The CSL

GreenBear wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:27 pm Haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, but did find the part about my Suns. I don't disagree with most of your assessment: we do probably need to consolidate a bit. At the moment, I'm trying to figure out what we have first, since a lot of our pieces are young. But I'll look to make some moves as the season wears on.

The only thing I disagreed with is you saying we don't have a #1 or #2 option on offense. Taylor is averaging 22.2 ppg in only 28.5 minutes (the nice thing about our depth is that none of our starters have to play over 30 minutes during the regular season). And those points are coming on 62% TS%. If you think that's only good enough to be a #3... then I don't know what else to say.

Is he a bonafide #1 Megastar in the mold of Parker/Harden/PG/etc.? No, but the myth of needing a "Megastar" to win a title has pretty much been dispelled at this point. Don't get me wrong, it certainly helps, but there are various team constructs that can be successful enough to win a title.

bt wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:15 am You nailed us too. Last year without Westbrook, it hurt and outside of Porter (who isn't volume), we couldn't shoot from the outside. Normally it's not an issue for us because we have Westbrook but without, it becomes one and you did great exploiting that in our series.

I feel like we're different now though. We're pushing Derrick White's perimeter game and Porter can still shoot plus we drafted Adams (no volume) but we can at least put the odd weapon out there now if we need to. Westbrook coming back for the post season might make all that a moot point anyway.

emplep7 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:30 pm I personally thought it was entertaining. The video aspect of it definitely adds to it since we all don't get to really see/hear how each other are in real life, but the side commentary was the best part IMO. If you can get it to one video (instead of four parts) and get another GM or two involved occasionally, it would be a good thing to keep going.

As for us, Portis was a placeholder until Bam "Bam Bigelow" Adebayo came back from his injury.

GreenBear wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:27 pm Haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, but did find the part about my Suns. I don't disagree with most of your assessment: we do probably need to consolidate a bit. At the moment, I'm trying to figure out what we have first, since a lot of our pieces are young. But I'll look to make some moves as the season wears on.

The only thing I disagreed with is you saying we don't have a #1 or #2 option on offense. Taylor is averaging 22.2 ppg in only 28.5 minutes (the nice thing about our depth is that none of our starters have to play over 30 minutes during the regular season). And those points are coming on 62% TS%. If you think that's only good enough to be a #3... then I don't know what else to say.

Is he a bonafide #1 Megastar in the mold of Parker/Harden/PG/etc.? No, but the myth of needing a "Megastar" to win a title has pretty much been dispelled at this point. Don't get me wrong, it certainly helps, but there are various team constructs that can be successful enough to win a title.

Dylan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:34 pm I like that I went from doing terribly the other night to all of a sudden doing a good job with the Clippers

But nah jokes aside all good from the other night, stuff happens, we move on. Overall I listened to most of it and I liked your analysis. I don't have much advice beyond what other people have said but I think you know what you're talking about and can give good insight, so future podcasts that have more of a structured layout and bringing on other GMs will be even better.

Good stuff Andrew, I enjoyed it.

blackice wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:42 am This looks awesome, I haven't had a chance to listen but I will. Great job Andrew.

Andrewu91 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:26 am

GreenBear wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:27 pm Haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, but did find the part about my Suns. I don't disagree with most of your assessment: we do probably need to consolidate a bit. At the moment, I'm trying to figure out what we have first, since a lot of our pieces are young. But I'll look to make some moves as the season wears on.

The only thing I disagreed with is you saying we don't have a #1 or #2 option on offense. Taylor is averaging 22.2 ppg in only 28.5 minutes (the nice thing about our depth is that none of our starters have to play over 30 minutes during the regular season). And those points are coming on 62% TS%. If you think that's only good enough to be a #3... then I don't know what else to say.

Is he a bonafide #1 Megastar in the mold of Parker/Harden/PG/etc.? No, but the myth of needing a "Megastar" to win a title has pretty much been dispelled at this point. Don't get me wrong, it certainly helps, but there are various team constructs that can be successful enough to win a title.

For some reason, I've been seeing Taylor foul a lot? 22.2ppg in 28mpg but 3 fouls a game. Imagine in a 7 game series, him defending against an elite guard. Maybe Mitchell will fill that void.

Silogical wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:27 am Lillard was pretty bad throughout the playoffs not just against you. Smith/Simmons/Layman carried me, when Smith got injurred it all went downhill. Lillard didnt step up. I even benched lillard a game when he was at like 96% vs Boston, we held Boston to 84 points on the road in that one.

I watched part two is was really good, you have to keep these podcasts going.

GreenBear wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:58 am

Andrewu91 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:26 am

GreenBear wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:27 pm Haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, but did find the part about my Suns. I don't disagree with most of your assessment: we do probably need to consolidate a bit. At the moment, I'm trying to figure out what we have first, since a lot of our pieces are young. But I'll look to make some moves as the season wears on.

The only thing I disagreed with is you saying we don't have a #1 or #2 option on offense. Taylor is averaging 22.2 ppg in only 28.5 minutes (the nice thing about our depth is that none of our starters have to play over 30 minutes during the regular season). And those points are coming on 62% TS%. If you think that's only good enough to be a #3... then I don't know what else to say.

Is he a bonafide #1 Megastar in the mold of Parker/Harden/PG/etc.? No, but the myth of needing a "Megastar" to win a title has pretty much been dispelled at this point. Don't get me wrong, it certainly helps, but there are various team constructs that can be successful enough to win a title.

For some reason, I've been seeing Taylor foul a lot? 22.2ppg in 28mpg but 3 fouls a game. Imagine in a 7 game series, him defending against an elite guard. Maybe Mitchell will fill that void.

Mitchell is a fat rookie that is nowhere near ready. He's at least 2 years away from being ready to start. Underestimate Taylor at your own risk. He's a much better #1 option than SJJ, that's for sure.