I understand the sentiment but there are a lot of freak accidents that have caused this. An elbow breaking his face can’t be counted in some statement of someone’s overall health.
Celtics fan here, I agree. Our bigs can't stop Jokic. Our saving grace is that besides Aaron Gordon, their starting unit cannot play enough defense against our guards and wings. KCP was awesome and now they have... Braun and Westbrick @@rainofkhandaq6678
@@rainofkhandaq6678 they literally got worse tf are you talking about? Russ ain't doing shi, can't shoot, can't defend etc. Lost arguably one of the best role players in KCP, an elite 3 and D player. Murray looking more disappointing and if MPJ can't hit anything thats not against the Lakers. Denver has Jokic, so they obviously can't be rouled out, but there are better teams out there (actually no one can beat this Boston team in a 7 game series).
@@kjjr3270Agreed. I am a Denver fan but I am not feeling confident at all about this year. Jamal has looked horrible for months and MPJ hasn’t improved like fans had hoped he would.And he is making way to much money. And Westbrook? I just don’t see how he fits in this team.
The starting lineup is not a big question both Caruso and hartstien both are career bench players so it not a big deal The number 1 question should be is chet and jdub make another leap
I actually do believe it is a big question considering that even if they’ve been bench players both heavily fix problems they’ve had so them starting wouldn’t be a question especially since Hartenstein has shown he can be a good starter
I thought the Hawks were going to be a horrible team this upcoming season, but I looked at the roster, and they surround a trae with long defensive minded wings. That’s perfect for a 6’0 guard like Trae who is the top 5 offence by himself. I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if they won 50 games.
You nailed it, man. The only one I might change is the Brooklyn Nets. I think their question should be "how bad can they be? And does that land them Cooper Flagg?" But I know you had a sort of similar question with the Jazz, so I understand not wanting to repeat yourself.
I really wish that the Celtics would have drafted Kyle Filipowski. Questions about his readyness coming into a win now environment aside, the guy spent 2 full seasons playing college ball, already giving him an edge in terms of experience. But more importantly, during those KP injury riddled stretches, he's a guy that can slot into that stretch 5 slot quite well. Sure he may need to work on his shot a bit, but the Celtics are already locks for the playoffs anyway so why not use that regular season time to get him confident when he releases his shot from outside the arc. He's already a really skilled big man inside the paint and is a very capable defender when it comes to being able to withstand banging bodies down low and cleaning the glass as well.
I don’t think Boston’s center depth is as bad as some make it out to be. Kyle would’ve been a good pick regardless, but Tillman can really hold his own, I like how hard queta plays, big Al is great. But I agree overall, I think rob will was the last real big the Celtics drafted.
@ssjam6120 agreed that the depth is nice, but even then, the C's true strength comes from their unnatural floor spacing. During the time when KP's gone, if Al is sitting for any amount of time, their strength minimised to a large extent.
As a Nets fan, the biggest question for me is if Cam Thomas can take a leap and improve at other things besides scoring. Would raise his ceiling immensely if he becomes a better passer or defender
The question for Miami should probably be : can they figure out how to trade players and sign free agents before the season start to get us finally a PG that can play in the first team
Bulls - Giddey starts as the primary point guard/playmaker and Lonzo Ball spends some time in the G League. If Lonzo totally cooks everyone in the G-League (as he should) then he can join the main team. If he struggles in the G-League then let him go. Grizzlies - If they stay healthy, they're in the playoffs. Best thing they can do is get Zach Edey starting at center. Throw him in at the deep end and get him used to the NBA because then he'll be useful in the playoffs.
My question for the 76ers is not can they stay healthy, but if they are even capable of making an eastern conference finals appearance. Year 10 for Embiid and even when he’s healthy he has been unable to make a deep run. How many “super teams” do they have to assemble to get Embiid to the conf finals?
