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yeah everything else is garbage.
the shooting makes it hard to give up on him. however im sure they are prob going to. however ive been wrong the last year or two.
he's a .400 3point shooter starting from this season. That's golden in my book. The season percentage improvement matches the stroke imo.
yeah everything else is garbage.
the shooting makes it hard to give up on him. however im sure they are prob going to. however ive been wrong the last year or two.
Then I would blame that on the coach. The coach needs to create plays that would get him make open shots so his high percentage would translate. It’s true during the championship years, whoever they put seems to get open shots. The team has not been that good, but slowly they are collecting talents and should better opportunities for players to excel. Spurs had players like Gary Neal, Jonathon Simmons, who were fortunate to play in a winning team that makes their jobs easier and allowed them to succeed. I bet Branham would make those shots when he’s not harassed and instead wide open.
his finishing around the rim is also good and his wingspan is amazing. Unfortunately he is a ty defender, but not any worse than castle at this stage. I think a coaching change would do him a lot of good.
as somebody who has seen Sochan's warm up program in person (Paris Games vs. Pacers), this is a huge leap. He was bricking shots from everywhere with a hitch in his form, including close range. This is quite some progress.
Players are auditioning for that last spot
It’s a big contrast to Castle paying prime to work on his game.
Happy 22nd Birthday to Jeremy. Easy to forget how young he still is tbh. His best basketball is still ahead of him.
Future CBA MVP, tbh.
Nah future 4th place runner-up in 6MOY voting tbh.
branham actually shot the ball straight last year but he barely played in any consequential minutes so it was hard to notice
Good percentage on a small sample size. 40.5% on 84 3P attempts.
He shot 30.2% as a rookie and 34.7% as a sop re from 3. If he somehow could round into a 40% three point shooter he could have a role in the league, anything less and his lack of bringing anything else to the table would be too much to ignore.
I'm fine with the Spurs having picked up his option. Trades need matching salary and the Spurs are over the cap anyway. But he shouldn't get any extension at all unless he somehow goes nuclear from 3, which he won't really have a chance to do given how crowded the backcourt is.
By becoming a decent three point shooter with little to no "D", Branham has developed into our next Bryn Forbes.
Hasn't been arrested nor beat up any pornstars. Got a long way to go to be Forbes tbh
I guess this morphed into the Branham thread. The issue here is he’s more of an undersized SF and we already have a logjam at that position. PLUS we need more size.
Branham and Sochan have the same issue to different degrees, and it's a question about whether they are committed to improvement. It's why people question Sochan's Instagram bids but don't do the same for Castle's. Nobody has any reason to doubt Castle's commitment to improving.
What's the story with Bryn hooking up with those types? I may be remembering wrong, but didn't KAT introduce him to some of those girls Bryn started messing around with, or maybe one was a friend of someone that was dating KAT at the time?
Thank you for all your nice inputs!
Yes Sochan deserves more time.
Saw that the Bleacher report sneakily released the first in what will be many Extension Predictions from Various outlets (Keith Smith from Spotrac does the best one IMO): https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-scale-players
They have Sochan at 3/33.
People have noted Bobby Marks recently saying $30MM/year for Christian Braun, BR had him at 4/94 before the OKC playoff series.
Other noteables: Chet and JDub both at the 25% max (with no opportunity granted to scale up). I think It will probably be 25% with the opportunity for 30% for JDub and somewhere between 20-25% for Chet. Keegan with 4/75, Daniels at 4/94, nada for Blake and Bran, 4/112 for Duren, 3/66 for Kessler.
Quite shocked at the going price for Duren and if he does get something like this it would be a pretty bad contract. I’m not sure if there is another team out there who would pay that kind of money for him. Kessler is in a similar boat but not as drastic. I’d pay Daniel’s more than both of them rather easily.
Would love to have a chance to get Jabari smith Jr on a good deal next summer but I doubt that will happen.
A little surprised Chet will get the 25% max as his injury history is concerning. I’d thought he would get something closer to20%.
Sochans 3 for $33 sounds reasonable. Would be better with 3 for $30, or have the contract front loader $12/$11/$10 type deal would be great.
Spurs gonna pay Sochan at least 50 million tbh, because „that’s who we are“, a charity organization.
I assumed Chet and J-Dub will get 25% extensions which should be a steal for OKC long term and allow them to keep the band together.
Of course these are all just predictions... I'd also be surprised if Duren got that. I agree with you on Chet. I think he might do something like 5/175.
Very nice interview
Now that SGA has won mvp it most certainly won't be a steal when you consider his money
Should add this to scott ‘s thread tbh
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