Gordon boosting his trade value with the 22/6/6 line!
We gave up 22 offensive rebounds to the nets.
And a little vintage terry.
Bryce shooting a little above 50% from three over his last 8 games. His stroke looks noice.
NSJ played some really quality minutes tonight. Shooting 50% from three this year. I mean itās only 6/12 on the year, but 50% is 50% regardless of the sample size. And he looks like he belongs. Gives me vibes of when we first saw Bryce mcgowens play. Just gives that āthis dude belongs out thereā kind of vibe.
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NSJ MAFIA
NSJ-CREW? 
Oh man that was almost a crazy oop for NSJ
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shocked he missed that shot
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I guess I should go shopping more often during games. Lol
1Nice win. Terry was incredible. I understand the excitement around the young guys but I donāt feel like he gets nearly enough credit for what he does for this team.
Bryce was huge as well. Nights like this restore hope that he could have a future after all.
I definitely think weāve got a keeper in NSJ. He seems to have big-shot making DNA.
Mark has a ton of upside but he gets his shot blocked more than it seems he should for someone his size. And heās got to do a better job keeping his guy off the offensive glass.
Was nice to see good Hayward tonight. And man, the impact of Milesā absence last year was profound.
We have the best broadcast team in the league. Period.
I agree. I also would trade him today.
Another big plus from this win is we keep winning the close games. I believe we have won every game we have played that has been decided by 3 points or less. I donāt remember another season where that is the case. Hope it continues.
I think it just means weāre actually worse than our record. I wish it meant we were clutch, but think it means weāre likely to eventually lose some of these games we should be winning by a larger margin.
Iām starting to question his vertical and/or explosion. Maybe itās just strength and experience. Hopefully correctable no matter what it is.
I have no idea who that team was yesterday. 21-36 from 3? The Hornets?!!! Was like they were scrimmaging themselves and giving up a bunch of wide open looks.
And to think, if they werenāt having a historical night from deep, we wouldāve lost. Well, besides almost losing anyway due to our trademark of allowing wide open 3s and buzzer beaters, I donāt know how Cam missed that last shot. Maybe the double trademarks canceled the shot out. A contested three from half court definitely wouldāve gone in.
I like confident Bryce. Seeing shots go down will unlock a ton of confidence, so we could see some growth here. NSJ needs to play more. Heās got that Terry heat signature to his game, he needs to get as much experience as possible to begin becoming a set rotation player.
I think Mark is the perfect candidate to be in Olajuwonās big man camp. Heās more a fluid athlete than a stiff, and heās got such a soft touch and good accuracy where heāll be way more capable than someone like a Biz ever could be.
But it seems he doesnāt know how to play the post up game. Down there, with his size, you donāt have to be way more athletic than the defender. But his lack of footwork and experience being a primary scorer is obvious. Heās not sure how to get people off balance with good fakes, how to leverage position, angles, timing - itās definitely a skill to be learned. Post game isnāt a brute force game, its more craftiness and timing that will unlock his ceiling.
Iām a little more conflicted here. I understand the pro argument completely. Thatās peak Terry, teams will be salivating to get that guy, can hit tough shots and can absolutely steal a game or two in the playoffs. And the fact that Melo has started to become a primary scorer, which is Terryās best skill, can that mesh in a coherent manner?
Maybe, but itās the reason why the Nets have Cam Thomasā scoring off the bench, even though heās the leading scorer, since it might interfere with getting Mikal and Cam going. So getting peak value for a still really good asset is smart GMing.
But keeping Terry I think is beneficial. Like I said, he can steal a game or two for a contender, but heās not gonna lead a team to a huge 10 game improvement by himself. Stealth (or outright) tanking to land a "It's Miller Time!" is great. But doing it multiple yearsā¦as we see with the Panthers, lack of culture, accountability, dedication, that stuff creeps in to a locker room and itās hard to shake out.
Especially if theres an impressionable young core youāre growing. Never feeling any success, or purposefully trying to tank definitely can seep into the DNA of a young guys development. Terry seems well liked in the locker room, can get guys excited and work hard to get a win. And getting a win every 2-3 games instead of every 6-7 does help with maturity and confidence.
Plus, the selfish part of me as a fan needs to see a win every now and then. Terry himself isnāt going to garner a huge playoff push. I donāt need or expect to win even half our games. But I was excited to watch last nights win, I donāt get those too often.
And in this draft, is the difference between pick 6 and 10 going to be that huge anyway.
But yes, trade Terry if weāre getting a 1st rounder and some intriguing prospect. But not just at any cost to move him right now.
I agree with this. Iām definitely of the mindset that losing doesnāt guarantee any certain outcome. As we know all too well, having the worst record, even the worst record in history, doesnāt guarantee the top pick. And even if it did, thereās no guarantee the #1 pick will pan out. Even during the 76ers āprocessā, most of those high lottery picks were busts. Only Embid turned out to be a franchise cornerstone and even with him they have yet to make a single conference finals appearance. Fultz and Okafor were busts and Simmons imploded after a few years. So what did all those years of being awful really yield?
And imo, I think the criticism of our FO making all these moves that have led us to mediocrity is a little unfounded. I agree we locked ourselves in during the Cho era by doubling down on average players like MKG, Zeller and Marvin. Extending them was a mistake. But the only clear win now move weāve made under the current front officeās regime was signing Hayward. And even with that weāve still managed to be a lottery team every year heās been here. I suppose some people might argue we shouldnāt have re-signed Terry, or maybe shouldāve flipped him immediately in a S&T for picks. But back to QCās point, losing only breeds a culture of losing. And since Terryās been here weāve had a #2 and a #3 overall pick and weāve been able to still acquire a talented young core even with vets like Hayward and Terry, so Iād argue they havenāt hindered our ability to build while remaining at least moderately competitive. I havenāt agreed with every decision this FO has made, but I agree with @Steelmatic 's earlier point that theyāve struck a decent balance between building while at least trying to be somewhat competitive.
I like the sentiment, but if I could add: we got incredibly lucky vaulting up to pick 3 in 2020 to have the potential to nab Lamelo ball. We had a 6.7 chance to get the 3rd pick, and then the fortune for ball to slip.
We were also blessed with the second pick this year. So we got miller and ball by sheer luck. So Iām not going to give GM Mitch any credit there, or say that āsee we can build without committing to losingā, because getting those guys was just luck.
Other than that, weāve had middle picks in the middle of the first.
Despite not committing to the losing (I say laying the foundation for the future), we got super lucky with those two picks.
When you commit to laying the foundation for the future you can do what the Thunder have done. You can trade people away, be bad, get high draft picks, and develop some of that young talent and let āem play.
But we havenāt been able to commit to that because of injuries. Injuries have left empty promises and GM Mitch has been chasing the dragon of āwhat ifsā.
Yeah, the Cho era moves like MKG, Zeller, Marvin and Batum are the type of moves I was referring to as keeping us in mediocrity. While I wasnāt all that excited about the Hayward signing I wasnāt mad at it and understood it. Terry has been a gem and made us clear winners of the Kemba trade.
I can see both sides of the tank vs be competitive argument to build a team. While you have your Philly examples You also have your examples like Orlando, OKC or Houston who have torn it completely down stockpiled a volume of young talent and in Houstonās case now they hire a great coach and bring a few adult/vet role players in to make them a formidable team. OKC has stacked the assets to acquire vets to add to their mix if they want and they are close to being real contenders.
We chose the try to be competitive path and Iām good with that. While weāve had a lot of terrible luck weāve had a little good lottery luck to get Melo and Miller and thatās a really good foundation to build on.