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corrado
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Yeah with Boogie going to the Warriors, its a much tougher road for any East team. And West team of course.
He's supposed to be 100% by december/January. Perhaps just in time for Christmas with the Warriors against the Lakers in all likelihood. |
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jdw
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That's a riot.
I doubt the Warriors are going to push him to come back soon. |
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guren
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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True story - I named my new Sheltie puppy that I got a couple of months ago "Boogie". Next year when I yell at my TV, the dog is either going to think he did something special or I'm pissed off at him. I don't necessarily love the move from a basketball standpoint, but I am all in for the entertainment value. I was pretty bored by the Dubs during the regular season this past year. With LeBron (and possibly Kawhi) on the Lakers, the Rox still being the Rox, and the Dubs adding Cousins, perhaps they will be a bit more energized next season.
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guren
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Which is weirder - the Lakers signing Rondo, Born Ready, and JaVale, or the Wizards trading for Doc's son and signing Dwight and Jeff Green? |
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corrado
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'll add to the weird factor, the fact that Tony Parker signed with a team other than the Spurs. A 2-year deal with the Hornets.
So that means Manu will be the last man standing of "the big 3" of the Spurs. |
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corrado
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Seems the Rockets are very interested in Melo once his exit is official.
That would be quite the step down for Houston. Losing Ariza and mbah a monte, and gaining a liability in Melo. |
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Steve Yohe
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Funny...I named my dog booger. Guess I got it wrong.---Yohe |
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jdw
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| Steve Yohe wrote: | | Houston seems to be screwing up the 2nd best team in the NBA. Hope Paul gets injured earlier this year.--Yohe |
Losing Ariza hurts, but he wasn't going to sign for a massive discount. They are tight with the cap tax, and will be even tighter when they resign Capella.
Mbah a Moute is relatively cheap, but even $4M is expensive when you're that far up against the tax max.
James Ennis is a pretty nice cheapo D&3 wing pick up who should see his 3P% jump back up to 2016/17 level in MDA's offense and Beard & CP3 creating open looks.
Michael Carter-Williams is literally *only* a defensive player, but quite a good one. He's a very big guard at 6-6, so he'll be one of those switch guys.
They aren't quite the 6-8 that Ariza and Mbah a Moute were, but not far off.
They resigned Gerald Green for extremely cheap money. He's Gerald Green, so you don't trust him as far as you can throw him. But at that money he's really no risk. They also got real good bench play from him in the half a season that they signed him for.
My guess is that they will close the Capella deal. That limits their moves going forward.
They have issues dumping Ryan Anderson's contract. There's a catch 22 with Anderson - he is the type of player who help you win regular season games to get that #1 seed, but eventually in the playoffs he will hit a team that can play him off the court. The Dubs are such a team. You'd like Anderson at $8M-$10M a year. At $20M a year, especially multi-year, it's a killer.
Were they can really screw things up is by signing Melo.
I would rather keep the team together and add folks like Ennis and MCW for even more depth and match up options. But when you have Capella, Ariza and Mbah a Moute all up for contracts, and Capella is in demand around the NBA as a RFA, it tough to bring them all back. All teams run into this with their young players who are good, but not really superstars. We ran into it with Randle. They can cost more than they are worth, and their 4 year contracts clog up their payroll. The difference is that Capella is more valuable to a title team than Randle. Which means you kinda have to sign him, and say good buy to the likes of Ariza. |
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corrado
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:26 am Post subject: |
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So Kawhi will be a Raptor this year. The rumored trade would have him going to Toronto with Danny Green for Derozan, Jakob Poelti, and a protected 2019 1st rounder. Its already rumored that Kawhi is unhappy about the trade.
Could be a messy deal. But if it happens, this would benefit the Spurs. it gets an unhappy Kawhi out of their hands. And Toronto would get someone who probably won't be around in 2019 with them. |
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JAG
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Excellent news.
Ingram and Kuzma are still on the Lakers and Kawhi is on pace to be in 11 months and two weeks.
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jdw
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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He's not going to sit out the year. He puts hit free agency at risk of he sits out 30 days of the regular season and the Raptors want to push that he's faking the health issue by that point. On top of that, the entire NBA will push the Raptors to take such a stand because no one wants to see their stars in the future follow Kawhi's path - believed by his team to tank one season pretending to be hurt, then clearly tanking a second season pretending to be hurt to try to force the situation.
Players already have a tone of leverage. Most of it isn't going to be going away. But this is one where management will want to draw lines in the sand. We tend to forget that the last time management/ownership got together to draw lines in the sand, they flat out kicked the living shit out of the players. Stunned the shit out of me that the players caved. And while they talk a lot about rolling back that rollback in the next CBS, I don't have 100% faith that they will.
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JAG
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:25 am Post subject: |
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He ain’t sitting out.
This will come down to how well Toronto is doing when winter comes and then Masai will decide if he wants to flip him or not and what he will accept from the Lakers or Clips (I suppose).
Can’t see Magic caving on Ingram-Kuzma-Lonzo unless LeBron asks for it. Totally possible depending on how Lakers season is going.
Buckle up.
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Steve Yohe
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Carmelo to Houston will destroy that team.---Yohe |
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