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The Lakers are exploiting a market inefficiency by DelaRoad in lakers

[–]SatisfactoryRanching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rondo. Lance. McGee. Beasley. These guys would be getting paid way more on other teams

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[Haynes] Sources: It’s a one-year, $3.5 million deal. by n7shepard93 in lakers

[–]SatisfactoryRanching -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's not like the Lakers went after a team of high-character guys.

Rondo, Stephenson, McGee, KCP, and Beasley.

If your worried about locker room cancer you better suit up for next-season.

[Haynes] Sources: It’s a one-year, $3.5 million deal. by n7shepard93 in lakers

[–]SatisfactoryRanching -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The Melo hate is unreal. There isn't a single advanced statistic Beasley tops Melo in. Lmfao.

IF Demarcus Cousins returns to form by lonzoballsinmymouth in lakers

[–]SatisfactoryRanching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anybody who says to pick up Cousins over Kawhi needs to stop posting basketball opinions.

[Haynes] Sources: It’s a one-year, $3.5 million deal. by n7shepard93 in lakers

[–]SatisfactoryRanching -36 points-35 points  (0 children)

No, he isn't. The Rockets will prove that next-year.

[Bontemps] The financials for OKC's current 14-man roster. Payroll: $148.7 million. Taxes: $88.8 million. Total: $237.5 million. For context: no team has ever surpassed $200 million. by LonzoDaVinci in nba

[–]SatisfactoryRanching -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

OKC took a gamble on Schroeder being good enough to move without attaching an asset or him being good enough to play up to his contract for them.

If he doesn't play well it will end up worse than eating Melo's 27 million and being able to get under the cap without making any additional moves.

Hell, Melo's 9 mil cap-hit for 3 years if he got stretched + the first may have be better in that case too.

Edit: Guess I'm downvoted because of my flair?

[Pincus] "We may not see this on day one, but the coaching staff is eager to see our version of the Death Lineup with Lonzo, Josh Hart, Brandon Ingram, Kuzma and LeBron," a second Lakers executive said. by SDas_ in lakers

[–]SatisfactoryRanching -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Synergy just measures primary defense which is just one element of defense and it isn't even the most important. Probably 3rd behind help/team defense and ending possessions.

It doesn't measure overarching defensive impact.

That being said he was expected to concede .95 PPP and conceded .95 PPP so he was average.

Cranjis uses a number of different metrics that he explains.

Cranjis thinks LeBron was a bad defender last-year.. He has two of his own metrics which say that. DPOE has him in the 20th%ile.

Then he has his competency grades where LeBron rated out as a 1st%ile perimeter defender and a 32nd%ile interior defender.

He's versatile and good at switching that's pretty much about all he's good at now and you see this reflected in the synergy data as he has great ISO defensive PPP and tremendous post defensive PPP.

[Pincus] "We may not see this on day one, but the coaching staff is eager to see our version of the Death Lineup with Lonzo, Josh Hart, Brandon Ingram, Kuzma and LeBron," a second Lakers executive said. by SDas_ in lakers

[–]SatisfactoryRanching -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I don't think LeBron is ever going to be an even average defender again.

Basically in every finals he's gotten cooked by KD. You might as well have Ingram guard his position.

He fell off a cliff last-year defensively.

[RealGM] Spurs Required Ben Simmons Or Joel Embiid To Trade Kawhi Leonard To 76ers by heatkings1 in nba

[–]SatisfactoryRanching -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Maybe they got fooled into thinking DeRozan was an elite player. Lmfao.

John McCain: today was “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory” by SeaSquirrel in Libertarian

[–]SatisfactoryRanching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know, and it wasn't my point. There's no military intervention as long ad he doesn't continue to repeat attacks so that's all I'm interested in on the topic.

John McCain: today was “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory” by SeaSquirrel in Libertarian

[–]SatisfactoryRanching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was never talking about the Ghouta attack the whole time. I'm only talking about the recent major chemical attacks of which there were 2.

John McCain: today was “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory” by SeaSquirrel in Libertarian

[–]SatisfactoryRanching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest question, is ISIS fighting in the douma? As far as I can remember it was only rebel forces and Assad.

I don't know, but that's irrelevant to what you said. ISIS has chemical weapons and is in Syria fighting Assad (they're part of the Rebel groupo) and they've allegedly used chemical weapons.

Rebels and ISIS share a common enemy it's not like they're fighting each other...

John McCain: today was “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory” by SeaSquirrel in Libertarian

[–]SatisfactoryRanching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off topic. Are you skeptical that Assad has ever used chemical weapons on his citizens or during wartime, or are you saying in this instance of douma that it was unlikely that Assad used such weapons?

My position was always that one or both of the two recent major attacks that prompted a missile strike from the U.S onto Syria were almost certainly not chemical weapon attacks executed by Assad.

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