WMC 24-25: Seasonal Highs And Lows!

I hope we trade AD and Russ somewhere and that AD just found out. Then Bron can piss off in the offseason and I can start liking my team once again.

 

my fear is that it's AD for KD, and then russ and our unprotected picks are going somewhere, too. so we go all in on a team that's 5 games under .500 with 27 to play and doom the franchise to a decade of futility, perhaps finally conceding the city to the clips.

 

0% chance we're trading AD... and for a snow flake like KD? Impossible.

 

again, not saying i think it's happening, but definitely not a 0% chance. people have been screaming both here and in the press to upgrade the team. everyone acts like lebron hasn't been part of the problem the past two years, and that if he just had more help, all would be fine. AD for KD is a win-now move (kd is currently playing better, though by a smaller margin than people think, imo).

and btw, it may not be that the trade is happening or discussed. all it would take is lebron using his back channels to try to make it happen and AD finding out about it, as others have speculated. this is the worst of all worlds.

 

The Thunder lost in Golden State and were playing on the 2nd night of a back to back. And this youngest team in the NBA beat us. This team is terrible. They really need to start thinking post-Lebron plans by taking advantage of this trade deadline.

 

Teams would have been second in the West behind Denver if this trade went thru. All of Robs other moves only make sense in this context

 

Yeah. Front office wanted Russ and still didn't want to give up on it despite seeing how horribly it was going on the court.

These are difficult times. lol

 

sell the team jeanie

please

 

Trade doesn't happen: Rob's other moves don't fit well (Bevs at SG/SF) instead of slotting Lebron at SF with Turner at C and Hield at SG. Teams struggles: excuse not to do anything despite the fact when things are right teams has held it's own literally against every top team. But they have no margin for error with the roster/rookie coach, so oh well didn't work out and we'll just make a lot of money anyways

 

yeah, still not on the conspiracy train here. i really think the deals were made in isolation, and nobody was trying to pull one over on anyone at any point. we decided 2 unprotected future 1sts was too rich for two role players, and i still think we were right. moreover, we don't know that indy wasn't going to keep upping the ante like tsai out of spite. whatevs. indy can enjoy lots more 9th places. and all their players will still want to play here ten years from now.

 

I'm genuinely glad for all you guys over the other, more optimistic threads. My gawd, just getting rid of Russ is truly something to jump up and down about.

But I really do wonder about the level of effed-up-ed-ness on the Lakers right now. I just watched the 4th Q against OKC again, to see if it was as bad as I remembered from last night. Indeed: the Lakers make a run, tie it 106-106, then it's as if there were 3 Lakers: TB, Rui, and P-Bev, who didn't get the message: we're laying down. I have no better way to explain this: no one other than those 3 guys was giving effort. Something looked totally, dramatically effed about the team. Y'all been talking about AD not showing up. In any way. WTF???

Hey, I'm glad Russ is gone, we have some younger talent we needed, etc. But that game really stinks. Frankly? I'm suspicious of what's going on now. I don't know what it is, but I have some suspicions I'm keeping to myself, as I already come off to ya'll as paranoid or something.

The NO loss was deflating, but the loss to OKC, on their BTB, on the night where the world is watching? They suuuuuuuucked.

And it was so terrible, I'm only watching ironically from here on out. Again: yea, I hope with this new roster next year will be the end of our post-bubble nightmare. 'Cuz this year we ain't goin' no place. Man...

 

Yep good call - now I just feel like its the Suns to lose. Cp3, Booker, KD, Ayton. Jesus.

 

KD is injured , no guarantee he'll stay healthy for an entire playoffs run

 

hasnt booker been injured all season too?