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Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: June 13, 2022, 11:38:11 PM

[facilitatorn]

Taking a peek at Chriss or Kabengele wouldn’t be the worst idea.

[kidcarter8]

SHRODER takes over vs Magic for shorthanded Lakers

[facilitatorn]

Norvell Pelle is apparently on the radar...

[bodiddley]

SHRODER takes over vs Magic for shorthanded Lakers

Outplaying the great Chasson Randle (who fouled out in 26 mins).
And after ORL traded away its only 3 legit starters.
Also, Schroder was a team worst -7
(only all 4 bench players and Kuz were in + territory)
Woo & hoo.

[kidcarter8]

Shroder is a winner.

Would I take him?

Well, our management may have other ideas.....

I remain firmly in their corner - as I have no current reason to not be.

[bodiddley]

Chip's level of enthusiasm for trading Rivers for a likely #55 pick is amusing.
Chip thought Phil was the BOMB, and now these new folks are the greatest too.

So far:
- bringing in Mr. Thibs was a godsend.
- Quickly was a nice draft pick, especially since the Knix have failed a lot at picking a viable late round PG (Frankie the FLy, Mardy Collins, Jerian Grant), not to mention Nkilitina as a high pick.
- Burks, Noel, Taj nice additions who have played well.  Rivers and Rose more up and down.
- Toppings seems a questionable pick (TyH was the right move).  Obadiah is stuck behind Randle.  And his weak D doesn't make him a Thibs type of player.  We'll see how it pans out.

BTW, my mistake I thought ObiT was about to turn an alarming 24, when he just turned a not young for a rookie but not old 23.  I forgot that I'm using ESPN India to so that I get all the Insider stuff free.  But they do everything the Euro-way (no doubt that British way), so ObiT's birthday was listed as 4/3/98, which I mistakenly took as April 3rd.  So he turned 23 March 4.  I also have to deal with heights listed in meters, but I know that 2.00m - 6'7", and each inch is 2.5 cm, so can manage.

[kidcarter8]

- Quickly was a nice draft pick, especially since the Knix have failed a lot at picking a viable late round PG (Frankie the FLy, Mardy Collins, Jerian Grant), not to mention Nkilitina as a high pick.


Yes.  Solid pick - but if they absolutely had to have a PG they would not have taken IQ.

[elephant]

So could someone explain the Rivers thing to me? I haven't been paying attention.

We got players for him that we immediately cut and a 2nd round pick.

So apparently the GM felt it important to dump his contract or what?

[bodiddley]

Yep.  But in the 20's you want to get a rotation player.
Quix qualifies. 

Other PG draft options:
Maledon and Saben Lee are interesting.
Pritchard so far more of a shooter than PG.
I don't know DAL Tyrell Terry (has played sparingly; I saw him have a nice assist)
Malachi Flynn has had a disastrous start (haven't seen him play, or try to play)

[kidcarter8]

Yep.  But in the 20's you want to get a rotation player.
Quix qualifies.

Absolutely.

Offensive upgrade - check.

[kidcarter8]

So could someone explain the Rivers thing to me? I haven't been paying attention.

We got players for him that we immediately cut and a 2nd round pick.

So apparently the GM felt it important to dump his contract or what?

That was kinda-sorta the thinking when we signed him.  But we had 2 nice team options we could have picked up had Rivers worked out to greater advantage

[kidcarter8]

Other PG draft options:
Maledon and Saben Lee are interesting.
Pritchard so far more of a shooter than PG.
I don't know DAL Tyrell Terry (has played sparingly; I saw him have a nice assist)
Malachi Flynn has had a disastrous start (haven't seen him play, or try to play)

Interesting that we could have actually HAD Maledon or Lee.  Knicks decided they would rather use the roster spot on another vet - a foreshadowing that we were GOING FOR IT immediately.

And/or - FUCK - that we DID think Quickley was a point (maybe still do).  Heh.

[bodiddley]

Before the season, I thought Rivers would have a solid bench role as a combo guard who can handle, and thought Burks might have trouble getting minutes.  But IQ proved NBA ready, able to shoot and handle.  And Burks started off on fire.

So Rivers role was reduced.  He became IQ's running mate, a safety net for the 2nd unit, another ballhandler and creator since IQ is a scorer working on those areas.
Once we brought Rose in, and used him in the role of IQ running mate, Au Revoir no longer had a role.

So we were looking to trade him for a 2nd rounder or some bench prospect.
Or waive him.  Apparently nothing materialized, and we couldn't get value for Rivers or send him to a contender.  So we made a funky trade.  Not sure why we didn't take a look at T-Ferg.  We got  a pair of PHI 2nd round picks, but the later one seems to have some protections, likely keeping it form being above 45 or whatever.
I guess that was preferable to waiving Rivers.

Rivers doesn't have a good teammate rep, but seemed liked and positive with NYK.
And some of the problem was playing for his Pops.  Along with being cocky/annoying.  Seemed like he's grown up.  Hope Rivers hooks up with a playoff team.  He had some good Knick moments, especially that one early game he won for us.

[kidcarter8]

Likely BUCKS for Austin.

[bodiddley]

Could be.
They have Bryn Forbes in the backup SG/bench shooter role.
Looks like he's done well, though he was poor in the NYK game (and made fatal defensive mistakes).  And Sam Merill is there as well.

MIL needs a backup PG since they shipped out DJ Auggie.
Rivers can fill in.  Not sure they can find a real backup PG anywhere.