Les Claypool
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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You want to talk about, well, we've given George and we've given Max this, so we owed it to him. Wait. Wait. He's hurt all the time. Wait. I don't understand it. He's going to be 34 years old and he's going to have a player option for $69 million a few years from now.
So you pray you land in the top six because the other element of this Sixers thing is that that draft pick lands outside of the top six and it ends up with Oklahoma City.
But they are... what, four and a half games off the New Orleans pace. They're just going to have to hope to get lucky here with this thing because that would just be the icing on the cake for this season. All right, let's move to the next team. The Toronto Raptors. Highest approval rating for me of any NBA city. 26th on offense, 24th on defense. Last year, 24th on offense, 26th on defense.
So switching it up. What is this team doing? So, the fact that they're even 19-42, though, I'm kind of impressed. They have 19 wins. They were 8-31 and then went 8-2. They had wins against Golden State, against Boston. Is Orlando a good win anymore against the Clippers? But they've gone, I think, 3-9 in their last 12. So... During that stretch, they were playing incredible defense.
So January 12th to January 30th, that's how they did it. The offense was 22nd. The defense, they were playing the second best defense in the NBA over the course of two plus weeks in January. More positives. Grady Dick might be a thing, or it could be the sophomore opportunity bump that I mentioned so often where it's
The numbers aren't awesome, but he just gets more shot attempts because he has more minutes. But at the very least, it's not a Johnny Davis scenario here. Agbaje might be something. 40% from three this year. Like a legitimate rotation guy. Boucher is a legitimate rotation guy. But ultimately, this comes down to... the payroll.
So next year, Scotty Barnes, 38.6 million, RJ Barrett, 28 million, quickly 32 and a half million. And they just signed Brandon Ingram to three years and 120 million fully guaranteed for whatever fucking reason. I have no idea. I don't know who you're competing against. He doesn't play enough. And I think he's a good regular season score.
I think when things get a little tighter, as we saw Oklahoma city, just horrifying last year, I think that's, that's kind of real. So Those four players are going to be making $137 million next year combined. For what? This is a list of guys, and I'm not including Scotty Barnes in this. I like RJ Barrett a little bit until I have to pay him. I understand quickly until I have to pay him.
Brandon Ingram, yeah, he gets you some nice buckets. Even maybe a little side of passing.
At their core, they have guys that even if you kind of like, you don't want to pay. The Scottie Barnes stuff is not great. Three-point percentage are just kind of disastrous. The advanced numbers have dipped a bit here, but I like him too much, and he's too young, and the good stuff was too good for me to just kind of collectively turn the page on this guy.
I don't know that he'd ever be the number one option. And again, the number one option on a really good basketball team, I don't think that list is more than five or seven guys anyway. So to ask that of him is too much of an ask. And he's such a great in-between player and complimentary in the things that he can do. I still hold out a lot of hope for him, but like...
Yeah, I look at Palo potentially being the face of a franchise of a good team. I don't see that for Scottie necessarily, but I think the Scottie stuff's going to be a little too negative because of the dip in some of this stuff. I just don't understand the point of this team. Speaking of, let's talk Charlotte Hornets. 29th on offense, 16th on defense. Hey, look at those guys.
Their offense, 28th last year. Defense was terrible last year. If I bring it up here again, they were 29. So, yeah. I mean, that Charlotte defensive number is so surprising. I'm checking it again here. They were 6-9 at one point. Then they went 8-37. They're the worst shooting team in the NBA. I like some of the pieces, sort of. Miller's going to be a player.
Mark Williams part two has been really good. Salon in. I don't know what it is. That might be scary, but I'm in. Only three players have played 50 games for him this year. Josh Green, Seth Curry, and Diabate. Lamello, three-point decline, four straight seasons. Lamello, 21.9 field goal attempts per game, the most in the NBA. 41% overall from the floor. Those two numbers can't happen.
We know his skill. We know the fun parts. But they are the Hawks North. They have a face of the franchise that's really popular, that is very flawed. Look, at least Trey's won big games for them. This guy's never even played in a game. They have a major attraction that is a major problem. And finally... Ryan, when are you going to do the Wizards? Phrasing. I have Wizard stuff.
It's on another page. They're 30th on offense, 28th on defense. 24, do you care? No. They're 183 winning percentage. Oh no, they lost again. At 186, their winning percentage at 186, only 32nd worst all time in the history of the NBA. So that's a positive. 2-32 against teams 500 or better. I like Koulibaly. I like Bob Carrington. I like maybe... George, maybe. I don't know.
Sarge had some good months shooting. I think it's just important that Sarge is taking those shots. Champagny is a rotation guy. They found something there. I'll tell you this. If the trade deadline in the NBA were April 1st, I think they'd have some options here.
Brogdon, but it is not April 1st. It's February 8th this year. Poole, two more years at $32 million and $34 million. That's each year. He's arguably my least favorite player in the league right now. I did read the piece recently about his leadership and the young guys responding and how he handled being benched last year.
It's turned his career around, and I read it, and I read it, and I was like, oh, that's really interesting. It also sounds like somebody being like, we want to pump this guy up so we can trade him this summer. I guess if you're trying to lose games, Poole is great for you. I don't know how much longer I'd want to be rebuilding, having that guy take the most shots on my basketball team.
But again, if it's about losing, good stuff. It's still amazing to me, the Jordan Poole story, that someone that was so important to Golden State winning a title in 22, he was 17 a game during that run. His shooting splits 51 and 39%. big shots from Jordan pool on a championship team that he could play the game this way.
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