's redundant because you're running so much pick and roll to close games with yellow kitchen Murray. It's like, why do I want another guy to have the basketball in his hands, especially with that out there? Who's doing it then? So we're talking about like the filler minutes. Yeah. Yeah, I've like Christian Brown heater used to pass bones in the rotation. I mean, you could have KCP run some of it if you wanted to. I mean, brown's kind of a plug into any situation. And it was kind of funny he was joking the other day. It's nice that I don't know if it was the other day, but he was like, it's kind of nice to have to play center anymore. I love the Thomas Bryan pickup for them. I really like it. For whatever reason, I've had a thing for him for way too long for the most part. It's been rather disappointing. But I think there's an energy and aggressiveness with when he's feeling it and he's feeling good about himself. I'd rather have him more than bull bull, which I can't wait to get to when we do or should be not bulbul. Mo bamba. I probably would rather have bull bull instead of Obama, so I'd rank him third the guys that I just good to know. Yeah, so we'll do that when we do imagine the Lakers entree a little bit later. Yeah, it does feel a little light, Chan char has been playing the times. I know. I mean, you're rolling your eyes. You should be. I'm just naming names at this point. It would be a little nice, but I don't know if whoever they brought in is a ball handler is not going to be important enough to probably dictate where they were going as a series because we already know what they're going to do on every major possession. And it's really good. Let's take one more break and then I want to rip through some of these traits. All right, so I separated this into some categories. First one is the not sure why you did this one. Trade? Charlotte gets Reggie Jackson for mason plumlee. Charlotte has Rozier, the lamella ball, they spent what the 9th pick in the draft on book night, 18 months ago, 19 months ago? And they're like, now let's bring in Reggie Jackson. I just didn't fundamentally understand this. I know he's probably an expiring. I think they got a couple seconds out of this maybe, but just didn't understand it. There's sometimes there's trades here. I don't get it. This was that, I'll get a trade rep. Well, especially you're unloading Jalen McDaniels, you're unloading mason plumlee. You're signaling that you're probably a team that doesn't have a lot of interest in winning right now. As you mentioned, in terms of guards, like Rosie has been pretty good since lamelo got back. He's finally kind of settled back into what's a comfortable role for him. I guess you're just filling out minutes with Reggie Jackson, but I don't really see what he it's not an additive value move for them. Is it a buyout? And I just, how do they not get more for plumlee? Maybe I overvalue them because I just think that's a guy that could be in a playoff series. I didn't understand the two Charlotte moves at all, but guess what? I haven't understood 80% of the Charlotte moves since like 2005. So I don't understand any of it. I don't understand any of it. There's one thing that's been consistent this whole time. Nobody wants to talk about Jordan because it's Michael Jordan, but
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Rozier, Washington help Hornets rally past Heat 122-117
"Terry Rozier and PJ Washington carried the hornets to a one 22 one 17 victory over the heat, Rozier delivered 31 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds while shooting 5 for 11 from three point range. He hit two buzzer beating threes to end quarters. Washington had 27 points as Charlotte ended Miami's three game winning streak. Lamella ball scored 13 of his 19 points in the final period to help the hornet secure their fourth victory in 6 games. Jimmy Butler scored 28 points and Tyler hero added 24 for the heat. I'm Dave fairy.
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"lamella ball" Discussed on AP News
" A peace sports, I'm John leathery. In Chicago the next got 31 points from Julia's Randall while Jalen Brunson added another 30, New York won their 5th in a row one 28 one 20 in overtime, and indeed the warriors lost Steph Curry to a shoulder injury in the third quarter, and still made it close against the pacers. Golden State came back from 25 down to pull to within a basket of Indiana late in the game, but the pacers held on for a one 25 one 19 win. Tyrese Halliburton had 29 points and leading the pacers to their second win this season against the warriors. Any night, no matter who we're playing, we have an opportunity to win that game. We felt like we can compete on a nightly basis with everybody in the NBA. So obviously to come out here and beat these guys, think of confidence booster for guys. There's correspondent Tom mccabe. I like Brooks scored a season high 27 points off the bench, Killian Hayes at a 25 as the piston spoiled lamella balls returned to the floor, where the one 41 one 34 overtime victory against Charlotte. A big night for the nuggets big man in Denver. The nuggets got the best of slumping undermanned Washington one 41 one 28. Denver has won three in a row, without injured starters Bradley Beal and Christoph's porzingis, the wizards were as close as 5 in the fourth quarter before going on to lose their 8th in a row. Nikola Jokić let all scores with a season high 43 points. There's Bruce Morton in the mile high city. Other winners, the kings, Cavs, Portland, Miami, Orlando, and the clippers. And the Dodgers have agreed to a $13 million one year deal. That's according to a person familiar with the situation telling the AP the 30 year old splitting last season between the angels and the Phillies. It'll be Argentina and France and Sunday's World Cup final after the blue black to Morocco to nil in Wednesday semifinal. NHL, the Wednesday winners, including the wild, senators, and Canucks. I'm John leatherby, a peace boards.
