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[LyleLanley]

i fucking love this

give me the assets <33333333333333

The bloody mary's at brunch helped me feel better about this move. Trust the assets.

 

[Bread]

The bloody mary's at brunch helped me feel better about this move. Trust the assets.

Celts getting a beast player plus possibly another high lottery pick in 18/19? danny u are too kind to us

we're doing it so often we're getting tired of doing it!

 

[LionPride]

Can Tatum shoot?

Well his 3P percentage was dreadful then it randomly hit like 54% in February

 

[LyleLanley]

Celts getting a beast player plus possibly another high lottery pick in 18/19? danny u are too kind to us

we're doing it so often we're getting tired of doing it!

Ainge is playing chess while all the other GMs are playing with themselves.

 

[ISOM]

Ainge whole strategy is based on him not believing Fultz will be a star level player. I guess good luck with that, obviously he has the draft track record to correctly predict that.

 

[LionPride]

Jayson Tatum's ceiling is Tobias Harris in Orlando btw

Also supposedly they ain't think Fultz was enough of a "winner" but are willing to take in a short armed, skinny ass, can't shoot, kicking in the window of his girlfriend ass motherfucker.

 

[LyleLanley]

Can't have enough defenders.

 

[LionPride]

Can't have enough defenders.

I can't wait to see Jackson and Brown try to play together with neither of em playing four because Brown is better as a SF/SG and Jackson can't play PF

 

[LyleLanley]

Who needs power forwards when we're in the age of positionless basketball?

 

[LionPride]

Who needs power forwards when we're in the age of positionless basketball?

Isaiah
Jackson
Brown
Horford/Yabusele
Zizic

Yeah no

Not a fan

 

[LyleLanley]

Trust the assets. Also, you're forgetting Hayward.

 

[LionPride]

Trust the assets. Also, you're forgetting Hayward.

Ah yea

So Brown and Jackson would be bench unit with Rozier...yikes

 

[LyleLanley]

Ah yea

So Brown and Jackson would be bench unit with Rozier...yikes

Depends on what happens to AB and Crowder. Brown could start next season.

 

[Bread]

Jayson Tatum's ceiling is Tobias Harris in Orlando btw

Also supposedly they ain't think Fultz was enough of a "winner" but are willing to take in a short armed, skinny ass, can't shoot, kicking in the window of his girlfriend ass motherfucker.

I don't think you know what a ceiling is

 

[Kickz]

The bloody mary's at brunch helped me feel better about this move. Trust the assets.

Ainge scared of drafting another bust, so he defers the picks to another year

 

[Sanjuro]

Ainge isn't paying IT the max. Boston need a point guard.

Everyone is Max now.

 

[johancruijff]

the red claws will dominate the G-league

Ainge does it again

 

[LyleLanley]

I don't think you know what a ceiling is

The ceiling is the roof.

 

[LockOfTheWeek]

Tatum is basically Rudy Gay, he'll get buckets, wont actually be conducive to playing winning ball tho.

 

[Cornbread78]

*wakes up to walk the dog*


Fuck off Danny, this is trash.


*goes back to bed pissed off*

 

[Chase17]

Kind of negative on the trade but I guess it could work out. Hopefully next steph curry doesn't get his team to 70 wins until 2020.

 

[BlazinSkatinAxel]

Isaiah
Jackson
Brown
Horford/Yabusele
Zizic

Yeah no

Not a fan

Unless they are moving Horford to center.

 

[Servbot24]

Seems like a good trade to me if Cs view the top 3 draft players as roughly equal.

 

[Tall4Life]

Unless they are moving Horford to center.

We don't need a HorCford because we have Zizic

 

[LyleLanley]

People have been posting this picture on twitter as a way to prove that Ainge sucks at drafting but honestly given where he was picking it doesn't seem too bad. Obviously Ainge has had some misses, James Young is only 2 years away from being 2 years away now, but I imagine if you look at similar charts of other GMs they'd all look just as ugly.

 

[Chase17]

Drafting is fine. But if you could count Olynyk on that chart it suddenly starts to look amazing.

 

[Tall4Life]

I blame the idiot sports writers above all else for willing this to happen. Ever since we lost 4-1 to the Cavs they've been clamoring for us to trade the pick for Butler or George. Fire all sports writers.

 

[El Topo]

Not that much for him to screw up this year at #3. I think drafting Fultz would have been the better option though.

 

[Sandfox]

People have been posting this picture on twitter as a way to prove that Ainge sucks at drafting but honestly given where he was picking it doesn't seem too bad. Obviously Ainge has had some misses, James Young is only 2 years away from being 2 years away now, but I imagine if you look at similar charts of other GMs they'd all look just as ugly.

I'm still trying to figure out the Rozier pick lol.

