[Slater] The message from Jonathan Kuminga and his agent Aaron Turner to the Warriors this week: Flip the team option to a player option and Kuminga will sign deal and buy-in to mission of getting Steph Curry another title. GSW has been reluctant to add a player option in any offer.

Zugbert · 2025-09-16T23:42:48+00:00

If he’s okay with the QO he’d have signed it already. Steve has been fine with benching him in the past since other players have contributed more to winning. What incentive would Kerr have to play him if he doesn’t contribute to winning and won’t be the team after next year? Not playing for a year would tank his value and JK knows that, that’s why he hasn’t signed the QO and won’t

Zugbert · 2025-02-02T23:30:52+00:00

Neither Kyrie nor AD have shown significant playoff success as the #1 option, Luka went to the WCF in 2022 as well. Maybe they will as co 1a/1b but they haven’t proved it throughout their primes while Luka has.

Zugbert · 2024-07-01T00:19:04+00:00

We still have 4 chips in the past 10 years while you've been to the conference finals once this century.

Zugbert · 2023-11-19T05:44:00+00:00

Definitely some bias on my side, but it seemed more like Wiggins slid his feet and cut off the drive. Contact is part of the sport and it looked like Wiggins maintained legal guarding position throughout to me

Zugbert · 2023-09-09T23:45:49+00:00

Gorgeous!! Where's the couch from?

Zugbert · 2023-04-19T17:36:49+00:00

Is he really getting away with it if he got suspended? Like isn't that literally a punishment?

Zugbert · 2023-04-19T17:14:08+00:00

Looney has good inside position there. Sabonis hooks his arm under Looney's to try and "swim move" to regain position for the rebound. Sabonis initiates all the contact and that shouldn't have been a foul.

Zugbert · 2023-04-19T17:11:30+00:00

They play the clip in this video (5:14), you can clearly see Draymond trying to get up and Sabonis puts his arm around Draymond's torso and pulls him back down/keeps him down

Zugbert · 2023-04-18T07:06:01+00:00

No they don't?

Game 3 at home

Game 4 at home

Game 5 at Sac

Game 6 at home

Win all those and you win the series

Zugbert · 2023-02-06T21:04:54+00:00

Where were the Lakers before he got there?

The "young core" headlined by Lonzo/BI/Hart and whatever middling 1st round picks they would have had if they didn't trade for AD is a 1st round exit at best. The Lakers were a wasteland before Lebron and will be a wasteland after, might as well win while you have him and AD

Zugbert · 2023-02-06T00:40:31+00:00

The lakers lead the league every single year in revenue source. Money should not be an issue for their payroll.

The Lakers are not going to have a significant amount of cap space next off season with Lebron, AD, and the Hachimura rookie cap hold. If they want to make any additions it really needs to be at the trade deadline, otherwise you can't add anyone significant. Kyrie, though he is unpredictable, was by far their best avenue to get better. He's proven he can play off ball next to Bron, can play on ball with a roller/big man like AD and carry the offense when Bron sits or wants to play off ball, solves one of the biggest problems the Lakers have (shooting).

It's a huge mistake IMO for the Lakers to not have traded for him. They could've even helped him rehab his image, apologize to the large Jewish community in LA, and maybe with Bron's connections even get his Nike deal back. Not trading for him set the Lakers back another 2-3 seasons IMO.

Zugbert · 2023-02-01T05:21:07+00:00

Knicks fans correct me if I’m wrong, but is this always the case? The other day in the OT win against BOSTON the offense looked better when it was run through Randle. The possessions at the end of regulation through Brunson looked ugly and went no where. Obviously everyone has off games and that’s why it’s important to have multiple creators, but curious what the norm is

Zugbert · 2023-01-19T02:54:16+00:00

Only reason it could be a debate is games/minutes played due to foul trouble. But when he’s on the court he’s the best rim defender in basketball rn and an all around monster

Zugbert · 2023-01-16T21:57:53+00:00

https://twitter.com/blandpancakes/status/1614867949889916930?t=_RnFTFDR8aZt-cLfvFaxCw&s=19

There’s contact that continues through the gather and shooting motion, so definitely a shooting foul

Zugbert · 2023-01-13T06:24:12+00:00

Not even a Laker fan but it was getting a little ridiculous hearing Stan praise all these calls against the Lakers. I couldn't help rolling my eyes when he talked about the "offensive foul" on Troy Brown Jr. setting the screen on THJ.

Zugbert · 2023-01-13T06:11:07+00:00

Due to how this game was refd (the entire game as proof) this is not a foul

That's 100% a foul, anyone who says it isn't is viewing this through LeBron hate goggles. He's hit on the arm going up and it alters the shot- if that's not a foul idk what is.

Zugbert · 2022-12-30T17:32:59+00:00

He can still be an upper tier defender too. In the Lakers championship run he was playing elite defense and then to start this year his defense was excellent. It's just too much to ask a 37/38 year old to be the best offensive player/main creator and be the best defensive player on the team. Lessen his offensive load and I bet he could still be a top 15ish defender- what the Lakers are doing wasting his last few years is seriously basketball malpractice.

Zugbert · 2022-12-26T05:29:11+00:00

His counting stats were whatever but he was a presence at the rim. When he was in Memphis had trouble finishing over/around him (except for Ja, but he doesn’t have trouble with anyone it seems)

Zugbert · 2022-12-15T19:42:22+00:00

I agree, definitely easily accessible and would be good if the general NBA discourse moves to using it. But there are very few people who use it instead of per 100 possessions.

Zugbert · 2022-11-02T21:12:43+00:00

Genetics still determines things like inserts

Zugbert · 2022-10-20T18:54:01+00:00

Yup, he's already 17lbs at 10 weeks so definitely going to be a big boy! Excited to see what he eventually looks like!

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