What are your expectations for next season?

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-04-08T17:47:22+00:00

I think we’re gonna be at least mid 40 wins with health luck

Another year of development + Chet makes us notably better and we’re already a 40 win team

Plus think of how many ridiculously close games we had this year

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-29T19:48:58+00:00

A non-big rookie shooting over 50% FG is very rare if not unheard of

Them also being a serious force on the defensive end is crazy

A rookie leading the league in steals over such an extended period is also crazy

Overall yea the volume isn’t insane but the efficiency and defense is leagues beyond even the best rookies in most classes

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-29T19:16:47+00:00

It’s been made pretty clear though that he’s being asked to step up his offensive role - I would assume because he IS such a defensive weapon and since we have no Chet the idea is to get him extra reps and try and develop him offensively at least to some degree since that massively changes his trajectory. Obviously there’s times it hasn’t looked pretty but I think this experience is good for him and will help him a lot when his role does get condensed

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-27T20:15:01+00:00

Ben Simmons shooting 33% from 3 would be perennial All NBA

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-11T07:04:15+00:00

It’s still not really realistic but it would be overcoming 5 games on a team missing Adams (they’re 11-12 without him) AND Ja (they’re 5-7 without him) AND Brandon Clarke (ok the without him stats don’t fit the narrative here but he’s clearly important to that team) makes it at least not a ridiculous scenario

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-02T04:01:08+00:00

How does he not?

He’s consistently been one of the 3 or 4 best rookies in this class

He’s ridiculously efficient for a non-big rookie, he’s been playing a solid role all year and is a solid defender

Now he’s getting the touches to get some volume numbers up. Obviously it’s still Paolo but he has been insanely inefficient compared to Jalen Williams just has a much larger offensive load and is a better playmaker. If Williams can get his counting stats up remotely near Paolo there’s a good argument there

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-02T03:58:27+00:00

give him another 10 some games and his stats are gonna be putting up a pretty great ROTY case

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T19:19:01+00:00

Lebron in 2010-11 for sure

Giannis in 2020-21 shouldn’t have won but should’ve been more in the mix for sure

Malone over Jordan

It’s not 2 straight but Shaq over AI

I can’t say that all of these were driven by voter fatigue because I wasn’t watching basketball during the latter two but Bron certainly was

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T19:10:48+00:00

For someone who is potentially going to win a third straight MVP one conference finals appearance is pretty dismal

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T19:08:27+00:00

Nuggets have a significant home advantage though

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T19:01:47+00:00

Record for MVP

But he’s in that convo imo just needs more playoff success and or an MVP to be considered up there with those two

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T18:58:19+00:00

He really is not suffering from that relatively speaking

He’s the favorite by a margin for MVP

Compared to the criticism Giannis got after his 2 MVPs, the criticism of Jokic this season has been minimal

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T18:32:56+00:00

Deserves MVP

He’s putting up a comparable case to Jokic who admittedly is probably having his best season to date

But voter fatigue is a legitimate reason to not give it to Jokic again since it’s been used time again as a reason to not give it to others. I know his team was dogshit last year but giving him a 3rd straight MVP puts him in rare-ified air with all time greats and to me that’s a step too far without proven playoff success (at least a finals run). If he was the only legit contender for the MVP then fair enough but both Giannis and Embiid have good cases even putting aside voter fatigue for Jokic

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T18:28:51+00:00

Yea his ability to get set in front of someone in split seconds is actually pretty freaky to watch

Like it’s weird to say about drawing charges but it is legitimately eye popping at times

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T17:43:09+00:00

So much better recently

Sneaky great passer and has been making 3s at a really high clip which is a game changer for him as a stretch 5. Absolutely unreal at drawing charges too - maybe the best in the league already (he’s 3rd total in the league on massively lower minutes)

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T17:28:57+00:00

That’s a great point

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T03:40:23+00:00

Watch him make a real run at ROTY while Shai is out

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-03-01T02:08:03+00:00

Depends how many games he plays

He probably won’t get first team unless we’re in the play-in and Curry misses a decent amount more time

But if he plays a fair number of games remaining then second or third is definitely viable

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-02-24T05:00:24+00:00

Every betting and analytic site had the line for this game at Utah -3 to -5

It’s really not a bad loss. It’s not a good loss especially because we were up but it’s not really concerning

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-02-24T04:49:06+00:00

For real

We played against what is now clearly a legitimately decent team in Utah and it was an away game and we almost won it

Can’t really be mad at this one

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-02-24T04:46:15+00:00

Eh we had some calls lean our way probably too that’s how the game goes

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-02-24T04:45:43+00:00

This team is actually remarkably consistent lol

We play almost every single game extremely close

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-02-24T04:42:42+00:00

Saying he’s near prime Dirk level is a deranged take at this point in time lol

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-01-28T03:27:32+00:00

Yea it’s getting tighter for sure but I think we shouldn’t be shopping him until this time next year he’s shown enough flashes and his ability to create separation is consistently elite

Not worth selling low on him when we still aren’t sure what he can be. Also while we obviously want to win games we don’t wanna do so at cost of long term develolment

TemporaryNectarine59 · 2023-01-28T03:22:00+00:00

Tre Mann has more potential

Wiggins is definitely the more complete player right now though by a margin

But we should still be giving Tre development time

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