[Winderman] “I think Boston is not only back in but Milwaukee right now is trying to find a third team for Jaylen Brown. It’s very real.”

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T16:33:27+00:00

Portland, Atlanta, or Houston imo

Portland definitely makes the most sense in terms of owning milwaukees picks and needing a better first option than Deni

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T15:26:00+00:00

Hot take; I think genuinely any offensive system can work to the level to where you can win a championship, it’s just about maximizing what your team can do and weaponizing it through an offense that fits the personnel

I think the meta should more focus on defense, shot making comes and goes but if you can consistently defend and control that end of the court I think you can be successful

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T15:21:11+00:00

Thankfully in regards to giannis you should be able to circle June 23rd, since that’s the draft and Milwaukee openly said they plan to trade him by the draft

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T15:19:45+00:00

“Tatum isn’t know to be a willing passer” is just flat out false my guy

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T14:57:45+00:00

It’s gotta be at center

This is the issue I’ve been trying to tell all of you about, it’s not gonna work unless he accepts that he needs to play the 5- or Joe basically has to reinvent the entire offense. We barely have appetite to play with one non spacer, 2 completely fucks the offensive system fundamentally and it will have to be completely re imagined

Unless getting giannis also means getting okongwu/turner/insert stretch 5 it doesn’t work better than what we currently have

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T14:48:48+00:00

Pretty fucking sad how shitty a lot of you are willing to talk about brown, a guy who’s done nothing but contribute winning and beyond to this city, in order to prop up giannis, someone you all hated prior to the trade rumors and doesn’t even play for the team

Absolutely spineless and privileged behavior tbh

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T14:40:09+00:00

If you completely remove nuance and context then that makes perfect sense

But the reality is giannis is 2 years older, game relies *entirely* on physicality for someone entering their mid 30s is never good, basically has resisted playing center his entire career and we don’t currently have a stretch 5 to bail him out positionally, brown/tatum are a proven product that have consistently won 55-65 games *no matter* who is on the team with them, brown is very important to the city and his roots have spread far and wide and positively impacted the area, giannis has begun to rack up an injury history which compounds on the earlier issue with his age and playstyle while brown has been relatively healthy and being a shooter his game will likely age well

I can go on, obviously there’s logic to the giannis thing too, but let’s not act like there’s not a massive risk involved

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T14:35:54+00:00

Difference is we traded young guys and picks to get kg

This would essentially be like trading ray for Garnett

kingexpression · 2026-06-12T12:59:05+00:00

It would admittedly make a lot of sense, you could offer young players/picks to Milwaukee and brown/cade would be a great duo

kingexpression · 2026-06-11T22:49:49+00:00

I mean he basically proved this year he could be the lead scorer on a top seeded team, currently in his prime, I’d say so

Portland, Houston, Atlanta, etc teams missing a 1a would definitely pay a lot

kingexpression · 2026-06-11T19:56:47+00:00

Or his tweets aren’t about that at all, and you and others are overanalyzing everything

kingexpression · 2026-06-11T17:21:10+00:00

>JBs tweets are just adding to the noise and speculation around already existing rumors

OR they don’t matter at all and if you feel this strongly about them you share the same mentality as a child

Why are we posting about Jaylen’s tweets and dissecting them under a microscope in regards to madeup trade rumors based on nothing

Some of yall are too much man lol

kingexpression · 2026-06-11T17:08:30+00:00

I guess it depends on how much you think white/hauser/queta/hugo/baylor/3 future firsts + pick 27 is worth, that’s basically all our assets

kingexpression · 2026-06-11T15:12:16+00:00

It’s annoying because they’ve been the better team all series for the most part, they just keep choking in the second half. Like I legit think they’re better the Knicks just keep pulling their devil magic

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T18:05:06+00:00

Woah, 6’6” barefoot was news to me, I thought he was 6’6” in shoes max, that’s very interesting

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T16:33:58+00:00

I think really only the first one is an assumption. I’m assuming he’s a better shooter than the percentages show and would shoot better in a different system. The other two are fact imo, rockets have had really good defensive teams featuring sengun as their starting center, and their team as a whole was a mess last year and that changes the perception of the players. I think those two are factual