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"More wide open. At least the perception of it being wide open. Like Orlando probably already knows what it's going to do. But yeah, I mean, you would think. You would think at this point, Orlando probably knows. Now they're still going to do the illusions of the next one. Of course. Right, yeah. Yeah. But how about this? From my perspective, I don't remember many drafts where I could reasonably talk to myself into at least three different players going first overall. I know a few years ago you had the lamella ball Anthony Edwards debate. I was on the lamella ball side of that. And I was not. And Anthony Edwards is terrific. But I think the reason why I've been more wrong on that, by the way, not a please resist, but not a dozen probably notice. I was the biggest seller on lamella ball in all of basketball media without a doubt. I sold harder than anyone, yes. I was the biggest believer. You probably were. Yeah. We were definitely opposite. I'm losing that one. Yeah, like Anthony Edwards has been great, but if you do that draft again, LaMelo Ball is going, it's going first overall. Is he? I think so. I don't know. I think Edward still might go number one. Right now, if you do that again, I think that's coming on. No, Anthony Edwards is terrific. I still think blah blah blah, not turn your mic on. 'cause he sees lamellar ball every day. Is it inarguable that LaMelo Ball would go number one if we redid that draft or could you actually debate it? Is more debatable than I think I would be comfortable saying. I think Anthony Edwards still goes one, but it's one of those. It's barely because I think what Anthony Edwards did scoring wise this year was such a big thing and not being a defensive liability. Lamelo still has that issue defensively where he's not as good on ball. Right. Maybe okay, okay. Clearly wants you because I'm going to go to the top ten right now. And some of these guys could grow into awesome players. This is only 2020 and November 2020 at that. James weisman's never played. James wiseman. Lamelo Patrick Williams, Isaac okoro onca akan will Killian Hayes, obi toppin. Who's that some moments? Denny abdia, Jalen Smith. That was the top ten there. Now, some of the guys will grow and it hasn't been that long, but right off the jump, it's been Edwards ball draw a line before you get to other guys in the top ten who have made it. Yeah, so that one, that was debatable then, I guess it's still debatable now. I feel like this draft is really debatable. It is not crazy to think one of at least three and maybe four players could go number one. And that makes it a unique draft relative to say, 2003, LeBron, 2012 AD, 2015, Carl Anthony towns. This one is, you know, it didn't matter who got the number one pick in those drafts, those players were being selected first. This one, you know, the guy Orlando would take first might be different than the guy who called him a city would take first, might be different than the guy Houston would take first might be different than the guy. Some other franchise would take first. And we'll get to most of these prospects. In the coming days and weeks. In fact, Paula Ben Carroll episode and a jabari Smith episode coming later this week. So and we're going to plan to do perhaps a couple of them each week in the coming weeks leading into the 2022 NBA draft. Which again is scheduled for June 23rd. Shouts to Devin Downey shouts the chest to South Carolina shouts to hawk larn. Thank you guys once again for listening. I own college basketball podcast, middle of the, you know what it is. You should know by now. If you're not subscribed, please subscribe anywhere you subscribe to podcasts, including Apple podcasts and Spotify at Apple podcasts. You're gonna wanna leave a nice review because there's more of us than there are of them. Like I said, we've got a jabari Smith episode coming up. A palo Ben Caro episode coming up. So.
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Ball scores 33 points, Hornets spoil Irving's home debut
"The Hornets boil Kyree Irving's first home game of the season by beating the nets one nineteen one ten lamella ball had thirty three points nine assists and seven rebounds helping Charlotte tie Brooklyn for eighth place in the east miles bridges scored twenty four points and PJ Washington had eighteen with eleven rebounds for the Hornets who won for the seventh time in eight games Irving finished with sixteen points and tied a season high with eleven assists but shot just six of twenty two from the field Kevin Durant had twenty seven points eight rebounds and seven assists I'm the very
The Lowe Post
"lamella ball" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"I'm going to take Andrew Wiggins. Give me a little defense. Some defense and some long twos. It sounds fun. I guess, I'm taking you away. I think the players are going to get behind him. My team's going to get behind him. They're going to try a few of them up gas them up a little bit. I'm taking Wiggins. All right, I'm going to do it despite the fact that you only have one pick left and maybe I could have saved him for my final pick, the final pick of the draft, which he, the James Harden situation was probably the only reason he wasn't in the actual all star draft. But I got to take Rudy. You know, if Rudy, if Rudy wants to make plays and open space, we're going to dare you to throw the ball to Rudy Gobert 20 feet from the rim. We're going to dare you. When he screams, we're going to trap and make him make place. Do you know what Rudy's career field goal percentage in the All-Star Game is? 92%. It's actually a little lower than that. It's only 88%. How many shots has he taken? He scored 31 points. I don't have the field goal attempts in front of me. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid. So that we have LaMelo Ball and Jared Allen as the last two picks. Do I need to do I need to pick defense? I don't want to pick defense. I really have no defense at all other than LeBron. Tatum can give me a little defense. I've really gone all in on offense. I don't need LaMelo Ball. I can't believe lamella is gonna be the last victim of an entertaining player. I'm gonna take Jared Allen just in case we needed to stop late in the elam ending. I need to load up on defense. I don't know. I'm taking Jared Allen. I like Jared Allen. He has Zelda sound effects after his baskets. He's a man F for my own heart. I'll take Jared Allen. Yeah, it's weird lamelo ended up here because either in an all star setting, or this season, I'm not sure that he's the last of these players. But here he is. Okay, to review team kraken that's you. Giannis currie embiid that's a hell of a top three. I don't know how I let that happen. And I had the first pick. I think I really screwed up somehow. Chris Paul, Luca, Jimmy Butler, not gonna try. Demar Derozan, Fred van vliet Dijon de Murray Darius Garland Rudy Gobert lamella ball. I have Nicole yoke, LeBron James, John morant Jason Tatum, Donovan Mitchell Carl Anthony towns, Devin Booker Trae Young, Zach lavine, Chris Middleton, Andrew Wiggins and Jarrett Allen simulations, do with that what you will, I expect to win this year. I'm out to win. I'm taking it seriously. I'm still embarrassed by what happened last year. Before I let you go okay, be any trade that you wanted to talk about that we didn't hit on? You know, we didn't talk about the two trades that are related to the tenth seed to play in the plane in the Western Conference and suddenly the team that is rising in the play and standings is the team that traded away CJ McCollum, the Portland Trail Blazers winners of four straight, including in Memphis, a night after the grizzlies without John Moran beat the pelicans. So quite a stretch here for the blazers. I don't I gotta assume at some point they're going to some guys are going to get shut down and they're going to come back to earth. I'd still be very surprised if they ended up tenth in the plan, but it is by far the most amusing outcome. They're playing hard. They're playing, they're playing with a little like, you know, we're just sort of random collection of guys. Nobody wanted vibe to them and they're playing hard. Josh hart always plays hard. CJ Ella B has to be the most anonymous, heavy minutes NBA starter right now in the whole league. Yeah, the pelicans in the kings, you know, we'll see how they do the kings, I think, are one in three since the trade deadline. The fox and the ox, by the way, that's not gonna happen. We can't let that. The fox and the ox that's what they're trying to call the Aaron Fox and the mantis sabonis. I think she made spirited. I think like 20% of that trade was so the kings could sell Fox and ox merchandise. I'm not accepting that nickname. I reject it and I don't think we should use it. No one is ever called domata as the ox I've never heard that before. Have you? No, it seems very mean spirited to call a player in ox. I don't know, I get the logic, but we're not doing that. All right, KP, I'm very curious to see how we did this year because I like both of our teams. I love your top three and it's going to be fun to see what the simulations say. I don't know what should be. What should we bet on this? I would say like a meal, but we haven't seen each other in person in like two years here, right? I think there will be a meal is good. A meal at a restaurant of the winner's choosing hopefully in a final city. How about that? That sounds good. No price limit. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. I did last year. Kevin. You got your mailbag running. You got your mailbag running this weekend? We're going to talk about who's the all star gout. Oh, exciting, okay, well, you know that mill bag runs every weekend KP, you're the man. Thank.