In retrospect the ROY race between Ben Simmons and Donovan Mitchell is hilarious. Philly fans and the media were saying Simmons is the next Magic lmao. Maybe they should have pumped the brakes and been concerned about the lack of any type of jumper from him. Now Mitchell is a top 20 player and elite scorer and Simmons is unplayable and almost out of the league.
Question, if your team *does* suffer injuries isn’t that good for Charlotte? The Hornets would lose more if LaMelo get injured they would lose more games to tank for the draft. It would get young players or draft picks for leverage if they wanted a big player to try and make a run.
@@BenIsFiguringitOut Nice, when i was a bit younger i rooted for the Hornets so much and i got my hopes up. Im just glad to see someone enjoys em now lol.
@@andrewkelly1337 embiid’s prime is wasted by embiid. At what point are people just going to acknowledge he ain’t the player to just carry a team to a championship. In the playoffs, he’s never healthy and when he plays, he chokes.
In the first 4 years of his 5 year, untradable max contract that finally ended last season, TOBIAS HARRIS was the highest paid player on the team, not Joel Embiid. It's hard to build a roster than can succeed when you're giving "best player on the team money" to someone who straight up makes the team worse. Someone so bad on the court and overpaid they couldn't even trade him as a expiring contract. They managed to lose Al Horford for 1 pick but couldn't get rid of Tobias for half a decade because he made too much of the team's money. But sure, it's just that Embiid can't carry, you totally understand this shit and basketball in general my guy
@@jamesartemio1312 yeah. at this point, 76ers just trade Embiid while his value is all-time high and let Maxey be their franchise player. 76ers are 10 years into the "process" and achieved nothing.
You're sleeping on the Spurs. VW will take a leap and he will win the DPOY and b/c of CP3 will also win the Most Improved Player award. Now, if all remain healthy, the Spurs will turn at least 20 of those close losses in the 4Q from last year to 15+ wins. PLUS, with VW surrounded by a better team and no stupid Pop experiment (tank) with Sochan out of place as a PG, that = another 10+ wins. So I predict 45+ wins and play-in. If they trade fr Brandon Ingram, then they are a 4-5 seed. Roster for 2024-‘25: VW, Sochan, Barnes, Vassel and CP3 are starters. Off the bench: Castle (gets 25mpg and wins ROY), Jones, Johnson, Collins, Mamu, Cissoko, Branham, Wesley, Champagnie; Bouyea. That leaves 3 slots for total of 18 players. (Player trade assets: Johnson; Collins; Champagnie; Branham; Wesley; Bouyea)
Im a raptors fan so naturally i hate the celtics, 6ixers n Knicks in that order. Yes, Nets got our number in the playoffs but they are to sad to hate on lol. I say all this to say, i think the 6ixers will win the east. I hate them but i see that roster and know how good they are with a healthy embiid, know Maxey has another gear cuz he cooks my Raptors and see them winning 60+
Bro Embiid got knee surgery last year he didn't take time to reat and re-injure it lol that's the problem with the Embiid narrative.... no one actually knows unless they're actually Sixera fans. It's just ah Embiid sucks
The Embiid narrative is that he is either injured or underperforming when he is needed most. And as much as I hate to say it, the haters have a point, he has been doing pretty much exactly that for a decade now.
Why the hell would the hawks trade their 25 year old generational talent who’s already almost lead them to a finals by himself?😂 would be very dumb of them
@@thegreatone5984 Trae young who is a all star point guard. Generational Talent are players who come very very few-far-between. Examples are Wemby, Zion, Bron, KD. (Generational talents have a high chance to be generational players. If things pan out for them) Generational Players are players who developed into top end players. Many of which weren’t discussed as the next big thing since slice bread when coming in Examples: Giannis, Luka, Curry, Jokic Trae doesn’t fall into any of those categories. Trae Young although extremely talented has only been to the ECF one time, same amount as demar derozan, Dominque Wilkins never made it to the ecf and we know he was a baller
@@wimpyguy5519 I struggle with Luka’s title too. He wasn’t touted as it coming in because he had questions on if his game could translate. I was high on him coming into the league and would have picked him first overall myself. However, general consensus at the time was that he wasn’t generational talent, just an extremely high level euro league player with question marks on his shooting, explosiveness, and defense.
