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And the Knicks offense is cruising because it only took Mike Brown 3 quarters of basketball to realize James Harden was on the court and you can attack him every time. JB couldn't figure that out in 7 games. I never thought I'd be saying Mike Brown is smarter than anyone, but here we are.
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Ausar Thompson Makes 1st Team All Defense
Betrayer replied to Deleterious's topic in Detroit Pistons
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The Pacers entire gimmick was speed. Run after misses, run after makes, get a shot up quick. Zubac is the opposite of that. I need to see him in that system before I buy it translating as well as a guy like Turner who can space the floor. Also, if you've seen the recent pictures of Haliburton...well, we're going to have to see about his conditioning. Siakam is Tobias' age, so he's not getting any younger. Mathurin is gone. They have a solid squad, but first in the East? I don't buy it.
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I'm sure the Pacers will be a playoff team with Carlisle at the helm, but Turner's offensive ability was a big part of their success. Also Haliburton has a long way to go to get back in shape. I wouldn't put them in a tier above the Pistons. Boston was already the #2 seed and got bounced in round 1. They were already in the playoffs, so no change there. Giannis coming back and going to Miami could add a new team to the playoff mix. It's not like the Pistons were the 7th seed, so we don't have to worry about a couple new playoff teams coming in and pushing us out the bottom. They'll be in the playoffs again and probably for the next several years as long as Cade and Ausar are here.
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I'm aligned with what Bryce said on Duren. The most he's comfortable with offering is around 28M. That's where I'm at as well. It's also what Allen makes and he outplayed Duren. Now, he also said he thinks they'll wind up paying more that that, which is probably also true (sadly). End of the day, I'm not going over 30M. If he wants more he needs to find a sign and trade. Of course, I expect that Sam is right and the team will sign him for somewhere between 35-40M because they feel like they have to.
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Great breakdown. I usually find Bryce to be a bit passive for my tastes but he was adamant that this is the offseason to move forward for real. They aren’t comfortable paying JD north of 30M but think Detroit will pay him mid to upper 30s anyway. They discussed the idea of dangling him to NO for Murphy. They also discuss some draft options, talk about Ausar, Ron, over/under the cap, and more. Great show.
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It's that time of year again. People who have no more info than us just come up with random thoughts and throw them out there as if they're news. At best it's floated by the agent to drum up interest. The next person to post it will say "rumored" and after a few of those we'll start seeing them say "sources".
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21 is a much better place to be than 28. Guys expecting to get picked 1-20 are far more likely to stay in the draft. Any later than that and there's far more risk of falling to the 2nd round, making the college money enticing. We'll likely have at least a few players projected to be picked higher who fall. But none of that matters to me. If I'm Trajan I'm not drafting anyone at #21. They seem committed to a Cade/Ausar/Duren core. Meaning this pick, a couple future picks, Holland, Stew, and some contracts (Robinson, Lavert, etc) are the only assets you have to get talent in the door. Free agency is mostly for back of the rotation guys in the NBA these days and this is a terrible free agent season anyway. Tobias will be valued highly if that tells you anything. It has to happen via trade. Of course, I have no idea if any trade we'd want is actually available or the asking price. That's always the problem. It's not NBA2K and we have no idea what options Trajan actually has available to him. So, he may wind up just having to draft someone and keep trying into the season. Remember, the '04 team didn't get Sheed until the deadline.
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Nobody is happier about Detroit getting eliminated than Jalen Brunson. He's being guarded by Harden and Merrill.
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As expected Trajan didn't reveal much. It sounds like they want to work out deals with both Duren and Ausar. He was complementary of Tobias, but he said the same things about Schroeder last year, so who knows. He's not going to say anything that would impact his negotiating position. He mentioned the importance of playmaking and ball-handlers and then also mentioned shooting. I wish someone would have asked him if he was prioritizing players that can play both sides of the ball so the coach doesn't have to choose offense or defense with every player on the roster. He also said that there were still restrictions on Ausar's workouts last summer, but they have a plan for his offense and he can go fully at it this offseason. Only really interesting thing he said was to admit that Cade was playing with a fractured rib as well as coming off of the collapsed lung. Explains the vest he was wearing all playoffs. Makes sense not to make that public earlier because your star's ribs become a big target if you do.
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Not sure if the link will change after it's over, but here's the presser happening now.
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It's nice to get picks 2, 4, and 1 in the last three drafts including the best player to come out since Lebron. Hopefully they're at least sending a basket of fruit and some flowers to Adam Silver every week.
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A perennial first team All Defense wing or the second coming of Ayton/Drummond who can get rebounds/dunks during the regular season but is mediocre on the defensive end? No-brainer. Allen and Carter outplay him in the playoffs. We saw other smart teams like the Celtics neutralize Duren in the regular season as well. The message was probably, "Hey, just box this guy out." Any lob threat could give you 80% of what Duren gives you in the regular season with better defense added into the bargain. A choice between Duren and Ausar is no choice at all. The answer is Ausar every day and the only person thinking twice about it is apparently JB. Ku has had a number of episodes where he seems to have info that others don't have or won't talk about because they're too busy brown nosing the organization/players (Omari). At this point there's enough smoke that he probably does have someone on the inside. The story really makes sense when you think about JB's handling of Ausar compared to other players. The fact that the front office had to have "a talk" with JB after that first playoff game is just another example of his incompetence. How they extended him after that I'll never understand. Maybe just Gores doing Gores things. Either way, if Trajan is the guy in the Ausar camp, then he has the right idea. Luckily he's also the one making the contract deals, not JB, so maybe there's hope.
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Wemby is such a freak. I'm still bitter about us not getting that pick. Cade and Wemby would have dominated the league for a decade.
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That's all you needed to say. You can only go so far when every player on your roster is a choice between offense and defense.
