gurpilo

First, if we would have trade Huerter for 2nd pick it would have been for Wiseman or Edwards. 2nd , we lost yesterday to a team that is clearly worst than us, best players are Morant and Valanciunas, equivalent to Trae and Capela, they have no answer for players like Collins, Bogi, Gallinari, Rondo, Hunter.... but they outscored us. Embarrassing. You can blame coach on this

I agree with their projections, is what I predicted as well. I think team is too young and we will have our ups and downs, we are not going to play to our full strength all games.

No, it is not fair. Levert is only 26 years old, he has been improving every season and his per-36 minutes show much better production than Hunter every season, not only last season. You are comparing production on 26 minutes vs 32 on Hunter. Per 36 minutes last season Levert produced 22ppg vs 13ppg on Hunter, season before was 18ppg. Sometimes we mix expectations with reality, I understand the expectations and promise on Hunter but today Levert is better, at the end of the season hopefully not. Come on, some of you play fantasy NBA, there is a reason why Levert gets drafted and Hunter not, lol.

That is true but when he is healthy he is at least as good as Bogi.

I cannot make a judgment for 2 preseason games, make no sense for me. Today Harris is better than Hunter by a mile, we are not talking about expectations. And Levert is at least as good as Bogi.

I cannot agree with the comparison with BKN. Bogdanovic is not better than Levert and Hunter is not better than Harris. Both are real good players and even if the difference is slim, BKN has a slight advantage there. Also in the C comparison is Capela vs Jordan and there the difference is slim.

Before we have a rivalry with top 3 teams we should beat last spots playoff teams. I think our rival could be Orlando, Indiana or Washington. Orlando is a team that reall is a bad fit for us, they are really tough and have good defense. Indiana is another team that will be close with us. Washington with Westbrook and Beal could be ahead of us, they have also good pieces on Bryant, Bertans, Advija, Brown, Hachimura, Wagner... I will chose Orlando as our main rival. I was impressed with Fultz and Gordon, Vucevic is a great player, is going to be tough to beat them

36-36 1-Trae 0 0 6th seed 34-38

Trae has been bad at the end of the game, not controlling the tempo, bad TO....he needs to learn, even Gallo tried to calm him by bringing up the ball by himself

2 consecutive TO, what the hell? He did not need to do that pass or that dribbling, unnecessary

Huerter tries to do too much. He has adequate handles but he thinks is great, forces everything too much and cannot stop shooting whwn shot is off. I think he could be a usable off the ball shooter but he needs to know when to stop shooting and use handling just as addiitional to his game not as his main game.

How can we throw such a big lead? Shooting 3 after 3 when they quit falling

Bogi is a good shooter, no need to overeact to a preseason game. Gallo might be the best addition, he is a tremendous impact on the floor.

Really ugly game by Collins

Good 3 pointer by Trae but... Fultz looks unstoppable out there

I love Gallo. And Fultz is outplaying Trae, who would say that.

I am impressed with Cole Anthony to be honest. Defense on the team looks much better, good team effort.

Thank you so much!!!

Gents, any internet link where you can see the game? Much appreciated.

I think his main problem now is TO, some of those were really ugly

No need to overreact to one game. Bogdanovic should be better this year than Cam and Hunter and should play a good role and carry the load on his shoulders. Is not realistic thinking we can make the playoffs with two sophomores at the wings that struggled badly last year, we need to mix things and I am sure coach knows it. That does not mean they will not have minutes but we need to create an environment where they can succeed. Including Cam and Hunter on a starting lineup with Young, Bogi, Collins and Capela is a good situation where they can produce with not all the pressure on them. A second unit with Rondo, Huerter, Dunn and Gallo is also good company for Hunter or Reddish.

Looking at the full highlights of the game Hunter and Bruno looked bad on defense, I counted like 5 3 pointers scored on Hunter with lazy defense and Bruno looked lost. Good moves of Vucevic on Capela too and Fultz looked good on defense and difficult to stop on offense. Orlando might be a tougher team than expected.

Could not see the game, happy Cam and Hunter showed some improvement. Is also positive we should be also good on rebounds. Not much worried about bad games on Young and Bogdanovic, they should be fine on offense. Worried we continue with problems with defense and TO, I think these issues will continue on the season. As I anticipated I think we are going to have problems with backup C. Overall is only a preseason game, we performed poorly on offense looking at percentages and we showed some improvement on rebounding, but last season’s problems still continue, need to improve on defense and TO. Orlando is not a team that will score 116 PGs on many teams.

I think he is top 3 with Embiid and Bam. He is the best defensive center on the east and can score very efficiently. After them we can find Vucevic and Turner. Which is Capela's problem? Free throw and because of that crunch time but hey that is why you have Gallo.

Harden might be tough to fit with but if you surround him with a good defensive PG, some shooters, and two good defensive bigs you have a championship team.