The NBA Show
"lamella ball" Discussed on The NBA Show
"8.5 rebounds. And immediately with seals at two a game. So he's basically averaging a triple double. By the way, that dude got drafted. I did it. He would be that type of playmaking lead guard, not assist the game that didn't seem even remotely in the picture for him. So that he's doing that again, kudos to him, man. It did before the draft because he got a lot of buzz, and then all of a sudden fell all the way down. And everyone's like, oh my God, the spurs just got just locked into another really great guy and then he just completely languished for about two to three years. But here he is on top of the world yet again. What a success story. All right, let's pivot to the easier because we have a lot of disagreement here. We all have Jimmy Butler and Jayson Tatum. And James Harden and Zach lavine, although rob you had Levine as a starter, you would put a rose in as a reserve. Was you had Lowery kalari Chris Middleton and jaylen Brown, rob correct me if I'm wrong, but we both had Jarrett Allen fredly and drew holiday. The dru holiday spot is the one I waffle on, depending on the day. To me, that last spot is either drew Holliday, lamella ball, Darius Garland. I could be talked into any of those three, depending on how I'm feeling on that particular day. And of late, I find myself leaning more toward holiday or lamella in particular. I think Darius Garland's had an incredible season. One of the primary drivers of Cleveland's offensive success so far, but I think those other two guys are on a slightly different level. And so it's just a matter of like, do you pick this guy in lamella, who's not only a primary option for his team, but really the engine of their success or do you pick this high achiever on a better team, but who realistically is the second or third option on his team? That thing is always hard to parse for me. Like I said, give me like I said, Chris Middleton, better than drew holiday, better than van vleet. Look, Jared Allen, Jared Allen, I do want to reward, right? Because I feel like outside of the because I don't think you can take away his contribution to what mobley's doing. Because mobley is able to do what he's doing at the fore and Jared Allen is such he's just providing quality rebounding, rim protection at the 5, and then finishing man like this dude catches the damn ball which I know in the NBA should be taken as a given, but it's not wiseman. You know, like, you're not even playing. He's not even playing. I'm just saying as an example of a big who doesn't catch, right? He's doing all of the dirty work stuff and his quality at that position at the minimum stuff that you ask, right? Like every center ideally who started for you can man the paint and can get rebounds and can finish when it's asked of him. And he's doing all of that at top notch rates, man. You know, you want to reward him for that. I've heard Jared Allen, I've heard Jared Allen discussed as a borderline all star. I think he's a lock. I think he has got to be there. For exactly the reasons that was laid out. But I also think Fred van vliet has to be a lock and was. That's why I don't understand how you're elbowing him out of this conversation. He is way too good. Look, that streak where he was just dropping 30 on people's heads, like night after night. He's been incredible this year. And I do feel bad because I am one of the preeminent Fred van vleet guy. He's one of these. You're not anymore. These are over. Look, look, I have to, but I have to stick to my principles, right? When it comes to the jaylen browns and the Chris middletons of the world, like to me, those dudes are all stars. Those are freaking all star players, man. Like sentimentally, of course, I want for everyone to have that achievement. And you see what it means to guys, right? You know, and I'm gonna mention this for the 500 time, but Rudy Gobert cried about not making a damn all star team, right? Devin Booker's like, they told me once I would win games and I was wondering I'm on a number one team in the league and then I put me started like this stuff really means a lot to these guys. Obviously. But you know, if you're gonna ask me on my belly to pick between Fred vanvleet and jaylen Brown, I mean fleet has been so much better this season than jaylen Brown. So much better. Agree to disagree. But I like how somehow you've outflanked me on Chris Middleton and I've outflanked you on Fred fantastic. That's crazy. Incredible. Incredible. Where's the interesting question? If you were stuck to putting guys into front core or backcourt, would you put someone else other than Allen? Like would you nominate Garland as the representative for Cleveland over Alan? I think it would be Alan because the calves are winning with their defense and their defense is great because of him and mobile. And as well as said, what they do for each other. Now, if you want to make the case for Evan mobley for that spot, I could hear it out. But I think what Alan does is a little bit more of like a backbone type performance for them. It's a little bit more of what keeps them steady. And so for me, he's the guy, but if you want to make room for, you know, the drew holiday, the lamella conversation. If you will like to expand this into just like overloading the reserves with guards, I would hear it out, but I think Alan would ultimately still be there. I don't see how you keep Kyle Lowry off for this team. The heat success with like the modern games that Jimmy and bam have missed this year and again, sports should deserve his credit, their player development staff deserves their credit for what they've done with a bunch of no disrespect to those guys, but they're nobodies. What Kyle Lowry has put on the floor this season in terms of leadership and production to me he's a clear all star this year, but you know I understand the sentimentality of getting first time guys in there, right? Like the viv leaks like the Jared Allen's, but come on, man. Chris Middleton, jaylen Brown, Kyle Lowry to me. Those are all stars. Like you see the names in his all star. You know, Jared Allen, I'm just saying..
