Official 2018 NBA Preseason Thread - Jimmy Butler Does Things

[Moheezy]

Wonder what’s gonna happen with Capella? Seeming like no one wants to pay this guy what he wants. Tough spot.

It's been an extremely dry market for big men. Look at Noel, Cuz, and Favors.

 

[IATT]

And I guess you missed the part of my post where I pointed out that they were extremely close to elimination WITH DURANT.

They are not invincible.

1 good series in 2 seasons

 

[hardens beard]

James St Pierre

 

[casper90403]

Kyrie
Ntilikina
Butler
Knox
Porzingis

I can dig this.

 

[430AM]

Doesn't Thibs run like a 6 man rotation by default?

 

[Lovetohate3000]

Jimmy wants to play gladiator sword fights and Kat just wants to take nudies of himself and play fortnite. I can see why they wouldn't get along.

 

[hardens beard]

Don’t know if I believe this

 

[big j 33]

Amazing watching and comparing “analysts” on ESPN/fs1 (mostly bloggers and football players) vs those on NBATV(former nba players and GMs).

Espn/fs1 guys screaming about how stupid these teams are for signing players XYZ and predicting team x will be _ seed etc. basically acting like psychics who know exactly how season will unfold.

Meanwhile nbatv guys are poised, analyzing the moves and being constructive and using 3rd order thinking about the signings.

It's based around their market and goal.. ESPN and FS1 are competing against each other, and also the internet, to get the most clicks, views, reactions, etc. NBA TV is a niche channel that's for people who only care about basketball.. they're not trying to attract the casual viewer to stop in and watch Skip or Stephen A. I really only check ESPN for a few people I like.. Rachel Nichols, Amin, Zach Lowe, etc.

 

[Lovetohate3000]

Is it a hot take to say gs is the most hated team of all time now.

 

[ballinsam23]

Very hard to top Miami Heatles levels of hate at the time.

 

[wavycrocket]

Bringing in my 30's in my favorite place, the Stu

Happy gday. Cook that **** up

 

[Lovetohate3000]

Happy gday. Cook that **** up

yup yup. Dude is one of my favorite posters here. Have a good one my dude @jsindaa

 

[junglejim]

Don’t know if I believe this

Is it really that unbelievable? They only had to pay like 5.3M so its not like there was some obscene salary they needed to match.

 

[trynafeelmink]

Very hard to top Miami Heatles levels of hate at the time.

Bulls teams of the past, Several Lakers teams have inspired irrational generational hate i wouldnt say so

 

[IATT]

Is it a hot take to say gs is the most hated team of all time now.

i dont think they are the most hated..

i think the heatles or some kobe lakers teams were more hated because people cared more

i'm not saying they arent hated, i think durant and to a degree draymond get more individual hate than the whole team.. but i could see lakers fans maybe now caring since they had hope for couple hours

 

[migu420]

It's close, and it's crazy because one of they are one of most unselfish teams in the league, were the quintessential underdog story, and had a fanbase who stuck with them through the horrible times. Make a few threes, and boom! Sign one free agent and it's a wrap. C'mon, you have people whining it ain't fair cause they signed a dude who has one Achilles right now.

 

[wavycrocket]

Is it a hot take to say gs is the most hated team of all time now.

They up there. Part of what makes them hated is the mental gymnastics and lengths people will go to discredit them...as well as the contradictory arguments they have internally.

One minute....They’re overrated...the next, “unfair”. “Broke the league”.

One minute....Draymond isn’t really an all star. Klay shouldn’t have been one.....the next, they have 4 HOFers

One minute....Jump shooting teams cant win and they’re soft. The next, they have 3 of the best shooters ever.

It’s comedy mane .

 

[hardens beard]

Is it really that unbelievable? They only had to make 5.3M so its not like there was some obscene salary they needed to match.

The AD part. I don’t think he had any say in this

 

[amitt5504]

Just looked at his stats from the past 3 years and legit got sad.

Yikes.

The fact that Hinkie turned MCW currently into Zhaire Smith and a 2021 Unprotected 1st is light years lol

 

[hardens beard]

90’s Bulls team being hated? When?

 

[IATT]

It's close, and it's crazy because one of they are one of most unselfish teams in the league, were the quintessential underdog story, and had a fanbase who stuck with them through the horrible times. Make a few threes, and boom! Sign one free agent and it's a wrap.

the hate didnt state coming for golden state until things started going wrong in that 2nd finals.. draymond doing dumb shh and then steph and his wife whining when things didnt go their way

and then durant happened.. so you had draymond, who talked a bunch of shhh running to the car to cry and call durant.. then durant not being able to deal with the decision he made

 

[junglejim]

Is it a hot take to say gs is the most hated team of all time now.

I dunno about all that. The warriors team before KD and Boogie was genuinely likable so I think there is a contingent out there who still likes people like curry and klay but dislikes the hell out of KD. Think most people just hate on KD more than the warriors

 

[junglejim]

The AD part. I don’t think he had any say in this

I'm saying if it only cost them 5.3M or so to bring Boogie back and they didnt, then there had to be some sort of locker room reason as to why they didnt. It wouldnt surprise me if they consulted AD beforehand.

 

[hardens beard]

First year Lebron was on the Heat is the only correct answer.

Espically when Bron was trying to be the bad guy

 

[IATT]

90’s Bulls team being hated? When?

those teams got ALOT of hate.. yes they also got alot of love and bandwagoners, but team also got alot of hate