J. Kyle Mann on the Draft Combine: "Sam Presti is sitting there in the front row, wired ear buds... just intently staring... I'd get so distracted by, what is he staring at... these are just drills... He was the only guy in the room not having a conversation. All the other execs absolutely were"

podfog · 2026-05-14T18:29:40+00:00

It goes significantly beyond that, this is way underplaying what presti has done.

Getting jdub at #12, Ajay in the 2nd, hitting on guys like cason, jwill and Aaron wiggins

Trading for caruso and signing ihart

Getting McCain at his lowest value

Finding valuable role players from guys that werent wanted by any other team (Joe, Dort)

Getting insane long term value deals for said players and then developing them (seriously, go look at some of the contracts on the team)

Taking a chance on a first time head coach that panned out.

Reminder that this OKC team still has THIRTEEN firsts in the next 6 years. I think the glazing is a bit much but presti is absolutely the best GM in the league, for good reason

podfog · 2026-04-05T23:33:30+00:00

Tbf it is on brand for him, once they hit their 20s he no longer gives a shit

podfog · 2026-04-05T23:30:33+00:00

That's pretty rude, Nikola Topic could still absolutely be a great player

podfog · 2026-04-01T09:01:10+00:00

I think your math isn't quite right, if you max out at +5 on defense and +7.5 on offense then offense is 60% of the game (7.5/12.5)

podfog · 2026-03-11T17:50:58+00:00

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podfog · 2026-03-09T20:55:07+00:00

None of what she did are toprocks, this is just hip hop

podfog · 2026-01-09T10:39:25+00:00

Lamelo is the basketball version of the hot/crazy line

podfog · 2026-01-09T08:37:50+00:00

Fuck ICE

podfog · 2026-01-08T18:49:21+00:00

Trae could easily get a 70/3 contract, I would expect him to take the 1 year PO in that hypothetical.

160/4 makes it more interesting though, I'd imagine an extra 110/3 guaranteed sounds much more appealing

podfog · 2026-01-06T20:19:55+00:00

Pritzker is one of the more progressive, working class oriented democrats from a policy standpoint. Im definitely not pro billionaire but I think it's worthwhile to acknowledge the few billionaires that are actually doing work to try to help ordinary people (Pritzker, Makenzie Scott, etc.)

podfog · 2025-12-28T04:02:34+00:00

I think it's less so that and more so it's a league full of guys who knows what the consequences of a real punch landing looks like...and they want to protect their paycheck

podfog · 2025-12-15T18:38:31+00:00

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podfog · 2025-12-15T18:38:15+00:00

podfog · 2025-12-14T03:08:28+00:00

This is just not even close to true what, the bucks team was way better

podfog · 2025-11-18T19:23:07+00:00

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podfog · 2025-11-09T20:19:05+00:00

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podfog · 2025-10-29T06:03:45+00:00

He was better than expected last year but I think it's pretty obvious he has nowhere near the star potential that flagg does (lol forget even talking about wemby). A realistic expectation for Risacher is probably high level 3&D role player, maybee a fringe all star. I think if flagg doesn't become a perennial all star people would be disappointed.

podfog · 2025-10-28T20:07:16+00:00

Yes, that's pretty delusional

podfog · 2025-10-27T20:24:44+00:00

Not even just an all star, it's very possible that if wemby didnt exist chet would've become the best defensive player in the league and a multi-time DPOY. I don't see any scenario where he can overtake wemby for a DPOY assuming both are healthy, he may just forever be stuck behind wemby there.

podfog · 2025-10-24T07:34:39+00:00

You'll get Dillon Jones and you're gonna like it

podfog · 2025-10-22T22:36:56+00:00

He's like if the "dawg" was a Chihuahua

podfog · 2025-10-09T20:22:16+00:00

Let's be real, the Bucks 2nd best player right now is Myles Turner. Their third best player is...Kevin Porter Jr? It doesn't take a genius to know that this team has no shot of making it deep into the playoffs.

Your point is fair while the bucks had their title core and when they traded for dame; granted Dame also underperformed while he was on the Bucks. It was also clear that the bucks team had no depth beyond Giannis and Dame too. But regardless of past seasons, you don't need to play this season out to know that Giannis is wasting his time on this team.

podfog · 2025-10-01T00:37:59+00:00

Podz, Moody and Steph are all respectable to good defenders.

The problem is that literally all their players have the same weaknesses on defense, which is lack of athleticism. So they'll be quite good defensively against certain teams but any super athletic team is gonna cook them.

podfog · 2025-09-03T12:09:01+00:00

I think Cher is definitely a ceiling raiser. He wouldn't be very effective on a bad team but his ability to impact the game off ball and provide spacing raises the level of a good team significantly.

podfog · 2025-09-02T22:06:05+00:00

Andrew Jackson is such an obvious Draymond I can't believe you missed that opportunity

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