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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. I don't really understand the Charlotte end of trading Mark Williams. They are in deep rebuilding mode and he's a young (albeit often injured) asset that should grow with them and be part of their long term core. Those Lakers picks, assuming that Luka is going to be there long term, are not likely going to be great. Are they also secretly trying to move to Las Vegas?
  2. Dumb challenge by Atlanta. Cost them their last timeout where they could have advanced the ball. Nice debut from Fox. You can tell Wemby is still ill but he gutted it out. I didn’t like it that they pulled Castle after he screwed up the switch. Much rather have him finishing out the game on Young than Sochan. But whatever. GSG.
  3. lol they extended him too. Good luck with all that.
  4. I can believe they traded for Butler. I can’t believe they are going to extend him.
  5. Fox can get his shot whenever he wants. This team has had so many lapses where they just go cold and can’t generate any good looks. No more. This is going to be fun.
  6. I'm excited for Sidy to maybe get some minutes in Washington. I was a little bummed that he got moved off the Spurs. He's got an NBA body, very athletic, next level passing chops, plays hard, is a willing defender, and has the jump shot of Ray Charles.
  7. I think it saved Milwaukee something like $30 million, gives them some flexibility and a decent chance at having a contributing rotation player. It was a no brainer.
  8. Castle named ROTM. We keep talking about his shooting needing work, but I'm so impressed with his demeanor, defense, and his ability to get in the lane to finish and draw fouls. But the thing I'm most surprised about is his ability to find open guys with passes that are not obvious or easy. His feel for the game is next level. When that shot comes around.... look the fuck out. Excited to get our first look at Fox tonight plus the potential bonus of handing ATL a loss hopefully on their way to the lottery.
  9. Kuzma shot 36% from three for the Lakers when playing with guys who can get him open looks. He will get plenty of those with Giannis and Lillard. I can't imagine what playing with Jordan Poole as your alpha would do to your game. Poole is basketball cancer, metastasizing to every other part of the team. Not sure I'm following the swap discussion... there's a zero percent chance that Milwaukee got the good end of that swap. The major issue is that Bucks have been trying to get off of the second apron since the beginning of the season while also trying to compete. Kuzma is on a declining deal and is right in his prime. They had to get some cap relief and he's a young rotation piece. They don't need Middleton like they used to with Dame now on the team. He's the clutch perimeter bucket getter for them now.
  10. Kuzma isn't a serious basketball player on an unserious tanking team, but he was a valuable player with the Lakers when he could get in line behind their stars. He should be able to do that in Milwaukee. Middleton is washed and can't stay healthy. Kuzma is 29 and his contract is actually declining. Washington is desperate for assets so they get a swap out of the deal + AJ Johnson for taking on two years of salary vs three for Kuzma. They might be able to flip Middleton to a contender at some point, maybe next year at the deadline? The other thing is I'm pretty sure that this puts the Bucks under the second apron, which is fucking huge for them. The Wiz also got AJ Johnson, who is a 19 year old FRP that the Bucks took a flyer on this past draft. He could actually turn into something, but it's a crap shoot. I think he's the underrated piece of this puzzle for Washington. Why not take a shot at him and eat a little salary? They aren't going anywhere anytime soon anyway.
  11. Fuck Nolan Richardson.
  12. The only other way the Mavs remotely win this trade is if Luka never can stay healthy and they avoid the supermax albatross contract for a guy who can't stay on the court. That doesn't excuse the return they got for him, but him moving into the Zion/Kawhi mode of undependability would at least make it a little more tolerable.
  13. This isn't even germane to the conversation, but there are many other passionate and loyal fanbases in the NBA that I would put above Dallas. I always considered Dallas a bandwagon sports town. There are too many other sports options. That arena was never considered one of the loudest or difficult to play in. The passion is especially high in cities that don't have any other major league teams. I would start with Sacramento -- their fans have been shit on forever and they still love their team. Utah, Portland, Memphis, OKC, and San Antonio. None of those places have any other local team to root for. Now that the Mavs committed seppuku, Dallas fans can just as easily go pour their love into the Cowboys for example.
  14. https://surlyx.com/UsherNBA/status/1886638158374158370
  15. This really is a good point. I just generally lean toward incompetence as an explanatory factor over something more complex or sinister. Stupidity explains a lot.
  16. Is Scottie Pippens kid fucking Michael Jordan’s ex or is Michael Jordan’s kid fucking Scottie’s ex? I get it all confused and frankly, it’s more interesting than this game right now.
  17. On fire from three tonight. Keep up the shit talking por favor.
  18. Castle is such a beast. I can’t imagine what he’s going to be in another year or so.
  19. I don't see CP3 getting moved. Notwithstanding what he's brought to the team via mentorship especially in light of Pop not being there, he has arguably been the Spurs second best player this season. He's 7th in the league in assists even at his advanced age. Not to mention he's probably been their most clutch shooter. Depending on the matchups, I would close out games with both he and Fox on the floor. The team has been so bad at getting valuable possessions in crunch time, that surely with both of those dudes out there they could at least generate a decent look at the basket every now and then in the last two minutes of games. With regard to Castle... yeah, his shot needs to get better. It's clearly the concern with his fit with Fox. That's not going to happen overnight but he does so many things to impact winning that he needs to be on the court. He's going to have to knock down open looks but he's also going to get more opportunities to drive from the weakside against out of position defenders with all the attention Fox and Wemby will get off pick and roll. It's no secret that the Spurs need floor spacers. It should be priority 1, 2 and 3 this offseason.
  20. Yes. It was the Minnesota pick that we got for Rob Dillingham. But we still have Minnesota swap rights for another FRP. It was a great trade at the time and looks even better now. One thing I really like about this trade is the bond that the front office seems to be forging with Chicago and Sacramento. We need to keep making more and more trades with those idiots. The Bulls somehow managed to turn Demar Derozan, Zach Lavine and Alex Caruso into Josh Giddey while greasing the skids for the Spurs to get Fox and gifting the Spurs an unprotected swap from the Kings along the way. The fact that the Spurs gave up zero of their top 8 rotation, none of their young drafted players, got off of Collins shitty contract, and gave up two of their least valuable pick assets for a top 25ish player in the league who was begging to be in SA is almost incomprehensible.
  21. Apples and oranges. Nobody was pining for a move to OKC other than that particular ownership group. So sure, the other owners went along with it, maybe even in part thinking that they could go back with a new expansion team in Seattle at a later date and get paid again. OKC sure as shit wasn't on the hot list of expansion destinations. The league owners had no problem with that. But Vegas? That's a completely different ball game. A move there takes money out of the owners pockets. Nobody gives a shit about bumfuck Oklahoma.
  22. The nba doesn’t just unilaterally decide to move franchises. The other owners have to approve the moves. Why would the owners approve a Mavs move to Vegas when they can put an expansion team there and reap billions? I assure you that there are more owners pissed off that they didn’t get a chance to bid on Luka than there are ones saying, “Oh look how good it is for the league to have Luka in purple and gold.” Don’t buy this conspiracy theory. I think Nico panicked about the next contract and the new ownership group was too green to understand the consequences. And I think Pelinka took his buddy to the cleaners.
  23. And Sidy Cissoko. The fourth greatest Frenchman to ever don the black and silver.
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