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Suns' bench unsurprisingly not very good.
We'll see what happens when Draymond returns, but watching a micro back court of CP3 and Curry is painful. This also forces Klay as the SF to get switched onto bigs... Steve Kerr must be reliving nightmares of smallball Team USA getting bullied and outrebounded with Josh Hart at their PF.
Suns' bench unsurprisingly not very good.
they cant have 4-5 of their bench guys on the floor at the same time. as complementary pieces to mix in with 3-4 starters they're fine. esp now with beal out and one of their good reserves, allen, being thrust into a starting role
"The Western Conference is stacked!!!"
The Western Conference:
Actually good teams from other eras would destroy these teams.
I'm not sure the Suns are that great defensively, the Warriors just look gassed and old and cooked. Only put up 46 in the half.
If this version of Klay Thompson keeps up, the Warriors are done. 40 year old CP3 isn’t going to cut it. Steph needs to go supernova again for them to even have a shot at the playoffs.
Warriors beating Suns 27-5 in the third quarter. That's the fierceness, grit, and leadership we've come to expect from Kevin Durant.
Eubanks getting solid minutes as backup to Nurkic. Collins may be better team player but 1v1 it’s a toss up. I like eubanks defense and aggressive shot blocking while Collins gets nod on offense
It's not even close tbh. Eubanks is only on the Suns cause he's a borderline NBA player who can be had for the minimum. Collins just signed for 17 million per year.
The Lakers are a play-in team. Players like Christian Wood, Taurean Prince and Jaxon Hayes are inefficient garbage. They are not a threat at all. I agree Denver took a step back, they don't have a capable bench at all. Their 2 best bench guys are Christian Braun and Reggie Jackson. They will have to play their starters high minutes to win games. I think they'll try to sign some guys who get bought out to strengthen their bench or make some minor trades, that usually always works out for contenders.
Klay Thompson is a s of himself, Draymond can't shoot anymore and old CP3 is a weird fit. The Dubs ain't a threat either. Suns don't have any depth and play "my turn, your turn" offense.
All in all the west is super weak, which is why I'm high on the Spurs this year.
I'd love to see that trade. Kyrie would give LA something shiny to look at for a bit, but ultimately, not move the needle for them.
Doesn't take much to get banned by r/nba modswhat did you do?
Yeah i guess. Reddit mods in general can be that way
I think Denver chose well in the draft with older/high floor type guys. If Strawther and/or Pickett can replicate what Braun did last year, and if Braun takes a step up in his development, they could be in pretty decent shape. Losing Brown was inevitable due to $$ cir stances, but I generally like most of Calvin Booth's moves/thoughts in the past year, especially his eye on the importance of positional height & length.
It's funny how star players frequently fall on their faces as coaches and GMs, and role players frequently excel.
Yeah, there's definitely a pattern. Some of the worst analysis out there is from former or current stars.
Suns definitely look better than the Warriors. The Warriors size might be their downfall this year. Also CP3 was ok-ish for them. Missed some open threes down the stretch...surprised me he was hero-balling on a team full of shooters. Excited for those two Suns-Spurs games next week. Hopefully Wemby plays in both.
And Jokic...jeez. Denver might b2b based on him alone. They have some holes on that roster, but he's Duncan-esque in how he can put a team on his shoulders. Tim did it in a more balanced way, offense and defense, but the Joker can f'n carry a team by himself.
The Lakers will be pretty good...sadly. Not ever a fan of the Lakers, but they're pretty talented. Not deep enough to win the le, and when Lebron inevitably goes down, and AD starts having his 20 in-season injuries we'll probably see them fade in the standings. They'll be an over-talented 7 or 8 seed again when they probably have the names to be top 4.
I'm not seeing that much talent in that LA team. I mean this is the NBA, you got talent everywhere but behind James and Davis, there's a cliff. Reaves is nice and all but still a quality role player at best, then after Rui that's a bunch of randos... I personnaly don't see them as a top 4 team, specially with Lebron one year older Davis' crystal body. They could struggle to even make the POs.
I hope you're right and they wallow in mediocrity.
I'd love to see a study that shows the correlation between people who say they think Jokic is overrated, and how far off they are when trying to point out the country of Serbia on an unmarked map. I bet it's sky high.
The league has to be pretty anxious seeing those games last night. We're not at the end of these teams' runs, but they're close. Actually, they might be completely at the end. But we're at the end of these players' careers. We're saying goodbye to all these guys, and they're American players. So, not only are the big ticket teams almost on the precipice, a generation is just about done and there's not a ton to replace them.
The teams themselves... Warriors just don't look scary, like you don't feel like Klay or even Curry can go off for a 30-40 point quarter. The Suns might have better stuck with Paul over Beale, but will hurt teams. The Lakers, boy, might have had downlow the worst offseason in the league. Like, I'm not sure why you get a Cam Reddish instead of keeping Lonnie Walker for the same money. Walker has serious issues, but he works hard, will pressure defenses. Reddish is just trash.
Flashbacks to the Collins signing thread where there were multiple PAGES of discussion of how Eubanks was better than Collins "and it's not even close". One of my friends here even said Eubanks is a top backup C in the NBA
There's really no comparison between Collins and Eubanks. Drew has dug out a very nice career for himself as an active, athletic and physical center who knows how to play. Collins, however, is looking like a Tier 2 center behind Jokic and Embiid. He's there with types like Poeltl, the dude in Chicago, the dude in New Orleans, Mitc Robinson, Miles Turner, Ayton.
Lakers getting used as the ring patsies and then doing nothing about lol. You love to see it
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