Not Just a Shooter 1.3: Give Up on Carmelo Anthony Comment Count

Seth

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1. THE EAST

starts at 1:00

TORONTO-CLEVELAND: LeBron LeBron’d, the Raptors deflated, and Drake made a very ill-advised life choice.

BOSTON-PHILADELPHIA: This is not the Terry Rozier who played at Louisville. Boston a big step up in defense for Philly and it showed in Game 1. Sixers can still win this if they adjust and get more threes from Redick and Belinelli.

2. THE WEST

starts at 23:15

HOUSTON-UTAH: Game 1 was the first Utah loss of the year in which they shot 50%+ from the field because James Harden, Chris Paul, and Clint Capela went off. The Jazz fought back to steal a game on the road with Donovan Mitchell running the point and Joe Ingles making everything. Someone should really guard Joe Ingles.

GOLDEN STATE-NEW ORLEANS: Is basically over already. Anthony Davis is fun, though.

NICKNAME QUIZ: Ace mostly stumps Alex, accidentally gives away an answer.

3. POSTMORTEMS

starts at 48:26

OKLAHOMA CITY: Unless something very unexpected happens with Paul George, this looks like the end of any hope for OKC to win a title in the era of three MVPs in three draft classes. Melo is so, so washed, also lacks self-awareness.

INDIANA: Everybody comes back. Is Dipo a true franchise player? Ace thinks so, Alex is a little more skeptical. Big question going forward is what to do with young, raw center Myles Turner.

MILWAUKEE: Have they fired Joe Prunty yet? Anyway, this team is mostly locked into a mediocre roster and will go as far as Giannis can take them, though better coaching, especially on defense, could unlock greater potential.

WASHINGTON: Absolutely cap-boned. Poor man’s Grizzliesdom awaits.

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MUSIC

  • “Resurrection (Paper, Paper)”—Bone Thugs N Harmony
  • “Super Hyphy”—Keak Da Sneak
  • “Across 110th Street”

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Comments

jbrandimore

May 3rd, 2018 at 10:21 AM ^

As the Blake Griffin contract is generally considered untradeable there is going to be at least one worse contract in 2018-19. 

Carmello Anthony.

How about in an effort to actually tank the Pistons properly, and go to the bottom - trade Griffin for Anthony and demand other assets going forward (2-3 #1 picks)?

OKC would extend their window of moderate contention, and I think Griffin's return to Oklahoma would excite the fan base there and mesh fairly well with how Westbrook does things.

This to me might be a win-win.

Plus, OKC #1 picks might be really valuable come 2020 or so.

cletus318

May 3rd, 2018 at 12:19 PM ^

It's hard to see a justification for such a trade from OKC's perspective. There's no way Blake Griffin is worth multiple first round picks at this stage of his career, and that trade, even straight up, puts them no closer to contending in the West. This is before you get to the fact that Griffin hasn't played as many as 70 games in a season in four years.

kehnonymous

May 3rd, 2018 at 10:24 AM ^

Paul George won't be able to wear #13 (retired for Wilt Chamberlain) or #24 (retired for Kobe), but if he adds 24 + 13, he gets #37 - the number The Artest Formerly Known As Ron wore when he authored a Game 7 masterpiece over the Lepers in 2010.  There's already a precedence for defensive stopper small forwards leaving the Pacers to win rings in L.A., so....

kehnonymous

May 3rd, 2018 at 12:39 PM ^

...just not right now.

And even with LeBron, there's also the little issue of the uber-team in Oakland.  Gun to my head, though, I think our best way forward is getting some other max contract pieces who'll be in their prime as Lonzo/Ingram/Randle enter their primes and opening a window in 2-3 years without LeBron. 

Because LeBron's window is *now* and although I like our core of players + PG13, er... 37, the Lakers would have to give up some of those assets to build a squad around LeBron and after he retires, we're back to being a tire-fire again.  But therein lies the Faustian bargain:  even with all those very real caveats, LeBron is still such a dominant force that if he wanted in with the Lakers, you absolutely have to explore that.  I personally think the best fit for him is the Sixers, but I'm an MGoPoster and Rob Pelinka is a GM/agent so... /shrug.

cletus318

May 3rd, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^

I'm not sure how great of a fit LeBron would be in Philly. In many ways, he and Simmons would be redundant, and Simmons isn't going to be much of an off-ball threat because of his lack of shooting. On the other hand, I think Kawhi Leonard (assuming he fully recovers) makes a ton of sense for the Sixers, but I'm not sure they have the pieces to make a run at him.

MHWolverine

May 3rd, 2018 at 12:04 PM ^

It's just a damn shame that the Pistons never drafted Carmello.

The Pistons would've beaten the Spurs for sure in '05 and most likely continued to build a great team around him.

I'm Batman

May 6th, 2018 at 10:17 PM ^

I mean, he is a Nightwing at the very best. Who i guess now i think of it, did step in for me once or twice over the years. But i always did have to come back to eventually save the day in the end. So yeah, a total Robin/Nightwing/Red Hood/ possibly Azrael.