Quote from: Goldstar88 on November 02, 2026, 11:37:45 PM

Quote from: Boston Garden Leprechaun on November 02, 2026, 11:34:08 PM

Quote from: Atzar on November 02, 2026, 11:15:04 PM

Payton "Jalen Brunson 2.0" Pritchard sure is living up to his billing, lol. 

Robinson looks slow and out of shape.  Our big rotation was supposed to be a strength.  It's not, because this guy can't play. 

Those are the biggest problems with this team so far this year.  Hugo's apparent lack of development over the offseason is a disappointment as well but at least we have other rotation-level wings to absorb that blow.  But we need Pritchard and Robinson to help us beat good teams and they aren't.

hugo shoulda been dealt with brown and picks for giannis. how dumb does brad feel now? supposedly hugo was the deal breaker? omg. smh

Him and/or Baylor. It?s asinine either way. This is what happens when GMs fall in love with their draft picks.

It sounds like Milwaukee wanted Baylor/Hugo and significantly more draft capital. The framing that I've seen of "Baylor or Hugo was the dealbreaker" is fairly disingenuous.

And I say that as someone who personally would have done Brown + Hugo + Baylor + 3 firsts.

I think the validity of the idea that  Brad just had to include Baylor and Hugo has been debated here a number of times. I haven?t seen any evidence of it and the closest I?ve seen is a report that describes it as you do, that it was Baylor, Hugo and more draft capital. And that was a reporter who I believe also indicated Brad was still in negotiation mode when Milwaukee made the deal with Miami.  And yes it seemed that Miami was the destination desired by Giannis.  Either way, the thing that seems pretty certain to me is that it wasn?t as simple as just including Baylor and Hugo for the deal to be done. 

I also don?t think we have a disaster in Q or Garza in their particular roles. MR should be a 15-20 minutes backup.  As a starting center Q isn?t the force we want in that role but as a backup he?s just fine. The Cs got destroyed inside last night but there were other variables at play that cost the Cs. I agree that if we had an all-star in the center rotation it would be better but wasn?t that obvious before the season? Holding their own v teams who DO have all-star bigs is all you can hope (which they didn?t), and being away on the SNBTB when your best shooters are 0-10 from three and DW gives you nothing, and JT is off the mark, and PG isn?t playing, your center rotation becomes only a contributing reason for the loss, and not really the primary reason.

Quote from: Boston Garden Leprechaun on November 02, 2026, 11:39:18 PM

shoulda shipped hugo off with brown for giannis. huge mistake. that guy is not impressing at all. m rob is atrocious. may need to move some guys at trade deadline.

center rotation is trash. white may need to be traded.

I disagree...Q and Garza are both playing well.  Agree that Robinson has not played up to his clippings.

Garza has been a pleasant surprise but Robinson is single-handedly dragging that unit to trash level in my opinion. He is doing nothing well to my eye.

Quote from: Atzar on November 02, 2026, 11:15:04 PM

Payton "Jalen Brunson 2.0" Pritchard sure is living up to his billing, lol. 

Robinson looks slow and out of shape.  Our big rotation was supposed to be a strength.  It's not, because this guy can't play. 

Those are the biggest problems with this team so far this year.  Hugo's apparent lack of development over the offseason is a disappointment as well but at least we have other rotation-level wings to absorb that blow.  But we need Pritchard and Robinson to help us beat good teams and they aren't.

hugo shoulda been dealt with brown and picks for giannis. how dumb does brad feel now? supposedly hugo was the deal breaker? omg. smh

I think that story about Hugo being the dealbreaker is untrue. Giannis was really pushing for Miami.

Q has his strengths and some weaknesses he has to address. garza seems ok for 3rd string. maybe i expect too much. the rebounding at times was atrocious

Quote from: Boston Garden Leprechaun on November 02, 2026, 11:34:08 PM

Quote from: Atzar on November 02, 2026, 11:15:04 PM

Payton "Jalen Brunson 2.0" Pritchard sure is living up to his billing, lol. 

Robinson looks slow and out of shape.  Our big rotation was supposed to be a strength.  It's not, because this guy can't play. 

Those are the biggest problems with this team so far this year.  Hugo's apparent lack of development over the offseason is a disappointment as well but at least we have other rotation-level wings to absorb that blow.  But we need Pritchard and Robinson to help us beat good teams and they aren't.

hugo shoulda been dealt with brown and picks for giannis. how dumb does brad feel now? supposedly hugo was the deal breaker? omg. smh

Him and/or Baylor. It?s asinine either way. This is what happens when GMs fall in love with their draft picks.

And now Giannis is struggling in his new team getting waxed by the Lakers tonight. Wasted potential.