The Official NBA Season Thread: NBA Cup Night

[lovehateself]

bronny already got worse knees than bron tho

 

[JMB10215]

Kiyan and Alijah are both first round talents. I emphasize talent because you never know. Gilberts kid just had another growth spurt and is about 6'7 and a half now according to his dad. He's probably a future lottery pick

 

[osh kosh bosh]

He just has to devlop his body these next 2 years which he will. Thats a good problem to have. He's gonna be a Jordan Poole type of player. First round talent for sure

if by "develop his body" you mean grow to 6-8 id agree.


Jordan Poole was quicker and profiled as a PG in HS.
imo he needs to become a good passer, and better defender so he has an NBA role if being a lead scorer doesn't workout

 

[JMB10215]

I need that

 

[kingjay718]

She did her own mom dirty, why would she help Kobe’s?

Without his parents she’d still be auditioning for music videos.

but to her credit, she didn’t do her Mom dirty. Her Mom is just delusional.

 

[Public Enemy]

Genes. Melo is not an athlete per se. But he was 6’8 and could move for real. Heavy emphasis on skill work and feel for the game. Y’all think I be trolling, but Baltimore hooping **** comes from playing 50, and getting buckets, you gotta be dumb creative in these environments. Breeds scorers mentality…at every level (Melo, Rudy, Will etc).

Kiyan is the same type of athlete that Melo is. An average one (but with size and skill….that ups it).

Funny as ****, because while posting in this thread, my homeboy said he just seen Kiyan at the airport some days ago, and he’s 6’7 now lol

You're completely right. But man I hate playin 50
Weirdest game for somebody who grew up playing 21. We'll have to get together one of these days so you can run me off the court

 

[wavycrocket]

he's going to need to grow to 6'8 and get that melo weight/stregth

but from looking at him
his frame seems is narrower, and doesn't look like he's getting a lot of separation.


if he's a 6'5 no pass scorer, who isn't a great athlete.
that to me profile as a great college guy but no role in the NBA.

Melo Mama genes going to hit . Not too far off physically. He going to get stronger. We don’t know bout them LaLa genes

 

[lovehateself]

but to her credit, she didn’t do her Mom dirty. Her Mom is just latina

 

[geno90221]

Without his parents she’d still be auditioning for music videos.

but to her credit, she didn’t do her Mom dirty. Her Mom is just delusional.

So her mom didn’t get kicked out a mansion and cut off financially?

 

[JMB10215]

if by "develop his body" you mean grow to 6-8 id agree.


Jordan Poole was quicker and profiled as a PG in HS.
imo he needs to become a good passer, and better defender so he has an NBA role if being a lead scorer doesn't workout

No I mean just get stronger. He's the same height as Poole now. He projects as a scorer/playmaker right now. At his age he's right where D.lo and and Poole were physically look at the old youtube tapes. I agree though its no guarantees but he's top 30 and will be top 20 by graduation. He just dropped a 40 piece at Peach Jam. That's the biggest AAU tourney of the summer.

 

[RustyShackleford]

This kid….is a pro tho

His dad trained him well

But the universe kinda screwed him over by not giving him his dad's athleticism and size

I mean this was senior year Melo...

 

[kingjay718]

So her mom didn’t get kicked out a mansion and cut off financially?

That was messy indeed. You right about that one.

But her Mom making bogus claims that Kobe said he’d take care of her forever, and her of her to view her duties as a grandma as a job thus asking for back pay etc was/is just hilarious.

Overall it’s a sad situation.

Now we know why they would that 2000 title ring. Joe Bryant was sick.

 

[wavycrocket]

You're completely right. But man I hate playin 50
Weirdest game for somebody who grew up playing 21. We'll have to get together one of these days so you can run me off the court

You know! Def dawg. One of the best warmup games to me.

****** used to call “FAMILY” and make 2-3 dudes have to guard you once you broke ice

You going to be a bucket after that for sure!

 

[pmatic]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Once again, the only competition the new Books gonna have are from the Sabrinas

 

[2163O1baller90]

They should have made these Aja's sig shoe

 

[pums]

Bronny really needs to improve in a lot of things and even if he puts the work . Maybe it still wont be enough. I didnt think he would be this bad at shooting.

Hes gonna have to really lift and get his weight up while also learning how to dribble and shoot. Hes closer to GP2 than Dort and them but without GP2’s physical gifts. He has the skill set of a 4 man at 6’2.

They played the Josh Giddey , Tony Allen defense on him.

 

[JMB10215]

Yo Nike stay having sophomore slumps with they signature shoes smh. Not even just Nike. Lamelo and Puma hasnt had a good shoe since his first, and those leaked ant man 2's look buns too.

 

[QU!K]

not saying you but people grossly underestimate how good g league players. Like my guy Keaton Wallace is 25 just now getting a 2 way he’s shot 40% from 3 throughout his G league career

Really I want to know QU!K thoughts. Maybe he thinks it’s personal between him and I but he was naming random guys bronny was better than.

I honestly haven’t been keeping up with Bronny and Summer League.

I’ll repeat what I said before though, every roster got bums. Dudes who never see the floor outside garbage time. Not saying Bronny will make the Lakers roster, but most teams have 1-2 of these players. Bronny could be one of them and no one would notice if he wasn’t Bronny.

 

[pums]

Nike has been terrible with running shoes as well. Aside from their racing shoes their slate is so bad.

Their basketball shoes aside from the Kobe line and other retros is a dud. They at least tried something new with the Book’s

 

[finessence]

Speckled

But Nike trying to Kobe-fy every signature shoe

 

[youngwolf]

Thought you’d post a picture of Vanessa for snake day.

Regardless if there was a rift, she could’ve gave his parents a bag.

 

[pmatic]

Nike has been terrible with running shoes as well. Aside from their racing shoes their slate is so bad.

Their basketball shoes aside from the Kobe line and other retros is a dud. They at least tried something new with the Book’s

Nike down bad period because they just stopped innovating and are relying on retros.

 

[JMB10215]

Liangelo averaged 10 points per game in summer league. Just sayin

 

[sohi 23]

the lakers are not a cut bronny and replace him with a nba player level away from competing so it doesn’t bother me. Lakers have 4-5 roster spots tied up to players who will basically never play (jhs/bronny/Lewis/reddish… you can add wood if you want). The summer league roster has yet to win a game.

The person happiest with the lakers taking bronny is jhs. Man has been straight bum status, injured, doesn’t play in summer league games, he’s small, can’t shoot… I’m not sure what they were thinking there, especially when the entire fanbase was screaming for whitmore or JJJ + Podz was right there.

In summary: of course bronny looks bad, the summer league roster is trash and only has 1 nba player on it. The team doesn’t have have a point guard because the point they took is too crippled. Lakers haven’t done a good job on the margins since Rob took over.