Game #44 Nets (20-22) @ Raptors (31-12) Friday January 11th, 2019. SN1 130am(Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo) 230am(Vilnius, Lithuania) 900pm(St Johns) 830pm(Halifax) 730pm(Toronto) 630pm(Winnipeg) 530pm(Calgary) 430pm(Vancouver)

[KeonClark]

Raptors appear to be doing something little radio/podcast/volunteer bit involving kids. Green, Handy I think, Magloire, Monroe, Malachi...and KAWHI

Kawhi is standing off to the side and the one kid goes "Would you like to join our show?" Right away Kawhi "I like to watch"

[inthepaint]

Not an empty stats guy, but he's close. You trade Pascal & JV for Beal and we're totally f*cked for the playoffs. Who guards Durant and Giannis? Who guards Embiid and Cousins? Beal is undersized at SG and barely guards his own position, ffs. Beal isn't Kawhi or even Paul George. He's more like a Dollarama Ray Allen.

Finally someone said it. Beal is not a bad player but this year he's shooting below 35% from 3, along with shaky defence. Yes, he's averaging 24pts this year but that's on a bad team, he wouldn't average that here. I'm floored by some of the proposed deals floating around for him, like, "2 starters caliber players + 2 rotation players + 2021 pick", for him and Mahimi or something in that vein. I personally don't think he's even close to be worth that much. Good player though, just a bit too overrated sometimes imo.

[rocwell]

Glad everything is fine but what the hell did you eat to put you in the hospital?

Chicken shish kebab and large pepperoni pizza(prepared by the people who don't wash their damn hands).

[Joey]

He's more like a Dollarama Ray Allen.

For the right price, that ain't bad.

[Scraptor]

Not an empty stats guy, but he's close. You trade Pascal & JV for Beal and we're totally f*cked for the playoffs. Who guards Durant and Giannis? Who guards Embiid and Cousins? Beal is undersized at SG and barely guards his own position, ffs. Beal isn't Kawhi or even Paul George. He's more like a Dollarama Ray Allen.

I'd say 90% of the board agrees you can't put Pascam in this deal.

The question is whether you send OG. Also if you send JV which big do you get back.

We are a good team but we aren't beating the Warriors yet. A 24-5-5 shooter who is only 25 years old is the kind of player who might fill that gap, and they don't become available every day.

[planetmars]

The Nets are one of those good bad teams. Harris is a heck of a shooter. I think he's averaging over 50% on 3's. Have to keep a body on him and make him play defense. And that Kurucs guy is pretty good.

Hopefully Green is a go tonight. Fred becomes a liability pretty quickly when he and Lowry are our two perimeter defenders.

And I suspect Kawhi to have a big game. I still can't f@cking believe that we have this guy on our team.

[Hotshot]

"you took my starter spot"

Nothing like having one of the Morris twins on your roster to keep calm & peace.

[Tmac2darak]

Not an empty stats guy, but he's close. You trade Pascal & JV for Beal and we're totally f*cked for the playoffs. Who guards Durant and Giannis? Who guards Embiid and Cousins? Beal is undersized at SG and barely guards his own position, ffs. Beal isn't Kawhi or even Paul George. He's more like a Dollarama Ray Allen.

Well said. Another solid post.
Sometimes our eyes get big when we just look at one aspect of the game.

[Tmac2darak]

Cheat meals are dangerous mate. After my last cheat day, I ended up in hospital. Then antibiotics course followed for the whole holiday period. Sober holidays, yay me. And I just had a fucking colonoscopy to rule out bad things(thankfully everything is fine).

Fuck cheat meals.

Dang. Live & learn. Glad you're feeling better.

[golden]

Beals numbers are nice lately but inflated on a shit team and without Wall. Hed probably average about 14 points on this team.

Not an empty stats guy, but he's close. You trade Pascal & JV for Beal and we're totally f*cked for the playoffs. Who guards Durant and Giannis? Who guards Embiid and Cousins? Beal is undersized at SG and barely guards his own position, ffs. Beal isn't Kawhi or even Paul George. He's more like a Dollarama Ray Allen.

[Scraptor]

Cheat meals are dangerous mate. After my last cheat day, I ended up in hospital. Then antibiotics course followed for the whole holiday period. Sober holidays, yay me. And I just had a fucking colonoscopy to rule out bad things(thankfully everything is fine).

Fuck cheat meals.

Glad everything is fine but what the hell did you eat to put you in the hospital?

[Yuri Gagarin]

Re the SA/OKC game. Tied with seconds left in regulation DD misses a jumper. Tied in 1st OT seconds left DD misses a jumper.

Beals numbers are nice lately but inflated on a shit team and without Wall. Hed probably average about 14 points on this team.

[G__Deane]

Ended up 157-154 SA over Westbrook and OKC in 2OT. Crazy game

[rocwell]

He was too sick to practice the next day ... wonder why. Lol

Cheat meals are dangerous mate. After my last cheat day, I ended up in hospital. Then antibiotics course followed for the whole holiday period. Sober holidays, yay me. And I just had a fucking colonoscopy to rule out bad things(thankfully everything is fine).

Fuck cheat meals.

[Quirk]

Beal is not awesome. He is above average.