I thought before the season started that DSJ was probably going to be RotY. His slow start + Ben Simmons being on another level probably derailed that, but Smith is going to be elite.
I honestly have no idea how the Mavs are at the bottom of the West.
I have lived overseas before being an Army Vet. I am not saying the laws are the same but some things just don’t add up to me. They say they have video of it being them yet they take ALL PLAYERS FROM BOTH TEAMS. If you have video then why would you need to pull every player on noth teams? Just grab the kids on video. Second I get that wealthy kids typically will engage in criminal behavior for various reasons including privilege and boredom. However…Gelo family got plenty of money. Why would HE need to shoplift in those store when he could just buy whatever when his pops got there? Maybe it is a “he was with them so guilty by association thing” but I need to see more than what I have been seeing. It just doesn’t add up to me that gelo actually did that. If the videos show him stealing then obviously the image I had of him and the family is wrong but Lavar spoils the fuck out them boys so for me I can wrap my head around ANY of his kids doing that.
Ppl steal with money all the time. It’s not always about need.
I hope for the suns sake Booker is cool with tanking. Porzingod made it’s clear he’s not about that life. Thing is with him he’s young and naive enough to think he’s enough to do it on his own. It’s hard to tank when you strike gold on your first good draft that’s almost immediately good.
It’s rough because you can tell these kids are sick of losing but the front office has such a piss-poor reputation that luring in people that can help them is going to be extremely difficult regardless of how much cap space they have. Unless some kind of miracle changes where the players look at Sarver and McD in a more positive light, these kids aren’t going to have the help they need to become the stars they have the potential to be.
As for JJ, I’m still not sold on him. There are so many other rookies in his class that have outshone him in ways that he shouldn’t given how highly touted he was.
I hope the next Titus Brand Worldwide skit involves Apollo Crews being stuck in a foreign jail after being caught shoplifting somewhere on the last WWE European Tour.
Man…, Coach Carlisle needs to play Noel. Like seriously, alone for having an actual roll man in his system and taking some pressure of old Dirkules. He is getting less and less time, I mean he might not like him but come on…