Exclusive Official Around the NBA: November 2022

[Fairly-Hard]

It’s fairly classless

I resemble that remark?

 

[speeds]

Koloko looks like a 2nd round steal for Toronto.

He may be the next Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje

 

[THE HCP]

 

[andalusian]

He may be the next Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje

I suspect he will be much much better. He can be a difference maker on defense, even if he is never anything than a lob-threat on offense.

 

[Cugel]

Banchero is great but if it's not translating to wins, I cannot get that excited. He's not playing really on a team that is even remotely competitive. Same with SGA, and it's a shame for both.

 

[illmatic99]

Banchero is great but if it's not translating to wins, I cannot get that excited. He's not playing really on a team that is even remotely competitive. Same with SGA, and it's a shame for both.

rookies don't usually win.

lebron's team was in the lottery his rookie year.

 

[Cugel]

Yes but plenty do ok. Barnes, Mobley, Dame...plenty.
So how much longer do ORL and OKC and DET suck? They have lots and lots of "talent". Something ain't right.

 

[tykendo]

Paolo is off to a great start for sure. But i'm really surprised by the poor starts of Jabari Smith & Keegan Murray. Just shows you preseason isn't regular season. Mathurin's start doesn't surprise me at all. He was NBA ready.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

And less wins than your mom.

 

[Predator]

Yes but plenty do ok. Barnes, Mobley, Dame...plenty.
So how much longer do ORL and OKC and DET suck? They have lots and lots of "talent". Something ain't right.

A lot of them came into the right situation where those teams were really close already… and just had one missing piece.

And they have lots of high draft picks… not necessarily a lot of “NBA talent”.

Also part of drafting so high every year is it’s hard to make all those players fit, because the top of the draft is usually ball dominant players.

 

[illmatic99]

Yes but plenty do ok. Barnes, Mobley, Dame...plenty.
So how much longer do ORL and OKC and DET suck? They have lots and lots of "talent". Something ain't right.

Barnes and Mobley also had all star (Garland)/all NBA (Siakam) caliber teammates.

Dame won 33 games his rookie year even with Aldridge.

 

[Cugel]

That's my point, having high picks does not assure you success. Chemistry is worth something. More high FRPs is not going to turn ORL around.

 

[Shaboid]

There are currently trade threads for Simmons, Durant, and now AD.

Screw all three of those guys.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

There are currently trade threads for Simmons, Durant, and now AD.

Screw all three of those guys.

Somehow they all end up on the Lakers and they make the playoffs losing in the first round. Messes up the Pels pick and the Lakers stay irrelevant.
Maybe they can do this and send Russ to the Nets and they can stay messed up as well?
Lets see??? What other team can i mess with?

 

[SIeepwalker]

There are currently trade threads for Simmons, Durant, and now AD.

Screw all three of those guys.

Don't want any of these guys

 

[DDolla]

Oh Damn

 

[KSF-ERIC]

The Bucks are doing this without Khris Middleton and that is not me in any way trying to diminish what Middleton brings to the table. When he gets back and it looks like it will be soon, they will be even better. I'm not saying they're not going to lose this season, I'm saying that they have been the best team in the league without Middleton and they will be better once they have him back.

I realize that we haven't truly lost a game with Dame playing because we were only seven points back when he was injured and he was subbed out after the next Miami score with us still only down 9 with 17 minutes of game time left to play. I think we are a good team that can compete with any team in the league... I think the Bucks are on another level right now and will take it to an even higher level when Middleton returns.

Bucks have played almost all their games at home. Things will balance out soon.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Yes but plenty do ok. Barnes, Mobley, Dame...plenty.
So how much longer do ORL and OKC and DET suck? They have lots and lots of "talent". Something ain't right.

Blazers lost the last 13 games of the season on Dame’s rookie year.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Oh Damn

As we learned - never sign a player that Miami was prepared to let go.

 

[PDXFonz]

Game to watch tonight - MIL @ ATL

Can Young, Murray, and the Hawks use their lethal shooting to crack the Bucks defense and hand MIL their first loss of the season?

 

[PDXFonz]

Yes but plenty do ok. Barnes, Mobley, Dame...plenty.
So how much longer do ORL and OKC and DET suck? They have lots and lots of "talent". Something ain't right.

Dame and Barnes both played for fairly experienced or already improving teams their rookie seasons.

Barnes had Klay, Steph, and David Lee amongst others.

 

[theprunetang]

Oh Damn

His new nickname is Baskets=

Kendrick Baskets= Nunn

 

[oldmangrouch]

As we learned - never sign a player that Miami was prepared to let go.

Are you refering to Winslow?

 

[PDXFonz]

Brook freaking Lopez is literally one of the deadliest 3pt shooters in the league right now. Wow

 

[PDXFonz]

CJ hasn’t really impressed for the Pels in his time there. Bummy in the box score tonight

 

[PDXFonz]

NW division is easily the deepest and toughest in the NBA so far.

 

[MickZagger]

Warriors have fell off and quickly.

 

[B-Roy]

McCollum having a great CJ season. 20.5 points on 50% TS% and 27% usage rage. Tonight's 3/11 for 9 points won't help

 

[MickZagger]

Meth streams has great streams if you wanna watch nba games. Lots of good games tonight

 

[DDolla]

Cleveland is really good.