Betrayer

Not sure if the link will change after it's over, but here's the presser happening now.

It's nice to get picks 2, 4, and 1 in the last three drafts including the best player to come out since Lebron. Hopefully they're at least sending a basket of fruit and some flowers to Adam Silver every week.

A perennial first team All Defense wing or the second coming of Ayton/Drummond who can get rebounds/dunks during the regular season but is mediocre on the defensive end? No-brainer. Allen and Carter outplay him in the playoffs. We saw other smart teams like the Celtics neutralize Duren in the regular season as well. The message was probably, "Hey, just box this guy out." Any lob threat could give you 80% of what Duren gives you in the regular season with better defense added into the bargain. A choice between Duren and Ausar is no choice at all. The answer is Ausar every day and the only person thinking twice about it is apparently JB. Ku has had a number of episodes where he seems to have info that others don't have or won't talk about because they're too busy brown nosing the organization/players (Omari). At this point there's enough smoke that he probably does have someone on the inside. The story really makes sense when you think about JB's handling of Ausar compared to other players. The fact that the front office had to have "a talk" with JB after that first playoff game is just another example of his incompetence. How they extended him after that I'll never understand. Maybe just Gores doing Gores things. Either way, if Trajan is the guy in the Ausar camp, then he has the right idea. Luckily he's also the one making the contract deals, not JB, so maybe there's hope.

Wemby is such a freak. I'm still bitter about us not getting that pick. Cade and Wemby would have dominated the league for a decade.

That's all you needed to say. You can only go so far when every player on your roster is a choice between offense and defense.

Wow. This OKC/SA series is off to a hell of a start. What a game so far.

Right, every all nba guy plays a great game every game. They never have bad games. I forgot.

The potential for more isn’t the same as an epic disaster. This was a projected 46 win team that won 60 with a young team that won the franchises first series in 20 years. That’s a successful season by any measure. Maybe they could’ve gone farther if they made the imaginary trade we all wanted that might not have even existed. Who knows if anything was available to us. Who knows what those teams might’ve wanted in return. The last Piston team that came back 1-3 in the first round was 03. The got swept by the Nets in the ECF. The following year they pushed their chips in and made the Sheed trade. That team was quite a bit older than this one. I’m salty as hell today too. Nevertheless, great season. Young team taking their first real steps.

There isn’t a big enough rolleyes emoji for this level of hyperbole.

The franchise is heavy. He looks like he’s done for the season and out of gas from pushing this boulder uphill alone.

Well, it was a fun season. Supposed to be about a 46 win 4th seed and wound up a 60 win team 1st seed that won their first playoff series in about 20 years. Young team that is still one player short. Lots of fun playoffs series to come as long as we have Cade and Ausar.

This is over. Fun while it lasted.

That foul on Mobley is garbage after Schroeder is hanging on Cade for his jumper. I realize we’d be losing anyway because we can’t shoot but the Cavs shouldn’t have 20 free throws to our 11 in the half.

Not one player showed up tonight.

JB forgot about Ausar again.