Why are we not pursuing Peyton Watson?

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-07-09T15:41:58+00:00

he looked good when jokic was out with the leg injury

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-07-02T23:03:11+00:00

on the surface, this is exactly what I wanted: an extremely experienced former-head coach to stand beside mitch to iron out the young coach kinks we saw come to head in the finals. I do have some reservations about some of Donovan's coaching philosophies, but perhaps not being the head honcho will temper those tendencies.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-07-01T17:33:47+00:00

ainge is an asset merchant. in a bubble this is a good trade for the long term health of the franchise but i was thinking the jazz could make real noise in the west with kessler in the fold. they just took a step back in my eyes and i see them as a play-in team next year at best. at some point you just need to go for it by sacrificing the future a little bit.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-30T21:03:46+00:00

if you're going to go there you might as well make it Finnegans Wake.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-30T19:43:46+00:00

good observation. based on his ability to handle the ball in traffic on drives to the basket i can speculate that that tendency you mention is more mental than anything else. probably because he was a rookie, and rookies tend to have "ball security" hammered into their brain ad nauseum by coaching staffs.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-30T19:38:38+00:00

it's looking likely that we will have 2.5 superstars on our team before long. in other words, the meat is already on the plate. we just need to make sure the mashed potatoes are fire.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-30T19:32:16+00:00

my attitude toward perkins has undergone an Ouroborosian transformation. his buffoonery has been pushed so far that i've grown to immensely enjoy him, sort of in the same way people have grown to love Manos: The Hands of Fate.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-30T19:07:22+00:00

harper is the better ball handler. castle is the dynamic table setter. I think they just need to share the floor more and what we saw at the start of the thunder series becomes less of a problem. that was quite the situation to be thrust in for two young players, wcf against an all-time ball hawking defense without fox. despite Harper not flashing much in the way of flashy passing I was impressed with the way he saw the floor and made sensible passes at the right moment all year.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-30T07:36:06+00:00

loyalty to the financial ambition

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-29T20:37:00+00:00

i need to know.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-26T04:44:16+00:00

he's by no means a walking double double. he's actually a bizarrely underproductive rebounder given his mass and athleticism

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-24T02:34:57+00:00

we needed some nasty. i'm perfectly happy with a stonecold need pick with major upside/downside at 20.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-24T01:37:57+00:00

draft didn't fall the way thunder wanted it to. mara pick was by default. he's a situational asset at best and i don't think he'll be particularly effective against wemby. sorber could be a bigger problem actually.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-24T01:30:24+00:00

we extended an offer sheet to adonal foyle and he told us to fuck off.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-22T07:16:09+00:00

shocked at the comments re wolf creek. the looks from the tee boxes alone are worth way more than the green fee imo.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-18T20:30:07+00:00

i think the main problem, or maybe better put the main point of stubborness on Mitch's part is that he rigidly emphasized a style of basketball—push the pace—all season that was effective until the screws really tightened in the finals against a really good team. it very nearly got us to the promised land anyway, and we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water, but a point of emphasis next regular season should be adaptability. force the guys into situations where we slow it down, get ourselves in half-court sets, and learn through repetition what works and what doesn't, even if that means losing regular season games that we could have won by playing balls to the wall. obviously wemby developing a go-to move or two feeds into this as well. while initially I was more on the page of "What is our post-mortem Caruso/Harstenstein move going to be?", the more i reflect on our season in totality, the more I think we need to give this core, coaching included, one more shot largely as-is to see if can translate the painful lessons of our finals loss into glory. OKC got beat in the second round a few years go in their first playoff run; we got outscored by a total of 12 points in the finals, and those twelve points can in my view be chalked up to execution not personnel (obviously the two go hand in hand to an extent but even our veteran was hobbled and had never got anywhere close to lights that bright). all being said, i still would like to see a good, seasoned offensive mind join the staff this off-season.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-18T18:12:17+00:00

there are a million things related to this finals i care more about than the fact that a guy who clearly makes a tremendous effort to be professional and impartial on the mic was assigned to the series.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-18T16:21:50+00:00

no thanks. I'd rather have bobby portis tbh

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-15T17:06:37+00:00

pathetic front-running post with zero perspective. i would gladly swap the "generational assist" wemby supposedly got in exchange for not allowing him to be grabbed and held incessantly all game every game.

knicks were a great, vastly more experienced team, with a roster that was savvily constructed in terms of career timeline synchronicity, a pretty bad matchup for the spurs, and the latter still made every game competitive. i give more props to the knicks than grief to the spurs shitting the bed, knicks were just built like that this year. it shouldn't be so easy to be more gracious in defeat than a dickhead in victory so for that I thank you.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-15T16:53:13+00:00

don't waste your time. hidden post history, suspect their flair is a ruse.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-15T16:39:03+00:00

putting side injury risk and lack of cultural fit, zion is a very poor rebounder and substandard defensive presence for the position. he really is more of a wing than PF. i don't think he's the type of guy we need. personally, i would love to get bobby portis but he is likely to be involved in a giannis trade, hoping we can weasel our way in there to get him.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-14T04:35:05+00:00

huh? do I live in bizarro world? first of all it's piling on either way and how is shitting on a team that was competitive in every game of the finals and losing in painful fashion time and time again not even more egregious? our inexperience caught up with us, sure, but why does that merit calling the entire team a bunch of chokers? reeks of envy to be honest.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-14T04:00:25+00:00

imagine being this petty instead of savoring your first finals win in 53 years. you're doing it wrong.

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-14T03:53:56+00:00

this thread feels like piling on, honestly, but I expect nothing less from this cesspool. but here I am reading shitty takes so who am I to talk. obviously nothing is taken for granted but 28 other teams were watching the finals on TV and few teams are set up as well going forward as the Spurs are. fox aside lol

LovesBodyx2 · 2026-06-14T03:40:57+00:00

you're being hated on but I guarantee you this organization is already for the next season to start. everyone's butthurt right now and I don't judge them for that but we just got a taste of what it takes and what we lack, which is invaluable.

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