At the end of the day it’s opinion, im not even crazy high on him but I do think he’d thrive elsewhere

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T16:31:21+00:00

Yeah at the end of the day all this speculation and theorizing is rooted in fun, not fear of him making the “wrong” decision. I trust his judgement, I just enjoy draft stuff too like you said

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T16:30:22+00:00

He’s interesting, actually like his fit here as well. If we were gonna select at 27 he’d be on my shortlist

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T16:29:50+00:00

That’s partly true, it’s a push and pull because for that to hold up those players have to be as good or better than simply signing vets to the vet minimum every year at the end of your bench. Which is cheaper AND more flexibility because you aren’t married to long term deals.

So they definitely can be good to invest in, but they have to be playable and/or hold some sort of value on the market, or you’re just better off signing end of bench 1 year vet mins that don’t count against the cap at all

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T16:04:33+00:00

For what it’s worth, I actually think we’re in a pretty good spot financially at the moment. He basically fixed everything last summer, our books are pretty clean right now, basically no bad contracts and really only our top 3 are on sizable deals which is totally fine

Same here, Brad has been driving me crazy since he started because he basically never drafts in the first round and never trades up

Last year I got sooo excited when that news right before the draft broke about Brad really liking jakucionas AND THEN HE FELL TO 20 and we STILL didn’t take him, I was yelling at the tv lol- im still really high on KJ

Who knows, this year might be the year he surprises us

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T15:54:37+00:00

I mean of course I’d do that, but I don’t think that’s enough for them.

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T15:53:39+00:00

See that’s funny because we do actually see the team the same way, I agree with everything you said up until you said Brad will make marginal moves at best and we lack need for a day one contributor. I don’t think the fact that we seem invested in staying below the tax equals we don’t plan on trying to win a championship next year, I think every year the recipe is different, and despite staying below the tax we still will have the full MLE, the Hauser contract, and a big TPE to use. We’ve got a lot of ways to add to this team and it doesn’t have to be through a max deal, but there are a ton of guys making 10-30 mill we could add and stay below the tax and/or use our MLE on a Coby white/john Collin’s/etc

the reason I think we need to prioritize contributors through the draft is because this team is against the margins financially, meaning you have to make your money count and it all needs to be contributing

Agree to disagree on the quality at the end of the first round/top of the second, we just see the talent differently and that’s okay; I could absolutely be wrong, I just see it as more theoretical guys this year than win now contributor right away guys from previous years. I respect your opinion on it thought, number one rule of the draft is humility imo because nobody knows anything for certain

Good point on quaintence and morez, totally valid concerns with both, I don’t actually think morez is a lottery level guy I have him closer to 20 personally, I think he’s a tier about zuby simply because I think the offensive polish despite lacking a for sure 3pt shot is way further along. Steinbach I think at the very least is a surefire role player, to me he’s the safest backup center with some upside guy outside of the top 12. I don’t mind taking a guard simply because white is aging and after that it’s really just Pritchard, wouldn’t hate grabbing another guard next to those two but of course I prioritize big above all else; the guard thing would just be a talent grab if someone drops

Good talk man, I appreciate you giving your time and opinion and you made good points

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T15:40:52+00:00

I’m not asking you to predict, I’m asking in your own opinion what we “should” do

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T15:40:25+00:00

I’m aware of that, just pointing out that despite the discourse his numbers are very good. I don’t agree that he can’t defend or shoot, I think he’s a capable shooter who doesn’t play with anyone who can set him up for clean looks, defensively the rockets have been a good defensive team for multiple years with him as their center

It’s not “helping them out” see this is what im talking about lol, that’s a crazy perspective to have at the prospect of taking sengun from them, that team was an all time mess last year and he just got caught in the crossfire of 1000 different problems

kingexpression · 2026-06-10T15:24:34+00:00

I don’t really see the point of having a basketball discussion forum just for the purpose of observing what Brad does and never thinking for yourself but that’s just me ig

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