I heard players, especially big men, get less injured as they age

It’s more on Ime for not using him enough to develop and trying to play him in ways hes not good for yet. His whole “play with effort” isn’t helping plus he doesn’t do much to get him open shots so Reed is forced to take shots far out or under contest. Plus he’s usually in lineups where it’s either he’s the only shooter or just one other shooter out there so he’s closed out and heavily guarded to try and take him out the sets

But it’s also on Reed at times for being in his head too much. He’ll make a few bad plays or miss some shots which everyone does but then he’ll start trying to force things to happen causing mistakes that only get worse as he’ll play panicked. When he’s locked in and playing his game the way he knows best while remaining calm then he pops off and can bend the opposing defense to his will. He’s done it against quality teams too so I still believe he can get to a high level. It’s 50% on him to learn to remain calm and to get a better handle. Defense will always be an issue but he’s made improvements there. It’s also on Ime to learn how to utilize players best instead of trying to force them in a way that doesn’t fit them at all. Ime coaching is just like watching a toddler trying to force a square block in a triangle hole.

That’s why we bitch about Ime not giving him enough run in the regular season. A regular season where we needed a point guard to flourish from either Amen or Reed.

He’s 21. He’ll figure it out.

Sure, but front offices have struck gold where the general public ridiculed their decisions to bet on players before. See: Steph Curry.

Not saying this is going to be a Curry scenario but it’s waaaay too soon to declare Reed a bad investment or poor decision.

**Consistently

He’s obviously shown flashes in great stretches. This is also his first year of getting considerable amount of burn on the court. This sub acts like he’s in year 4 and stagnant. Thank god they aren’t GMs

Not defending the Reed v Curry comparison here but you’re lacking critical context.

Curry played more minutes in his rookie season than Reed has played in his first two years combined.

Hali has elite play vision/playmaking and reed isn’t even close? Not even average for a PG

size and wingspan, awareness; most importantly reed is not as good of a passer than rookie hali

they have a very different playstyle…

I don’t think that’s terrible for Milwaukee at all.

Amen and Şengün, while flawed, are still quality starters with fringe all-star level play (especially in the East). Sheppard is someone I think is ass, but he’s still got some upside.

Plus you shed Myles Turner’s long-term money.

And Giannis while amazing, is 31 and has struggled with injuries for multiple years in a row. He’s also not a shooter, so you do wonder how gracefully his game will age/how his body will handle more and more miles.

Might be picks involved too, just didn’t want to get into it

Definitely think Amen would the the sticking point for the Bucks. Y’all do have a lot of picks available so maybe he wouldn’t be needed, but that fit is dicey.

I actually really like my hypothetical because the rockets could do Giannis and 4 shooters while still having great size, and they could do crazy rebounding lineups with Steven Adams still on the squad. Plus, that trade may not require a ton of draft capital so you’d have that for follow up moves.

I personally think the idea of getting our own picks back was overrated in the past, but it’s especially overrated now with the likely changes coming to the lottery. Having control over our own pick falling from our bottom 5 finish to #15 in the draft just isn’t that important. The game is now trying to get picks from any teams that may miss the playoffs.

Sengun is not my preferred option, but I personally would prefer to get a young, established all-star type of player vs. a collection of future picks that may not turn into any thing, so I’m open to a Rockets offer if we have to trade Giannis. I’m probably more open to Sengun than most Bucks fans are though.

If you removed dickerson from those teams it was still very likely they won

That’s why he is called a bus rider, which is why i replied to op

“One deep playoff run” in reference to a championship with Andrew Wiggins as his #2 is hilarious 

LeBron has been past the 2nd round twice in the last 6 seasons and three times if you stretch it one more year (2020)

Lebron was in the conference finals in 2023.

The problem is the rockets dont have appealing contracts, especially now with the fact theyre likely to give a max/supermax I heard to Amen. Only decent trade piece I’d say they have is Jabari if you could call it that and even his contract is a gamble that im not sure another team is willing to take and you need him for spacing. I do think they’ll go for Giannis with Sengun and picks involved but who the center would be for that team would be another issue. Needs a floor spacer if youre gonna roll out fvv, amen, kd, giannis

It really is a shame KD got injured for this series. I really wanted to see what you guys could do. A lot of Suns fans are soured on KD but I really don’t have Ill will. He did his role here, not his fault phx didn’t have leadership and a well built team. He’s flawed but what he does well is amazing

What has he shown that he “could probably” defend?

Plenty of players do both, though

You guys act like those are such amazing numbers, honestly they really aren’t very impressive for a high usage center at all. He’s definitely an above average playmaker for the position but this isn’t a Jokic situation where the offensive output (usually) is so much it outweighs being a cone.