OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: OCTOBER 2023

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kjironman1 said:
You don’t think that’s him? That absolutely looks like Ray Ray. He even dribbled off his foot once or twice?
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The guy wearing the Novak jersey looks like Novak. the guy wearing the Felton jersey has Felton's face.
 
I'm afraid we may have a Jermaine 2.0 on our hands. Zach has the whole package, size, defense, shooting...I would dangle Brogdon and a pick for him...
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illmatic99 said:
bizarre. I think we'll be very watchable. We'll suck ass, but it will be fun to watch.
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But you are a Blazer fan. They are talking general audience watching. Nobody will stay tuned to watch a Blazer game this year except Blazer fans or possibly areas where these guys grew up or went to college?
 
kjironman1 said:
But you are a Blazer fan. They are talking general audience watching. Nobody will stay tuned to watch a Blazer game this year except Blazer fans or possibly areas where these guys grew up or went to college?
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yeah, that's the reality. The only team on that list that Portland should be ranked over and are not is Chicago

and LOL at Portland being more watchable that Toronto. That's going to make Raps fans go nuts...maybe the point
 
kjironman1 said:
But you are a Blazer fan. They are talking general audience watching. Nobody will stay tuned to watch a Blazer game this year except Blazer fans or possibly areas where these guys grew up or went to college?
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Granted it's anecdotal, my circle of friends outside all love Scoot and will tune in to LP when possible.
 
illmatic99 said:
bizarre. I think we'll be very watchable. We'll suck ass, but it will be fun to watch.
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Yeah, looking at their categories:
  • Zeitgeist: Do normal people care about this team?
  • Highlight potential: Should you linger in case some passing savant or outrageous leaper uncorks something you might never see again?
  • Strategy/style: Are they fun to watch? This is where coaching factors in.
  • League Pass minutia: Announcers, uniforms, courts.
  • Unintentional comedy: Blame Simmons.
I'd think the Blazers would rank pretty high in highlight potential and League Pass minutia. The other three categories, however, I could see garnering a lower rating.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Yeah, looking at their categories:
  • Zeitgeist: Do normal people care about this team?
  • Highlight potential: Should you linger in case some passing savant or outrageous leaper uncorks something you might never see again?
  • Strategy/style: Are they fun to watch? This is where coaching factors in.
  • League Pass minutia: Announcers, uniforms, courts.
  • Unintentional comedy: Blame Simmons.
I'd think the Blazers would rank pretty high in highlight potential and League Pass minutia. The other three categories, however, I could see garnering a lower rating.
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Even Bill Simmons called us a darling league pass team on his pod this morning.
 
Rockets are trading Kevin Porter Jr. and two 2nd's to OKC for Oladipo. OKC is expected to waive Porter and eat his salary

in case you're keeping track, this gives OKC a total of 20 second round picks between 2024 and 2030. This is added to the 15 first round picks they have between 2024 & 2030

wtf?
 
Paying 5.5 million for 2 2nds when you already have way more than you could use and roster seems like a poor business decision to me. I know they're technically assets that can be added in to deals, just feels like soon they'll be overpaying to move up a spot, or for future picks out of necessity.
 
RR7 said:
Paying 5.5 million for 2 2nds when you already have way more than you could use and roster seems like a poor business decision to me. I know they're technically assets that can be added in to deals, just feels like soon they'll be overpaying to move up a spot, or for future picks out of necessity.
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Diminishing returns is a concept foreign to Presti apparently. He's gonna find teams asking for 5 or 6 of them at a time to move up just because he owns them all.
 
wizenheimer said:
Rockets are trading Kevin Porter Jr. and two 2nd's to OKC for Oladipo. OKC is expected to waive Porter and eat his salary

in case you're keeping track, this gives OKC a total of 20 second round picks between 2024 and 2030. This is added to the 15 first round picks they have between 2024 & 2030

wtf?
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I would love it if the Blazers had this problem of too many draft picks.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
FRP's, sure, but 20 second-rounders? Seems like a wasted asset.
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OKC have too many players so they have to cut some of them anyway before the season starts. They basically just got second rounders to remove a guy they did not want around anyway...
 
RR7 said:
Paying 5.5 million for 2 2nds when you already have way more than you could use and roster seems like a poor business decision to me. I know they're technically assets that can be added in to deals, just feels like soon they'll be overpaying to move up a spot, or for future picks out of necessity.
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A article I read said OKC had 21 players under contact and need to cut some. Why not get a couple draft assets for players when you need to get rid of some guaranteed contracts anyway.
 
So OKC has 20 2nd picks between 2024 to 2030.

The nice thing is teams always want more draft picks.

And a 2nd round draft pick is worth a 2nd round draft pick.

You really don't think at worst, OKC couldn't trade those 20 2024-2030 draft picks for 20 2031-2036 draft picks?
 
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