2025 NBA Playoffs

[Split T]

What about Denver? MPJ would probably have to be the main piece…but I’d want Christian Braun too and whatever picks they have.

[ShelC]

Randle isn't terrible, you just need a strong coach to reign him in on offense and scheme to hide him on defense or at least motivate him to try. And he's another guy looking for a big contract and if it goes south, he might be impossible to move.

[TOO]

Randle isn't terrible, you just need a strong coach to reign him in on offense and scheme to hide him on defense or at least motivate him to try. And he's another guy looking for a big contract and if it goes south, he might be impossible to move.

You say he's not terrible then proceed to describe a terrible player. Wut?

[TOO]

What about Denver? MPJ would probably have to be the main piece…but I’d want Christian Braun too and whatever picks they have.

MPJ is also terrible, can't get his own shot, doesn't defend or rebound, barf.

[ShelC]

Randle isn't terrible, you just need a strong coach to reign him in on offense and scheme to hide him on defense or at least motivate him to try. And he's another guy looking for a big contract and if it goes south, he might be impossible to move.

You say he's not terrible then proceed to describe a terrible player. Wut?

He was a 20-10-5 All-NBA player under Thibs in NY. You just don't want him falling into his bad habits of chucking or wildly driving into traffic that leads to TOs. He needs that kind of structure but he's tough as nails and is a triple threat scoring the ball.

[Split T]

What about Denver? MPJ would probably have to be the main piece…but I’d want Christian Braun too and whatever picks they have.

MPJ is also terrible, can't get his own shot, doesn't defend or rebound, barf.

Ya I wouldn’t really like Denver…MPJ is just the money. I like Braun and Peyton Watson a bit…They are missing a centerpiece though. Just could see them being interested.

[Mori Chu]

Wow, huge finish in the Bucks/Pacers game. Pacers down 1 near end of OT, force the Bucks into a bad pass and turnover, then with under 2 sec left, Haliburton drives and lays it up for the win. Pacers take the series 4-1.

[Split T]

That felt like the Bucks threw the game at the end…ugly

[Mori Chu]

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Randle isn't terrible, you just need a strong coach to reign him in on offense and scheme to hide him on defense or at least motivate him to try. And he's another guy looking for a big contract and if it goes south, he might be impossible to move.

That sounds totally like a player I would absolutely want on my team

[ShelC]

Well that I agree with. I really like Randle, but wouldn't want him here.

[ShelC]

So this is a little weird. Giannis went around congratulating the Pacers, then pulled Mathurin in and looked like he was saying something but Mathurin didn't seem to like what he was saying and they had to be pulled apart? Then Giannis maybe got into it with Haliburton's father and had to be pulled away?

[JeremyG]

Lol Knicks. How do you not have anyone standing out at the three point line for the tap back?

[INFORMER]

[INFORMER]

What about Denver? MPJ would probably have to be the main piece…but I’d want Christian Braun too and whatever picks they have.

I've been thinking about Denver too. I'd want Pickett over Watson. Braun would be a better complementary piece next to Booker than most of the current players on the roster.

I get MPJ not being appealing, but he is still relatively young and has only two years left on his deal; the Suns could do worse.

[Uncle_Gene]

Haliburton's dad was out of line. He was talking $h!t and didn't have to do that.

[Mori Chu]

I would be crushed if MPJ were the main piece we got for KD this summer. MPJ is really nothing special IMO. His stats are ... okay. 18.2 ppg on .504/.395/.768 splits; 7.0 reb; 2.1 ast; played in 77 games and played 33.7 mpg this season. Not too bad. But you watch Denver in this playoff series and MPJ isn't the guy. They couldn't count on him early in the series and benched him; in last night's pivotal Game 5, he had 14 points on 5-10 shooting, but he was probably their 5th or 6th most important and impactful player behind Jokic, Murray, Gordon, Westbrook, and Braun (who gave them 12 rebounds to MPJ's 2). MPJ is an okay player but he makes too much money and is the kind of guy who could maybe be the worst starter or a 6th man on a contending team, not the 2nd or 3rd best guy on a contender. That plus his lack of heart and his health issues, and I would completely stay away. Unless maybe Denver gave us a bunch of other assets with him, like Braun, picks, etc.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/pl ... emi01.html

[Split T]

Ya you gotta just look at him like Jalen Green, he’s just the salary. I’m not sure Denver has enough to make it worthwhile, but I do like Braun.

[TOO]

You guys are really setting a low bar for KD, I get it though, if you have low expectations you can't be disappointed in the return

[JeremyG]

If Houston trades our picks to Milwaukee for Giannis, we will never get them back.

That’s why I said trade Booker for Giannis and KD to Houston for our picks.