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

xp the cracks continue to appear

javale, in theory, is what they warriors need

i listened to nine nba podcast episodes in the past 24 hours

i also watched bucks pistons for everyone. pistons shot 50% from 3, came back from a 17 point deficit, and kcp scored 23. this is a playoff team even without reggie for 20+ regular season games.

fantasy draft was last night, got cp3 and giannis, feeling pretty good abt my team, stoked for the madness.

xp it's not optimal to depend on kcp and marcus morris for yr 3-point shooting but the latter is fairly solid, got pretty hot in the playoffs

also reminded me that except for one of the games the entire detroit-cavs series was all close games, particularly the last one

i'm kinda excited to give a damn about the nba!

lamarcus trade rumors already out there!

i saw that on lowe's thing, but it seemed like idle speculation.

jackie mac brought it up today too in a chat or something, sounded like she had a source

i would be absolutely shocked if it was true. spurs are denying it, of course

maybe this is because i've listened to/read a million nba previews in the past 2 weeks and i'm apparently the only person in america concerned about the spurs backcourt, but i could see this happening if they could pry away a dynamic young guard from somebody.

theyre woefully short on big men, that shit aint hatnin

true theres not a lot there.

might be a good year for the spurs to pivot to the future tho

lma gon be real good for a while cld only see moving him in a blockbuster

xp :/ spurs have prime kawhi and some young cats who could be really good, theyre fine

guys the spurs are always going to win 60 games

just accept it as a part of life

and i remain the only person in america worried about the backcourt

tony is just as slow as he was last year and they won 67 games last year

their backcourt is def worth worrying about imo, theyre 2nd tier this year unless they upgrade, but w/e everyone else is waiting around for a warriors injury too so same dif

i mean everyone except GS is 2nd tier this year. spurs will be 3rd seed in the west at minimum. dejounte murray could be a PG for the future in a few years. he's got the raw skills, and the spurs have a pretty good track record of developing late 1st rounders into legit players.

hmm idk shd we worried that theyre entering "the curse of tim duncan" era of the franchise tho

are there spurs fans who agitate for patty to start ahead of tony i wonder

there were some in the playoffs, but its never been a serious "movement"

there were def the nba2k playing teens that are like "we should trade tony to get russ/cp3/whatever"

the switch from teague/horford to schroder/dwight at the 1 and 5 is really gonna take the hawks d to the next level

schro is a good defender?

horford is probably a better defender than dwight too

nah schroder is a great defender. dwight mostly gives us consistent rebounding which has killed them recently. so many 2nd chances after playing solid d.

don't get me wrong teague and horford were very good defenders but schoder and dwight are gonna take it up a notch

i'm getting real fired up about the hawks d as they play against the pelicans bench

i feel like they m/l made lateral moves, which may work out since they needed to shake things up anyway. see if schroeder can outperform what teague brought and see if dwight can actually care again

celtics gon be good this year friends theyre playing kinda insane levels of team ball in preseason

actually the celtics will be bad

hmm hold on let me double check

they gonna be good

celts proba gonna make the jump from tier 4 to tier 3

brad stevens will be arrested for underage drinking and the celtics will fall apart in his absence

Kurt Helin ‏@basketballtalk 1m1 minute ago
Steve Kerr says JaVale McGee likely to get Warriors final roster spot

This is either crazy dumb or genius, most likely dumb

However I could 100% believe that they will keep him just to give press something to ask about besides Durant and 3-1

Every time I see the bulls roster I just involuntarily shudder a little

it's gonna be ugly. they might be worse than the knicks this year?

brad stevens will be arrested for underage drinking and the celtics will fall apart in his absence

― k3vin k., Wednesday, October 19, 2016 1:50 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

k, this i could actually see happening

uh guys brad stevens [checks wikipedia] is def old enough to drink

some good articles on the web today. strauss's draymond piece is really good. Good RWB piece. Good KD piece. I havent worked yet today

jordan called the green piece great gossip so im going to read it

"The guys might be frustrated by his antics, but they had an opportunity to prove themselves without him in Game 5 and they played like a bunch of [cowards]."

lol

it is good gossip but also good in other ways