buddha

orlando is not very good, even with the roster flaws they should still be beating orlando.

what arw the on-off numbers for duren/cade/ausar compared to stew/cade/ausar?

a lot of those are open threes. theyre just missing.

a whopping $15.50. about enough to go to mcdonalds. 🙂

yesterday i put $5 on the pistons to win the series...

every time i think about what they needed coming into this season it makes me mad: shooting, a shot creator other than cade, and a secondary ball handler. what did we get? a trade for ancient duncan robinson. caris lavert at the FULL MLE. and danniss jenkins on a two way contract. structurally, that's why theyre losing.

i still think they can win. which says more about how low i rate the magic than how high i rate the pistons. if cade plays smart and fast and is tighter with his handle, they can win at home. stop forcing the ball to duren. and duren needs to get angry and PLAY HARD. rebounding is as much about effort as talent. duren is standing around and getting boxed out by wendall carter. sure, the pick and roll isnt working, but you can help the team other ways. work hard!

pistons are +210 to win the series. i thought it would be worse than that. sixers are still +1000.

lavert makes 14 million next year. watch them extend tobias, sign duren to a huge deal, and draft a 19 year old project at #21 and stash him somewhere. RUN IT BACK! we wouldnt want to use a roster spot and have to give up on bobi klintmann.

bump.

that would be difficult. the easiest thing to do was nothing and then say you didnt want to mess with their great chemistry. yes, jb sucks at making big adjustments, but this is a roster construction failure. as much as i think the bulls players were overrated role players, they could play key roles! how about coby white or ayo dosunmu? FOR SECOND ROUND PICKS! and they didnt bother with either because they...check notes...wanted to move up 8 spots in the middle of the draft. either one could have given you an extra ball handler/offensive player (white) or defensive player/ok shooter (ayo). and instead they chose the corpse of kevin heurter. what an absolute failure.

nc$$ tournament expanding to $eventy-$ix teams.

i agree with all of this. no more duncan. play ron. lean into the chaos that is ron holland!

I'm as doom and gloom about this team as anyone, but they could still win this series. orlando isnt that good. the pistons could get better shooting and/or a supercade game and win 3 straight against this team. not likely, but not impossible. ask tracy mcgrady.

you can lead a horse to taking advanced CPR and 5 independent study courses, but you cant make him drink!

its funny because its osu, but it goes on everywhere. the idea that most bball or football players go to michigan for the academics is silly. osu has so many university wide scandals right now theyre beginning to rival michigan!

1) i'm sure this is all exaggerated. 2) osu football players do not go to class. this is a joke. big time college athletics is professional football and making them go through this charade is stupid. this is just another example of that. 3) as someone whose kid is applying to universities and seeing how hard it is to get in, this is obnoxiously annoying. no one with a high school gpa of less than 1 belongs in any college. whether you can play football or not. 4) reese is not horatio alger. give me a break.

if they lose in 5, the cya stories will start. about how trajan knew they werent ready yet and that's why he didnt go all in. youre already starting to see it. he "wanted to see how they would react to the pressure" or some bs like that. the team needes shooting and you traded for robinson and heurter. both of whom stink. i get that beasley screwed you over, but you had all year to watch the team without him and yoy chose to do nothing about it. the team needed other ball handlers besides cade and you stuck with danniss jenkins. with predictable results. there were decent role players available and they chose to do nothing. you could have made a play for cj mccollum and overpaid, perhaps it was wise not to do so? the easiest thing to do was to do nothing. and that's what he did.

duren has 7 blocks in four games.

cade was garbage. i know he's super cool dude now with his GQ cover story, but can he actually play hard and locked in for 40 minutes? he didnt have it tonight and they needed him to be super cade. why? because the rest of the team blows. ausar cant score. duren has been exposed. duncan is cooked. and where is ron holland? is he THAT bad that he cant even get on the floor?

duncan robinson and tobias' contracts were made to be traded. shoot, a lot of us thought that was why they got robinson in the first place. tobias and him would come off the books for abput 45-50 mil. duren was young enough to get some real bids. and you have 5 first rounders and multiple seconds to trade. what did we do? nothing. improved our draft slot by 8. trajan is either smart enough to know this team was overrated, or dumb enough to think they didnt need help to compete. i'm not sure which yet.

keep ausar and trade duren. its too late though. trajan sat on his ass and did nothing to help the team. now he's stuck with this core, which is about to get prohibitively expensive.

2 minutes left in the game and who is taking a wide open 3 to pull within 1? daniss jenkins. fyi: he missed.

and he banks in a 3. are you kidding me?

can we trade his rights for scottie pippen?