Around the NBA: April, 2026! (6 Viewers)

[Rastapopoulos]

Maybe Delonte West can stage an intervention.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

If you’re the Spurs and locked the 2nd seed, who do you want to face in the first round? Suns, Blazers or Clippers? We will soon find out the answer if they let the Blazers win

Spurs record against those three:
Us: 1-1
Suns: 2-2
Clippers: 3-0

Now it kind of depends when they played. If all their wins against the Clippers came from early in the season, the Clips have improved A LOT since then.

 

[RR7]

Spurs record against those three:
Us: 1-1
Suns: 2-2
Clippers: 3-0

Now it kind of depends when they played. If all their wins against the Clippers came from early in the season, the Clips have improved A LOT since then.

All 3 Clippers games were this past month.

 

[KingSpeed]

things were really looking solid for them...they were 16-3 over their last 19 games. 1st round exit?

They were probably a 1st round exit even healthy,

 

[Rastapopoulos]

All 3 Clippers games were this past month.

Huh. Apparently not enough. So... this means San Antonio will want to beat us, right?

 

[THE HCP]

 

[riverman]

Man did we win the Anfernee Simons trade...Ant in Chicago is avg 15.2 pts and shooting 32% from 3 on 13 shots a game. Jrue smokes Ant in the stats column.

 

[THE HCP]

Man did we win the Anfernee Simons trade...Ant in Chicago is avg 15.2 pts and shooting 32% from 3 on 13 shots a game. Jrue smokes Ant in the stats column.

Is “stats” how we judge a player’s success on here? I was told that even triple doubles mean nothing.

 

[Everything Beagle]

Portland gets swept and no pick. Such is life for a blazers fan.

Just pretend we drafted Sidy Cissoko. His production for us this year has been very “20th pick first round”

 

[riverman]

Is “stats” how we judge a player’s success on here? I was told that even triple doubles mean nothing.

Jrue has pretty much willed us to the playoffs. Ant didn't quite do that as "the man" around here.

 

[Strenuus]

Jrue has pretty much willed us to the playoffs. Ant didn't quite do that as "the man" around here.

Which is a net loss, since we are a bad team, but alas.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Which is a net loss, since we are a bad team, but alas.

We will end up winning 41-42 games. IMO, we easily would have been a 50-win team this year with a normal amount of injuries.
I am not saying 50 wins is great, but it is not bad. But we will have only 4 players on the whole team who will have made the 65-game mark. And that counts Sidy, who started with a 2-way contract.

However, if we don't get Grant and Shae back for the play in series, we'll probably get our draft pick.

 

[riverman]

Which is a net loss, since we are a bad team, but alas.

yeah...you don't get better by losing and your lottery players don't need 5 years without playoffs to grow eh? Try to keep up....you are thinking in Raymond Felton years, not Jrue Holiday years. We have 3 allstars and a bench. We have defenders. How many years now since you've watched a game?

 

[riverman]

We will end up winning 41-42 games. IMO, we easily would have been a 50-win team this year with a normal amount of injuries.
I am not saying 50 wins is great, but it is not bad. But we will have only 4 players on the whole team who will have made the 65-game mark. And that counts Sidy, who started with a 2-way contract.

However, if we don't get Grant and Shae back for the play in series, we'll probably get our draft pick.

I think we'll convey the pick to Chicago and be done with it and then mine the G league and probably sign Caleb Love instead of draft a rookie. Dundon wants a superstar more than a project.

 

[PDXFonz]

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[THE HCP]

Let’s Goooooo!!!!!!

 

[THE HCP]

 

[Everything Beagle]

yeah...you don't get better by losing and your lottery players don't need 5 years without playoffs to grow eh? Try to keep up....you are thinking in Raymond Felton years, not Jrue Holiday years. We have 3 allstars and a bench. We have defenders. How many years now since you've watched a game?

Sidy Cissoko personally won us like four games this year. Robert Williams III is a better player than Donovan Clingan, who is already a legitimate threat to drop a 20/20 game on a good night. Our bench is good. We’re ready to take the next step. I cannot wait to be at full strength next season.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Fuckkkkkk. I never wanted to let him go.

 

[TYDame]

We waived the wrong guy… this is sad but happy for Rups

 

[julius]

Good for Rayan. Kinda shows you that sometimes you can't judge a player by their first season or two.

 

[KingSpeed]

Cooper with 22 early in the 2nd. Stealing Kon’s ROY award and going for first teenager to score 60.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

The Wizards are to us what we are to the Grizzlies.

 

[THE HCP]

Good for Rayan. Kinda shows you that sometimes you can't judge a player by their first season or two.

Or a poster after only 46,500 + posts?

 

[wizenheimer]

They don't care, they will demolish the three teams even if the Clippers Suns and Blazers formed one team, the Spurs will demolish them. They will win the championship.

Booker-Kawhi-Camara-Deni-Clingan could be a pretty good starting unit

 

[wizenheimer]

Good for Rayan. Kinda shows you that sometimes you can't judge a player by their first season or two.

a lot of times you can though

 

[julius]

Or a poster after only 46,500 + posts?

What if I stopped making fun of you?

 

[TYDame]

A Must Win for Denver tomorrow to grab the 3rd seed.

 

[blazerkor]

Portland gets swept and no pick. Such is life for a blazers fan.

We'll see. I like this situation. Either the guys achieve their goal of making the playoffs, which I can cheer for and at the same time opens up our future picks because this year's pick will go to Chicago or I think more likely we'll lose in the play-ins, get to participate in the lotto and most likely pick at the end of the lotto.

The eighth seed will likely come down to our game against the Clippers. If we lose that, I could see us losing at home in the first play-in game against the Warriors... if they have Steph back for it.

Any way you cut it our team has posted a record above expectations and that is a good thing. Do I want a lot of different guys from this draft? Yeah but I can't be mad at our roster for overachieving.