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  1. lovegtm

    The Celtics Offseason

    The Celtics are in this weird and slightly crappy position where they have 3 centers in their top 7 players, but aren't confident enough in the health of any of them to just roll with 2 and upgrade elsewhere. The only way I really see around it, if you deal one of them, is to lean HARD into...
  2. lovegtm

    Dame Time heading to Milwaukee

    hahahahaha oh man
  3. lovegtm

    The Celtics Offseason

    I think it increases the urgency a bit of using Brogdon + picks to upgrade, yeah.
  4. lovegtm

    Dame Time heading to Milwaukee

    Scoot will be just finishing year 2 of either a 4 or 5 year contract in spring 2029, and will be in line for a supermax if he turns into an elite player. He's not going anywhere then if he's really good. If he's not, who cares.
  5. lovegtm

    Dame Time heading to Milwaukee

    Miami seems like a perfect fit for Jrue. They can just deal picks and Lowry, done. It wasn't enough for Lillard, but should be enough for Jrue.
  6. lovegtm

    Dame Time heading to Milwaukee

    I assume Portland gets Ayton and Jrue goes on to Phoenix?
  7. lovegtm

    The Celtics Offseason

    If we call that 1.7 vs 4 DPM, that's a pretty big difference. The NBA happens at the margin, and that's a huge marginal upgrade, particularly on offense, where you get a cascading benefit adding someone like Lillard to Tatum/Brown/KP. I am terrified of the age too, but he simply wouldn't be...
  8. lovegtm

    The Celtics Offseason

    White, Brogdon and firsts probably tops anything Miami can do. White and and a rehabilitated Brogdon have far more combined trade value than Herro. And both Miami and Boston have the "no one thinks their picks will be good" problem anyway. I hate old small guards.......but you have to take...
  9. lovegtm

    The Celtics Offseason

    This is another reason not to get to worked up about how Brogdon feels, one way or the other: given his salary, he's by far the most likely guy on the roster to get packaged with a 1st or two and moved for an upgrade at some point.
  10. lovegtm

    General Offseason Thread.

    Yes, I don't know that a normal team would have given Joel Embiid so many chances to succeed after his repeated playoff failures.
  11. lovegtm

    General Offseason Thread.

    Butler and Good Ben Simmons are now Kelly Oubre Jr.
  12. lovegtm

    The Celtics Offseason

    There were also some political issues. DWhite was playing himself into a starting role, and there was no way PP was going to get minutes over Marcus or Brogdon, given the need to keep both those guys happy. Not even talking about replacing them (they're better than PP)--Brogdon was letting...
  13. lovegtm

    General Offseason Thread.

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  14. lovegtm

    General Offseason Thread.

    If he never suits up and it's part of the transaction to get him out of the league, I don't think it will be a big deal. Nor should it be: no one is remotely considering having him play.
  15. lovegtm

    FIBA World Cup 2023

    That's pretty cute/endearing
  16. lovegtm

    FIBA World Cup 2023

    Become?
  17. lovegtm

    Why doesn't the USA produce the best big men in the world anymore?

    No, because elite athletes who are 6-3 have a ton more choices of sport, depending on the sport of choice in their region. 7-foot elite athletes have (pretty much) just one choice: basketball. Embiid, Hakeem and Gobert all had other sports they loved more, before realizing that basketball was...
  18. lovegtm

    Why doesn't the USA produce the best big men in the world anymore?

    I think this is on the right track. There are tons more people in the world playing basketball now. Further, basketball is really the only sport you can play if you're 7 feet tall. So basketball sucks up a disproportionate amount of global 7-foot tall athletic guys. There can only be a couple...
  19. lovegtm

    FIBA World Cup 2023

    Jokic and Giannis are the two best players in the world right now, and they fit great next to each other. Embiid is top-5, but he overlaps with Jokic. At least you'd have ridiculous depth when Jokic sits. Then you get to Luka, Shai, Murray......the world team has a ton of elite ball-dominant...
  20. lovegtm

    The Celtics Offseason

    Yeah, they were basically the same team under both coaches sans peak Timelord. Probably a better offense with Mazzulla. Games 4-6 against Miami were really, really good defensively--they have a level they can hit under Joe in that regard. There were some very low defensive notes in the 2023...
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