Psychological Intellect
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Harden was great until, the finals......
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2013 NBA Offseason |OT| Already Planning for the 2014 Offseason
- Thread starter Rodeo Clown
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Is that for real... I can't believe that's an actual article from a national reporter. $50 million in cap space :lol
Randolph Freelander
Member
Bobcats will win the lottery and draft who turns into the next Greg Oden.
obijkenobi
Member
He's in line to be the new assistant head coach if someone doesn't hire him off the staff. Very well regarded by Pop
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
The Bobcats were a -9.2 team last year. Even going under the assumption that Mullens was the worst player in the NBA, it seems extremely unlikely they'll improve by more than 5 points (which is a gigantic difference) by replacing Mullens with Al and that would still put them under 30 wins. They'd still probably be a 24-28 win team with Al unless MKG improves a lot next year and I think he's another year away.
"Draft picks are important even to heavy spenders. They are the reason, after all, the Knicks and Nets were able to pull off the deals they did last week. Without draft picks, the big spenders are reduced to exchanging one shitty contract for another, and you can ask Isiah Thomas how that worked out in New York. And one last side note: The Knicks need to create some Bat Signalstyle spotlight for any-time Bargnani and Amare Stoudemire are on the floor together. Maybe its a silhouette of another player dunking. Maybe they can just shoot a flame from the top of Madison Square Garden. Maybe the MSG Network can broadcast some emergency signal alerting all New York residents to turn the channel immediately in the event Bargs and Amare pair up. But we need to mark these moments in real time.)"
Wow lmao.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-t...bucks-make-us-sad-and-more-in-nba-free-agency
Wow lmao.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-t...bucks-make-us-sad-and-more-in-nba-free-agency
obijkenobi
Member
Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine 18m RT @ESPNNBA: Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Danny Green and now Manu Ginobili all have contracts that expire following 2014-15 season
And then Tiago will be an expiring contract as well. So we'd be able to go after free agents/tank with Kawhi as our go to player. I wonder how long TP wants to play in the league.
And then Tiago will be an expiring contract as well. So we'd be able to go after free agents/tank with Kawhi as our go to player. I wonder how long TP wants to play in the league.
yeah that was wild
Future PhaZe
Member
Dwight is such a clown lulz
Wall is like the fuck is this shit while of course Dwight is shitting himself with how much fun he's having.
Wall is like the fuck is this shit while of course Dwight is shitting himself with how much fun he's having.
Hydrogen Bluebird
Member
Me, Samurai, and Giri were talking about it earlier today. Really surprising that the Kings did it. I don't think any big name FA would even consider going to Sac this offseason. I don't know what Vivek and Pete were thinking when they pulled the offer as fast as they did.
Also:
Ailene Voisin ‏@ailene_voisin 6h
Sources confirm Kings offer to Iguodala was 4 years, $52 million. Kings withdrew bid when Iguodala wavered about joining rebuilding team
Bahahaa
It's never as exciting as you think it might be
When you have a player that is head and shoulders above everyone else it is fun to watch.
When its just a bunch of scrubs .. it sucks.
Red Blaster
Member
draftexpress, clearly impatient waiting for this year's crop of college players, is doing scouting reports on the free agent class
dwight koufos
dwight koufos
Hydrogen Bluebird
Member
Next year's summer league would be amazing.
LegendofJoe
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Adding Zeller and Jefferson in place of Mullens and Haywood would likely propel our point differential up 2 or 3 just by itself. Combine that with the improvement of MKG and Biyombo and we could easily bump that up to 5 or 6. We're sitting at around 30 wins then and that isn't going to get it done this year. We'd likely be 6th or 7th in the lottery standings.
I am. Excited to see Wes Matthews there for a... fifth time?
When Adam Morrison is a summer league allstar you know it's not worth watching.
I learned so much about basketball last year by watching a team try to play without any bigs whatsoever.
Essentially 3 people could guard the entire team because of how fundamentally broken we were.
By adding anyone to the inside, the team changes dramatically. Shit, Dunlap didn't even bother telling guys to play defense outside of hoping to force turnovers. There was no point. We couldn't guard anyone and we couldn't sustain any offense.
Essentially 3 people could guard the entire team because of how fundamentally broken we were.
By adding anyone to the inside, the team changes dramatically. Shit, Dunlap didn't even bother telling guys to play defense outside of hoping to force turnovers. There was no point. We couldn't guard anyone and we couldn't sustain any offense.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
I was super excited to see Kanter and Gobert play together, but Kanter's out
Hopefully Gobert doesn't get dunked on too much.
