i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

second place finisher got the most first place votes!

jaeger to kings rip

Wonder if they can get Conley now

http://i.imgur.com/Z1hsjbI.png

everyone's really psyched huh

http://i.imgur.com/erpmmN4.jpg

they look like they're part of a panel discussion for guys who look generally unhealthy

related:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiIHVAdUYAAvXKh.jpg:large

Brought the b team eh

Kurt Helin ‏@basketballtalk 1m1 minute ago
Report: Dwight Howard tops Mavericks’ free-agent wish list

funny how dallas gets all their coveted free agents after their primes are dead and gone

there's a price where dwight would be a good signing imo but cuban will prob overpay

he could be a good fit there tho and they need a center badly

Did we call it or what

yup

skiles gone

not fired tho - just bailed the fuck out! surprising, i mean he knew he was getting a rebuilding team so he can't have been like "yo fuck this rebuild," maybe he's just tired, maybe he wants to chase and beat up jamal crawford on his personal time

this does not impact my orlando magic theory

what is yr theory?

Evan Fournier ‏@EvanFourmizz 31 minutes ago
WHAT THE FUCK

the theory is that they're a playoff team next year

oh word. this might actually give them the opportunity to find an even more appropriate coach for that goal. seeing some talk on twitter that there was conflict over the FO liking payton and skiles not liking him

lol skiles is a hothead

Never change , skiles

he just walked out of the last nba head coaching job hell ever have rip

He and Byron should start a podcast together

love too pod and yell about #grit

thought skiles would be there a couple more years max anyway, everyone knows he's a short term hire. team actually kinda did worse than i thought they would this year but the east is kinda loaded w/ teams in that 5-8 seed range. magic have a ton of cap space this summer so 'our coach isn't a notorious asshole anymore' is a selling point, actually think if horford doesn't stay in atlanta or maybe go to the spurs he'll end up in orlando.

They don't have a prob at the center position tho

im sure hed have no prob playing the 4

at the same time they prob want to let aaron gordon start for a full season and see what he can do

if they could get horford i think letting go of vucevic wouldn't be the worst thing anyway

i'm not really sure how good mario hezonja is expected to be

they have all these guys who are like 20-23 and look good on the court but aren't stars yet

hi this is danny ainge i would like your vucevic

gordon was playing great as the 4 after the t harris trade

vucevic also on a great contact
http://hoopshype.com/salaries/orlando_magic/

ya gordon kinda is the perfect nu 4

curious to see what they do with their wings, oladipo and fournier are both pretty good at what they do and presumably hezonja has a high ceiling based on his draft position. fournier is an RFA iirc and will surely generate interest

Kurt Helin ‏@basketballtalk 49s50 seconds ago
Report: Jeff Van Gundy a finalist in Rockets’ coaching search,

uh

please don't leave TV

also they interviewed kenny smith lmao something tells more morey is not making this hire

The Indiana Pacers are finalizing a deal to promote assistant Nate McMillan to head coach, league sources tell @TheVertical.

HA HA HA HA HA

Oh no

Bird exposed as one of those old guys who is completely blinded by anyone who says shit like "the way I look at it is, well you know me Larry, I'm old-school."

ugh so apparently hes generally a shitty offensive coach? clay what else is there to worry about?

i was hoping bird would hire hornacek ://

maybe he's changed some since coaching the sonics and blazers in the early-mid aughts. he's very highly respected around the league. but he's a disciplinarian, players reportedly aren't super fond of his m/l militaristic approach to schedule and practice, he'll alter a rotation once every couple of years, prefers point-guard dominated predictable offensive sets, runs shot clock like a madman, and is so risk-adverse as to be maddening. basically every thing you hated about basketball during that period is embodied in nate mcmillan.

i wrote an extremely long post about how much i despised his approach to the game c. like 2006 or 2007 on here, and that was before pace-and-space and flowing offensive systems even existed as a platonic ideal alternative.

ok, wonderful, so he has all of vogel's flaws but magnified? wow.

promoting a coach like this from within is a really bad look! and it sounds like it will lead to bad basketball too. gross.

sad!

I can't find my McMillan essay from a decade ago but there is this, original poster was hibachi, responding to me remembering that post

i think hibachi or cad once asked me what i thought about mcmillan in the first year portland was doing pretty good with roy & aldridge and i'd had a couple beers and wrote like a 6,000 word post about how severely i disagree w/ like every basketball decision mcmillan had ever made

― Clay, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I 100% remember this it was an eloquent essay that booted me directly and permanently off the McMillan bandwagon and he was vaporized as a head coach not long after, maybe the most otm thing ever on ilh

also if you isolate ilh in a searching for McMillan it's seriously 90% me bitching about his approach to basketball every couple months for five years