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Yea even their recent 9 game win streak was against a bunch of scrub teams. Not one of their opponents had a better than .500 record
0-3 against Boston. Lost by 13 but it wasn't that close
Yeah. Thought of this comment while watching the uncompetititve second half.
And ******* Thibs!
And ******* Thibs!
KAT goes out with an ankle or knee injury. Thibs puts him back in with a few minutes left and them down 18 points. Poor dude got cooked by Tatum a few times and really should have just been on the bench or in the locker room getting treatment.
It’s crazy the’ve been this bad while technically “trying” to win / not tanking. Sounds like they might be shutting Embiid down soon as the team doctors are “considering alternative options” for his knee. He’s got 4 fully guaranteed years for $248M total due to him after this year. Yikes.
And Paul George has 3 more years at 51.6, 54.1, and 56.6
Depends on your dosage. I'm on 5mg, which is relatively low. If I cut myself shaving, it takes longer to stop bleeding, but generally not a big deal. I also haven't noticed a particular problem with bruising. (If I had a serious cut or a major blunt-force trauma that raised the possibility of internal bleeding, I'd have to go straight to the ER, but thankfully, that hasn't happened yet.)
Who’s in a worse spot going forward: Philly or Phoenix?
Phoenix. Philly has picks at least
They were playing great, admittedly against bad teams, of late. I think this is a one-off. The Lakers came with a clear game plan to be physical with Jokic and also double team him and he just didn't seem into that level of effort during the game. Like I said, he was legitimately bad. They were also in Westbrook's head and he was forcing a lot of stuff. The Lakers beat them 33-9 on fast break points - the Nuggets are the best fast break team in the NBA this year averaging 20.0 points per game. They just weren't ready for the game and LA was pumped for it.
i am glad that you left my bangos off of this analysis because it aint pretty take that to the bank brochacho
He's shot well in a few games in the G-League. I bet they would prefer to keep Sheppard as he, hypothetically, is a good fit for their core around Thompson, Booker (if this happens), and Sengun. Jabari probably isn't a long term fit with the starting unit unless he really figures out his shot as Thompson looks to be a future star and he'll never shoot well enough to have multiple mediocre shooters around him.
I'd love that. Jabari and Jalen are my two least favorite players out of their young core. Both major upside but very inconsistent. Jalen lacks awareness and the high bball IQ needed to be a leader. Jabari still hasn't shown he can shoot which is why we drafted him. Decent defender and rebounder though.
Ideally I'd rather trade Sheppard instead of Jabari just because we wont need him with Booker. Another so called 3 point specialist that is shooting 30% from the field
The way the rosters are now, the Rockets couldn't take on that much salary. Trade Machine says HOU would need to trim $25M in salary out of the deal . . . which I'm not sure could happen. A Booker for VanVleet deal would work on the accounting side of things.
Green's contract jumps to 30-whatever a year once the league year changes on July 1st. ESPN's trade machine is worthless from the trade deadline to the start of the new league year.
Yea the money gets real close in the summer. Booker is at 53 million, Green and Smith are at 46 million. They can figure something out
As it stands right now as the 6th worst record, they have less than a 50% chance of keeping their pick. If they get to the 5th worst record, it's significantly better at roughly 64% chance to keep it. They would nearly have to lose out to get into the 4th worst record - Hornets at 14-41, Jazz at 14-42, Pels at 14-43 PLUS they would have to Raptors who are 2.5 games behind the 76ers at 20-36... nobody is catching the 9-47 Wizards.
The money works with just that, I think, as the Rockets can stay below the 1st Apron pretty easily. The Rocket's cap looks a little full next year but Landale and Zeller are non-guaranteed and Holiday and VanVleet have team options. FVV is not worth anywhere near his $45m contract for next season, so I bet they work out either an extension and make the 26-27 and 27-28 seasons really low, or they just decline and give him 3 new years. I bet he gets some sort of new contract where the next three years total something like $60-75m. If he would hit the open market, I think his only options would be either to take the MLE ($14m-ish) or sign with the Pistons who will have somewhere in the neighborhood of $20m in cap space.
Hypothetically, he would be a good fit next to Cade, Ivey, Thompson, and Holland. Good enough defender, doesn't need the ball, reputation as a good leader. I think it's a non-issue though, as he'll be with Houston next year.
As a Celtics fan, the only team I think can overpower Boston is OKC. For some reason I'm just not concerned with Cleveland and think Boston (as always, IF healthy) beats them in 5-6 games.
Josh Giddey sucks
I love Caruso and think he was a nice upgrade over Giddey. Plus, OKC has tons of capital left. That was a fairly minor win-now move for them considering what they gave up to get him.
Basically the only thing that can save Philly now is getting the #1 pick and getting Flaggg on a cheap rookie deal for a few years.
They need to shut both down for the rest of the season immediately. Not sure Washington can be caught but pretty good chance the Sixers finish in the bottom 4 of the standings.
Shut down Maxey too!
