The 2024-2025 NBA Basketball Season

[tlance]

Any GM that trades for Zeke Nnaji should be immediately fired

Obviously just a salary in a deal like this

 

[WiggyRuss]

Anyone want to guess what the 4 remaining teams have in common?

none of them are missing a rotation player due to injury. Read that in a Lloyd article this morning.

Health and the luck that kind of determines it has always been instrumental in who wins. It still stings seeing the Cavs of '14-'15 go down without Irving and Love in the Finals. Sometimes it just isnt gonna work out.

 

[bksballer89]

none of them are missing a rotation player due to injury.

The Cavs weren’t either. Just not built for the playoffs

It is what it is and the truth hurts

 

[WiggyRuss]

The Cavs weren’t either. Just not built for the playoffs

It is what it is and the truth hurts

you gotta knock off the booze before noon.

 

[bksballer89]

you gotta knock off the booze before noon.

Facts are facts

Better luck next season

 

[dtgold88]

@WiggyRuss @Shanemansj13 @dtgold88

Once again, Windy was so much better as a beat writer and not a guy who made things up for clicks. Tough to do with apron rules. Should they make a call? I guess. But think the call ends if they demand Mobley.

 

[shopson67]

hes 41 in December and cant do it any longer. He cant play both offense and defense in a playoff game- he can do one or the other- but he just cant do it.

Fat Luka is a top 10 guy when he isnt sucking wind

what is LeBron?

no way is he near top 10 anymore- 2 top 10 players should do much much better.

LeBron can still fill up the box score but he is not a main guy anymore- he just cant do it on both ends.

Go ahead and name the guys that can put forth that much production and play shut down defense at the same time. The list is VERY short, possibly one name (Shai).

He can't do it any longer? Has he shown any decline in the past few years? His statistical averages are basically right at his career averages AT AGE 40. You're just guessing, no basis on actual statistics. The Lakers had been trying to divert more of the load to AD, but he wasn't capable of doing that. Luka is, which should take some offensive stress off of Lebron to allow him to play a bit more defense. At this point in his career, Lebron a Brady-esque statistical anomaly, playing at a high level well beyond the typical age of decline. If you weren't still bitter about him leaving cLEAVEland (and twice lol), you wouldn't make these ridiculous statements. Your requirement of top 10 is silly, is that based on his salary?

Luka is better than just top 10. As far as "sucking wind", he played 40+ mpg in the playoffs. Do you also hate Jokic for no good reason? Do you value your misled ideal of fitness over actual production? You do realize 13 guys made more than him this past season, correct? Take a look at those names and tell me how many of them brought more than he did. There are some definite duds in there.

 

[dtgold88]

11 minutes of shitting on the Cavs for being soft

I get it from emotional fans but former players should not throw around the soft label when it makes little sense. Were they outplayed? Sure. We couldn't shoot outside and they couldn't miss.

But soft? Our bigs dominated theirs on the glass and in the paint. didn't help the guards ignored them and kept chucking and missing shots.