2017 NBA Off-Season Thread

Originally posted by Bluesbro:
Glass houses there, eh Peyton?

How so?

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Peyton Manning has no chill.

https://twitter.com/SInow/status/885291554105118720

Peyton Manning: "Our gymnastics team was so dominant that Kevin Durant told me he wants to play for them next year"

looool his face made it even better

Originally posted by 4ML:

Originally posted by mayo49:

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Originally posted by Jiks:

Donovan Mitchell will be ROY. Y'all are kidding yourselves if you think otherwise.

He's looking like a huge steal right now.

He's kind of on the short side, but he's a heck of a player.

He has a wingspan of 6'10 - 6'11 (insane for someone who is under 6'2) and 40" vertical.

I know!!! Freek'n mismatch at that position.

I need someone to help me understand something. And I am going to preface this by saying, I am well aware of how good Gordon Hayward is.

But can someone tell me how....

Gordon Hayward and Marcus Morris....

is better than....

Avery Bradley, Amir Johnson, Kelly Olynyk and Jonas Jerebko?

I am not getting this at all. People are overreacting to Hayward and not realizing who they lost. They lost their best defensive player. They lost 3 of their top 5 rebounders from 2016-17. I think the Celtics have improved this offseason, but that is simply due to the fact that I think Jason Tatum is a future star and will immediately be a serviceable player. But I do not think that the roster shuffling to bring in Hayward was anything other than a lateral move at best.

Anyone want to try to explain this to me? Very open to hearing the other side of this.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

I need someone to help me understand something. And I am going to preface this by saying, I am well aware of how good Gordon Hayward is.

But can someone tell me how....

Gordon Hayward and Marcus Morris....

is better than....

Avery Bradley, Amir Johnson, Kelly Olynyk and Jonas Jerebko?

I am not getting this at all. People are overreacting to Hayward and not realizing who they lost. They lost their best defensive player. They lost 3 of their top 5 rebounders from 2016-17. I think the Celtics have improved this offseason, but that is simply due to the fact that I think Jason Tatum is a future star and will immediately be a serviceable player. But I do not think that the roster shuffling to bring in Hayward was anything other than a lateral move at best.

Anyone want to try to explain this to me? Very open to hearing the other side of this.

Hayward gives Boston another high octane scorer in addition to IT. A big issue they had is nobody could really be depended on to score outside of IT, that changes now.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
I need someone to help me understand something. And I am going to preface this by saying, I am well aware of how good Gordon Hayward is.

But can someone tell me how....

Gordon Hayward and Marcus Morris....

is better than....

Avery Bradley, Amir Johnson, Kelly Olynyk and Jonas Jerebko?

I am not getting this at all. People are overreacting to Hayward and not realizing who they lost. They lost their best defensive player. They lost 3 of their top 5 rebounders from 2016-17. I think the Celtics have improved this offseason, but that is simply due to the fact that I think Jason Tatum is a future star and will immediately be a serviceable player. But I do not think that the roster shuffling to bring in Hayward was anything other than a lateral move at best.

Anyone want to try to explain this to me? Very open to hearing the other side of this.

Hayward gives Boston another high octane scorer in addition to IT. A big issue they had is nobody could really be depended on to score outside of IT, that changes now.

But at what cost?

Plus, Hayward scored 5.6 ppg more a game as the #1 offensive option in Utah than Bradley did as the #2 offensive option with Boston. The Celtics had the 9th highest points per game in the league last year, too.

I truly appreciate you answering me, however your post did not convince me that Boston is better off.

LOL at Paul George. I guess he thinks quite a lot of himself by saying that the NBA would have vetoed a trade of him going to the Warriors for Klay Thompson.

Hey Paul.... Bob Myers vetoed the trade because the Dubs arent stupid.

Peyton manning is a savage LOL

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=19976977&sf97531382=1

Originally posted by Bluesbro:
Glass houses there, eh Peyton?

The joke before he thanked Denver's d for carrying him to that final SB.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

At least Embiid can catch homerun balls though. He demonstrated that yesterday.



Looks like me holding a golf ball.

Imagine what Giannis would look like holding a baseball. Biggest hands in sports history (at least that im aware of) at 12 inches.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
But at what cost?

Plus, Hayward scored 5.6 ppg more a game as the #1 offensive option in Utah than Bradley did as the #2 offensive option with Boston. The Celtics had the 9th highest points per game in the league last year, too.

I truly appreciate you answering me, however your post did not convince me that Boston is better off.

Difference in systems. Hayward is capable of scoring more than he did in Utah and is a far more dependable scorer than Bradley ever was. He can create his own shot which is something that Boston was dearly lacking outside of IT. I saw the same thing with the Suns back in the day after Joe Johnson left. They had a bunch of guys that could hit shots but nobody that could really facilitate their own offense, everyone was dependent on Nash pretty much. When he was out of the game they went through long scoring lapses.

Hayward is able to create his own offense and take pressure off of IT to have to constantly be the guy.

Rondo to the Pelicans.

John Simmons

eh

Originally posted by tjd808185:

Originally posted by Bluesbro:
Glass houses there, eh Peyton?

The joke before he thanked Denver's d for carrying him to that final SB.

I give him credit for that then. I did not watch.

Originally posted by Niners99:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
At least Embiid can catch homerun balls though. He demonstrated that yesterday.



Looks like me holding a golf ball.

Imagine what Giannis would look like holding a baseball. Biggest hands in sports history (at least that im aware of) at 12 inches.

Andre the Giant's hands