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"lamella ball" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"To me, I'm just of the opinion that with some of these guys and some of these teams, they have two guys that belong in the conversation. By the way, jaylen brown's also not in the top ten here as far as voting for front court, which is a little bit surprising to me. We're going to have a long Jalen we're going to have a long Jalen Brown conversation. Yeah, like a couple of minutes. So I mean, to me, you could easily have him there, and I wouldn't think it was crazy. I know, again, I know his time. But I think he's been really good this year. I think he's been fine. To me, it's not as a parent of a drop off. There has been with Tatum and maybe it's just that the team is a mess in disarray and the fact that there's not as much ball handling as there was on the teams before that he's got more responsibility, whatever it is. It doesn't matter. Again, like you said, it's probably hand wringing to the point where it's unnecessary, but butler certainly deserves to be there, Jared Allen certainly deserves to be there. If you count de Rosen as a front court guy, he deserves to be there. Lamella ball, there's different guys, you could put on the team. I wouldn't necessarily be there over Tatum, but if you did it, I would be fine with it. If Tatum makes it, I'm fine with it. I just kind of feel like you have my point the reason I included Tatum in the conversations. You have a lot of guys that have not been the most efficient this year or they're normal efficient selves this year that are going to make the team. And in some cases, mostly in the west. And so maybe I shouldn't love him in there. In the west, you've got guys that are up for this conversation that really don't deserve to be. Other than what their name is. And like I said, Lillard is, I think the poster child for that this year, which I hate that it had to be him, I like Damian Lillard. I know he's played through injury. I know his situation in Portland has been a total mess. And you know, and maybe there's something to be said for whether he needed to come out and say something more firmly, I guess he's always said that he plans to stay. So it's not really on him at a certain point, but that situation has been a mess and his numbers reflect that and him just not being healthy in the ball and the foul rules and the changing foul rules. So I mean, like I said, it's probably more of a Western Conference thing, but I do think Tatum has some of that going on as well. Yeah, no, that's all. Fair, and well and good. Who are you most happy for when you looked at when you first saw this list? Was there a name that popped out to you? Or you were like, oh, look at that guy. He's getting recognized. That's wonderful. It was Wiggins, honestly. You know, I think that he's someone that I can't think of too many players in NBA history recent NBA history that have had kind of the run that he's had.
Game Theory Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"The last guys before him, I believe may have been Deandre ayton and Luka Dončić in that draft class. Guys that are just like hyper elite prospects. I didn't have any tier one guys in the 2021 NBA draft process, including Anthony Edwards, lamella ball, all of those guys. So I would not have any tier one prospects in the 2022 NBA draft as of right now. I'm sure that penny and I at the end of the season will probably go through this and answer this question in a bit more detail. And try and rank prospects compared to other draft classes and all of that fun stuff because that's a really good gauge in terms of how good these prospects are is we kind of dive deeper and deeper into the NBA draft season. But I would say that I certainly would not have any prospect in the 2021 NBA draft or any in the 2022 NBA draft class. In my top three in the 2021 class, so I had kid Cunningham one Jalen sucks to Evan mobley three Jalen green four, I would not have any of jabari Smith Paul ban Caro chat home grand Jaden ivy within that top three. I think that you can make a case that jabari Smith is pretty close right now for where I am to that Jalen green ish level. I would still probably take Jalen green even given the kind of concerns that we've seen, removing that, removing the context of his struggles early on with the Houston Rockets, just remembering what he was with the G league ignite last year as a high level scorer who put up a bunch of points and had an immediately translatable skill set in terms of shooting, shot creation ability to get to step backs, explosive athletic ability, body control, everything like that. I frankly think I would still rank jaylen green just slightly ahead of the jabari Smith palo banquero class at this point. So I think that once you get into all of jaylen green, Jonathan, Scotty Barnes, I think that I would probably take Paulo over where I had Paulo and jabari Smith over where I had Jonathan kuminga and Scottie Barnes last year in that third tier kinda all to themselves. Whether or not I would take Chet in Jaden ivy. I think that those two right now are pretty close to that level. I think I would probably default more toward jet holmgren being ahead of that group. So it'd be a ranking of. Cade Cunningham, Jalen suggs, Evan mobley, followed by Jalen green, jabari Smith, Paula banquet, Chet home, grin, and then I think I would have both come in Barnes ahead of Jaden ivy right now. So it's a weaker class at the top. I think that that's the best way that I can frame this. It's just a very, very tricky class right now to evaluate if you have a top 5 pick if your team is going to end up with a top two pick in this class. I don't think it's quite as strong as what the normal draft is..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"lamella ball" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"And maybe that's where we're going here in New York as well. Very well be 25 rebounds for Andre Drummond with Joel embiid now out. Yeah. That's a master performance even though they did drop that one. Let's finish up by talking a little Lakers and hornets exciting game. Unfortunately, from my perspective, it became very exciting. The Lakers again blowing a big lead in the fourth quarter. One of the craziest moments I think we'll see this year in a game 5 consecutive free throws for lamella ball. That was you had two free throws for a foul. And then you had a delay of game and two technicals led to 5 free throws in a row for lamella ball to cut the Lakers lead to four late in the game and then the hornets came back and took it to OT. Yeah, absolutely. It was this was the Anthony Davis without LeBron. He was absolutely dominant on both ends of the floor. This was maybe one of the best defensive games I've seen him play since the Bible box. I just thought he just yeah, I just controlled everything too. He was switching out the guys on the perimeter doing just really wrecked everything. Charlotte wanted to do for a very long period of time. And this one, Russ did not shoot it well, but he was still put his stamp on the game with 14 assists. I thought he did a good job of pushing pace at times in this one, kind of catching the hornets almost at their own game. And then mellow again, you know, we talked about if it wasn't for Tyler hero, he'd probably be the 6th man of the year. He's just been that good off to bench 9 to 13. Now I have to say this. Anthony Davis's comments on Melo after the game, what are you talking about? Everybody gave up on this guy. No one wanted to give him a chance and look at what he's doing with us. One, Portland gave him a chance, and he did this kind of stuff in Portland. They would have happily have kept him, and it but he wanted to join the Lakers and that's his choice. And that's the right thing to say. But you could have given him this chance two years ago and you didn't. So let's not make it out like the Lakers were the savior of Carmelo Anthony here. Come on. Portland did the work. It's getting a little we're creating a narrative that doesn't exist. I mean, I get it. I didn't see the postgame comments yet because I frankly, I got my audio done and I went to bed right after that thing ended..
