Everything 2018 Off Season

[Zainab]

Basketball genius?
No offence but if you are not an NBA GM, what do you do for living?
Sell Enciclopedia Britanica?

Why are you talking like a 15 year old kid?

On these forums, we debate and speak our minds but we do so in a mature, respectful, and engaging manner.

[MixxAOR]

Why are you talking like a 15 year old kid?

On these forums, we debate and speak our minds but we do so in a mature, respectful, and engaging manner.

[Bonus Jonas]

Why are you talking like a 15 year old kid?

On these forums, we debate and speak our minds but we do so in a mature, respectful, and engaging manner.

goat

[rocwell]

[Bonus Jonas]

this looks a lot like gerry dee

[KeonClark]

Zainab is the RR mom

[inthepaint]

For the first bit: A trade for a superstar isn't happening, its just not. Raps don't have the assets to even get Leonard, but if by some miracle they did, Leonard would dip to LA after a year. No teams are giving up their superstar for an all star, that would be moronic. Not what "swing for the fences, or stay put" means exactly. It seems like you want a surfire superstar, which just won't happen (Maaaaayyybe Ingram in the right context), I don't think any team is stupid enough to trade a guy 1-3 years into the league that looks like they will be a superstar. Teams trade for picks which become those players. The examples of guys who legitimately look like superstars on rookie deals getting traded are so finite and all rely on context to rationalize.

Edit: sorry if that came off strong, it was a rough period of the Jets game for me.

What I mean by "swing for the fences" is a trade like that, Kawhi, Ingram or KAT, something on those lines. I agree they're difficult to pull off. That said, if we take the deterioration of the Kawhi-Spurs relationship, the controversy around the true nature of his injury, plus the fact that for the first time in a while, after letting Casey go, the Raps front office might really be ready to deconstruct the core, I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility at all, albeit unlikely.

We may not have a lot of picks but we're one of the deepest teams in the NBA as of now, on top of having our all-star back court no longer untouchable. What I'd personally like to see this summer, is for us to leverage this depth for solid, mentally tough two-way players (Kawhi being the prototype of that, but it doesn't have to be him).

Last summer, Masai surgically/precisely attacked what was the main problem with the team: antiquated ISO offence over-reliant on Lowry/Derozan. Not only he was successful in that (the offence was efficient and rated among the highest throughout the year, including the playoffs), but he did so without changing the coach/core, in spite of many doubting ( I was one).

What killed us this year was defence and mental weakness. Imo, what he needs to do this summer is surgically/precisely attack that. Except this year, to make his job a bit easier, he has one of the deepest teams in the league where no one seems really untouchable anymore. If we somehow manage to become decent playoff defenders with more mental toughness, while preserving what we just built on the offensive end, we're right back at contending.

I personally don't think we need to "become worse" this year, though there will probably be a time for that, where we might have to eat some Parsons-type contracts when our window naturally closes. Just not yet, imo.

[Mapko]

Why are you talking like a 15 year old kid?

On these forums, we debate and speak our minds but we do so in a mature, respectful, and engaging manner.

It was not my intent to offend anybody (and if I did I apologize) but Im pretty sure Madai has forgotten about bball more than most of us will evet know.
As Raps gans we all have good intentions, but it takes a lot more than that.

[golden]

Karl-Anthony Towns, Wolves 'not in a good place internally,' could come up in trade discussions, per @ZachLowe_NBA, @WindhorstESPN https://t.co/5HkOgicOp7 pic.twitter.com/Of3xvOnBjO

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 18, 2018

Sounds like he got criticized and told to work on a few flaws on his game over the off-season, like defense, and didn’t take it to well. Millennial.

[rocwell]

New Under Armour Curry samples have surfaced https://t.co/3EuRb1oevw pic.twitter.com/cY2q8ahJn7

— Nice Kicks (@nicekicks) May 18, 2018

[rocwell]

Sounds like he got criticized and told to work on a few flaws on his game over the off-season, like defense, and didn’t take it to well. Millennial.

KAT is Gen Z kid

[Bonus Jonas]

New Under Armour Curry samples have surfaced https://t.co/3EuRb1oevw pic.twitter.com/cY2q8ahJn7

— Nice Kicks (@nicekicks) May 18, 2018

curry really has the worst kicks in the game

[Hotshot]

New Under Armour Curry samples have surfaced https://t.co/3EuRb1oevw pic.twitter.com/cY2q8ahJn7

— Nice Kicks (@nicekicks) May 18, 2018

That's turrible.

[Maury]

curry really has the worst kicks in the game

They look like they’re made out of LEGO.

[Bonus Jonas]

They look like they’re made out of LEGO.

It looks like his daughter designed them