I like Zeller a good bit long-term, but rookies almost never help teams win that much and Zeller in particular has to completely change up his game from college I think.
Kemba
Hendo
MKG
Zeller
Al
Is still a league-bottom defense that lacks the shooting to be an above-average offense. I think the Bobcats are bad enough to add a solid player and still be in the range for Wiggins and Randle since I don't think MKG or Zeller will break out and start helping a lot until the 2014-2015 season. However, Al would a poor guy to target since he limits your ceiling so much.
Nightstick11
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Welcome back, Ginobili. Even though you shit the bed in Games 6 and 7, we still love you.
Not super excited, but it should be interesting to see Olynyk playing against better competition. I'm skeptical that he's going to turn into anything, but I have some trust in the GAF-scouts, so I'll stay open to him.
lol amazing
I also saw some 2nd round dude totally dominate and raised my hopes.. (Millsap)
Damn that was good
Psychological Intellect
Banned
Nice. hyped for 2k14
love bazemore, lol
LegendofJoe
Member
Agreed, most people have no idea just how bad our frontcourt was last year.
Addition by subtraction is what I'm trying to point out. Zeller and Jefferson wouldn't exactly be an above average duo, but they are a huge improvement over the terrible Mullens and limited Haywood. Enough to make us a much better team anyway, and in a year where the tank competition is ramping up it's going to lead to a petty big jump in point differential. Take a look at the rosters of the teams were competing against and tell me I'm wrong.
Knux-Future
Banned
I would be hyped for the summer league except we almost always bomb hard.
MCW is going to look like complete ass lol.
I watched perhaps waaaay more Bobcats games than I should have last year...so I too know.
Mullens almost made me respect Hawes..
almost.
MCW is going to look like complete ass lol.
I watched perhaps waaaay more Bobcats games than I should have last year...so I too know.
Mullens almost made me respect Hawes..
almost.
LegendofJoe
Member
I still have a hard time believing what Kent has accomplished. Dude made it and is representing Bertie County, NC well.
Honestly I believe if we sign Al that he and Biyombo would start with Zeller coming off the bench. If we move Biyombo out of the starting line up our defense would get so much worse that I don't think the additional offense from Zeller/Jefferson would outweigh the hit we'd take on our already nonexistant defense.
Nothing unprofessional or clown shoes about it.
Kings wised up. You don't give $56 million to a guy who is lukewarm about being on your team. They probably expected an answer right away since it's either grabbing Iggy or trying to bring Reke back. They don't want to lose both because of Iggy's pussyfooting.
Iggy brought this upon himself. I heard Nuggets are willing to give him a contract extension now. I honestly hope they don't and no other team around the league gives him his stupid money.
LegendofJoe
Member
I think they would mix it up depending on matchups, but yeah that would probably be the normal lineup if we sign AL.
obijkenobi
Member
Jeff McDonald ‏@JMcDonald_SAEN 21s Manu has won Euro titles, NBA titles, Olympic gold. Scooping Woj on a free agency story might be his greatest accomplishment yet.
LOL. Real talk, I may cry during Timmy and Manu's retirement press conferences in two years
LOL. Real talk, I may cry during Timmy and Manu's retirement press conferences in two years
They obviously didn't realize this until Iggy didn't accept the offer right away.
I'm sure players always bullshit teams in meetings and usually the teams would eat that up, but Iggy probably said some things that he clearly wasn't backing up when the offer was finally made.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
And this is why your team has never won anything, MJ. You force your guys to draft and coach out of fear.
LegendofJoe
Member
There's a reason why Utah decided to let Kanter start against us. They knew it would be a good confidence booster for him. And guess what happened? He had a 23/22 game. Kanter is going to be good, but he's not that good yet.
I think he mostly started because Al was injured. He only has 2 other games where he played more than 30 mins and he went 18/8 and 18/10 in those games. Obviously he isnt there yet but he improved so much in 1 year.
Future PhaZe
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Yea, still haven't heard any solid evidence of Noels knee being bad other than the Suns redflagging him. Multiple teams' medical staffs checked him out and Dr. Andrews gave him the thumbs up as well, who has too many quality athletes he works with to bother lying about some kid who isn't even a pro yet.
I'm still salty the Wizards passed on him to be honest, it was fucking coward move but I like Porter enough that I'm just going to keep my mouth shut.
