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I’m not that siren I don’t believe sengun even moves that needle at all. He’s got the signs of an empty calories guy.

That's a very interesting take, and one that indeed would require to go beyond the frist conclusion that current success is directly linked to the trade, specially that they don't always put Gobert on the floor in the clutch. We can't rewrite history and you could also argue Rudy helped this...

Sure, absolutely, but that's another story they won't talk about here. It's like it never happened.

Not quite as much though now that he has 20% of his dirt back.

Not sure it's worth arguing over, but I will contend that Lauri is worth more this summer than he'll be at the deadline (if not previously extended). I didn't say he'd still be cheap, just relatively cheaper than he will be this summer. Of course, we'll never know - because we don't know what teams...

It's true that we (as outsiders) don't have the whole picture. Mark Cuban recently said in an interview with Draymond Green that his own scouting team had Luka BEHIND Ayton (not their analytics departments, though) and they look like geniuses rather than morons because events unfolded in a way that...

Or it might mean he will be shot, putler is such a picky little bitch, remember? :lol

Is it? Says who? In case you haven't noticed, the Spurs need a guard and they need a SF. They also need other things. They'll take what they (not anyone else) perceive as the BPA that fits the team. Seems like we all agree here. This doesn't take away from the fact that Vienna never said...

I'm not even sure, tbh. If you tell me there's a couple of interested teams and UTA has to move him, yeah you have some leverage. But Lauri will draw interest all around the league and from that point on, it's an offer and demand thing. You'll always have one or several desperate contenders or...

He's telling you that you're a fucking moron making yourself look like the dirty lowlife everyone uses as a mud-wipe. It's a bad look, it confirms everything everyone makes fun of you about. He's literally the only person who tries to like you and you're dismissing his friendly advice like...

It's still a high level of certainty that the Spurs aren't going to take a guard. Why wouldn't they? Gets back to the BPA vs positional need/fit sorts of discussions. Only way I can see them not take who they think is BPA is if they're convinced that player cannot share the floor with...

General Armageddon on his way back to Moscow This might mean Shoigu is gone. Shits getting real :wow https://x.com/Sprinterfactory/status/1788276536463769739

Maybe Vienna said that somewhere else, but the post you responded to only said "The Spurs aren't bound to take a guard". That does not mean "there's no way the Spurs are going to take a guard" - it means the Spurs aren't married/obligated to taking a guard, which is obvious. It's not "riveting...

Depends on who you draft these next couple years, but Johnson isn't in any way a vital or even that important part of that roster in the grand scheme of things, imo. Keldon has been in the league for 5 years and honestly not shown he could even be a solid 6th man in a competitive team (we can...

Yes, obviously if they prefer a player who is a guard they will take a guard. If they prefer a player who is a sf, they will take a sf. The poster I was responding to said there's no way the Spurs are going to take a guard. I don't see any case where that's a truism. But I guess you agree and think...

At the end of the day, the results are what matter - right? We aren't talking about a GM picking Primo over Sengun one time... we're talking about it happening repeatedly and predictably. If a GM is going to consistently go off-reservation and make perceived reaches, then he/she better be hitting...

These are much different playing fields though. A scout/ GM has one or two chances (in the first round) to get their selection right using their big board. We never get to see their big board. If we did, we’d compare their big board to a writer’s big board (or mock draft, if you wanted). Saying...

Obviously I failed at making my point accross. I don't think outperforming a random mock draft signals success, but rather underperforming them (systematically, not ocassionally) should signal failure for a team (time to change scouts) / professional scout (time to change jobs). To put it more...

Nazi's must be okay then because Genocidal Joe is covering millions of Nazi's in Ukraine with free health care/full ride, 0. --- ------ --------- Trump already seized power and day 1 you threatened to seize it back by blowing him and his family up at the White House.

It's why cap space isn't the best medium to acquire talent right now. The Spurs should trade directly for their talent upgrades and only use cap space for more modest upgrades or to facilitate trades. It's possible to sign George, Harden or James outright. It's in the team's best interest, though,...

I don't think the Spurs need to go there, and I certainly don't want them to go there. There's a decent argument to be made that the Wolves would have been better off not making the Gobert trade, despite what their recent success looks like. They just played their best game, and best defensive game...

I'd be happy to give up quite a bit for Lauri - I'm not trying to get him for cheap. But if he is heading towards FA at the deadline, he will come relatively cheaper than trying to acquire him this summer, or especially than if he extends this summer. That was my point.

Certainly Ariel can fight their own battles, but when they said: I very much interpreted this to mean that if a scout/GM is consistently being outperformed by consensus mock drafts in terms of the outcomes of the players (because I don't know how else you would evaluate the picks over time),...

I'm afraid you can't get talent for even "relatively" cheap in the NBA, deadline or not. UTA won't have any problems finding suitors for Lauri, and some teams that will offer more than you would like.

It'd be easier to trade for the players rather than the space for multiple reasons. If the Spurs are moving Keldon, then he represents salvage value for LAC or MIA. They're more just as likely to value him as, say DET would, and they're far less likely to expect compensation for taking him. Then...

Ariel’s point was for teams to use mock drafts by writers (or the consensus of them) as a point of reference for success/ failure for teams and I’m disagreeing with that and believe the success/ failure of a team’s scouting should be placed in the actual outcomes of players that come out of the...

Someone gotta do a deepfake of Ant from Hustle but with Jokic or Murray spliced in for Bo Cruz.

I read about this when it first happened. Utterly insane to try and declare that in our REPUBLIC, such a thing as a free and open election for Mayor's office simply "could not ." This is the primary problem with the far right, and why they are being compared with Nazis. Their rhetoric has...

Reaching for a G just because they need one isn't any better of a practice. If the Spurs think a guard is the best, right player when they pick... yeah they should take that one. If the Spurs think a SF is the best, right player when they pick... yeah they should take that one. Like... duh? You...