Game Theory Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"And he can even give them that for 20 to 25 minutes at night and average 12 points, just because they have shooting around them around the center position now and draymond green is in a phenomenal place. If you watch a lot of the warriors yet, two games. Yeah, how good does draymond green look right now? Like I am blown away. I think all look pretty damn good right now. They do. Like they're an incredible league and defense. They're third in the league and pace like they're playing in a defending do. Yeah. No, I am an enormous fan of what I've seen from the warriors thus far. If they can get anything from James wiseman, it's going to be interesting. I've mentioned before, I think that they are like ripe to try to make a trade for like a spacing center. But they might not need it if James wiseman is as good as what they think he is at the very least. I'm very interested to see what wiseman looks like when he comes back because again, like the reports out of Golden State are positive. I will say that like generally the reports out of Golden State on things do tend to be positive though. It's sunny weather, what sort of negative about? I'm a little bit more light years ahead, baby. That's true. A lot of startups. There's just instances already where I did think the warriors could use a big and go to a bigger lineup, but if he's a rim to rim type of guy that could help, but more times than not and I'm not breaking a story here because this is what they've done. They've just gone small. Even kevon Looney is the boy playing 16 minutes a night. They're more likely to spread it out with Steph Curry and Jordan Poole, who had 7 threes last night and Andrew Wiggins and even Damien Lee. So my hesitation is like, I don't think the scheme is gonna change for James weisman. It's going to be can he keep up once he gets back in shape because if they're not going to slow down for him and then another thing we're not talking about, throwing the Mexican is back in December or January. So it's only hopefully there's only so many minutes to go around. If you get peak wiseman for just protecting the rim, trailing the play, set in ball screens rolling dunking. He has that in him, but as hot of a start as they have, I don't think they're gonna mess up their magic formula right now either. Well, the thing that wiseman needs to do is he needs to prove that he can take kavan Looney spinach. Like that's just that's the starting point. He needs to start out by saying, okay, I can take one of pneumonia belita or kevon Looney's minutes at the center position. That's not like look, like I think Bailey says played really well. I think Vaughn Looney's performed his role so far. He has. But that shouldn't be a high bar for James wiseman given his talent level in his inherent athleticism at the center position. If he can start by playing 15 to 20 minutes a night, I think that's a huge, huge win. For them at the end of the day. Now, can he come in and play I don't know like even even ten minutes a night to start? Like would that be disappointing? It could be, right? I don't think so, because again they've had a level of success where it was a little ironic last night that you pass on lamella ball and he returns and goes and Golden State one last night when they played head to head..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"The worst thing you can do against a bad team is give them hope. Hawkeye style don't give them hope. And that's exactly what the Lakers have done. Multiple times now. And that's not what a veteran team should be doing. They should understand that dynamic and be coming out there with a little bit of killer instinct and we have not seen that at all this season. I think you know the worst part about this whole thing is that I said this a couple shows ago, but I'm going to say it again because I think this is going to be just the key theme throughout this season is that the Lakers have a really hard time when it comes to guards and defending guards. And it just so happens that we're in this age of the MBA where every team's best player is point guard or some sort of ball handler. So these defensive issues are going to persist no matter who's on the floor. I think it's just a matter of getting enough stops, but right now the Lakers are just not getting really that many when they need them, especially. They play great defense for three quarters for the most part. It's just the fourth quarter when shy gillig just Alexander decides to pull up from the local that was the backbreaker. But even before then, you know, he was tearing them up. So that's why I'm kind of nervous about these next couple of games. Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum, lamella ball. Kyle Lowry's healthy next week. You know, that's going to be a tough one too. So yeah, the Lakers have their work cut out for them. That's why I said before the season started that if the Lakers and Frank Vogel can keep them to like a ten to 15 level defense, like a top 15 level defense. Anthony Davis should win defensive player of the year, because there's just no way the rest of the roster is to be able to use reproduction hasn't been quite what it's been in the past this season, but that's, again, it's early. That could be a timing thing. It would be something to watch, but yeah, I mean, look, that's the other thing, right? Frank Vogel was given a roster full of non defenders and told, well, you're a good defense coach. You'll figure it out. And so far they haven't figured out. Like I said, that's probably the most glaring thing from tonight was how many well, in addition to how many times in the Lakers missed layups that were at the rim, how many times the defense got completely lost on again a play from a bad team? When they played the Utah Jazz, they're going to be spending in circles. Trying to figure out how to defend that offense. So they've got a long ways to go. On the defensive end of the floor, you mentioned the logo three lords of the sky from YouTube said that logo three was a big middle finger to us all. LOL. I couldn't believe he shot that. Yeah, that's 16. That's the kind of shot that if you are a thunder fan, you have been as you see him start to pull up. You'd be yelling no at your TV because there was no reason to shoot that shot. And then he hit it. I mean, like Avery Bradley had to be thinking, yes, as soon as he went to do that like young player doing a dumb thing, this is exactly what we need and then the shot went in. You know, you know, somewhere, Paul George's restaurant..
Get Your G.O.A.T.
"lamella ball" Discussed on Get Your G.O.A.T.
