2023/2024 NBA Season Thread

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@Sony Montana you’re too reactionary the slightest inconvenience and you’re ready to trade everybody. The team is not in a position to sell off assets. They’re trying to be as competitive as possible, and while Mikal is no star he’s their most popular player (you can argue Cam Thomas to a lesser extent) so they need someone they can attempt to market.
 
5th Letter said:
@Sony Montana you’re too reactionary the slightest inconvenience and you’re ready to trade everybody. The team is not in a position to sell off assets. They’re trying to be as competitive as possible, and while Mikal is no star he’s their most popular player (you can argue Cam Thomas to a lesser extent) so they need someone they can attempt to market.
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What am I reacting to?

You just told me a team who’s struggling to be in the play in that has O’Neale, DFS, Johnson, Bridges, Dinwiddie surrounded by guys on 1 year deals, injured Ben Simmons, and players under 22 years old aren’t in the position to sell off assets

What does Bridges’ popularity mean?
 
Sony Montana said:
What am I reacting to?

You just told me a team who’s struggling to be in the play in that has O’Neale, DFS, Johnson, Bridges, Dinwiddie surrounded by guys on 1 year deals, injured Ben Simmons, and players under 22 years old aren’t in the position to sell off assets

What does Bridges’ popularity mean?
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Lol why do I have to keep on explaining why they’re doing what they’re doing? How many ways can I explain that they want to be competitive while looking to retool?
 
5th Letter said:
Lol why do I have to keep on explaining why they’re doing what they’re doing? How many ways can I explain that they want to be competitive while looking to retool?
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1. You didn’t just answer my question after you had the nerve to talk to me about this again lol

2. Retooling is selling off assets old man you sound confused
 
5th Letter said:
Lol why do I have to keep on explaining why they’re doing what they’re doing? How many ways can I explain that they want to be competitive while looking to retool?
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I think what beta has been trying to say is, this is the wrong approach

They need to be bad and not marginally average. They need to bottom out, trade mikal cause why you giving him that kinda money if he's clearly not the star or a true first option.

Being middle/below the pack is technically bottoming out so why not just go all the way and have a fire sale, get assests and cap relief in return and try to figure out what team you actually want to be. That will influence the next batch of players you should be bringing in
 
AP2.5 said:
I think what beta has been trying to say is, this is the wrong approach

They need to be bad and not marginally average. They need to bottom out, trade mikal cause why you giving him that kinda money if he's clearly not the star or a true first option.

Being middle/below the pack is technically bottoming out so why not just go all the way and have a fire sale, get assests and cap relief in return and try to figure out what team you actually want to be. That will influence the next batch of players you should be bringing in
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Maybe he needs to hear it from you lol

He talking all this other stuff I’m just simply saying trade bridges sooner rather than later because his value has been decreasing since the season started

Unless you wanna give him jerami grant money to be slightly above mid
 
5th Letter said:
The Nets lost a lot of games recently so to you the justification is “trade Bridges”.
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Even though I been talking about trading bridges (mostly with south) for months?

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-The team is not in a position to tank due to not owning their own picks. By tanking they’d be giving the Rockets free lottery picks. Are we clear so far?

-So they’ve decided to try and be as competitive as possible despite having limited resources. Which means trying to compete for a play in spot and hoping things break their way? Got it?

-They hope to flip other pieces on the team for more veterans to build around Mikal, Cam T and Claxton while also hoping that a few of the young guys (Jalen Wilson, Whitehead etc) pans out and become at the minimum rotation players if not stars.

-Stem the tide for a few more years, see where they are by 2027 and go from there.
 
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