MegaThread Rant of everything wrong with this trade that I can think of after 50 minutes of staring at my wall as a passionate and disgruntled Charlotte Hornets Fan (95% of this made 11+ Hours ago)
BREAKING: The Charlotte Hornets are trading star guard LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotected first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps (2028, 2029, 2030) and three second-round picks (2029, 2032, 2033), sources tell ESPN.
NBA and NHL free agency tweets are so different itโs hilarious:
Shams: Jersey swap + long, colourful description of the transaction, sometimes in multiple tweets.
Friedman: โBobrovsky to TOR. 3x7โ
Ive never seen a fan base so committed to acting like it's impossible to improve a roster. Jeff could have added a 4 and 5 at the deadline and made a team capable of competing in the playoffs. But he didn't and now people are pretending it was never an option.
@djdotmp4 If โfirst round pickโ turns into plural first round picks then yes send him to a team that needs him more than us.
1 first round pick from the Knicks or a weak Utah via another team 1st rounder ainโt doing it
@MurrayTyle58341@Platinumslugz_@RedStallion41@NoNarrative1 If top 7 Player Ant can only get you to the โ8th seedโ your rosters arenโt good enough.
Only T7 caliber players that werenโt a T6 seed last year were Giannis & Kawhi (Traded from bad rosters) & 43 GP Steph. Please tell us more about โDog in emโ ratings tho bud. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
@djdotmp4 Yep agreed; tho in 3 seasons when (Giannis,Kawhi Kat,Embiid, & Siakam) will all be 33-38) then itโs go time
Jeffโs yapping about one step a time; weโll know when to go all in, final step better be in 2029.
If you canโt make the offs once in 5 years as a GM you gotta get axed.
@IchimokuSatoshi@Mikethejohnson I donโt hate moving off of Lamelo for your reasons stated and I could sell myself on it if we added a Deni archetype whoโs like a perfect inverse.
We instead got weaker at his strengths and fixed none of his weaknesses by adding Anderson Jr, Steinbach, Allen, Oโneale, & Reid
It's one thing to say Lamelo's health can't be trusted and that's why you move on from him. But I don't know how you watched last season and conclude his play was somehow holding the Hornets back. I'm seeing too many takes on the TL making an "addition by subtraction" argument.
@comadreja_clt Weโve got none of that playmaking weโre probably gonna be bottom 10 in AST imo (I get that itโs not everything) which = more isolation & PnR buckets which I like Coby/Kon/Brandon but thatโs closer to 3 SGโs than a normal PG/SG/SF lineup & east defenses are way too good for that
@comadreja_clt 100% with the PFโs but the necessity point works big time in the inverse against Coby white here
For instance the Luka/Lebron 25-26 Lakers; Theyโve got more than enough elite playmaking so Coby Whiteโs similar scoring stats on better efficiency $15 mil cheaper that works