**OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD**

[don ramon]

yeah he's a maga douchebag. shaq should've buried him

 

[wavycrocket]

Stiffest shamgod ever

That boy Dirk a fool man lmao. So ginger every time he walks. My dawg can’t move lol

 

[drewsone]

That boy Dirk a fool man lmao. So ginger every time he walks. My dawg can’t move lol

BURGER!!!

lmao he need to retire man Silver was tryna do him a favor

 

[Moheezy]

Always felt a bit of a Blake vibe but Blake seemed more polished coming out of OK. Guess I’m just thinking athletically both freaks

Blake was a better scorer and Zion is a smarter defender.

Would a Barkley comp make more sense? I'm thinking undersized PFs with high motor, can share the ball and have a knack for getting rebounds and making big plays when it counts. I've never watched Barkley in College tho.

 

[amitt5504]

Blake was a better scorer and Zion is a smarter defender.

Would a Barkley comp make more sense? I'm thinking undersized PFs with high motor, can share the ball and have a knack for getting rebounds and making big plays when it counts. I've never watched Barkley in College tho.

Larry Johnson

 

[HIM]

BURGER!!!

lmao he need to retire man Silver was tryna do him a favor

Silver gonna enact an age maximum cuz Brotha Dirk don’t know when to leave

 

[nick.]

Darren Collison would be a 20/5/5 guy with these players

 

[addict4sneakers]

Darren Collison would be a 20/5/5 guy with these players

“He makes $30M a year, he should be able to make guys better”

 

[WASHED KING]

https://sports.yahoo.com/tim-hardaw...f-what-i-said-about-gay-people-162943065.html

Yea Tim...that will do it.

 

[antidope]

Big Devin Booker thread is one of the more enjoyable turns this thread has taken this season

 

[nick.]

“He makes $30M a year, he should be able to make guys better”

Give him $300M and he's not making Mike James an NBA rotation player

 

[Thats My Word]

BURGER!!!

lmao he need to retire man Silver was tryna do him a favor

Dirk will be back next season, he isn’t going to turn down free checks from Mark Cuban.

 

[squatchnt]

There's no way to be free unless you take the QO playing for 1 yr after your rookie deal with low money so you won't be a restricted FA the following year (which is just plain stupid in case you get injured ie: nurkic, PG, etc). If he went into FA after his rookie deal the suns would just match any max offer he got, so he was stuck regardless. It was smart to take the max extension early so he was covered in case of injury then become an unrestricted FA after that contract is over at age 27. Had nothing to do with him choosing to stay in phoenix and play for that franchise. The CBA is set up for you to be forced to stay 7-8 years minimum now with the team that drafts you unless you want to risk playing on a QO

KP is free

 

[KHUFU]

I love when these idiots are ejected.... Some of these chumps do need to get punched in the mouth.

 

[lawdog1]

Blake was a better scorer and Zion is a smarter defender.

Would a Barkley comp make more sense? I'm thinking undersized PFs with high motor, can share the ball and have a knack for getting rebounds and making big plays when it counts. I've never watched Barkley in College tho.

I think Barkley makes sense because the heights are more comparable. Blake’s a legit 6’10” and Zion is closer to 6’6”, like Barkley was.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Seth Curry been ballin since CJ been out.



Yo was on his way to being a near 20ppg scorer on a below average team before his injury. He rounding back to form.

I’m waving him to come byke to Dallas

 

[amitt5504]

“He makes $30M a year, he should be able to make guys better”

I mean he was the main one asking for Ulis to stay lol

Point Book is the wave, not 2 guard Book lol IMO he works better with a defensive minded guard who can shoot. A 6'3" Canaan basically

I would love to see Book paired w Jrue but thats another story

 

[buc em]

1. Dolan
2. NY Media
3. Cold
4. KD soft
5. Only Clippers can afford 3 max

4/5 reasons KD not going to NY

He didn’t move all his people to New York already to be on the complete other side of the country from them. I also think the last thing he wants to do is be apart of joining another “super team.” He also grew up in the DMV then lived in OKC for most of his career. I don’t think he’s worried about the cold.

Kawhi will be a Clipper.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Give him $300M and he's not making Mike James an NBA rotation player

But his VORP last year and this year is just 1.2, which is lower than Darren Collison (1.7).

And I’m sorry, but when DC, who is not having an All-Star year by any stretch, puts up a better bottom-line advanced stat number than you do, you don’t get to call yourself anything resembling elite.

A 1.2 VORP is about 3 wins over a season better than if you get hurt and they have to fish a guy out of the G-League to replace you.

Booker also has just .064 WS/48, which would make him an average player on a 25-win team.

And he does all this with a 32.1 usage rate that immediately calls into question whether you really want him using all of your possessions.

All of this serves to explain why the Suns are just 2.3 points better in Net Rating (just a six-win swing over a season) with him on the floor than off.

Booker is also a disaster movie defensively, so putrid that he’s barely above zero Defensive Win Shares, and his DBPM belongs in conversation with Shaqtin-era Harden and fresh-out-of-college Steph.

Even when you account for the fact that he’s on the Suns, the numbers aren’t kind.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

nick. weren't you using vorp as the reason Tatum is better than Kuzma? Or was that the other nick. ..

 

[addict4sneakers]

But his VORP last year and this year is just 1.2, which is lower than Darren Collison (1.7).

And I’m sorry, but when DC, who is not having an All-Star year by any stretch, puts up a better bottom-line advanced stat number than you do, you don’t get to call yourself anything resembling elite.

A 1.2 VORP is about 3 wins over a season better than if you get hurt and they have to fish a guy out of the G-League to replace you.

Booker also has just .064 WS/48, which would make him an average player on a 25-win team.

And he does all this with a 32.1 usage rate that immediately calls into question whether you really want him using all of your possessions.

All of this serves to explain why the Suns are just 2.3 points better in Net Rating (just a six-win swing over a season) with him on the floor than off.

Booker is also a disaster movie defensively, so putrid that he’s barely above zero Defensive Win Shares, and his DBPM belongs in conversation with Shaqtin-era Harden and fresh-out-of-college Steph.

Even when you account for the fact that he’s on the Suns, the numbers aren’t kind.

This is low key how ridiculous a lot of advanced stats are when you dig into it. It's mental masturbation for nerds

 

[squatchnt]

Advanced stats gotta be a scam all last season they were used to make Frank Nitty one of the best in his draft class

 

[lawdog1]

Didn’t someone on here say Phoenix is going to go hard after D Lo in the Summer? Would be interesting, I guess.

 

[nick.]

nick. weren't you using vorp as the reason Tatum is better than Kuzma? Or was that the other nick. ..

One of numerous other stats, yes.

Y'all hate advanced stats until they help support your argument

 

[amitt5504]

Didn’t someone on here say Phoenix is going to go hard after D Lo in the Summer? Would be interesting, I guess.

Would score like 110 a game. Would give up 125 lol