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Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 9:38 am
by Kryptonic
Superbone wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 9:22 am
MightyMoog wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:35 am
Split T wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:22 am
I wanted Bamba because he is a 7 footer that can hit 3s…I’ve definitely wondered though why he can’t seem to stick anywhere or get more than a vet min contract…what else is he doing(or not doing)? I have not watched him at all, so I really don’t know.
Bamba is Bol Bol without the driving and close up game. Maybe a tiny bit stronger, but not much.
I was going to say, I think he has a little
► Show Spoiler
in him motivation-wise.
Is “spoiler” basically Voldemort at this point? :D

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:03 am
by Mori Chu
Hopefully he isn't like Beetlejuice, where we say his name 3 times and then he appears on our roster.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:48 pm
by Gladiator
A few noteworthy things around the league: looks like Derozan is out of Chicago, Kyle Anderson signed with the Warriors, Tillman back with the Celts and Moe Wagner the Magic, and wiseman signed with the Pacers.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:07 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
I knew it wouldn't be possible, but I'd have loved to somehow turn Nurkic into Mo Wagner.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:15 pm
by TOO
Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:07 pm
I knew it wouldn't be possible, but I'd have loved to somehow turn Nurkic into Mo Wagner.
Who then plays C?

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:19 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
Mo Wagner is a Center. You might be thinking of his brother Franz who's a wing.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:25 pm
by TOO
I was asking because you'd be trading the teams best rebounder for a guy who rebounds like a SG.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:36 pm
by The Bobster
TOO wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:25 pm
I was asking because you'd be trading the teams best rebounder for a guy who rebounds like a SG.
In fact, last year Nurkic had the best rebounding percentage in the league.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:49 pm
by Split T
He’s gotten better…14.4 rebound rate last year…which is a bit below Eubanks…so he’s a bad rebounder for a C, but rebounds more like a PF, not a SG.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:13 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
TOO wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:25 pm
I was asking because you'd be trading the teams best rebounder for a guy who rebounds like a SG.
He doesn't play like a SG and that's what really matters.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:36 am
by ShelC
About that minimum contract...


Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 7:46 am
by iLLmatic
ShelC wrote:
Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:36 am
About that minimum contract...

Tom Brady he is not lol

Re: 2024 Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 10:38 am
by INFORMER
pickle wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 7:19 am
INFORMER wrote:
Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:28 am
pickle wrote:
Mon Jul 01, 2024 7:56 pm
I sense some anger and frustration in this. I hope you are doing alright Inf.
Ok, Yoda. :)

No anger or frustration. My apologies for coming across that way. I meant what I wrote without any hidden meaning; I don't understand the commentary here. Your clarification about scouting reports still doesn't really make sense to me. He is a 7-footer that can hit 3s. I don't think it needs to be more complicated than that, especially when he is playing on a minimum deal. He doesn't need to be Reggie Miller.
I didn’t want to write a whole bunch on this but I guess I should have. I felt like you were quite worked up with your response coz of the ?!, I wasn’t trying to read any hidden meaning.

As for an explanation for myself I guess it gets a bit lost without the benefit of a proper timeline, and me posting only one liners certainly didn’t help.

When I posted my original question which FF responded to, Bamba hadn’t signed anywhere yet. I was intrigued by his potential on paper but wasn’t sure if he’s someone worth going after, pretty much the exact same sentiment that Split just posted. So I asked on the board why he isn’t more sought after — if we are talking undertones, it is precisely because I had the vague notion that he’s a 7 footer with a massive wingspan who shot threes that I wondered why there was not more buzz over him.

In terms of how I think of him as a shooter, I have to be very clear, I hadn’t watched any of his games. He may average a decent percentage from the three point line but I guess I wasn’t ready to judge him on box score numbers alone. After all Eubanks shot 38% in Portland before he came to us (admittedly on lower volume). And therefore, I posed the question, what are his perceived flaws that make him not a hot free agent target.

I had no real intentions of trashing him or his new minimum deal. In fact I was rather hoping we signed him to that deal but wasn’t sure if that would’ve been a good thing or not given the relative lack of noise over him. In fact KOC and Vernon kind of make fun of him on their podcast and I genuinely wondered why.

Hope this makes a little more sense.
All good.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 12:44 pm
by ShelC

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 12:47 pm
by Superbone
ShelC wrote:
Wed Jul 03, 2024 12:44 pm
Gross! (I'm kidding.)

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:38 pm
by Mori Chu
Jingles is a nice signing for Minny; he should fit in well there.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 2:38 pm
by SunsRIt
So much for Lebron taking a discount to get more free agents.

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 2:39 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
I am shocked he didn't sign for the minimum!

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:11 pm
by ShelC

Re: 2024 NBA Free Agency

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:41 pm
by Split T
SunsRIt wrote:
Wed Jul 03, 2024 2:38 pm
So much for Lebron taking a discount to get more free agents.
Well the guys he was willing to do it for all signed elsewhere..