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The Joel Embiid when healthy should not be in the convo anymore. It's about to be year 10 and he's still not healthy.
I understand the sentiment but there are a lot of freak accidents that have caused this. An elbow breaking his face can’t be counted in some statement of someone’s overall health.
@@yourhandsomestep-dad2669should’ve had an vibranium skeleton idk
didn’t realize he’s been in the league for 10 years 😭 time flies
Yeah but he has the most flagrant fouls, so it's his karma for injuring others
@@yourhandsomestep-dad2669embiid chokes in playoffs anyway. He's been losing for many years
thanks cone I didnt want to sleep at 6am yet anyways
You know it’s a great day when cone uploads
Only thing stopping Boston from repeating are probably only themselfs at this point.
Or if Denver can actually make it to the finals. Only team that has a match up advantage imo
Celtics fan here, I agree. Our bigs can't stop Jokic. Our saving grace is that besides Aaron Gordon, their starting unit cannot play enough defense against our guards and wings. KCP was awesome and now they have... Braun and Westbrick
@@rainofkhandaq6678
@@rainofkhandaq6678 they literally got worse tf are you talking about? Russ ain't doing shi, can't shoot, can't defend etc. Lost arguably one of the best role players in KCP, an elite 3 and D player. Murray looking more disappointing and if MPJ can't hit anything thats not against the Lakers. Denver has Jokic, so they obviously can't be rouled out, but there are better teams out there (actually no one can beat this Boston team in a 7 game series).
@@kjjr3270memphis 2025 champs
@@kjjr3270Agreed. I am a Denver fan but I am not feeling confident at all about this year. Jamal has looked horrible for months and MPJ hasn’t improved like fans had hoped he would.And he is making way to much money. And Westbrook? I just don’t see how he fits in this team.
Hey cone love your content
You should have a 'go ahead' counter on your videos because it's funny how often you say it ❤
The starting lineup is not a big question both Caruso and hartstien both are career bench players so it not a big deal
The number 1 question should be is chet and jdub make another leap
I actually do believe it is a big question considering that even if they’ve been bench players both heavily fix problems they’ve had so them starting wouldn’t be a question especially since Hartenstein has shown he can be a good starter
I thought the Hawks were going to be a horrible team this upcoming season, but I looked at the roster, and they surround a trae with long defensive minded wings. That’s perfect for a 6’0 guard like Trae who is the top 5 offence by himself. I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if they won 50 games.
This kind facts. The hawks winning 45-50 games is possible if they stay healthy
I think they’ll be closer to .500 I feel like 50 is on the more optimistic side
thx great video keep up the good work
You nailed it, man. The only one I might change is the Brooklyn Nets. I think their question should be "how bad can they be? And does that land them Cooper Flagg?" But I know you had a sort of similar question with the Jazz, so I understand not wanting to repeat yourself.
Cleveland’s lack of bench & having no real 3&D wing to complete the starting lineup has been hurting them in the playoffs.
Love channel and good video😊
I really wish that the Celtics would have drafted Kyle Filipowski. Questions about his readyness coming into a win now environment aside, the guy spent 2 full seasons playing college ball, already giving him an edge in terms of experience. But more importantly, during those KP injury riddled stretches, he's a guy that can slot into that stretch 5 slot quite well. Sure he may need to work on his shot a bit, but the Celtics are already locks for the playoffs anyway so why not use that regular season time to get him confident when he releases his shot from outside the arc. He's already a really skilled big man inside the paint and is a very capable defender when it comes to being able to withstand banging bodies down low and cleaning the glass as well.
I don’t think Boston’s center depth is as bad as some make it out to be. Kyle would’ve been a good pick regardless, but Tillman can really hold his own, I like how hard queta plays, big Al is great. But I agree overall, I think rob will was the last real big the Celtics drafted.
