NBA Thread

[BGleas]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

The Spurs have a multiple championship quality core of Wemby, Harper, Castle, and maybe Vassel. But their role players got exposed in this series.

They need some easily acquired pieces—a bully backup big, a shooter or two (or three), and a tough-minded small guard.

There are countless players that can be found with those qualities. They’ve already assembled the hard part-multiple young franchise cornerstones.

Yup. The easy part is done. They have a high-level, potentially elite core. 

Now they need to optimize the pieces around them. 

[Demo]

27 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Yeah, like I said Wemby is a phenomenal, dominant  freakish player. No doubt. And like you said, he's only 22 and will continue to get  even better. 

No doubt about all of that. If/when the Spurs do win a title, he'll almost assuredly be the Finals MVP. 

But with that said, to be a closer he's going to have to develop an unstoppable offensive move or bag. He's super young, but at this point he's not a guy that in a close, tight playoff game that you clear out on 3-4 straight possessions and say, "take us home big fella". 

He's more LeBron than he is Jordan/Kobe. All three all-time greats with multiple titles and Finals MVPs. 

Will be really interesting to see what Wemby’s mentality is going forward. This may sound like a weird comp, but I’m old so this is what hits me: when Houston had Sampson and Olajuwon, Hakeem was laser focused on the things that made him a winning player and didn’t care at all about expanding his game past that stuff. Sampson bristled at being in any way limited. He wanted to be transformative in the way Wemby is and seems to want to be going forward. 1 of them became an all-time great and 1 of them didn’t. I don’t want to restrict what Wemby does but he has to understand how much advantage he gives away in a big situation by throwing up a 27’ step back instead of being comfortable just establishing on the block and going over his left shoulder with a jump hook that’s uncontestable. But I’m not sure that’s how it’s gonna go.  His mentality feels a little more Sampsonish than Hakeemish. Hope not because the kid’s amazing.

[HoosierHoopster]

3 hours ago, BGleas said:

Yeah, like I said Wemby is a phenomenal, dominant  freakish player. No doubt. And like you said, he's only 22 and will continue to get  even better. 

No doubt about all of that. If/when the Spurs do win a title, he'll almost assuredly be the Finals MVP. 

But with that said, to be a closer he's going to have to develop an unstoppable offensive move or bag. He's super young, but at this point he's not a guy that in a close, tight playoff game that you clear out on 3-4 straight possessions and say, "take us home big fella". 

He's more LeBron than he is Jordan/Kobe. All three all-time greats with multiple titles and Finals MVPs. 

Yeah he has to develop a prime go to move, Garnett’s been saying the same thing — and he involves his team more than young MJ or Kobe and doesn’t look like he wants to tear your heart out so more like a LeBron type sort of but I would say more a Duncan or Jokic than a MJ. Joker had to be pushed as his career grew to take on the primary scorer role and Duncan was always a team first guy. Duncan may be the best PF ever. 

At 22 he still has so much upside— Knicks can be happy now, next year they’ll be back to whining and crying 

[jermhoosierfan]

On 6/13/2026 at 11:51 PM, BtownStrength said:

Fox has always been low basketball IQ, but now everyone gets to see it. Agree that Mitch Johnson played horrible rotations. And they just have...no offensive game plan whem things go south. Its all reliant on the guards beating their man off the dribble and kicking or lob to Wemby. Now they have the skill to make that work, but the Knicks had wayyyy more structure in the PnR and off ball movement by OG, Bridges, and Shamet. 

Its good to see Mike Brown get a ring while Fox goes home empty. 

Brown got the last laugh because he got canned the day after he criticized Fox after a loss about 18 months ago.  I bet his knowledge of Fox was a big asset to him. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZeP342gJ04/   

[Pagoda]

Haha, OG has been celebrating.  Can’t be having these guys booked on morning shows.

 

[LIHoosier]

3 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Haha, OG has been celebrating.  Can’t be having these guys booked on morning shows.

 

Damn Nova crew stole OG's shades.