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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. I’m not saying this list is bad but Tre Wisner is first team RB for the entire conference when he’s not even first team RB for his own team.
  2. Needs more Mr. Nimbus.
  3. This thread title is so living up to its name, in the funniest most ironic way possible. Suck it Georgia. What comes around goes around.
  4. You have to watch summer league with a discerning eye for what translates and what doesn’t. IQ translates. Hustle, effort and having a knack for being at the right place at the right time translates. Athleticism only translates if you don’t have it. In other words, there are some great athletes at summer league who can’t play in the league. Shooting doesn’t necessarily translate. The looks you get in summer league are so much better than the real league. That said, Harper, Bryant and I’m pretty sure Jones-Garcia can play in the league. I’m not as sold on Minix but he’s at least worth keeping around on a two way. Filipowski knocking down threes like that… yeah for his size if he’s really that accurate there’s definitely a NBA future for him. There’s no way to judge where he is defensively though against that competition. Nor is there any way to judge how effective he can be down low on offense but a stretch five like that for sure has decent career ahead of him if he can play close to league average defense. Also, that was one of the most fun summer league games I can remember. Entertaining as hell.
  5. Yeah... he needs one. They did it for Jonathon Simmons and Gary Neal after a few summer league breakout games. Unless he's got some character issues, I don't see why they wouldn't add him either on the minimum or as a two way. They have the roster spots. He may have played his way out of a two way, actually.
  6. I'm not as high on him as you are, but I do think he's going to be a special player. I don't see either of those two in him. Lebron was a physical freak of nature since he was like 12 years old. Bird was an offensive machine with impeccable instincts. Flagg is one of those guys where the ball just somehow always magically finds him. I don't know how much of an offensive mismatch he's going to be, but I do know that he is going to impact the game pretty much everywhere. John Havlicek was the best comp I could come up with - a guy who does everything and impacts winning everywhere. Dallas is going to be an interesting rebuild. Before the inexplicable Doncic disaster, I thought Nico Harrison did an unbelievable job remaking that roster. They had a bad cap situation, very little draft capital, and he shrewdly managed to put together a team that made it to the finals. Other than the Grant Williams deal (that he quickly rectified), he made one great move after another. He took a relatively terrible roster that was a poor fit around Luka and completely remade it. I thought he was one of the best GM's in the league until he temporarily went insane.
  7. I kinda liked Wesley but he was going to get buried after they drafted Harper. They needed another big and they needed three point shooting and Olynyk gives them both. They can also move his contract if they want to do something bigger later in the season. Really nice move by the spurs. Three roster spots still open and they have some money to play with. I don’t think they’re done. Adding another solid vet who can shoot wouldn’t hurt my feelings.
  8. And the inability to re-sign Karl Anthony Townes. You forgot that you gave that up in the trade, too, although you did get Randle and Donte DiVincenzo. I still wonder what kind of assets they could have put around KAT and Edwards with more picks and more cap flexibility.
  9. It's a great question. Utah is either dumping salary to facilitate more trades for picks or going after a free agent. Between this, the Sexton trade and the Clarkson buyout, I would have to say it's the former but I'm not sure exactly why. I get that they are clearing the decks for their young players to get more playing time, but they already have so many young players and picks that acquiring more doesn't seem to portend that much more marginal of an improvement. I don't know how much more they can bottom out (worst record in the league last year) or why or what they are going to do with even more picks. What was the whole point in extending Markannan? The Jazz turned Sexton, Clarkson and Collins into Jusuf Nurkic, Kyle Anderson, Kevin Love and a second round pick. Austin Ainge era off to a booming start.
  10. I hope we don’t end up with buyers remorse passing on VJ Edgecombe. I know everyone considers Harper on another tier but VJ is at a different level athletically and is going to be tremendous defensively. He and Maxey are going to be the most dynamic backcourt in the league.
  11. You ever listen to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the Seventies" weekend? It's my personal favorite.
  12. Anybody want to take a stab at ranking the west right now? Tier 1: OKC, DEN, HOU Tier 2: MIN, LAC Tier 3: DAL (I'd have them tier 2 with a healthy Kyrie), LAL, GSW Tier 4: MEM, SAC, SAS, POR, PHX Tier 5: NOLA, UTAH
  13. He played decently well when Chris Paul was riding him and setting him up in Phoenix. Maybe Luka and LeBron can get him going a bit.
  14. I'm with you on this. I'm no lawyer, but I don't see how this is going to stand up in court. Unless there is some sort of collective bargaining agreement with the players, this is some sort of restraint of trade bullshit.
  15. Never seemed like Mamu got enough of a chance, but we will always have that game against the Knicks with Flavor Flav in the house.
  16. Yabusele to Knicks. Need some more front court help/beef.
  17. Denver is having a spectacular off season. If Bruce Brown isn't washed and they can generally stay healthy, I think they're the best team in the league. I can't believe Milwaukee is eating $22 million for the next five years on Lillard just so they can sign Myles Turner. This is some bonkers shit.
  18. The Nets are bottoming the fuck out. They are taking on a salary that they need anyway to get to the salary floor and in return getting an unprotected first round pick when Jokic is like 37 years old. They can also trade MPJ probably for another first round pick at the deadline in 2027 when his contract is expiring. It's textbook use of cap space for a tanking team. They still have more assets to deal. More tanking, more pick collecting, etc.
  19. Fourth year on Kornet is a team option so it's a slight overpay but not a bad contract overall. They desperately needed another big. They were getting bullied in the paint when Vic was out and even when he was in. Let someone else go bang with Zubac and Jokic and Stephen Adams and Hartenstein, etc. I would really like to see them sign Yabusele. He can play some at the 5 and is also another big body at 4. Kornet + Yabusele + Harper + Bryant would be a pretty stellar off season. If they could find another shooter, that would be the cherry on top but I think they're running out of roster spots unless they start churning some of the more seasoned homegrown talent.
  20. I get Ayton getting bought out. He wants a fresh start. The Blazers have a surplus of centers. Ayton needs (another) fresh start. I don't know if he's trying to get to the Lakers or what, but there are quite a few teams that need bigs. I don't think he's the worst gamble to make, depending on the salary. He's not a terrible guy, allegedly. One of the better what ifs in recent NBA history is what if the Suns didn't match the free agent offer on Ayton from the Pacers? The Nurkic for Collin Sexton trade makes zero sense to me from Utah's perspective. Other than clearing out minutes and shots for Ace Bailey, they gave up a pick, got the worse player at a position they didn't really need, and took on more salary. And both players are on expiring deals. WTF? While I suppose there is another move in mind, to me it just looks like Utah is leaning into the tank more than ever. John Collins and Jordan Clarkson are on the block, too apparently. I don't think they get much for either one of them. Once they unload those two, they've basically got Lauri Markkanan and a gaggle of random very young raw prospects. And one of the best coaches in the league. They just keep throwing shit against the wall and hope something sticks, but that team has been circling the drain since the Mitchell and Gobert trades. Not one of the smoothest rebuilds in recent history.
  21. I think its less about Queen and more about where that pick ends up next year. I'm 99% sure they still could have made that trade with some protections.
  22. Questionable? Like trading Luka to the lakers questionable? Also, I love Rasheer Fleming. Great pick for Phoenix. He will probably turn out better than anybody the Nets drafted.
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