@ssjam6120 agreed that the depth is nice, but even then, the C's true strength comes from their unnatural floor spacing. During the time when KP's gone, if Al is sitting for any amount of time, their strength minimised to a large extent.
You’re dope dude! Great takes
As a Nets fan, the biggest question for me is if Cam Thomas can take a leap and improve at other things besides scoring. Would raise his ceiling immensely if he becomes a better passer or defender
The question for Miami should probably be : can they figure out how to trade players and sign free agents before the season start to get us finally a PG that can play in the first team
great breakdown
Bulls - Giddey starts as the primary point guard/playmaker and Lonzo Ball spends some time in the G League. If Lonzo totally cooks everyone in the G-League (as he should) then he can join the main team. If he struggles in the G-League then let him go.
Grizzlies - If they stay healthy, they're in the playoffs. Best thing they can do is get Zach Edey starting at center. Throw him in at the deep end and get him used to the NBA because then he'll be useful in the playoffs.
I really feel the Thunder are going to run Chet at the 4 and I-Hart at 5, you are not paying I-Hart that much money to come off the bench
My question for the 76ers is not can they stay healthy, but if they are even capable of making an eastern conference finals appearance. Year 10 for Embiid and even when he’s healthy he has been unable to make a deep run. How many “super teams” do they have to assemble to get Embiid to the conf finals?
In retrospect the ROY race between Ben Simmons and Donovan Mitchell is hilarious. Philly fans and the media were saying Simmons is the next Magic lmao. Maybe they should have pumped the brakes and been concerned about the lack of any type of jumper from him. Now Mitchell is a top 20 player and elite scorer and Simmons is unplayable and almost out of the league.
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I’m a Hornets’ fan and it’s all about health for us!
Question, if your team *does* suffer injuries isn’t that good for Charlotte? The Hornets would lose more if LaMelo get injured they would lose more games to tank for the draft. It would get young players or draft picks for leverage if they wanted a big player to try and make a run.
@@Trxngleas a hornets fan I’d rather have a somewhat good season than a good draft pick unless we’re getting cooper Flagg😭
@@Trxngle imo it’s not because we’ve been doing this shxt for too long! Time to see if we can make a play-in/playoff run.
@@BenIsFiguringitOut Nice, when i was a bit younger i rooted for the Hornets so much and i got my hopes up. Im just glad to see someone enjoys em now lol.
I'm a LaMelo fan, but if he's injured again for most of the season, Charlotte HAS to make 'that' move I'm sorry 🤷♂️
if lonzo can get back in form before injury spurs would love him after cp3 retires
Missed my SAT for this
Hope that was a joke
I really wish the nuggets rookie didnt get injured :(
NBA injuries are scripted
Brook played 78 games las year so
The question in Philly is "was Embiids prime fully wasted by Tobias or not"
@@andrewkelly1337 embiid’s prime is wasted by embiid. At what point are people just going to acknowledge he ain’t the player to just carry a team to a championship. In the playoffs, he’s never healthy and when he plays, he chokes.
In the first 4 years of his 5 year, untradable max contract that finally ended last season, TOBIAS HARRIS was the highest paid player on the team, not Joel Embiid. It's hard to build a roster than can succeed when you're giving "best player on the team money" to someone who straight up makes the team worse. Someone so bad on the court and overpaid they couldn't even trade him as a expiring contract. They managed to lose Al Horford for 1 pick but couldn't get rid of Tobias for half a decade because he made too much of the team's money. But sure, it's just that Embiid can't carry, you totally understand this shit and basketball in general my guy
@@jamesartemio1312 yeah. at this point, 76ers just trade Embiid while his value is all-time high and let Maxey be their franchise player. 76ers are 10 years into the "process" and achieved nothing.
I think the problem with the bucks core is they’re all getting a lil old. Giannis will be 30 in December.
25:02 looks like they’re in a romantic relationship 😂
Klay was not great... 18 points off the bench at 39% on 6 attempts
I'm betting Trae Young is getting injured so the Spurs get their lottery pick and Cooper Flagg.
