I appreciate that Kendrick Perkins was the only at ESPN that was bold enough to come out and say that he’s tired of Dame saga and that he isn’t serious about leaving.
Notice Of Separation: The 2023 NBA Free agency/Off-Season Thread
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tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Washington
Detroit
Charlotte
Orlando
it's pretty much down to the Raptors, Nets and Bulls for 2 play-in spots
Orlando is gonna in the mix for a play in game or the playoffs imo
Banchero and Franz are too good
Too bad their backcourt can‘t pull their weight offensively
VegetasHairline
Veteran
Why would BK be better than any of those teams??
Wizards I’ll give you but other than that
all those teams have multiple high level cornerstones. BK has only one
Ivey-Cade-Duren
Melo-Miller-Myles Bridges back
Banchero-Wagner-and what feels like a decade of chemistry
That’s why BK is silly bc with a 25 year old untouchable bridges they will STILL be a terrible team
Kings being the only win-now team with cap space is going under the radar. No point in saving cap space in todays game, so the Kings should give the bag to Brook Lopez. He could be the solution of ‘who to put next to Sabonis’
Fox-Huerter-Murray-Sabonis-Lopez
Bench: Mitchell, Monk, Barnes
Could be a WCF squad
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Because Bridges/Claxton/Johnson is a solid building block and Marks does get the benefit of the doubt for being able to find cheap supporting pieces who can at least contribute. They just lack superstar level talent, which caps how good they can be. Not a high ceiling, but not a low floor either, which kinda puts them exactly where I said they'd be.Why would BK be better than any of those teams??
Wizards I’ll give you but other than that
all those teams have multiple high level cornerstones. BK has only one
Ivey-Cade-Duren
Melo-Miller-Myles Bridges back
Banchero-Wagner-and what feels like a decade of chemistry
That’s why BK is silly bc with a 25 year old untouchable bridges they will STILL be a terrible team
In the short term, none of your picks are undoubtedly better. They have higher upsides, which is great, but irrelevant right now.
VegetasHairline
Veteran
Fam….that’s not a ‘solid building block’. Also ‘solid’ is code for not good enough
Also, lol @ ‘they have higher upsides which is cool’. That’s not ‘cool’ that’s the entire point
I don’t think you realize bridges is 25 and cam jonnson is 27.
I also don’t think you realize this ain’t back in the day, there is no ‘we’ll free up cap space to sign a star’. It takes damn near 50m cap space to sign a star. It’s not happening. Also scroll up at the teams with cap space. Brooklyn aint one of em. So you have a mid roster with no youth that’s still high priced, they have a terrible outlook.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Fam….that’s not a ‘solid building block’. Also ‘solid’ is code for not good enough
Also, lol @ ‘they have higher upsides which is cool’. That’s not ‘cool’ that’s the entire point
I don’t think you realize bridges is 25 and cam jonnson is 27.
I also don’t think you realize this ain’t back in the day, there is no ‘we’ll free up cap space to sign a star’. It takes damn near 50m cap space to sign a star. It’s not happening. Also scroll up at the teams with cap space. Brooklyn aint one of em. So you have a mid roster with no youth that’s still high priced, they have a terrible outlook.
Trust me. I'm aware. I'm also aware that under different circumstances, they'd jettison both of them elsewhere, but they're not because they're not rebuilding.
There's only 2 arguments in favor of tearing everything apart, record be damned:
1. they're older than people think
2. even if the Nets lost 60 games and gave up the #1 pick to Houston, that player is likely to be mid anyway.
I'm not disagreeing with your belief that their outlook isn't great. I'm saying they're not interested in going through that again and won't til they regain control of their own picks. They're fine right just treading water. By your logic, you think only Washington is worse than BK right now. If that's the case, let Cam Johnson go. Trade Bridges, but then Scoot would just miserable for 4 years because the team wouldn't have the means to improve around him. It would just be Scoot and 2 ballhogs and a fashion model on the bench.
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