 

[Tom Penny]

Hope he tries to get 5 and 10 from Sac. That's the only way to make up for this debacle.

 

[LyleLanley]

Hope he tries to get 5 and 10 from Sac. That's the only way to make up for this debacle.

He's going to end up taking Tatum at 3.

 

[Tom Penny]

I'm still trying to figure out the Rozier pick lol.

The rest of that draft was ass so it wouldn't have mattered.

 

[Tom Penny]

He's going to end up taking Tatum at 3.

Pukes... That's what 5 and 10 would be for. Could still take that bum and get another player.

 

[Peter Ian Staker]

Drafting is fine. But if you could count Olynyk on that chart it suddenly starts to look amazing.

Not really if you consider that the 2 best players from that draft were still available.

People have been posting this picture on twitter as a way to prove that Ainge sucks at drafting but honestly given where he was picking it doesn't seem too bad. Obviously Ainge has had some misses, James Young is only 2 years away from being 2 years away now, but I imagine if you look at similar charts of other GMs they'd all look just as ugly.

A good drafter is the guy who is gonna turn not so good picks into good players.

Picking an all star in the top 3 isn't that hard. Ainge is a mediocre drafter at best.

 

[Tall4Life]

Yeah I'd prefer if he then flipped the #3 for the Kings #5 and #10.

 

[jwick]

Given all the protections in place, I am surprised the 76ers pulled this off.

Embiid / Simmons / Fultz / Saric is pretty cool*





* assuming they can stay on the court.

Only time will tell if Danny's 4D chess actually worked, but I think the 76ers should be pretty happy with what they had to give up to take a shot on Fultz. Trust the Process.

 

[Chase17]

Not really if you consider that the 2 best players from that draft were still available.

Has Giannis ever swung a game 7?

Spoiler

My post about it being amazing was just a joke

 

[LyleLanley]

Yeah I'd prefer if he then flipped the #3 for the Kings #5 and #10.

He probably won't. Moving drown from 1 to 3 made it really easy for him to get max cap space without giving up any serious pieces.

 

[Tom Penny]

Picking an all star in the top 3 isn't that hard. Ainge is a mediocre drafter at best.

Find me the a bunch of GM's that kept hitting on on picks 15+. It's like 10% or less Allstar rate.

 

[Peter Ian Staker]

Find me the a bunch of GM's that kept hitting on on picks 15+. It's like 10% or less Allstar rate.

RC Buford from the Spurs
Tin Connelly from the Nuggets.

They got Manu, TP, Kawhi, Jokic and Nurkic all after the lottery.

 

[Tom Penny]

RC Buford.

Gotcha. Ainge joins the other 29 medicore GM's.

 

[LyleLanley]

I'm not arguing that Ainge is the best drafter / talent evaluate in the NBA, just that his draft woes are massively overblown. Also, all these charts always conveniently miss out on some of his best moves of finding gold later on in the draft. Bradley, Rondo, Tony Allen and Al Jefferson were all taken with later picks.

 

[Tom Penny]

RC Buford from the Spurs
Tin Connelly from the Nuggets.

They got Manu, TP, Kawhi, Jokic and Nurkic all after the lottery.

They traded for Kawhi. How long ago was TP and Manu?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs_draft_history

 

[Tom Penny]

I see lots of Allstars and one of the worst contracts in the NBA for a gimp.

 

[Cornbread78]

He's going to end up taking Tatum at 3.

Uggh

Hope he tries to get 5 and 10 from Sac. That's the only way to make up for this debacle.

No more fucking assets

I blame the idiot sports writers above all else for willing this to happen. Ever since we lost 4-1 to the Cavs they've been clamoring for us to trade the pick for Butler or George. Fire all sports writers.

Fuck George, he won't sign an extension and is going to LA with Bron after the season.

At this point, Butler would be fine, but where's the trade? Should be done already...

If he does get Butler, I'm guessing Griffen is his FA target instead of Hayward?

Sounds like Danny is just reacting to his normal asset hard-on...

 

[Tall4Life]

What's wrong with Tatum, I don't know that much about him

 

[LyleLanley]

What's wrong with Tatum, I don't know that much about him

Rumor has it he's not Fultz.

 

[Tall4Life]

Rumor has it he's not Fultz.

Well that settles it, fire Danny.

 

[Lionel Richie]

What's wrong with Tatum, I don't know that much about him

He's slow as balls, he's not a great athlete, he's a tweener and his offensive skills don't fit what the Celtics do out there. It would be a terrible pick.

 

[Cooter]

He's slow as balls, he's not a great athlete, he's a tweener and his offensive skills don't fit what the Celtics do out there. It would be a terrible pick.

All the negatives you mention are indeed that but in this new NBA tweeners are becoming a positive. Draymond Green makes that defense lethal because he's a tweener.