You’re doing God’s work brother

Adam Silver probably made sure heads rolled so now teams know to keep the media train rolling and not muddy up the transition between playoffs and off season

Things will heat up as we get closer to draft day. I think the Giannis saga will end before the draft since the Bucks will want to know which picks they have and ensure they can potentially get their targets at those draft spots.

Who says no?

To be fair, we’ve been getting edged so hard lately.

unless Portland just trades for him w/o the extension like the rumor said they were willing to do.

Giannis and Dame would be insane… right?

This is the type of shit that makes a “long window” into no window. No team in the last 10 years sat on their ass expecting that they’ll somehow just win. Jaylen and Jayson won 1 in the 9 seasons they’ve played together. Jaylen is expected to have a longer prime but Giannis is one of 4 guys in the NBA that can bust a window open and turn it into a door. The Jay’s aren’t getting any young and they haven’t gotten any closer since 24. No real team with contention hopes are willing to watch and wait for Paolo and Franz, Demar and Lavine, Ja and JJJ, Herro and Bam to burn out and die into irrelevancy.

Giannis also lowers there window. Jaylen is younger and healthier. Boston still has a good shot at winning if they get a good big man.

Tbf the CBA also changed underneath us specifically to punish teams like the one we’d built. I’m not actually trying to pull the victim card by any means I know we weren’t the real enemies/targets, but the reality is we did get hit pretty fucking hard by it. Then you also have to think about how you need an answer to Wemby. Giannis might be the best one.

Thats the type of thinking of a sorry ass organization. Boston has always been one of the best managed franchises in all of sports, and the reason why is that they don’t have thoughts like that.

When they traded all the stars away from the 2008 ring they didn’t think “well we won in 2008 with them so lets just sit on them more”, no that’s how you get players to walk all over your franchise. I like Jaylen, but it’s the franchise FIRST then the players. The best thing boston can do is to start breaking the roster up from the top.

Not entire becuase Jaden is a huge component of the defense but they didnt draft 14 feet of bigs last year to not play.

Jaden is also a VERY good rim protector, but he’s also our best defensive wing that can play and guard point of attack 1-4, so he usually doesn’t get to play help defense. If you start derrick White, the rotation becomes White, Ant, Jaden, Naz, Joan (and Joan is also showing promise in rim defense/anchor). Still gotta get off Julius though.

No idea if the cash works, but julius and Rudy for White and maybe Vuc and a pick sounds fair to me. Idk. Maybe you guys get off Queta instead of Vuc?

The problem is that Jaden’s the primary POA defender. So you got him running against screens and switches constantly. I don’t think that leaves anyone with enough juice offensively consistently. If someone slid into that role he’ll be off ball (which he excels at) and will be a bigger contributor offensively.

It would drastically change how this team operates but I think we’ve hit our ceiling with Rudy so understand why they’re ready to explore life without him. That said, he’s one of our best assets and I’d rather use him to get younger and get some picks - White isn’t going to offer that even though I love the fit.

In the regular season. Every playoffs he gets limited minutes because he hurts the offense more than he helps the defense.

Part of the reason for the stark on off splits is because he had no true back up center. Just two 6’9” power forwards who aren’t rim defenders.

So if we traded Rudy for White we’d also need to get a solid center to split minutes with Beringer.

his defense is overrated too once he has to play a team who can space the floor

Your offense can still be very good with Rudy if you don’t have any other non shooters. Boston will always have 4 shooters around him. His problem on the Wolves recently has been playing with Julius, SloMo, Dillingham, etc.

Dawg if you can make Queta look good on offense, you can make Rudy serviceable as well

Our offense lowkey does not rely on the big to do much. If we have a stretch 5 we abuse it, but if not we relegate guys like Kornet and Queta to dunks and catching lobs. The most important big man skills for us are the team fundamentals, not any individual creation. Rudy doesn’t have great hands but if he can screen and roll he’ll do fine.

Not saying we should necessarily trade for him, but I don’t think fit is the issue.

Rudy’s fine if everyone else can shoot and has as much defensive value as you can get from a guy.

What happened in the exit interview?

Not sure if possible, but would Derozan and Sabonis fit on your team in your opinion

Queta would have shifted to being the backup. Gobert would have started, and we would have had a top tier backup.

I assume that Gobert would start and Queta would come off the bench is what he means

Surprised they didn’t dig up the corpse of Al Horford to crush Embiid’s spirit this last series

Superstar??? Cmon now this is delusional

I think Derrick White is one of the best 3rd option players in the league. Last year just proved he can’t be the #2 option, but he is definitely a guy you would want in a championship team

DWhite was terrible the entire year

Superstar?

Superstar is crazy imo but otherwise I agree

His offence is his biggest defensive weakness. Always has been

Pretty sure it was last year game 5 against the lakers when Shaq did the “gag” thing to say how Rudy played a great game and I literally lost all respect for him. Not there was a ton to begin with but come on dude that’s just mean.

That’s what I’m saying. Gobert wasn’t brought in to be offensive. Right? Clog the holes in the paint. Be dpoy. Get rebound and blocks.. And most importantly dont be a French poodle 🐩. He impressed me with jokic, finally because that was jokic poodle 😂

Are you aware that Shaquille O’Neal is quite dumb?

did he see what Spurs did to Gobert?

He’s also an offensive liability/clog.

why? he was right with how Gobert completely disappeared vs. Spurs

As long as they have a plan how to play defense without him, they should be good. Wolves’ biggest problem is not Gobert’s offense, it’s Gobert needing to play 35+ every night because the defense without him is bottom-5. Wolves did not have a luxury to decrease his minutes to 15-20 against bad matchups, Celtics could do it.

Might be a stupid question, but how good would Gobert do against KAT?

Gobert has his flaws, his bad matchups, and can be schemed out at times. But your point is pretty moot when the two most competitive games of the series (including their one win) he played 30+ minutes. In G6 Ant shot 9-26, Randle 1-8, and McDaniels 4-13. It’s not like they found some magic recipe without him.

Further, he’s a large part of why they got to play the eventual Finals team in the first place because of his coverage against Jokic. Played 41 minutes to seal the deal against them.