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2012 NBA Mar |OT| Knicks fans now drinking JD in straight shots
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As crazy as a laker bandwagoner.
Ninja Scooter
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The Magic would do it in a heart beat. C'mon, look at some of the names being rumored in Dwight deals? Boozer? Pau? Even Bynum? Blake is on a rookie contract and would put asses in seats, even if its just for one or two years. And yeah, Blake is young, but so is Dwight, and he plays a much harder position to find stars in, and he's the best defensive player in the league, in addition to giving you as much on offense as Blake would. Clippers would improve drastically.
Commish has been a spurs fan since the tim duncan days.
Black Mamba
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lol
Herpes Reasons
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i love the week of trade deadline.
monta or curry.
sessions, stay there bro.
monta or curry.
sessions, stay there bro.
CoffeeJanitor
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I hope all of those trades are made and the teams go to shit
desperation moves I tell ya
reminds me of NYK
desperation moves I tell ya
reminds me of NYK
especially at the 8th spot.. it sucks to be mediocre in the east. You are never going to get past chicago or miami in the first round, and you are never going to out tank charlotte and washington.
Dwights great, but he's not THAT young anymore. He's 26. Blakes 22. Dwight is closely getting to that stage where, what you see is what he's got for pretty much the remainder. Blake has already been working hard on adding to his arsenal, and his midrange shot seems plausible.
And don't get me wrong, i think dwight is capable of a lot more than SVG is getting out of him.
I'm vastly disappointed with how pathetic the clippers are on defense. With their bigs, they should be the most agile defensive team in the league. But DJ is more interested in leaking out to get a alley oop, and blake just isn't that interested on D at all. All DJ has to be is Tyson Chandler, Get your alleys in the flow of the game, not by leaking out. And play great positional D, and be the vocal focal point for the Defense. I'd almost suggest the clippers should ban DJ from ever being the first person across the halfway line on offense.
Yes, right this second, Dwight is an instant upgrade. And you're not wrong about best defensive player.
My concern with the trade is that they basically have to send out Caron or DJ to go with Blake to get the salaries to come close to matching. You send out Caron, you're getting back Turk. Urgh. Instantly worse. You send out DJ you're probably taking Ryan Anderson Back. Urgh, instantly worse.
Dwights a better C right now, than Blake is a PF but is a partial short term upgrade (assuming Blake continue to develop) worth getting significantly worse at another spot?
I'm not so sure it is.
I think the clippers are one of few teams, that can make a legitimate case for NOT trading for Dwight. A lot of other teams cases FOR trading for Dwight are built around having a great future, not contending straight away, but protecting the future. The clippers should be ok in the bigs department going forward.
Please.... Sarvers not classy enough to do that, he'd use the money to try and entice him back to play for them for another 2 years.
The spurs are the one team in the play offs you could quite handily beat. And PHX if we're stuck in the 8th seed. We better not be.
Pop would coach circles around Brown. In a 7 game series I'm certain Pop finds some strategy that Brown is incapable of creating a valid adjustment to. Remember when Phx started zoning the lakers in the WCF and it took us 3 games to adjust and beat it by putting Odom at the baseline and Pau at the FT line (among other adjustments?)
Mike Brown NEVER beats that zone...if he lets Kobe design the offense, sure...but Pop would kill Brown in a chess match like Doc just killed Del Negro.
Doc would have killed Brown Sunday too except Kobe essentially drew up the final 2 plays and we got the win.
Brown has a serious D'antoni like problem - his offensive system isn't good, he doesn't make adjustments, just tells the players to run it better. Phil did the same, but his offensive system was gold, and he was amazing at adjusting between games.
Give me OKC over SA any day. If we get back on D and stop their transition / blowout wins we can beat that teams POS half court execution easier than we can beat Pop's brilliant coaching
Eh... I'm not convinced of that. And they both rely a lot on their athleticism. So injury concerns are the same for both.
And remember, it's significantly worse, at one other spot.
The spurs can't match your size, and aren't athletic enough to abuse you in transition. If bynums healthy i think it's a fairly easy series for you.
When the best you can do is 8th seed in the East, its time to blow it up.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Blake's rookie was better than D12's first 3 years... I can see him getting a mid range jumper and then it's on...
Also there are a lot of great PFs and no Cs
Blake literally plays offense only. All that athleticism to be a marginal defender.
CommonSense
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Confirmed. League is rife with 4.5's.
That's what the off season is for. Blowing up a 'winning' team in the middle of the year is bad mojo.
Gotta sell high
Plus contract situations... its a lot harder to move a RFA at the end of the season than it is in the middle.
LegendofJoe
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Since you're up Dy let's begin our worship of Biyombo for the day.
Respect the Smack Ariza!
benjipwns
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Dmncnby2k9
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Looks like Favors can be had for the right price, though i doubt they trade him. Some kind of trade needs to happen though. Cmon Kevin!
He's getting better huh? Doesn't look like a terrible pick @10. I still think his future is instant offense off the bench type of guy.
Rodeo Clown
All aboard! The Love train!
Derrick Williams had 19 and 8 last night. He's averaging 14.4 and 6.8 since the break.
Pretty alright.
Pretty alright.
My Fantasy team loves that. Too bad Rubio's out.
Jimmer is going to go hang out with Adam Morrison in Europe in a year or two.
ahh yes the "he's white and was good in college so he's Adam Morrison" argument.
LegendofJoe
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"I see him, he was coming, and I'm like, I'm not going to let him just go, so I block."
"So I block." Nothing else needs to be said Biyombo, you are as well spoken as you are athletic. All hail BiSMACK Biyombo!
"So I block." Nothing else needs to be said Biyombo, you are as well spoken as you are athletic. All hail BiSMACK Biyombo!
Remember when Utah fans were saying that the Jazz got a lot for trading Deron Williams and pointed to Derrick Favors and a "competent PG in Devin Harris"?
Yea...I was right. Nets got to rent Deron Williams for free for 1.5 years. And if Dwight gets what he wants and ends up in NJ...it will have been the panic-rush-without-thinking move that's almost as bad as Lamar's panic-rush-without-thinking TRADE ME demand.
Yea...I was right. Nets got to rent Deron Williams for free for 1.5 years. And if Dwight gets what he wants and ends up in NJ...it will have been the panic-rush-without-thinking move that's almost as bad as Lamar's panic-rush-without-thinking TRADE ME demand.
Prototype-03
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Obviously he just jelly that D-Will and D-12 are going to Dallas
Amare/Melo for Deng/Asik/Rip's mask.
Rip's mask must be worth a lot, lol.
I'd prefer that the Jazz keep Millsap since he's so reliable, but we are a bit overstaffed up front.
Devin Harris, Raja Bell, CJ Miles, and Josh Howard should all be on the block. I've been high on moving Jefferson as well, because even though he scores a lot, it seems that our bench makes their best runs when he's not eating up a ton of shots.
Get us a solid PG and a shooter and we'll be in business.
Devin Harris, Raja Bell, CJ Miles, and Josh Howard should all be on the block. I've been high on moving Jefferson as well, because even though he scores a lot, it seems that our bench makes their best runs when he's not eating up a ton of shots.
Get us a solid PG and a shooter and we'll be in business.
ClovingWestbrook
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Bring the 1980s Bird/McHale/Parish Celtics into 2012, do they dominate?
Bring the 2012 Miami Heat into the 1980s, do they dominate?
Bring the 2012 Miami Heat into the 1980s, do they dominate?
Shut up, Clovis
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