"Shots getting to the rim and averaging 25 points a game. This heat team is dangerous to me they are a top three team in the east. Jimmy Butler can be the favorite for MVP as well if he is leading this team. Miami Heat are very exciting to watch him to me are a top three team in the east. But we got two big games tonight. Hawks and nets similar records in this early season four and three. You got Trey young going up against Kevin Durant, Brooklyn, a little shaky to start the season. So far, no Kyrie Irving. They found some ways to win. We've also found some ways to lose. Atlanta Hawks, I'm not a fan of the hawks to me. They weren't real eastern, I know they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals last year. It wasn't really great to need a lot of help to get back up there. I believe Brooklyn will show why they are a possibility of being in there. And I believe the Brooklyn Nets will beat the Atlanta Hawks tonight. It then be other game. Another great point guard show is the Charlotte hornets and the Golden State warriors. Point guard duel between lamella ball and Steph curry. To me this will be a great great game and I think ESPN prime time we're gonna see LaMelo Ball. See if he can have some of those great stat lines. He's already been having this season with 30 8 and 8 type of games the 30.88 rebound 8 assists. See if Steph Curry, if this game is close, can he make key clutch shots in the fourth quarter? We've seen that already this season. Him kind of just outscoring everyone in the first three and the kind of having Houdini disappearing act and the fourth quarter. That's actually when Golden State needs him to show up. There are one losses when he did it and show up in the fourth quarter. I think he'll need that for sure, and I think he will, and I think the Golden State Warriors win this game, they improved to 6 and one. And they're already threats. Legitimate threats in the west with no Klay Thompson back yet. If they can sustain this sort of play, this is sustainable sort of record without play. It makes me think do they need clay, but also just adding that piece of a puzzle if it doesn't disrupt chemistry will be huge for his team and bacon emerge as favorites in the west if they play the way they do, but the west to me, you got two clear cutout teams already. The Utah Jazz and the Golden State Warriors, to me a lot of arrested teams that have.
Chad Ford's NBA Big Board
"lamella ball" Discussed on Chad Ford's NBA Big Board
"I mean, didn't run over a pitcher. Didn't try to dunk it and get a potential charge. He just got the bucket. These are very good signs. You are right to point out his assist average in, I think there's 5.6 in the preseason. He's not being asked to do that as much in the NBA, nor should he be. He isn't really that player just yet. He's got to get much, much better as a ball handler in my opinion. If he's ever going to be an MVP level player. If he doesn't do that, he's just going to be an all star. And maybe in all league performer because he's a two way player. If you can develop handles the way all of our elite players like Hawaii and Durant at his size can dribble the ball when I always got a chance in every P level player because he's gonna win a ton of games. He's right now as net rating wrote it down it's plus 7. That doesn't sound like a ton, but trust me, Jalen green is -18. And of course he's not a different team. I get that. But that's not like the raptors have a big winning record or anything. He impacts wins because he plays the right way now. Just wait till a skill game explodes because I think it's going to. Does his role change in a significant way when siakam comes back. You know, this is the one question, right? Pascal siakam, who is there all star has been out with an injury, but he's going to be back. Probably sooner rather than later. What role, what happens to Scottie when siac comes back? Yeah, two things one he'll play less, which is good 'cause he is exhausted in the fourth quarters. I've noticed how tired he is late in games. He only averages like 20 something minutes, Florida state plays 11 guys. So he has not played this many minutes ever in high school. They were blowing everyone out with four or 5 NBA players whoever was on his team. He's tired, and he's playing both ways. It's not like he could take plays off against Jayson Tatum, right? There's lots of guys in the league that are very good players. Lamella ball and Anthony Edwards don't tend to guard the opponent's best offensive players. Scottie does. So he's a little fatigued. Siakam will be a welcome relief for that because he'll play a few less minutes of game. But I don't think they're gonna cut many minutes. And then in terms of on court role, not really because, again, this is where I think Nick nurse has done a great job. They could ask him to do everything, the way Jalen green, for example, is doing in Houston. I don't think that's the best thing for most players. It worked for Kevin Durant many years ago, even though it took a long time for his team to start doing better when he was on the court. I don't think it'd be working for Scott 'cause he's not that kind of shooter. So playing off other guys plays perfectly into what he can do best, which is dominate off the ball. That's the one thing if he can learn to dominate with the ball and then he's Magic Johnson. That's a big ask. I think he's got potential for that. I don't know if we'll ever get it. No one else ever has before. That's only one magic. But to learn to dominate off the ball and then pick your spots, draymond green is a great example of that, is fine for him early in his career. And so I think that siakam will be better. The raptors will win more. And I think scotti will have another primary guy along with Fred because OJ really isn't that player. So now they have those guys playing off of Pascal and Fred. And I think they'll be better than I think he'll be better because of in terms of metrics. You know, one really cool thing to end on Scotty Barnes is raptors fans freaked out. We were talking about it you and I, I was probably the only person that had Scotty Barnes mocked to the raptors for quite a long time because we just sort of knew about Masai and what sort of player Maasai really likes. And it was a tough decision between him and Jalen suggs suggs also brings a lot of the things that Masai likes and a player, you know, as well. But raptors, fans were despondent. And one of the cool things about doing it doing a sub stack and having this sort of collection of readers over at MBA big board dot com, you have the same thing over at tru hoop is these are more advanced fans. These are people that are really carefully watch the game. And so one of the things I love is, you know, in the comment section and then the emails I get. You know, you get a lot of fans that are really intelligent about the game. And many of them were very, very skeptical about Barnes, but so many of them have written to me and saying, you know, I want to be a skeptic, but every game I just fall more and more in love, love with this guy, and people that are non raptors fans saying the same thing. He's past the eye test around the league, same with general managers, same with scouts that we talk about. I absolutely think that after this part, he's been the biggest revelation in the NBA as just it's hard to take your eyes off Scotty Barnes and when you're watching him play and I couldn't be more bullish about him. I think he does absolutely not just have that all star ceiling, but that superstar I'm ceiling in him. You're right, there's a few things he needs to do. So let's pivot to Evan mobley, because if we were doing a rookie of the year race right now, it would be a tight race because Evan mobley has been dominant, especially on the defensive end. I mean, we talk about Scotty Barnes being able to guard 5 players, but actually what Evan mobley's impact defensively. If you look at some of the advanced numbers right now, I mean, he's been one of the best defenders in the NBA. Early on, the calves are shockingly winning basketball games that we didn't think so. He seems like the perfect fit. Calves are using him in the same way. He's guarding more, not necessarily one through 5, but three through 5 for sure, Eva mobley is guarding and his quickness his ability to both protect the rim, but guard on the perimeter. And then, you know, there's been some nice stuff on the offensive end as well, though he's maybe a little bit further behind there. What do you think about Eva mobile early on in his career? Man, I love him so much. I told our partner and founder to have our dear friend Henry Abbott. You know, well, we did a show, I think on Friday and where I said, I said, I think having me, I think I even wrote this where I'm starting to see the light at the end of this dark Cleveland Cavaliers tunnel. And it worked out great, and listen, I'm wrong all the time and I'll go into another details and things have been wrong about. But I didn't expect them to win at Denver in LA, but they did..
