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Haha lol!!!!!!!!!! Hope that slam dunk champion was worth it. Morey!!!!! He keeps getting better.

 

I told y’all on here. All that Chet laughing at us. And buffing wasn’t gonna work against Wemby. And it was gonna be much harder against Wemby. And they would have their work cut out against Wemby. Well???


Everybody said how Hartenstein was stopping Wemby putting his arm in his rib. Well it didn’t look that way tonight.

 

Luke Kornet with that white on white crime.

 

There are players like this every year that are throwaways.

McCain, Isaiah Joe, Goodwin, Champagnie. I think this years candidates could be Spencer Jones and maybe Thybulle. Also Ellis could be a candidate for this.

I’d like for our ownership to develop the inner league scouting side of our organisation and pick up some of these gems. Because I doubt we’ll be drafting a ton with our MO to always trade for players. If we can still have a steady stream of players to develop that would be nice. Spurs, OKC and Washington could all be teams that just have to throw away good players because they don’t have the space to develop them and all the other sorry organisations that let assets go.

I think another guy I’d like to go after is Justin Champagnie (Julian’s twin). The guy is an elite rebounder like 10 boards from the SF position. Get his shot right and he is a GREAT bench wing. I’m offering Washington DK and a second for Julian. They need the shooting and have a lot of defensive wings.

If we can stack multiple of these two way unheralded guys, maybe 1 or 2 of them can break out to surround the rest of our nucleus. You could get two for the MLE and another by trade.

 

Gotta be thinking of ways to get better.

 

Haha is that a thing?

 

Did that series change when Wemby told the goons knock the s*** outa McClain and they did.

He wasn’t going inside after that so it worked.

 

Nah but you see it sometimes. Thought it was funny cause they both kind of look the same with thier athleticsm. And they made a movie about it. White man can’t jump. lol.

 

But OKC if yall want to go crazy we can give you Austin for Chet Holmgren. That can give us our rolling Center if yall don’t want him.


Austin’s from there.

Luka and Holmgren. We get a young Center 24 we have Adou Thiero we get younger and more athletic. And still have Rui. Luka can run the offense.

suddenly we look like

Luka
Smart
Hachimura
Lebron
Holmgren.


I’m just saying.

 

But now yall see why Slick was so adamant about Gianiss. In the playoffs stars win championships.

Gianiss is what I was saying is a guy who can go at Holmgren. We can talk all we want about these guys. But if you don’t have a guy who can go at Chet and block his shot you ain’t winning simple as that.

 

Do yall realize Shai is older than Luka???

 

good to see the floppers not get rewarded for their BS

but with that said, let's go knicks

 

Do the bucks keep Chet if OKC goes for Giannis? I mean he is a good starting block. They need to hit on a pick to get a franchise player, but Chet is a good second option.

 

Knicks have been beating teams by big margins

How will they hold up in tight games over a series?

 

Spurs in 5 and it won't be close. Leastern Conference forever.

 

I think the Knicks will surprise. KAT gets Wemby outside the paint. OG and Robinson defend Wemby about as good as anyone in the league.

And the spurs don’t have an answer for OG’s size and all the 3 pt shooting on the Knicks.

 

Wemby is different. He changes the perimeter. Did you see how he was altering shots of McLain out to the 3point line???

San Antonio plays defense. That’s the difference. I’ll let yall marinate on this. You know why the Knicks were down 2-1 to the Hawks before the Hawks forgot how to play basketball? They got young athletes on the wings.

Daniels Johnson Alexander

The Spurs Got Harper Vassell Castle.

this ain’t James Harden non defense playing a** Tradfic Traffic cone out there.,


Cleveland Mitchell Harden both can’t play no lick of defense.

The Spurs guard I ain’t never seen anybody do that to Shai or OKC. OKC looked like they were on skates. And then the Spurs have Wemby controlling the paint. This ain’t Jarrett Allen or Joel Embiid. Who can’t move.

It’s gonna be a fun series but I think San Antonio wins. Then between Fox Castle Vassell and Harper they will cook Brunson and Towns in the pick and roll with Wemby. Towns can’t guard s***. Wemby will destroy him. This is the best center in the game focused.


offensively New York will miss Mitchell Robinson the pinkie he will play. But that’s gonna mess him up guarding Wemby. So the Knicks have no answer for that. Basketball is matchups. This is a bad matchup.

I know everybody is gonna talk the 3-D OG Bridges in season tournament. This is different. Playoff basketball. I just watched OKC turn into the Clippers and yall were calling OKC the 96 bulls. Shai played so bad OKC wants to trade him back to the Clippers for Paul George.

see New York and Towns would’ve got away with going against Holmgren. But Wemby he covers so much. And theres so much attention offensively it opens everything up. They would’ve played a hobbled Jalen Williams. Now they going up against Harper and Vassell and Castle. That’s 3 powerful wings. Fresh.

and I ain’t even talk about Champagne.

 

few thoughts:

wemby's offense was actually still pretty meh overall, but he did just enough to get it done, and his gravity allowed his teammates to get a bunch of open shots. i couldn't believe how little respect okc had for keldon johnson. i know he's a bad shooter, but they were just daring him to take any three ever, and he missed three great looks, but then he hit two big ones that really hurt them.

even though the numbers didn't look good, having fox was crucial for SA in this series. in last night's game, he created and finished at least three times when the spurs were about to spiral into the wrong end of a 20-0 run, imo. on one move that didn't result in a score, he turned caruso all the way around. wild stuff. if the days off help his ankle get right, ny will have a helluva time keeping him out of the paint, and that could be the end of them. castle and harper can't do the same kind of damage, imo. in fact, castle's a train wreck as a pg. i'm not sure there's a future in that part of his game.

kornet's block was maybe worth his entire salary this year. what a play. hartenstein committed an offensive foul trying to ward him off, too.

champagnie was nails. what a pickup. made up for vassell not really meeting the moment.

chet continues to be 7ft shawn marion, as i said when we played him. if he's forced to create offense, it doesn't go well. he's an opportunist on that end only. you can pay him a lot of money when you've got an SGA/jokic/luka level guy, though, and i disagree with the idea that okc should trade him for giannis. still think the big balls move is williams, but they'd be selling low and, again, presti should be fearful of repeating the harden debacle. but their best shot at another SGA type pickup would be that, imo.

after this playoffs, i think they should unload dort for free, lol. won't rehash all my okc thoughts, but i still think that this was the deepest team they'll ever have. like, yeah, wiggins and williams and joe were basically DNPs in game 7, but they helped the team get great position and maintain the health of the others. there's a domino effect to having no depth (see: our injuries to luka and reaves).

anyway, i think both of these teams are beatable, and once again, the two teams going to the finals are the ones with all their players upright.

 

I believe the Knicks win this.With young teams like SA they tend to have this let down after making it to the finals.Young teams sometimes feel the pressure was getting there and don’t fully understand the Kobe “Jobs not done”. The Knicks are full of veterans who fully understand this is probably going to be their only shot at a championship.

 

one thing i'm sure of is that the knicks' primary guys all know the stakes very well. they know it was highly unlikely that they'd get to the finals, and it's highly unlikely they'll ever return as this unit.

i think wemby understands that when you get there you need to win, but do harper, castle, etc. also get it? like, it's hard to tune out literally everyone penciling you in for the finals for the next decade.

be curious to see which side's role players step up, but my money would actually be on ny's, tbh.

one thing that could really impact things is if castle can bother brunson without help. i think he can, and if so, the knicks' offense could be in some serious trouble. yeah, they'll screen, but that opens things up for traps, and the knicks don't really have secondary playmakers.