Which GM is getting you Bane instead of IQ? Literally none of them.

I don’t get it. The argument is that they should have taken Bane at #25, right? And then try to get IQ with #33. #25 was five picks ahead of where Bane was drafted, so how could no GM get you Bane? I still can’t believe they traded away the 33rd pick in the draft, by the way. Who the heck trades away the 33rd pick in the draft for just a future second round pick?

dude…you stole that line from Thibs…didn’t you?

Hahaha, it could have been, but our coach is also like Thibs, stubborn and all. And yesterday for the first time he did what we’ve been begging him to do, to sit Ronaldo and to replace the starters that aren’t performing well. You’re only a starter if you keep playing better than your replacement, this is not a job. So our Obi (Ramos) entered for Randle (Ronaldo) and scored an hat-trick, it couldn’t have been better than that.
Hahaha, just messing with Z-Man using the Obi-Randle example, because now i have to play mind games with the few moroccans i know ( it’s only Z-Man 😛 ). Of course, no one thinks the changes will work so well in all games, this game became easier because we were fortunate to score the first 2 goals early. But the team played with a lot more purpose than usual, and that’s what we want with the changes.

McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy
Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile
Yazz Ahmed – The Saboteuse
Art Blakey – Indestructible
Horace Silver – Song for my Father
Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
Joe McPhee – Nation Time
Hiromi Uehara – Time Control
Pedro Iturralde – ¡Jazz Flamenco!
Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds

I really love the variety of styles that there exists in Jazz, something which I was not aware before.

Anfernee Simons never shot under 40% on 2s. Even when he was 19.

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The Bane argument is exhausting.

Which GM is getting you Bane instead of IQ? Literally none of them.

No NBA GM bid higher than two 2nds. Memphis didn’t trade for him until after the draft, another team could’ve easily outbid them or traded up to take him.

You can swap out Rose for another GM you’re still not getting Bane.

Congrats on getting Payton Pritchard on auto-draft though.

AJ Griffin, on the other hand, is a bona fide rookie of the year candidate and looking like a blue chip prospect after a great start with the Hawks. As a 19-year old rookie, Griffin has a 106 eFG+ and 101 TS+, on 19.1 USG%. Good three point shooter and a surprisingly effective defender too, has gotten lots of steals. Yeah, drafting that guy might have been a good idea.

It’s Tyrese Halliburton, Desmond Bane, Jalen Johnson, Keon Johnson, Quentin Grimes, and AJ Griffin Vs. Obi Toppin, Immanuel Quickley, Cam Reddish, Quentin Grimes, Deuce, Rokas, and iHart.

Even if I give you Grimes being off the board, there’s Robinson-Earl, Herbert Jones, and Ayo Dosunmu.

You want to argue that Leon got it right??

Keon Johnson sucks. He’s 20 but he sucks.

Dude he’s played 800 minutes. 700 of them as a 19 year old rookie. Come on.

Anfernee Simons had -4.5 BPM at this stage in his career. Would you have given up on him? Portland knows what they’re doing.

Auto-draft would have us take Kai Jones, not Jalen Johnson. Kai Jones also sucks.

No, Jalen & Keon were both rated higher than Kai. Charlotte fucked up, too.

Hartenstein & Brunson were great gets.

Brunson’s got nothing to do with it, and no one would ever trade the #11 pick for iHart.

(1) Keon Johnson sucks. He’s 20 but he sucks.

(2) Auto-draft would have us take Kai Jones, not Jalen Johnson. Kai Jones also sucks.

(3) James Robinson-Earl is a perfectly adequate PF. He’d be a good pick but not some brilliant coup.

(4) We don’t know what exactly we have in Rokas, but he’s crushed it in the 2nd best league in the world.

(5) Hartenstein & Brunson were great gets. If we traded away a 2nd rd pick to get those two, then it was well worth it.

Even if someone took Grimes off the board and the draft bot selected the kid Presti took with our pick, we’d be looking at a score of Jalen Johnson, Keon Johnson, and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl. In one draft. With an autobot.

That’s a lot better than Grimes, Deuce, Rokas, and a shitty pick that became Cam Reddish.

Throw in AJ Griffin or Ousmane Dieng with the 11th pick instead of dumping Kemba and you’re looking at one hell of developmental pipeline.