How is Westbrook's fit with Denver not their biggest question?
Good vid but wemby was not good at the olympics despite getting silver
Healthy Embiid is the same as healthy Kawhi at this point
A myth?
LuKlayRie Trio is the new Duncan-Parker-Leonard of the west
Who would’ve thought we would see klay and kyrie on the same team together. Shit is crazy
@@sarsfien8625 I'm telling you he gonna come back to his prime this season
You're sleeping on the Spurs. VW will take a leap and he will win the DPOY and b/c of CP3 will also win the Most Improved Player award. Now, if all remain healthy, the Spurs will turn at least 20 of those close losses in the 4Q from last year to 15+ wins. PLUS, with VW surrounded by a better team and no stupid Pop experiment (tank) with Sochan out of place as a PG, that = another 10+ wins. So I predict 45+ wins and play-in. If they trade fr Brandon Ingram, then they are a 4-5 seed.
Roster for 2024-‘25: VW, Sochan, Barnes, Vassel and CP3 are starters. Off the bench: Castle (gets 25mpg and wins ROY), Jones, Johnson, Collins, Mamu, Cissoko, Branham, Wesley, Champagnie; Bouyea. That leaves 3 slots for total of 18 players. (Player trade assets: Johnson; Collins; Champagnie; Branham; Wesley; Bouyea)
Im a raptors fan so naturally i hate the celtics, 6ixers n Knicks in that order. Yes, Nets got our number in the playoffs but they are to sad to hate on lol.
I say all this to say, i think the 6ixers will win the east. I hate them but i see that roster and know how good they are with a healthy embiid, know Maxey has another gear cuz he cooks my Raptors and see them winning 60+
Thunder starting lineup predictions⤵️
Shai caruso dort chet hartenstein
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HOW IS IT ALPHABETICAL ORDER IF THE PHiLADELPHIA SEVENTY SIXERS GO FIRST?!
Cuz their name is a number
@@carsonog333 but isn't P the first letter I'm their name? They are not the 76ers Philadelphia. They are the Philadelphia 76ers.
Chicago is a mess
Bro Embiid got knee surgery last year he didn't take time to reat and re-injure it lol that's the problem with the Embiid narrative.... no one actually knows unless they're actually Sixera fans. It's just ah Embiid sucks
Embiid has a new excuse every year. He's been in nba 10 seasons now 🤣
The Embiid narrative is that he is either injured or underperforming when he is needed most. And as much as I hate to say it, the haters have a point, he has been doing pretty much exactly that for a decade now.
@lukakaps9548 yeah bc he's always too injured... it's underperforming while being injured is the problem. Way to make my point for me bub
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Why the hell would the hawks trade their 25 year old generational talent who’s already almost lead them to a finals by himself?😂 would be very dumb of them
Generational is a stretch
@@YondoNoKagumiwhat have hawks had in last decade?
@@thegreatone5984 Trae young who is a all star point guard.
Generational Talent are players who come very very few-far-between. Examples are Wemby, Zion, Bron, KD. (Generational talents have a high chance to be generational players. If things pan out for them)
Generational Players are players who developed into top end players. Many of which weren’t discussed as the next big thing since slice bread when coming in
Examples: Giannis, Luka, Curry, Jokic
Trae doesn’t fall into any of those categories. Trae Young although extremely talented has only been to the ECF one time, same amount as demar derozan, Dominque Wilkins never made it to the ecf and we know he was a baller
@@YondoNoKagumi Luka won mvp of euro league at 18 , if that isn’t generational talent I don’t know what is.
@@wimpyguy5519 I struggle with Luka’s title too. He wasn’t touted as it coming in because he had questions on if his game could translate. I was high on him coming into the league and would have picked him first overall myself. However, general consensus at the time was that he wasn’t generational talent, just an extremely high level euro league player with question marks on his shooting, explosiveness, and defense.
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