NBA Thread

[GD]

Kind of hoping Chris Bosh retires. Don't want anything major to happen in the middle of a game or something. Hope he steps back and considers his health. He's already had a long successful career with money and championships.

[Angrioter]

Tobias Harris and Victor Oladipo availables

 

Josh Robbins

The potential for a Harris-for-Ilyasova/Jennings deal, first reported by @MikeAScotto, is very real, a league source said.

[GD]

Was completed. And Courtney Lee to NO.

[Dr. Dinger]

Kind of hoping Chris Bosh retires. Don't want anything major to happen in the middle of a game or something. Hope he steps back and considers his health. He's already had a long successful career with money and championships.

 

Who needs basketball when you have a sponsorship deal and a lifetime of free Xarelto?

[Horses Fart]

What's the timeline on Carroll?

[SpeedyGose]

He is supposed to be back sometime in March

[Horses Fart]

Looks like Masai is gonna stand pat! Addressing the media 3:15.

[Horses Fart]

Marc Stein just said on ESPN that Gasol and Butler are better then anybody on the Raptors. Thoughts. Lol.

[Krylian]

The Raptors are greater than the sum of their parts.

[jays_fever]

First mistake was listening to anything Marc Stein says at all

[Orgfiller]

Marc Stein just said on ESPN that Gasol and Butler are better then anybody on the Raptors. Thoughts. Lol.

 

He wouldn't be far-fetched on Butler, but no way on Gasol, as much as I like him.

[Orgfiller]

The NBA trade deadline is a joke lol. The MLB trade deadline last year had Price, Cueto, Yoenis Cespedes, Cole Hamels, Ben Zobrist, Scott Kazmir, Carlos Gomez, Tulo a couple of days prior and some other relevant names being moved.

[jays_fever]

He wouldn't be far-fetched on Butler, but no way on Gasol, as much as I like him.

 

Butler is probably better than Lowry, but they're in the same tier when you look at the star players. Anyone who would take Gasol over Lowry is a dumbass. Non flashy point guards never get any love.

 

Im curious as to what NBA GM's do all year though. No minor league teams to follow, no mid season drafts to prep for. Boston had interest in Love, Cleveland wanted to move him and neither side could be bothered to actually make an offer

[SpeedyGose]

Lmao, so a fake account tweeted Toronto traded for Horford and Wolstat (beat writer for Sun) retweeted it.

[Krylian]

Sounds like with the cap going through the roof this summer, it had an impact on the deadline.

[Orgfiller]

Butler is probably better than Lowry, but they're in the same tier when you look at the star players. Anyone who would take Gasol over Lowry is a dumbass. Non flashy point guards never get any love.

 

Im curious as to what NBA GM's do all year though. No minor league teams to follow, no mid season drafts to prep for. Boston had interest in Love, Cleveland wanted to move him and neither side could be bothered to actually make an offer

 

Agreed on everything.

 

I'd easily take DD over Gasol as well.

[dineke]

Agreed on everything.

 

I'd easily take DD over Gasol as well.

 

Taking age/fit into account? Gasol is still a better player than DD.

[GD]

Taking age/fit into account? Gasol is still a better player than DD.

 

This seems lacking in correctness

 

Pau has lower efficiency stats on a lower usage rate. Demar assists on a higher percentage of teammate baskets, while Pau rebounds more, which are both expected considering their respective positions. Demar does these things without playing in an actual, you know, offensive system.

 

I'm pretty sure you've just taken too deep a stance on a particular player and legit refuse to think otherwise.

[dineke]

This seems lacking in correctness

 

Pau has lower efficiency stats on a lower usage rate. Demar assists on a higher percentage of teammate baskets, while Pau rebounds more, which are both expected considering their respective positions. Demar does these things without playing in an actual, you know, offensive system.

 

I'm pretty sure you've just taken too deep a stance on a particular player and legit refuse to think otherwise.

 

How about defense? That's like half the game. Gasol's defensive metrics are good while Derozan's are below avg. I'll be honest though, I haven't watched Gasol play at all this year so maybe his numbers are lying.

 

Maybe I should have said arguably better. I'm honestly not trying to hate on derozan, he has been better this year than I've ever thought he would be but he's still not a star in my mind and I'm going to be sweating bullets when they hand him a max contract this summer. Gasol is having a good year and is a future hall of famer, it's not like I said Nick young is better than DD.

 

And what you said about DD not playing in an offensive system is a joke right?

[GD]

They fully even out on defense. Derozan's DRtg is much better, Pau's RPM is much better, and their WS are about equal.

[dineke]

Pau has a better drtg (lower is better for defense). And it doesn't really matter because drtg and ws are greatly affected by the team so they shouldn't be used to compare players on different teams.

 

Anyways, I don't really care anymore since I've resigned to the fact that he is going to be signed to the max by the raptors so I'll just drop it from now on.

[GD]

Lol f*** me for posting about advanced stats at 5 AM. Concede the Drtg point. I still don't buy Pau being better though.

 

Then again I'm still with you on Demar not being a max player.

[Boxcar]

Lol f*** me for posting about advanced stats when I don't really know what I'm talking about and just seeking to argue for reasons. Concede the Drtg point. I still don't buy Pau being better though.

 

Then again I'm still with you on Demar not being a max player.

 

Ftfy

 

PS stfu

[GD]

Ftfy

 

PS stfu

 

IL me f***ing pusso

[Horses Fart]

Tonight's game is why we will not get past the first round again this year. Lost against the wolves before the break and getting spanked against the Bulls minus Noah Butler and Mirotic. Maybe I'm just a bit sour that Masai didn't make a trade. :-/

[Orgfiller]

Every time we play the Bulls some scrub torches us off the bench. Doug f***ing McDermott just happened to turn into Klay Thompson tonight.

[Orgfiller]

The Raptors haven't even played bad defense throughout, the Bulls have just been making really tough shots all night.

[jays_fever]

The Raptors have also been swept by the Kings and a couple of other s***** teams this year, not sure why tonight's game means they're an automatic 1st round exit

[burlingtonbandit]

I would move Patterson into the starting lineup. Scola does not compliment JV well at all.

[Orgfiller]

I would move Patterson into the starting lineup. Scola does not compliment JV well at all.

 

Scola really cost us tonight on a number of opportunities. Zero contributions on defense or on the glass, he's a bigman FFS he shouldn't have to tap the ball to another teammate when he could just grab the rebound himself.