2024 NBA Season

[ultrloa]

I don't know what you guys been watching, but from what I watched, they all suck and that is obvious from the summer league. Remember, most of these kids are playing against each other, and mostly g-league players as well, not real nba players.

I think they all suck, yes but that would by NBA standard not be the standard that should be set for a rookie coming into the league, you really don't expect them to have it all figure out, there is a lot learning, unlearning and relearning ahead of them, but going by the basic bar that should be set for rookies and major all season long bench players I really don't think they were bad at all, to be very honest. None 3 of the players from any team in the Summer league are going into any team's lineup all together they are literally just bits and pieces that are meant to compliment the franchise that chose them, not bring them the championship next season.

Yeah, probably one of those drafts that there are not much hype on the names, assuming that in the last couple of years, we have rookies coming in with great names. So I gues it has to balance itself for this year as there are no rookies that we want to follow or at least try to see what they can do in the NBA.

And most likely it was overshadow by again Bronny (as much as we don't want to discussed a 55th draft pick). But he was so polarizing enough that we don't look at other names in the rookie draft maybe top 1-5 but still there are not that recognizable going into the NBA.

Although we don't see any much interesting this summer league but still regular season is long way to show case the talents of those rookies. Provably we could able to see a good talents since there's so many of them and maybe there's hidden gem among them.

Media focus to much on Bronny that's why maybe we just didn't notice the performance of other player. So lets just see if there would be a exciting rookie to watch this season aside from Bronny. But expect that there would be a lot more hype on Lakers since since many fans expect to see something great seeing Bronny to play alongside with his father.

[Natalim]

Sam Hauser also agreed on a 4-year contract extension with the Boston Celtics at $45 million dollars. Wow! One of the best shooters that I've seen and I think the Celtics will be stronger offensively with him.
https://x.com/wojespn/status/1815053642606444631

He is a good shooter, so he deserves this kind of contract. With his limited minutes, I think this is just enough, but if the team wants some 3-point shooting while others are struggling, they can put him in. I think his problem is just his defense; he is not a good defender, so he is a liability in that aspect. However, with that kind of shooting percentage, I think it's right to invest in him.

[Jating]

A career 42.2% in 3-point area and shot 42.4% last season. He has been a good 2nd unit hence, they gave him this kind of contract. With how expensive the Celtics are right now, this is kind of surprising that they will give this huge contract to a role player. I mean you have 2 players who have a contract of more than $300M in the next 3-5 years. I believe they're making a gamble right now since with the new CBA, their draft pick will be affected because they're expensive.

That's the thing with Boston Celtics right now, they have every right to keep the team after winning their 1st championship with Tatum and Brown. But it's not a two player, they will have to sign up most of it's role player too, including Hauser and he had games as well wherein he contributed in offense as he is one of the best shooters we have in the league right now.

However, they are now over the salary cap and so they will have to pay the luxury tax right now. So it's really hard to maintain this kind of money specially if the team will not have a good performance. So it's really a gamble for them to pay their players with good salary this season.

[Questat]

Has anyone else been actually following the NBA Summer league pretty much ? I mean watching these rookies games (not Bronny James please), I think despite this draft class being considered as a very weak draft class, I've actually been impressed by what I've seen from the lads so far, especially the top 10 picks, I know they still have a lot to prove, because the NBA regular season is going to be a whole different level of ball game, but then I'm opined that this draft class might have actually just been underrated by the media and NBA analysts.

I honestly don't find the performance of the top 10 players of this draft impressive. Risacher, Holland II, Dillingham, and Williams are really performing well, but the rest of them are pretty mediocre in the summer league. Look at Sarr, he's performing very poorly even though he was selected with the second pick of the draft.

I guess at the early stage if we are willing to bet on the rookie of the year future we can find some value on the odds.

As you can see, it seems like the  odds are just based on the raking of draft pick.
I have not actually followed the games a lot, but who do you think will win the ROY next season?

odds

Player   Odds
Zach Edey   +600
Alexandre Sarr   +700
Zaccharie Risacher   +800
Dalton Knecht   +900
Stephon Castle   +1000
Reed Sheppard   +1100

Zach Edey is the only player I’ve ever heard of before the draft. I’d imagine that probably gives him an edge on things like rookie of the year betting, but it is a bit premature. I imagine once the season starts and we get a few games in, it will become clear who the best rookie in the pack is.

But if you are betting, this is the right time, as the odds are going to change or drop if a player is playing well during the regular season. Others are saying that Zach Edey isn't playing well, so this is getting unpredictable. Some might see value in this, and personally, if I believe that he will win the ROY, I would take +600 all day.

[Fredomago]

Sam Hauser also agreed on a 4-year contract extension with the Boston Celtics at $45 million dollars. Wow! One of the best shooters that I've seen and I think the Celtics will be stronger offensively with him.
https://x.com/wojespn/status/1815053642606444631

He is a good shooter, so he deserves this kind of contract. With his limited minutes, I think this is just enough, but if the team wants some 3-point shooting while others are struggling, they can put him in. I think his problem is just his defense; he is not a good defender, so he is a liability in that aspect. However, with that kind of shooting percentage, I think it's right to invest in him.

Agree to that, he deserves to have it a secure contract and be on the team, just like what you point out he's really a good shooter and his percentage if giving that minutes he really can provide good outside threats, though he needs to work with his defense if he aiming to be more useful, being a two-player type of a player will give his name more value, as we know that shooting advantage mostly being use by the coach especially if you are playing with the defending title holder who will try to repeat that same acheivements.

[Russlenat]

Sam Hauser also agreed on a 4-year contract extension with the Boston Celtics at $45 million dollars. Wow! One of the best shooters that I've seen and I think the Celtics will be stronger offensively with him.
https://x.com/wojespn/status/1815053642606444631

He is a good shooter, so he deserves this kind of contract. With his limited minutes, I think this is just enough, but if the team wants some 3-point shooting while others are struggling, they can put him in. I think his problem is just his defense; he is not a good defender, so he is a liability in that aspect. However, with that kind of shooting percentage, I think it's right to invest in him.

Agree to that, he deserves to have it a secure contract and be on the team, just like what you point out he's really a good shooter and his percentage if giving that minutes he really can provide good outside threats, though he needs to work with his defense if he aiming to be more useful, being a two-player type of a player will give his name more value, as we know that shooting advantage mostly being use by the coach especially if you are playing with the defending title holder who will try to repeat that same acheivements.

His role is probably like Kyle Korver who is also a great 3 point shooter.
Judging on his salary, I think they have close to Sam Hauser as the contract now have already increase compared to the last 5 years.

https://hoopshype.com/player/kyle-korver/salary/

So if Sam Hauser will continue to be contributing and of course his health is very important, he might still get a good contract but his amount would not increase significantly due to his limited role.

[Pulsar77]

Bronny is at Lakers all thanks to his father, nothing more than that. This isn't technically a deserved draft as a result. LeBron will probably play with his son for only 1 season and then retire. This is my humble opinion on this of course. After that, I would really like to see Bronny having improved his game already and continuing to be a part of NBA.    It is a tough work though so I hope he works hard from now to the end of next season.