The Crazy battle for the West

Appreciate it Patrick!

Athletic Alchemy

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Athletic Alchemy

We may look back at this "gap" year as one of the greatest things that happened in this era of Warriors basketball..Ok thats a bit stong, but you know what I mean.

Athletic Alchemy

Thats a great point! but ultimately it was PG or neither right....

Athletic Alchemy

Im using Kawhi as an example for my daughter right now. She is frustrated with her team not running the plays. I told her look what happened to the Clip.. you cant be a mute out there! But yeah Im curious to see AD mindset after the success

Athletic Alchemy

right "for about a year" but long term lets see if they continue to cater to Lebron or they build around AD

Athletic Alchemy

I remember those days.. felt like the whole league tried it outside of the Yanks

Athletic Alchemy

he might be the biggest come up out of all this

Athletic Alchemy

Hear that too! tha would be perfect! Warriors Lakers Christmas day game

Athletic Alchemy

Thanks man! Im grateful for the support that is allowing me to keep going and growing.

Athletic Alchemy

me too! haha... The one thing I didnt mention is the Lakers are the Lakers, despite them being out of the mix here really this last decade. They always will be in the mix for the superstars.

Athletic Alchemy

thanks.. that's good point. I think it will be interesting to see, do they go after guys that complement LeBron or AD? Because AD needs a PnR partner ultimately

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yeah I know the rumors are they blow it up..but that would be a crazy look imo

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thanks!

Athletic Alchemy

Good Shit Alch. Basically, we have a bigger window and more assets for the future. Instead of going all-in to get a star that can help us get the chip immediately maybe better to keep the picks and look to make the championship push two to three years from now. The 2021 Minnie pick maybe a sweet one as that is supposed to be a real deep draft. And the two players we'd add form pics would be on rookie deals, opening up cap space to sign some FAs.

Andrej Krickovic

This is great alch.

Ford Carlson

Great work, Alch.

Patrick Kennedy

Kawhi actually wanted KD, kyrie, Harden or Beal instead of George, so that was a shortsighted move by Kawhi ironically. Also Alch, be careful about having too much faith in Wiggins. The splash brothers gravity and coaching will make him look better than he really is, but it really is up to him if he wants to fufill his destiny.

Pirate Ramsay

Draymond was not just one of the first movers, but he was also by far the best. Could shoot before, elite passer out of Pnr whether as ball handler or roller, and switchable, genius defender 1-5 with the most miniscule of weaknesses. It's just that while other guys are arising with better attributes, Draymond's athleticism and shooting as you are saying are clearly diminishing. You just have to hope his IQ and passing touch stays, and maybe he somehow becomes better as a shooter.

Pirate Ramsay

What do you think of Demar DeRozan and the 11th pick for 2nd pick and Wiggins?

SunniDaZambi

Great take the one thing that the "quote" exports are missing is the snipper boys will be locked and loaded, AD is still soft I know you say he showed with LaBron but he got lucky with the matchups and as long as PJ and KL are teamed up they both don't have any leader ship skills, like you said the splash brothers(AKA snipper boys) will be the best duo because they have the most gravity.

Oooh your cutting has gotten really tight on this one!

Pete Lee

Cant wait for free agency

Tony Stark

I begrudgingly put the Lakers in tier 1. They are the champs and deserve the respect for about a year, that said letting Butler get 2 games off them despite the injury concerns the Heat had is why I have hope for next season. We need to focus more so on defense and I don't think our draft pick, other than Canon Ball Vassell 😔, will be nba ready on defense, so I am interested on how long we would have to wait for us to make a trade for James Johnson and flip him for a Myles Turner.

William Mitchell

I know you've had it for a minute, but this is definitely the best intro graphic/music you've ever had 👌

thomas

Yo bringing up that idea about the First Mover's Advantage is a real insightful take. Reminds me of when the A's first adopted the Moneyball strategy and the Red Sox go and win a World Series a few years after trying to poach Billy Beane and copying the approach.

I always forget how young Chriss is

Spence

Recent updates indicate that Silvers targeting a Christmas return for the NBA yet again. If that falls through LETS GOO

Valentine Nguyen

Originally joined your Patreon for your dubs coverage but super happy that your content is starting to appeal to a wider base as well. All for you expanding as much as you can, can't wait to see how much your channels grow!

Corbin Santos

I’m just pysching out for the the next season I’m hyped

hugojimcam

I’m hella biased but warriors r the team I would take. There mix of assets and great players is unmatched. If I’m the warriors I get some young talent in the draft, whether that is trading down or keeping or half and half. I think they gotta at least pick one player this year for the future and continue to develope the young bloods and then sign vets that can get it done and if lucrative trades comes that could get us players for relatively cheap prices do we don’t spend 160 mill, I’m down.

hugojimcam

A+ on this one Alch really really enjoyed it 👌. I think the Lakers being players in 2021 FA is being a little underrated. They could find a third star to extend their window as LeBron declines

Simhesh Shastry

The clippers gotta see it thru....no going back at this point.

KendrickTheCreative