NBA Trade Deadline Reaction + Which Title Contenders Improved the Most?

NBA Trade Deadline Reaction + Which Title Contenders Improved the Most?

Trade deadline just finished Tommy we’re going to run through a few of these trades real quick huge news there wasn’t I kind of figured this was going to be a disappointing deadline for like the transaction population the the population of people that just love the NBA for drama and transactions uh as far

As I know no stars moved it all ancillary pieces but to be fair you’d say that the three biggest moves of this season have been Harden yeah seak and OG and they just happened before exact 3 p.m. today so so there were big trades just didn’t happen today well

Think about the the trades in the offseason right Bradley Beal yep Dame Dame Lillard Drew holiday porzingis Marcus Smart uh all right walk me through these trades I’m just gonna simple response simple response Charlotte Hornets are finalizing a trade to send PJ Washington to Dallas Mavericks or Grant Williams Seth Curry

In a firstr draft pick okay uh I think in some ways it’s like a a high price to pay PJ Washington uh young player uh probably a little more versatile offensively than Grant Williams actually he is you guys take sometimes you get so obsessed with like the my words that I’m

Just like I gotta be very PJ Washington is a better offensive player than Grant Williams there I said it like the deal for Dallas rappers are trading Dennis Schroeder to the nets for Spencer dwy uh nothing against Spencer dwy or Dennis shuder uh neither of those teams are

Going anywhere this year doesn’t move me yep uh Oklahoma City Thunder are finalizing a trade to send Trey man and Davis Berton to the charlot horns for Gordon Hayward uh like that trade for Oklahoma City uh I’m actually not surprised at all that there wasn’t a a

Big swing um you know ever since we talked about that them potentially like going for it this year um I’ve talked myself out of that and uh all the uh sort of indicators were that they were not going to do that I like this trade a

Lot for Oklahoma City uh gives them more depth More Wings size Gordon Hayward not in his prime anymore still a very good player I like it a lot for OKC the big trade that everybody was talking about especially we in Brooklyn right now in New York today Nicks are sending quent

Grimes for two future second round picks of the Pistons for bojan bogdanovich and Alec Burks yep uh I’m sad to see Quenton leave New York uh because of the the personal ties a little a little tug at my heart uh but I’m still going to be a

Quinton Grimes fan for life and uh love this trade for the New York Knicks I have two questions about this trade this is this is to me the most meaningful trade not not that Gordon Haywood to OKC wasn’t the most meaningful this to me is the most meaningful your boy Matt

Williams our boy Matt Williams had a stat today uh Bogie’s one of six players in the last two years to average 20 points per game shoot 40% from three other ones are Jaylen step KD kawhai and Jeremy Grant um this Nicks team is pretty loaded yes I have said for a few

Weeks given uh the un certainty around embiid um guess a couple weeks given the uncertainty around embiid and his return uh given uh I wouldn’t call it turmoil but given the ups and downs of the buck season the fact they are just now entering the hardest part of their

Schedule uh the the the turnover uh with the coaching staff uh the fact that they you know up to this point haven’t had you know that lock down Wing Defender so in some ways uh and in Cleveland of course it’s playing out of their minds

Uh want to see it in the playoffs for sure but Cleveland I’m still high on in some ways I’ve said the Knicks second best team in the East very good chance to make the Conference Finals they make these trades they add depth they add more shooting Alex Alec Burks is

Shooting the out of the ball bogdanovich is a hell of a shooter um they’re deep I think you can look at Brunson as a tier one star right now you can look at Randall as a tier one star the guy’s made two all NBA teams in the last three years Mitchell Robinson now

Potentially coming back before the end of the season if this team is healthy the pieces all fit perfectly yeah and they have to me they have a guy they have Jaylen Brunson they are absolutely loaded and I think unequivocally to me right now on paper if healthy I have to clarify all

This with you guys on paper healthy I think they are the best team the second best team in the East the second best team in the East to the Boston Celtics would not surprise me if the New York Knicks make a Deep Run in the playoffs provided they are healthy but I

Love both these trades for them I love the fit of these guys Alec bur’s you know been been in a Nick uniform before bonovich toiling away uh in Detroit great fit for him shout out to the Nicks front office for also making these trades without giving up a first round

Pick the question I wanted to ask you about these two in particular as shooter they’re both shooting um close to or over 40% as above the break Shooters in terms of the way they get their shots do you feel like this fit with Jaylen in particular and these guys is made even

More impactful for that and that they’re not just uh you know guys who are hitting Corner threes but these are guys who can play into the way this offense already fits yeah both these guys to me are absolutely more versatile than just spot-up Shooters but they are good

Spot-up shooters so to me you take Brunson out of the game you can run sets for bogdanovich you can put the ball in Alec Burke’s hands he can help facilitate a halfcourt offense uh they both fit in different lineups with OG and Randall and either hartenstein or Mitchell

Robinson um there’s a there’s just a lot of optionality that’s what you need in the playoffs you need optionality uh the Nicks offense uh it’s been efficient now for two seasons uh the Knicks offense is not a complicated offense generally speaking they run uh some isos for Randall uh they run pick

And roll for Brunson and most everything they do is out of that now they run some fluff and by fluff I mean uh a zoom action dribble hand off at the top of the key runs and cuts through he then gets a swing pass and they run a up pick

And roll it’s everything ends up in a Jaylen Brunson pick and roll or Julius Randall ISO like that’s their offense right you need shooting around that offense you need bigger Defenders OG I said this at the time great fit they go 14-2 in January their defense has been spectacular hartenstein has been

Spectacular the Knicks are for real the Knicks are for real love that trade and by the way this is the draftking Sportsbook odds pre trade deadline so we are recording this at 3:13 p.m. on Thursday these are the odds as of this morning uh the Nicks basically uh

Seventh uh best odds to win the NBA Finals at plus 2500 just to go through these real quick uh Celtics nuggets bucks uh all at uh under plus 550 um and then you’ve got the Suns at plus 1400 uh Clippers in there at plus 550 as well

And the timber Wolves at plus 2,000 interesting to see how those odds shift after uh these trades are done uh OKC by the way because we mentioned the Gordon Hayward trade uh in terms of winning the Western Conference uh Denver with the best odds as of this morning at plus

20000 Clippers at plus 280 Phoenix Suns at plus 650 and both the Timberwolves and the Thunder at plus 900 essentially tied for fourth um fascinating fascinating what is going on at the the top of the western conference right now where these four teams you know you lose

A game you can go from first to Fourth overnight uh that’s a race that we’re going to be talking about a lot particularly as it relates to homec court advantage uh you think about Denver’s run last year where they get homec court advantage for the for the

For the playoffs um or at least for the through the Western Conference Finals then of course because Miami won they get it in the in the finals as well that altitude is a real thing that homec court advantage they have is a real thing uh I think that’ll be super

Important OKC one of the best crowds that crowd in the NBA I think that’ll be important we’ve seen Minnesota now in some of these playing games and first round games with an insane crowd and for the Clippers of course like again like I want to call playoff games in La so like

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The NBA trade deadline has come and gone and JJ does a rapid response to some of the biggest moves of the day. We get into moves like Bojan Bogdanovic to the New York Knicks, Gordon Hayward to the Oklahoma City Thunder and PJ Washington to the Dallas Mavericks.

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