Giannis has sucked in every playoffs not just last year. One year the team that was gonna sweep his ass got decimated and he squeaked by in 7. Pretending THAT guy is good in the playoffs is hilarious
why would i want one of the best players in the league? nope, i'm content racking up 20 win seasons ...
You only have to succeed once, and all your failures are forgiven. Dirk and Giannis would be jokes without their sole rings, while Harden and CP3 would be praised as legends of the game had they succeeded just once.
And we're not gonna win with the squad we have now...let's be honest, Sengun and Jalen Green ceiling is not a Superstar level. I continue to see the reoccurring posts of "Sengun is a rising star" and "This is Jalen Green year". What will happen is when it's time to renew their contracts, we'll overpay for a "Role player" like VanVleet...we don't have anyone on our team that can just dominate a like Embiid, who is a Superstar that unfortunately had a crappy #2 in Ben Simmons and James Harden...Philly messed that team up when they traded Jimmy Butler and gave that horrible contract to Tobias Harris.
Maybe Philly is a cancerous environment and Embiid coming to a market like Houston could attract other marquee players...now that Morey's reputation is being questioned, most certainly think Embiid will want out as well very soon
So you want team "30 year olds about to go in their downward part of their careers who never got rings assembled" team? Nah I'd rather create young core of players we drafted together. Feels a lot more special than way. The last thing I want this organization to turn into is the Brooklyn Nets.
To some degree this is true, but dirk was mostly an excellent player player while giannis is.....not. But in general of course most people are morons so you're correct.
As bad as Harden played in game 7 he carried the Sixers to two wins against the Celtics. It should have been enough to win, but Embiid did not show up at all. I have no idea if Sengun or Green or anyone is gonna be a super star. But I'd rather just give them a chance and watch them develop than get Embiid.
Embiid in the playoffs makes Harden look like prime MJ a trade for Embiid is a trade for going all in, and he just ain’t got it I haven’t even gotten into how injury prone he is I’m good
Apache Not Giving Up.........Willing to Part With...........50/50 Jalen Green.....................Sengun..........................KPj (with his OK to team) Jabari Smith....................VanVleet Tari Eason........................Dillon Brooks Cam Johnson..................Amen Thompson ..........................................Holiday ......................,...................Landale .........,.................,..............Tate ..............,...........................Jeff Green
Clutch doesn't post that much these days...but...50 % of posts (1 out of 2 haha) in August discussed trading Sengun and 1 out of 6 in July mentioned someone talking about starting Jock Landale and benching Sengun. I guess at least that's not happening now. Not too late for the prediction of Sengun being shopped this summer becoming reality though.
Idk what's funnier, not being willing to give up a guy who's not even on the team for the reigning mvp, or needing kpj's ok to trade him for the reigning mvp
Sengun, Cam, KPJ, Brooklyn picks … but Morey would probably want more. A trade wouldn’t even work until after Dec. 15, if Sengun starts year 3 at an all star level I’d rather just keep Alpi
MVP has little meaning to me on a team with no spacing. Jokic, Embiid, KAT, Giannis can all dominate a regular season game but the Playoffs is a different animal. Jokic is the first true big man to win a championship in 23 years. It took previous playoff teams like Utah and T-Wolves to gut their teams and destroy what they had. Utah trading Donavon Mitchell and Gobert....T-Wolves added Gobert and sent out talent. Suns traded out Malik Bridges and Cam Johnson. Spacing lost as Durant and Booker became a two man show as CP3 did his annual disappearance act in the playoffs and Ayton was blasted by Monte Williams last playoffs as being an issue. ------------- I believe last year was an anomaly as the Warriors had Poole - Draymond issues in the form of "The Punch".....then Poole got his extension which made Draymond a discontent. Dray no longer put out on road games. Lakers - NBA tried to help the Lakers by letting them get Rui Hachimaui, Beasley, DeAngelo Russell, Bamba for nothing. Fortunately the Lakers couldn't prosper and the team was too thin and AD/LeBron got too tired. ----------------- Rockets without 3-pt shooters renders VanVleet offense irrelevant if teams are packing the paint Dillon Brooks defense is irrelevant if teams pack the paint and he still shoots 39% in FG%. Jalen Green offense is regulated to jump shooter again if the team lacks 3-pt shooting. Forced to be a chunker, again. KPj offense is regulated to jump shooter again if the team lacks 3-pt shooting. Forced to be a chunker, again Embiid without 3-pt shooting will fall short of MVP as he is forced to be a post up player surrounded by defenders packing the paint. No reason to guard anybody on the perimeter closely. Rockets will get approximately 90 possessions/game and both Dillon and VanVleet will insist on taking 15 shots each. Both being under 40% (FG%) like last year will be 1/3 of our shots by these two players. Certain doom...so bring your MVP. Hope you enjoy 8th seed. Same thing people have been telling me, WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO AVOID. KPj will do well with veterans that know how to play and with a coach not in tank mode. Rockets let, Harden, PJ Tucker, McLemore, Eric Gordon pick which team they wanted to go to....why not KPj ?
because kpj is a nobody who has done nothing....... i'm against trading for embiid because we have nothing on the team that's ready to win except fvv, and he's not a good enough #2 to win a title so there's no purpose to trading for him. Although on the other hand, what are the odds anyone on the rockets is ever as good as joel? 5%? Even that might be a stretch