Game Theory Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I've really kinda sorta held off on a lot of my like takes on The Rookie class throughout my tweets because I knew that we were going to do something like this. So I figured that we would just hold takes until then, right? And the first place that I want to start is just simply, it feels like to me that this working class is awesome. I've really not only enjoyed this class, but I have really felt like there are more difference makers in this class than what there has been previously. Between Evan mobley, you know, crystal water, Scotty Barnes has been good. Franz Wagner has actually been pretty good despite the fact the magic are pretty bad. Josh giddy has been good. You can go up and down the list and you find a lot of players who are legitimately in rotations and playing fun roles. And yeah, sure that happens every year, like a manual quickly and Sadiq bay and Anthony Edwards and lamella ball, obviously emerged last year, but this year feels like a bit more productive and enjoyable to watch to me. It's strong at the top and we still haven't seen Cunningham who's been hurt, Jonathan has been hurt and then throughout there's still depth Jeremiah Robinson Earl has started Jones has started. There's guys that we like so in the process and I didn't think they'd be starting game four or 5, but they've already assured himself as being these difference makers. I do want to preface a little bit because I was talking with a friend at NBA circles prepping for this and trying to get some Intel aside from just what we watch what we see and I said, tell me something negative because everything's positive right now in these guys. In the negative was, it's been four games. You guys are doing this already. So yeah we are. We're excited. It's kind of like more of a progress report in school than a report card. Yeah, no. We're not overreacting and look at look at Matt penny asking for the negatives. If I can't find it, like give me something that I can hook my cartoon here, but it has been good to watch and to see guys that even with a little bit of hesitation at the top have really produced statistically too. And one of the fun things is you've seen a lot of players kind of like outside their comfort zones too and I didn't know that they could really do some of the things and we'll get into specifics. But that's kind of given me pause as to what do I have to change in my own personal evaluation process to not miss some of these things and what I've learned early despite being two weeks is you are going to miss it's just are you missing big or missing small in some of these? So let's start on who I think is clearly been the best rookie. Do you think there's been a clear best rookie in the NBA so far? You're setting me up. As like a sure fire number one, I don't because I think that you could say one of probably four names and I would agree with you. So I don't mean in terms of long term, I just mean in terms of the way this guy has played through four games. And you know, that can be an older player. It can be a younger player. I'm just saying in terms of pure production so far..
Game Theory Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"You know, like this year they might actually be a good team and it's because miles bridges like might be a like on his way to getting a $90 million contract. I understand why they didn't come to an agreement with him. We might look back at that as being every bit of a mistake as Phoenix, not coming to an agreement with Deandre ayton. Because he has come out and looked incredible this year. Like he is so athletic. He's a perfect running mate for lamella ball. He's shooting the ball well. He shot the ball well last year too. Like miles bridge is really might be on the precipice of being like a top 50 player in the NBA. And the other thing is he's figured it out. He's figured out how to play with lamelo. He's figured out how to play off a board and you know, he knows how to play off a terror rose there. He knows the right where to cut when the cut. He knows how to get on. He knows that if he gets on the break, he's gonna get the ball from lamelo. And he's finishing he's not trying to. I thought in the first couple of years he was trying to do too much off the dribble. Yeah, he's not trying to do too much off the dribble right now. He's, you know, he's catching his shooting. He's maximizing on the floor where his strengths are. Yep, instead of playing to his weaknesses. And, you know, when you do that, and guess what? You start looking a lot better, but I mean, you know, Charlotte did a great job in the draft process. They knew that LaMelo Ball was the guy. And they ignored all of the criticism. They ignored a lot of the naysayers, there are very few media members. I went to my own horn, and I know you're going to teach your own horn, but there are very few media members who thought the Melo ball is going to be a superstar. Yeah. And I'll be real. I don't even know that I thought he was going to be a superstar. I thought he'd be an all star. I didn't like he has a chance to be a top ten player in the league, is where we're at at this point. I gave him the highest grade. I gave him the highest grade in the class. I gave him a superstar great. Yeah. I had him at number one, but I didn't like love him as much as you did. And I still had him as like a future all star. So the whole thing is, I mean, he is, he is a star. He is. His ability to break guys down off the dribble. It's real, and we saw it today against Brooklyn like to get back to the point of this podcast. Like he's just like kind of completely bent Brooklyn defensively to his will in terms of where he wanted to get on the court. Yeah. And he can shoot it. Yep. And he's 6 foot 8. And even if he doesn't do anything off of isolation, he's such a good pick and roll player that he's such a good pick and roll player that the isolation doesn't really matter. And yet he's still a great isolation player. Yeah. So he's I mean, he's just got the entire package offensively. You know, he's a special guy. How bad do we think Brooklyn is defensively? Because that's what I'm still trying to figure out. Like, I had more expectation maybe for Nick klaxon, entering this year..
