Yeah McCollum has actually been great for Pelicans so far and may have been better than Harden for them this year. At the same time he is signed for $69m for two more season which while not cheap is not that long and will not cost you $45m+ per year for 4 years like the new Harden deal inevitably will.
They were 2cm away from defeating Bucks last season without Irving, and with Harden being either out or broken. They have now Irving, and a few good players that they did not have last year (Drummond, Aldridge etc). Harris is out but he was shit against Bucks anyway.
This would surprise you?
I've been hoping the Dubs would hold off the Mavs for the 3 seed. Since it's being reported that the Spurs will rest all 5 starters for tonight's game (all on latest injury report) and the Pels will have secured home court for the play in if the Dubs win will probably do something similar for tomorrow's game, I think that now is a strong possibilty. Trouble is, I would much rather play the Jazz than the Nuggets in Round 1 of the playoffs. Hmm!Jazz are the biggest pretenders.
That's one of the biggest chokejob I've seen
No, they won’t. Them staying gives them a (chance but they will still be massive underdogs against Bucks.
You are seriously overrating Bucks and underrating Nets. Bucks would have been swept or at best get a couple of games if Durant had either Kyrie or a fit Harden last year. And neither team are that different this season.
Yeah I am overrating current champions who have been consistently great for the last 3 years while you are objective in saying a 7th seed with one of the worst defenses in the league are favorites to win it all.
Why would they, they are basically like the worst defense in the league and have zero chemistry because they haven’t played with each other all season. Of course you’d probably rather play Bulls or the 8th seed as they will be worse but I don’t think anyone will be that bothered about the Nets. I would definitely much rather play Nets than Raptors too.
The current champions whom were on course of getting swept until both Kyrie and Harden had to be out and even then were 2cm away from losing the series?
In the real world, Nets comfortably won the two games Irving was fit. Bucks won the last match in a triller, but Nets were massively handicapped. What do you think would have happened if Middleton was out and Holiday was barely able to walk let alone run. That’s how they won.
As I said, a year is a long time. Nets are far from the team they were last year even with KD and Kyrie in simply because their depth got even worse. On the other hand, Bucks at that time where still a team with plenty to prove and you could sense they were playing under massive pressure, like they had been for the previous games following their struggles against Raptors and Heat in the seasons before where they were overwhelming favorites. The landscape has changed very significantly.
Signing Westbrook could be a way for a team to get rid of contract they didn't want. Just for discussions sake, say Draymond and Klay were traveling to a game and got hit by a bus. This decimates the team and leaves the Dubs no chance of really competing. They have a 4 year deal in place with Steph, but since they have no real chance of winning they trade Steph for Westbrook and his expiring deal (since the salaries are close to matching). They thus get away from having to pay Steph's salary for the next few years for a team that can't win and only have to pay one year of Russ.
Not sure really. Maybe the Lakers front office can try and encourage players to hang around bus depots.
I get that but who is in that situation?
Not sure really. Maybe the Lakers front office can try and encourage players to hang around bus depots.
Lakers thought they could get Lillard last year which I always found laughable, the package they gave away for Westbrook would have been nowhere near enough and Blazers won’t give him back for salary dump when they could get real assets from another team.
I get that but who is in that situation? Maybe the Blazers but surely there is a market for Lillard and Nurkic which makes Westbrook a foolish idea?
Kerr's rotations have always seemed a little odd to me but what's worse is that if things are going a little awry, he never seems to be able to fix it. So many times this year teams have gone on a big run, he's called a timeout, and the run has just continued when the game has restarted. Tonight's game was fairly typical and the only reason the Dubs held on was that it came down to free throws at the end and Poole (even though he couldn't hit anything else) hit those. Kerr is really good with a veteran team because they can largely coach themselves and to give him his due he does give them free rein. The trouble is this team is not all veterans and even worse if the veterans he does have are having a bad game he doesn't have the coaching chops to put things back on track. Having said all that, if Steph, Klay, Draymond and Iggy can stay injury free and can somehow put it all together for the playoffs, the Dubs have a chance. However, since they have hardly played a minute together all season it is asking a lot for them suddenly to be all on the same page at the same time. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.
Watch the Lakers trade Westbrook for John Wall
No he wouldn't. Even just from January, those 3 have still been better than Luka. Same reason Booker isn't really in the race either
Bucks are not trying to avoid Nets. If they were, they would not have played all their best players in Detroit last Friday and would have had it all in their hands tonight. They will rest players against Cavs because this is the logical choice just a few days before playoffs start.Nice ending of the rs with the Eastern Conf runner ups all trying to miss the Nets. Let Giannis take care of that likable bunch, riiiiight?
Or - potentially most likely - if Bucks are Philly are on 51 and Boston are on 50?
Luka has been like 30/10/10 or so for the last two months, he’d definitely be in conversation.
