Random NBA Observations 2019 - 2020

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Yet has better than anyone on the Knicks roster currently

He didn’t/wasn’t going to stay anyways, so they really had no other choice in trading him. It didn’t help that he tanked his own value by openly admitting his frustrations about wanting out.

It doesn’t excuse what they got in return for him, but I see why they had to do it.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Some matchups are more favorable but you're right.



Nobody expects that team to do damage especially with Jokic taking a step back this year. Nobody expected them to do damage last year either and they didn't. MPJ definitely adds another element to the team but nobody's scared of them or Utah.

Time and time again it's been proven that in the playoffs you're only as great as the performance of your star player and they don't have great enough stars IMO, either team could probably make the WCF but I cant picture them winning it all.

In the case of The Clippers I would say the most favorable matchup would be Dallas. They only have one creator who is extremely young and you would be allowed to get physical with during that phase of the season. Everything else looks like a dogfight that home court would be helpful with

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

And Doc has made the observation that none of those teams are that good.

Doc has no business making those statements considering he lost to a Rockets team years ago they were beating handily until they weren’t. I don’t believe any of these teams have a player like Cell nor a duo like Cell & PG.

With that being said nothing is guaranteed. Maybe Mike Malone stops fukking around & gives MPJ real minutes. Maybe we get the Mitch we saw against OKC instead of Houston. Maybe the combination of Russ & James go into overdrive.

I think the 2 seed is the best place to be ultimately. Chances are you will get an inexperienced team happy to be playing in April. Let the other good teams take care of each other until 2nd round

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

They are an elite level scorer from being a contender. Murray isn’t/won’t be it and MPJ won’t be that player anytime soon. It’s why I lobbied and still do for them to make a run at Beal when he’s eligible to be traded.

Utah has the same issue outside of Mitchell.

I dunno...watch out for Bogdan. He’s had some big moments in the playoffs. He’ll be a huge help

 

[Bigblackted4]

Nic Batum got the Goat agent

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I dunno...watch out for Bogdan. He’s had some big moments in the playoffs. He’ll be a huge help

Bojan and you’re totally right as I forgot that they signed him this past off-season. I was more so thinking of Conley and how they originally thought that he would be the missing piece for them.

 

[Morethan1]

 

[Flex Luger]

 

[Primetime]

Doc has no business making those statements considering he lost to a Rockets team years ago they were beating handily until they weren’t. I don’t believe any of these teams have a player like Cell nor a duo like Cell & PG.

With that being said nothing is guaranteed. Maybe Mike Malone stops fukking around & gives MPJ real minutes. Maybe we get the Mitch we saw against OKC instead of Houston. Maybe the combination of Russ & James go into overdrive.

I think the 2 seed is the best place to be ultimately. Chances are you will get an inexperienced team happy to be playing in April. Let the other good teams take care of each other until 2nd round

Yea, my earlier point is that they do care about that 2nd seed, and lowkey would rather usurp the Lakers for that 1st seed but they stay fukking up whenever the opportunity strikes to make ground. When Kawhi is playing and on the court, them nyggas are a whole other level. But he shouldn't be needed to handle a Trae-less Hawks or a struggling Kings, yet LAC took bad Ls to both.

They're at a crossroads of either keep everything as is and just hope PG can round into form like KL has (and count on that being enough no matter the flaws with the role players). Or, see if you can shake things up and get that stretch-big or facilitating pg.

 

[Collateral]

He didn’t/wasn’t going to stay anyways, so they really had no other choice in trading him. It didn’t help that he tanked his own value by openly admitting his frustrations about wanting out.

It doesn’t excuse what they got in return for him, but I see why they had to do it.

He was a restricted free agent. They could have kept his ass if they really wanted to be spiteful. They should have traded him at the draft though, they could have gotten way more than they did for him. But, that’s the Knicks for you.

 

[Primetime]

A month from now LAL is going to have a brutal stretch of games vs the upper class West teams, and that will be the opportunity for Denver, LAC, Utah, etc to be the "tortoise" in the hare race.

The seeding comes down to whether the LA teams are on the same bracket or are on opposite brackets. Same thing with GSW and Hou last year; because they wound up on the same bracket last year, a team like Portland emerged to the WCFs.

GSW/HOU in the 2nd round was the defacto WCFs... but because KD got hurt in that same series, Portland could've made it to the Finals just due to all the events that can occur with having the right seeding go your way. Have the giants slug it out a round earlier and take on whichever one limps out of it.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

He was a restricted free agent. They could have kept his ass if they really wanted to be spiteful. They should have traded him at the draft though, they could have gotten way more than they did for him. But, that’s the Knicks for you.

Didn’t they trade him during the season to clear up cap space for a run at free agency?

 

[tr2k]

Ja gets green light to shoot more

Josh gets some more mins

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Doc has no business making those statements considering he lost to a Rockets team years ago they were beating handily until they weren’t. I don’t believe any of these teams have a player like Cell nor a duo like Cell & PG.

With that being said nothing is guaranteed. Maybe Mike Malone stops fukking around & gives MPJ real minutes. Maybe we get the Mitch we saw against OKC instead of Houston. Maybe the combination of Russ & James go into overdrive.

I think the 2 seed is the best place to be ultimately. Chances are you will get an inexperienced team happy to be playing in April. Let the other good teams take care of each other until 2nd round

This team is by far the best team Docs had since Bos.

Out of here with that what if BS. All those teams are being led by 2nd and 3rd tier players.

Houston has elite talent with shytty leadership. So it won’t matter.

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Yea, my earlier point is that they do care about that 2nd seed, and lowkey would rather usurp the Lakers for that 1st seed but they stay fukking up whenever the opportunity strikes to make ground. When Kawhi is playing and on the court, them nyggas are a whole other level. But he shouldn't be needed to handle a Trae-less Hawks or a struggling Kings, yet LAC took bad Ls to both.

They're at a crossroads of either keep everything as is and just hope PG can round into form like KL has (and count on that being enough no matter the flaws with the role players). Or, see if you can shake things up and get that stretch-big or facilitating pg.

They do not care about seeding if they’re resting Kawhi this much and have generally played with inconsistent effort.