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Naz is becoming more and more affordable every minute

Coolbreeze44 wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:21 pm I agree with someone who said this is the same team a banged up Denver squad took to 7 games. I think they will beat the champs from the East, but one of the best teams of all time? I don't think so. Whatever it was, we did not bring near our best in this series.

That Denver series was not as close as you might think. OKC basically gave away 2 games. It should have been a gentlemen's sweep. And OKC having gone thru that series was even better prepared for our series.

As Donte hits a 3... Another Finch failure in my book is he should have made Donte be a volume 3-point shooter, and that just never happened.

FNG wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:26 pm Naz is becoming more and more affordable every minute

I'm not sure he'll be back. I don't think this team can be it's best with both Julius and NAZ on the roster. And it's highly likely that Julius will opt in, so...

60WinTim wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:27 pm

Coolbreeze44 wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:21 pm I agree with someone who said this is the same team a banged up Denver squad took to 7 games. I think they will beat the champs from the East, but one of the best teams of all time? I don't think so. Whatever it was, we did not bring near our best in this series.

That Denver series was not as close as you might think. OKC basically gave away 2 games. It should have been a gentlemen's sweep. And OKC having going thru that series was even better prepared for our series.

As Donte hits a 3... Another Finch failure in my book is he should have made Donte be a volume 3-point shooter, and that just never happened.

Well, Finch had him play a lot of PG this year, so.....

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:31 pm

60WinTim wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:27 pm

Coolbreeze44 wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:21 pm I agree with someone who said this is the same team a banged up Denver squad took to 7 games. I think they will beat the champs from the East, but one of the best teams of all time? I don't think so. Whatever it was, we did not bring near our best in this series.

That Denver series was not as close as you might think. OKC basically gave away 2 games. It should have been a gentlemen's sweep. And OKC having going thru that series was even better prepared for our series.

As Donte hits a 3... Another Finch failure in my book is he should have made Donte be a volume 3-point shooter, and that just never happened.

Well, Finch had him play a lot of PG this year, so.....

Well, up until he injured his toe. And once Donte came back, Finch never went back to it.

FNG wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:26 pm Naz is becoming more and more affordable every minute

5 TOs in 22 minutes.

I'm mostly a Randle fan, but it pisses me off that he is going to end up the game with good offensive stats. That's why I like the +/- stat, boys...some will focus on all the points he's scored (currently high man with 24), I'll focus on his minus 26.

Possibly the least dramatic conference finals ever...2 games that were over before halftime, and only one game that was close (although it didn't really feel like it).

Returning?

Randle-Please No
NAZ-Couldn't care less, unless we stupidly overpay him
NAW-Couldn't care less, although a cheap deal is fine by me.
Finch-Please No. (Given that he wasn't a TC hire, and we may be stuck with Randle, the easiest impact change is firing Finch. If we can get Malone or Jenkins, I'll be thrilled).
TC-He's a terrorist, but no decent GM, will take over as TC has already spent most of our draft capital and our second best player in a drunken rage and TC put us in cap hell too, plus Randle has an unmoveable contract unless we add assets. Unfortunately, we are stuck with this Bozo.

Finch needs to be the sacrificial lamb. Malone is available!