Think Monty is still a huge outlier. Decent coach, maybe top 1/3 in the league even but to be near pop is crazy.

35% in a week is pretty good. I feel like from here we’ll see steady growth and continue building and when Reddit inevitably kills oldreddit we’ll get a big influx and be ready for it.

At least it’s a team option for the 2nd year for brown so pretty low risk if it doesn’t work out too!

I like Dame and feel like if he had gone about this better he would’ve came out with minimal hate but waiting until after the grant deal, only wanting to be dealt to Miami, and now threatening to sit out is a bit much.

Like he’s earned a bit of choice in wanting to go to a contender with all he’s done for Portland but if you force yourself out this kind of way you burn up your goodwill pretty quick

Think Bruce brown was a great pickup to go with Hali, will definitely miss him on the nuggets. Think they make the playoffs baring any injuries and Hali has potential to make all nba in the coming years

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I agree unmatched is a really fun option. There’s even a digital version that was recently released which is an easy way to try it out to see if you’d want to get the physical sets. Think there’s fan created rules online for a 3 person match if you don’t have 4.

Yeah I think having a new coach is what they’re hoping will be the difference maker. I think if Giannis was healthy they would have made the ECF/Finals but don’t think they would’ve beat the nuggets with bud as coach.

Bud is a good regular season coach but has consistently struggled in the playoffs due to lack of adjustments. Outside the year they won (and sometimes even in that year) it felt like they never played up to their talent level

Don’t think that’s quite enough but think your on the right track with OKC being the 3rd team. They’re already having the issue of having too many picks and herro matches the timeline they have so it makes sense for them to be involved.

Mark Jackson better be next. Literally would rather just not have announcers when he’s on.

Unless the minimum agents they get are good good I still would give Nuggets the edge. Booker was shooting absurdly lights out in their 2 wins this year. KD wasn’t himself having to come right back from injury and didn’t get a lot of time with the team so I expect he’ll do better and booker will improve but the Nuggets likely get better as well. Nuggets are all just entering their prime and the core (besides Bruce) is under contract for another 2 years at least and Bruce even hinted at returning at the parade. Unless the suns get insane value back for Ayton I just think the Suns don’t have the defense or good enough 5-8 to offset that.

Years ago it was what /r/NBADiscussion was at it’s best. More in depth analysis and people actually caring about the game along with cool things like the 3 point shooting challenge, the playoff mascot art, etc. Now it’s 95% the drama, don’t get me wrong trade season is fun but it feels like most of that sub doesn’t even like to watch basketball.