2025 NBA Offseason Thread

[southsil4lil]

Barnes isn't a 3 hes a 4. Ingram isn't a 4 he's a 3.

They're both forwards who operate in the midrange and want to have the ball in their hands is what Im saying

Lauri is just a more malleable player

 

[Freeman]

You don’t remember what he did defensively in Cleveland?

No I don't remember what he did 4-5 seasons ago. Apologies.

 

[Sky Davis]

You can have a lineup of

IQ
Dick or Walter
RJ
Barnes
Lauri

If you wanted to

You can’t do that with Ingram

 

[Freeman]

You can have a lineup of

IQ
Dick or Walter
RJ
Barnes
Lauri

If you wanted to

You can’t do that with Ingram

Oh now hes a 5.

 

[Sky Davis]

No I don't remember what he did 4-5 seasons ago. Apologies.

So you don’t remember when the raptors were good?

 

[Sky Davis]

Oh now hes a 5.

He can atleast do it if you wanted to give a diff look

 

[southsil4lil]

Not a comparison just pointing out that someone who was put in that scorer only box showed that he could do more when given the opportunity.

Poole was the 6th man and his primary job was to score against other teams bench units

He is clearly overpaid


Its levels to this.......being ok, solid, decent ect isnt good enough....those players are dime dozen

 

[Freeman]

This is an exercise in futility. All because beta made a shitty trade on spotrac.

 

[southsil4lil]

Efficiency

The word of the day is efficiency

 

[Freeman]

So you don’t remember when the raptors were good?

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Nah I definitely remember.

I don't have to erase memories of my team always coming up short we went and got 1.

 

[Sky Davis]

This is an exercise in futility. All because beta made a shitty trade on spotrac.

 

[Sky Davis]

players like Caris Levert won’t exist in 3 years making more than $14 mil

 

[5th Letter]

players like Caris Levert won’t exist in 3 years making more than $14 mil

By then he’s 13 years in the league. Not bad.

 

[Shaquille Sunflower]

Shit jumped 3 pages I thought something happened lol

 

[Sky Davis]

By then he’s 13 years in the league. Not bad.

I’m not talking about him specifically but his archetype

You know, guys like Haywood highsmith

 

[5th Letter]

I’m not talking about him specifically but his archetype

You know, guys like Haywood highsmith

The league becoming this rigid a good thing though?

 

[Sky Davis]

The league becoming this rigid a good thing though?

Survival of the fittest

It will make the talent level of the league rise even more

Imagine players like Roger Mason, Will Bynum or Earl boykins playing today

Ew

 

[5th Letter]

Survival of the fittest

It will make the talent level of the league rise even more

Imagine players like Roger Mason, Will Bynum or Earl boykins playing today

Ew

Yeah guys will have to adapt. Bigs better be able to hit a 3, and guards have to step their defense up or be real good at spotting up.

 

[Sky Davis]

Yeah guys will have to adapt. Bigs better be able to hit a 3, and guards have to step their defense up or be real good at spotting up.

Everybody needs to be able to dribble/pass/shoot at minimum

You can get away not being the best defensively as long as you are atleast 6’4 and/or have a solid body but the aforementioned 3 skills are the tentpoles

It’s why I don’t think Rob Dillingham isn’t going to be anything crazy

If this was 5-6 years ago sure but now?

Not seeing the success

 

[Sky Davis]

Shane Larkin
Kendrick Nunn
Mike James
Markus Howard
Sharife Cooper

Etc

And emoni bates and cam Reddish out the league because they can’t dribble/pass/shoot combined with no real BBIQ or defensive skills or being too weak to even do their best skill which is score

Say what you want about Nikola Jovic but he can do all 3 at 6’10 while only being 22 years old with years of experience