Christmas Day games thread

[T-K-G]

Traded for the wrong guy but the thought process was correct. Luka moves like he’s the 41 year old now

I thought the consensus was that his biggest mistake was not shopping Luka to everyone no one kills Nico if he did the right thing and got a reasonable return

 

[Don Homer]

I thought the consensus was that his biggest mistake was not shopping Luka to everyone no one kills Nico if he did the right thing and got a reasonable return

maybe. He still prolly gets backlash because the Mavs were a finals caliber roster. the plan was to just get more shooting around Luka, not trade luka. it's pretty much unprecedented to trade ur 20-someting year old superstar after a finals run

 

[34TheTruth]

Lakers gifted Luka and still fukkin trash lol

 

[bl2k8]

I thought the consensus was that his biggest mistake was not shopping Luka to everyone no one kills Nico if he did the right thing and got a reasonable return

Nico was going to get killed either way. He traded the franchises best player after they went to the finals the year prior. Trading for Giannis would have brought the least backlash but the bucks were never gonna do that

 

[duckbutta]

Lakers have to package Reaves and picks in a trade to improve the roster.

Aint nobody giving you a lot for Reaves. Everyone knows he got a top 3 whistle in the league, that's what carries him, he get's it cause he in that LA market, and if you put him somewhere else he going to turn into Nick Stauskas overnight.

Reaves is destined to do exactly one thing. Sign a 200 million dollar contract with the Lakers and spend the next 5 years getting put in a blender by Harper and Castle.

 

[TrillaMonsoon]

Even if the refs miss a foul call that sends Gobert to the line, its never worth them challenging because they expect him to miss at least one

 

[MenacingMonk]

He was the #1 pick. You don't watch College Basketball or the draft ?

Nope. I’m only keeping up with the Lakers, and even that’s not often.

 

[T-K-G]

Nico was going to get killed either way. He traded the franchises best player after they went to the finals the year prior. Trading for Giannis would have brought the least backlash but the bucks were never gonna do that

You just made my point tho, had he traded for a player of equal level people would've been salty but they wouldn't have gone as crazy as they did, giannis still an MVP level player and gives max effort, they woulda bought his jersey. They not telling Nico to leave if he brings Giannis 33/15 to that team

There are levels to fukking up

Not telling the rest of the league he was available was the one thing we never got even a HALF decent explanation for, atleast we got to see Luka be a complete liability on defense and kind of understand why that was an issue for them. There's no working logic to explain why secretly dealing with Pelinka made any type of sense

straight up trade for AD without anyone knowing is inexcusable

 

[Trojan 24]

Aint nobody giving you a lot for Reaves. Everyone knows he got a top 3 whistle in the league, that's what carries him, he get's it cause he in that LA market, and if you put him somewhere else he going to turn into Nick Stauskas overnight.

Reaves is destined to do exactly one thing. Sign a 200 million dollar contract with the Lakers and spend the next 5 years getting put in a blender by Harper and Castle.

It's okay Wemby gonna protect the paint for him

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Time for lebron old ahh to get the tf on

 

[Don Homer]

some1 tell AntMan this fake hurt gimmick is stale

 

[Osmar]

Nuggets have taken like 3 or 4 bad shots in a row

 

[lib123]

Aint nobody giving you a lot for Reaves. Everyone knows he got a top 3 whistle in the league, that's what carries him, he get's it cause he in that LA market, and if you put him somewhere else he going to turn into Nick Stauskas overnight.

Reaves is destined to do exactly one thing. Sign a 200 million dollar contract with the Lakers and spend the next 5 years getting put in a blender by Harper and Castle.

Reaves packaged with picks can improve the team.

 

[NotAHotep]

Reaves packaged with picks can improve the team.

Lmao. Reaves makes too little money to be traded. You wouldn’t get equal value for him.

 

[Nero Christ]

Some crazy swings in this game