https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37896379/grizzlies-acquire-marcus-smart-celtics-3-team-deal-involving-kristaps-porzingis-tyus-jones-sources-say

And I forgot that the Celtics got a second first round pick in the deal! They then used that in the Jrue Holiday deal.

So the Celtics traded Marcus Smart, a second round pick, cap filler and got Porzingis and two first round picks!!! Holy shit, right?

Isn’t that kind of terrible?

How did Boston end up getting a first round pick in a trade when they were getting KP for Marcus Smart?!

Spurs v Thunder is going to be the WCF matchup for most of the next 10 years

It’s kind of crazy to me how the Spurs haven’t been more aggressive in building around Wemby. His best teammate is 39 fucking years old! Sochan is okay, and Tre Jones isn’t awful, but that’s it. Why aren’t they trying to give him better teammates?!

Spurs v Thunder is going to be the WCF matchup for most of the next 10 years

think you guys are wrong. love ihart but think chet is a good bit better. margins look modest in the regular season but those increments matter at altitude. more importantly think they will play quite a bit together and work effectively against most playoff opponents.

I agree that Chet is much better than I-Hart as an individual player, but imo they are so good, they get most of what they are missing on offense with Ihart from other players. So on a net basis imo they don’t lose as much as you might think despite I-Hart instead of Chet. Maybe better spacing from Chet helps Shai a bit.

Where we agree is that there will be times they need to be bigger defensively and on the boards. They can play both together.

We’ll see how that works on defense when both have to guard outside against teams like us and Boston.

This game was lost for 2 simple reasons, the 20th best 3pt shooting team in the NBA hit 14 of 27 and Brunson was garbage.

Our own 3 point shooting was mostly bad because Brunson had an off night (0-5), but they also did a good job going small and covering Towns outside so he didn’t get his usual diet of 3s (took none).

Brunson still has that tendency to try to do too much. I thought he would eventually stop given how many weapons we have now, but he still does it at times. It can be an issue at times and annoys the hell out of me, but when he’s rolling we don’t complain.

I thought OKC got quite a few wide open 3s. Some were probably just good ball movement on their part, but towards the end of the game I think we were just gassed and not closing out well.

Smh…