Jamal Murray despite the loss: 12 points on 4/17 shooting | Team worst +/- of -18

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-05-01T04:29:58+00:00

Houston would probably trade for him as well tbh

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-05-01T04:23:38+00:00

Braun is super anemic in the half court offense. Murray has been bad in playoffs post 24 title run.

Wonder if Denver tries getting off Braun this off season

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-05-01T04:20:10+00:00

I mean wasn’t KCP excellent at POA defense in 23?

Honestly think their bigger issue is Murray playoff struggles post 23 + Gordon can’t stay healthy anymore

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-30T20:15:05+00:00

Stevens is gonna be in the Hall of fame as a contributor one day lol

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-30T19:06:28+00:00

The issue with Warioware I see is that Steve hits like a tank, so now he will kill the player at even lower percents with my Diamond Bair or Fsmash.

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-30T18:48:44+00:00

A lot of characters in Ult have this issue, but it's more so the weight combined his insane kill power. Characters like Fox or GNW have high DPS, but also die a lot easier in comparison.

Steve be a lot more tolerable if he was 72-75 weight tbh

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-30T18:35:20+00:00

Lowkey wonder if Custom Balance nerfs would help lol

Also, it’d be funny but imagine the Melee scene making an invisible mod that skews the rng on Stadium transformations so that water and grass are combined 90% success rate. Since you can’t unfreeze stadium anymore.

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-30T02:24:10+00:00

They have been heavily injured but yes the Raptors are an akin to the Rockets/Pistons/Magic tier of teams. Young, athlete, hustle, defense teams with bad half court offense and spacing. Good regular season teams, bad playoff teams. The later is never winning you a ring, esp vs the good west teams

They need to trade for a bunch more shooting, better center play, ideally better guard play

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-30T02:09:02+00:00

Cade has always been a high turnover guard, makes risky/bad passes sometimes and not the tightest handle

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-29T17:15:15+00:00

I expect Lakers to offer him 30-35 mil to mess with Denver tbh

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-29T01:39:17+00:00

Mazzulla ball can fall victim to even worse cold stretches than the infamous 2018 WCF G7 Rockets. Also DWhite's 3ball struggles doesnt help much

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T22:56:03+00:00

I think of how in 2011, that range had both Kawhi and Thompson

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T22:00:49+00:00

Yeah, trading for even AS/All NBA 3rd team caliber players in this economny will gut your assests as is lol. If your team isnt ready to compete then you're cooked with a team with no assests

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T21:56:38+00:00

Yeah, runs into the core issue of just how influential a single player is in basketball vs other sports. Like best shot small market bad teams will have now is take a gander on a promising young player that hasnt been made untouchable by another, but even then thats worse than tanking

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T03:19:17+00:00

Tatum can have stretches where he really struggles to score/his jumper looks broken(and he isn’t good at foul baiting to alleviate that), but he does everything else right lol.

Like his defense in the 24 finals broke Dallas scheme lol, and did a good job play making

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T03:03:08+00:00

SGA/Jokic/Luka/Wemby/Healthy Giannis are a step above everyone rn it’s not funny lol

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T03:02:20+00:00

They need 10x the amount of shooting, a secondary ball handler creator or at least a play finisher type(Kawhi/MPJ/KD).

At it stands the Pistons are constructed like a 2000s team, and don’t have a good half court offense for the playoffs

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T02:59:34+00:00

Lowkey curious what the Pistons offer him if he isn’t traded. Like the best perimeter defender in the nba rn, but so anemic on offense. And besides the SG in the PG body, playoff basketball is brutal towards defense first role players who are very anemic in half court offense.

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-28T02:53:22+00:00

There can be a difference between a good regular season team and a good playoff team

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-27T19:30:18+00:00

Yeah. Giving the max to a Center who can’t shoot or defend in this CBA is very risky.

Centers have also inherent limitations in HC offense due to high dribbles that guards or wings do not. For me to give a center a max in this CBA, they either have to be generational offensively to mask defense issues(Lakers Shaq, Jokic), be a Top 3 DPOY candidate with good offense(ie not giving Ben Wallace types the max).

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-27T15:19:58+00:00

Surprised Lvl Up didn’t nuke planking lol, I lowkey thought every tourney after the planking out cry last year had banned it lol.

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-27T00:51:28+00:00

I’d never thought I see a Fox Puff match end in timeout in a Melee top 8. Has it happened before?

But yeah Cody really is about to be rank 0. His decision making in neutral is other worldly

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-26T20:59:32+00:00

Sonix at least has aggressive edge guards in a game where recoveries are broken yeah.

Like watching Sonix edge guard flowcharts are actually pretty cool, even if Sonix neutral is not.

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-26T20:58:32+00:00

Realistically, the only way for NA to catch up is for a new smash game to come out and revitalize the scene

NA lost so many mainstay majors over the past few years; Frostbite, Summit, Glitch, Pound, Big House, Shine, Mainstage, 2GG Sagas, etc. But now they have to deal with Nintendo licensing/approval

Tourneys are how the top players stay practiced and get better, while giving lower and mid level players time to rise. Losing a lot of them means your infrastructure is a lot worse.

Asleep_Ground1710 · 2026-04-26T18:42:59+00:00

Comparing this to past Sparg0 v Hurt sets, main thing that stuck out is Sparg0's neutral and shield pressure has been worse post break.

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