The NBA Show
"lamella ball" Discussed on The NBA Show
"Little bit a little bit sentimental about the bulls. So, yeah, let's jump in. Let's jump in. I think your point about the bulls being considered a bid market team is really interesting because it kind of gets to what I want to talk about today, which is the fact that our idea of what a large market is is very skewed. In the lexicon of NBA language, I guess. The bulls aren't necessarily considered a big market, even though they're the third biggest market in the NBA. You kind of have like New York and LA and the two teams there. And then you even get Miami, even though Miami is not a large market at all, but we obviously know it's attractive to players and pretty much anybody who's ever been alive for obvious reasons. And then you also have, you know, you have some teams like, you know, like the Golden State Warriors who started to be considered a larger market. We started to finally clump in the entire Bay Area, which then obviously makes them a larger market. Whereas, you know, before the Steph Curry era, I think people would have called the warriors a smaller market, even though the geography doesn't change at all, right? So there's a ton of teams like that. I watched it with the raptors. They went from considered a small market team to now there's a consideration of the fact that even though they're in Canada, they are like, I think a top 5 or 6 TV market. So yeah, it's really interesting how these things shift over time and the bulls. The bulls are very interesting. So we're going to talk about the bulls in the suns. The bulls are a team that always kind of punches below their market way. Not all of that is your fault. The weather is obviously a real thing. And it's also not necessarily even though it is big market, it might not be necessarily the most attractive to a young person. Nobody in Chicago come after me. Let's just let's just leave it as it is. But at the same time, I think bull spans have always had the sense that this team should be far more attractive than it is. And it never quite has been other than in the Jordan era. Yeah, I think that we're talking about a couple of different things here. There's a television market, which in this day and age I don't even know how much that actually matters anymore. I think in a league pass era in an era where there's national games three to four nights a week in an era where most people can just look at their phone and watch lamella ball highlights or watch Brandon Ingram highlights or watch Jalen green highlights or watch guys on the G league ignite highlights. There's really not this barrier to entry where you're like, have to be in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles to get any kind of national platform. That being said, I think we still have these kind of older ideas about there are certain big muscle cities out there and that they somehow deserve whether through historical traditions like Chicago and Jordan and being a basically like the cream of the NBA crop for the better part of a decade. Or just because we think they have a kind of reputation within the country of being big. You know what I mean? And sometimes it's a chicken and the egg thing. It's like Detroit was the heartland of the sort of heartbeat of American industry for a very long time, then it's not, but then it kind of feels like it is again 'cause it pistons. And then it's not. And, you know, I think, especially when you're looking when we talk about mid market, we're often talking about the middle of the country, you know? And it was interesting to kind of look at say like the bucks. So when we first brought this idea up that we wanted to talk about mid market teams, I kind of went through the bucks, rosters over the last decade. You know, and just to see what what they were as like a team. If you don't have Giannis, like, what are you selling? What do you sort of trying to do here? And it's really, you know, as much as yeah, it's custard. It's good beer. I don't even know if the craft beer scene was alive and well back in the early 2010s, but when you go back to like, say, year or two Giannis, it's pretty slim pickins on that team. On that bucks team, when it was still Jason Kidd, I think jabari is rookie year. There's like 1516. And you're just kind of like, oh wow, this is Michael Carter Williams. This is like, this is Chris Copeland is on this team. I don't even. How did we get from in 1516 to the championship team in 2021. It's like, well, it's Yanis. It's gotta be this generational star. It's gotta be somebody who can kind of transcend whatever limitations either the size of the city has or like you were saying in Chicago. Maybe some of the kind of things that people are like, I don't really want to live in Chicago in the winter. You know what I mean? I don't really want to live in Detroit in the winter. I don't really want to live in Milwaukee and the winter. You have to have somebody who shines bright enough to warm it up..
Game Theory Podcast
"lamella ball" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"And that's good, but like, he's not gonna think he moves in over any of the starters. He's just more but basically like, he can plug in in case any of them is out heard or injured or whatever it is what follow trouble, whatever the case may be. And then you have a partial guarantee and in for next year and you make that decision at that time. Yeah, it's interesting. I think I kind of disagree with you on that. Just if only because I think that this team is still very early in its development phase being built around lamella ball. And yeah, you're right that they don't have a ton of flexibility over the next few years. I also don't know, I think that they're basically trying to find guys who do work with lamella. And trying to find guys that play the style of play that borrego wants to play. And because they have such a long chain to go down with lamelo, they have them essentially for 8 more years than they want. I'm 7 more years, let's say. I kind of think that they're playing this right by just going and getting a lot of guys going and getting like legit assets like for the devonte Graham move. Like devonte Graham is probably not going to be a legitimate starter on the team that lamellar ball is really good. So you move them for a first round pick. But James Bond and Kai Jones might not, the resource they got for devonte is it's not a fake first, but it's a very unusual one in that if New Orleans misses the playoffs, then Charlotte gets two seconds. And if New Orleans makes the playoffs, they get the pick. Yeah. So yeah, like New Orleans might make playoffs this year, like genuinely. That's a possibility. But you take a flyer on Kelly oubre, you see if Kelly Uber works next to lamelo and works next to Gordon Hayward, right? If he doesn't work, you can move on. I believe after this year, because I think that second year's team option, right? It's a partial guarantee. Partial guarantee. So I like what they're doing going and just trying a lot of different athletic players that can get out and run with lamelo and seeing what sticks. While also, I think having enough flexibility long term to be able to kind of move around in finagle if they need to. Right. Because not like any of these guys are under contract for four more years, basically. Yeah, that's a fair point. And something that will eventually resolve Mitch kepp check has a lot of roster spots tied up in I would say lower ceiling fours and 5s. Like having furniture and Nick Richards and all of these dudes under contract. I don't know what they're doing there to be honest. Yeah, so some of them will work out, but I generally support teams keeping one of the ways to do this. I think Memphis might end up doing this is like start the start the training camp with more than 15 guaranteed guys and somebody's not going to pop, and you just trade them or cut them..