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[SERIOUS NEXT DAY THREAD] Post-Game Discussion (November 29, 2023) (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by NBA_MOD@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Here is a place to have in depth, x's and o's, discussions on yesterday's games. Post-game discussions are linked in the table, keep your memes and reactions there.

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Away	Home	Score	GT	PGT
Los Angeles Lakers	Detroit Pistons	133 - 107	Link	Link
Washington Wizards	Orlando Magic	120 - 139	Link	Link
Phoenix Suns	Toronto Raptors	105 - 112	Link	Link
Utah Jazz	Memphis Grizzlies	91 - 105	Link	Link
Philadelphia 76ers	New Orleans Pelicans	114 - 124	Link	Link
Houston Rockets	Denver Nuggets	124 - 134	Link	Link
Los Angeles Clippers	Sacramento Kings	131 - 117	Link	Link

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[–] RayCashhhh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe I should make a full post if anyone is interested, but these are my thoughts not only from the game, but the season as a whole having watched the majority of them:

Everybody on this team is underqualified with their roles. Cade can be a pretty good player in this league, but he's being asked to be something that he's not, and you can tell it's weighing on him heavily. I like Ausar, but the truth is he probably should be coming off the bench for someone who can stretch the floor and defend a little bit to start off with Cade and Ivey. Beef Stew should be a bench big and nothing more. He's a good shooter, but teams don't respect it, and his defense is overrated. I could go on, but in general, everyone is being asked to do too much.
I don't think Detroit got it wrong (for the most part) in terms of their draft picks. Even Killian in a vacuum was a sound choice at the time. The issue is the roster construction outside of those picks. There are like 5-6 guards on the team, while you have Ausar, Bogdan, and Umude as your wings. Two of them can't shoot, and the other is among the worst defenders in the league. Only Charlotte's frontcourt depth is worse, and while Duren has a lot of potential, he's just not there defensively at this stage.
This team is mentally defeated. Monty said after the game this team struggles with adversity, and while perhaps he shouldn't have said it, he's not wrong. This is easily the worst team many of them have ever been on and you can see it's taken a toll.
Weaver just needs to be fired, and maybe Monty as well. There is no excuse for a team four years into their rebuild to be this bad. Someone said it on Twitter the other day, Weaver took a gamble that what he had on his squad was enough, and that is a bet that has gone horribly wrong.