Wonder if they lose Harden because they didn't want to pay the luxury tax. That would be brilliant.
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NBA Offseason 2017 |OT| Only Big Ballers Allowed *please pay $495 to be a Big Baller
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Another fun fact CP3 has now joined his 3rd team where ownership decides (okay sterling was forced) to sell after. New Orleans, Clippers, Rockets.
Quick! Trade him to the Bulls!
Randolph Freelander
Member
Going to have to stand in line behind Knicks fans on that one.
Peter Ian Staker
Member
Supermaxes were a mistake.
Lazy vs Crazy
Member
Danny does not have three billion dollars
you don't know that, neither do i. we can only speculate.
Rumors are that Danny Ainge is looking to buy the Rockets.
I have long stood by the philosophy that there is no greater asset than a second team.
Pretty soon every team will have three players at 30% cap hit each and a bunch of 2-5mil/year players.
Ninja Scooter
Member
And then he'll turn around and trade the Rockets for the Pelicans and a future 1st.
Cornbread78
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Peter Ian Staker
Member
Pretty soon every team will say fuck that and trade the supermax eligible player for assets to build a more balanced roster.
juliushandle
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Caruso and Kuz will carry the Lakers to the chip
Ninja Scooter
Member
Is there a shit stain on it?
Cornbread78
Member
Goodnight sweet Truth..
BlackGhost
Banned
Lmao, I love how you're always pushing the shit stain thing.
He's already laid the foundation of the BBB culture all the other guys have to do is follow it.
darkwing-buck
Member
Let Kuzma shoot 30 shots IDGAF.
Let that boy gun.
Let that boy gun.
There was a reason I was really high on Ball before the draft. Him and Ben Simmons are the best passers I've seen coming out of college in a long time
I still have huge concerns about his ability to be a primary ballhandler though. He'll be deadly in transition, but I gotta wonder what his half court game will look like.
Sixers Summer League was so depressing once Fultz went down. Bolden and Korkmaz are fun to watch, but they had literally no playmakers on the offense.
I still have huge concerns about his ability to be a primary ballhandler though. He'll be deadly in transition, but I gotta wonder what his half court game will look like.
Sixers Summer League was so depressing once Fultz went down. Bolden and Korkmaz are fun to watch, but they had literally no playmakers on the offense.
Rookie Guards this summer league have been insane. I'm still shocked the Bulls picked Markannen over DSJ, Malik Monk, Donovan Mitchell.
The Lakers are so lucky their pick conveyed this year. Adam Silver rigged the draft confirmed
I said he was Devin Booker who can pass better. I still have massive concerns over him being the primary ballhandler in a half court set and still think his best role will to be a catch and shoot volume shooter guard in a half court set.
The only thing that's surprised me is his rebounding numbers, but I don't think Summer League is a good enough barometer of his NBA rebounding totals
The Lakers are so lucky their pick conveyed this year. Adam Silver rigged the draft confirmed
I said he was Devin Booker who can pass better. I still have massive concerns over him being the primary ballhandler in a half court set and still think his best role will to be a catch and shoot volume shooter guard in a half court set.
The only thing that's surprised me is his rebounding numbers, but I don't think Summer League is a good enough barometer of his NBA rebounding totals
He's actually gotten better at running half court every single game in SL
I have no more concerns about that
Only his on ball defense
Everything else he improved on each and every game
The concerns come from his lack of lateral speed and his bad pnr. There's a huge difference between Summer League and NBA guards. Lonzo is a really smart basketball player, and those are the kind of guys that feast in rec room ball like it is right now.
Now, obviously he could learn to drive in the NBA, but I still have concerns about his game.
I know, that's why we all had a good laugh.
Booker is a volume scorer, Lonzo is a passer who takes open shots.
Also, still not sure if Devin Booker is even very goooooood. Feel like he's the worst player type to build a team around and give max money to.
SUMMER LEAGUE HOT TAKES
I'm glad you already know what his game is like because he did well playing against fucking Melo Trimble
I'm fine with you having your opinion, and there's a chance we could both be wrong, or he develops other skills etc etc who fucking knows?
I don't see the problem with the comp tbh, you can be a prick about it but who fucking knows?
He had a 70 point game in the NBA before he could legally drink
If it's so easy to do, I'm tons of people would have done it...
darkwing-buck
Member
but but he scored 70 ptsssssssss
Relax man, just Trust The Process.
Anyone ever watched Devin Booker's 70-point game? It's such a gross amount of stat padding that even I would be ashamed to do something like that in NBA 2K.
They're both light skinned, so they've got that similarity going for them.
CopperPuppy
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I'm sure this was discussed earlier in the thread, but I'm curious so hopefully someone can enlighten me.
Why would the Cavs throw the taxpayer midlevel at Cedi Osman instead of, say, someone like Jamal Crawford? That's a valuable offer they could have used to add depth and it feels like they threw it away.
Why would the Cavs throw the taxpayer midlevel at Cedi Osman instead of, say, someone like Jamal Crawford? That's a valuable offer they could have used to add depth and it feels like they threw it away.
darkwing-buck
Member
Guys, let's buy the rockets.
Yep totes mcgotes bro.
Maybe they like Cedi in the locker room over Crawford? Maybe they think Korber does what Crawford does?
They also don't have a GM right now too
They only threw part of it at Osman. In either case, they're getting an all-offense, no defense player they don't need. Being able to get the younger player on the cheap probably doesn't hurt since they're already well into the tax and every dollar counts. Neither will be of any use against the Warriors so take your own guy and pay him a little less.
But they have no GM, so no real way to know what the reasoning is.
Martylepiaf
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Celtics should sign Ray Allen so he can retire as a celtic with a new number to retire
The issue is more that he hasn't run the PnR rather than he can't. His sample size at UCLA was small due to their play style. He'll gain experience in the PnR as he runs it in the NBA. Dude is clearly gifted, so I expect him to be fine.
It's not really a hot take unless both players completely change up their games.
Yeah he's smart enough to figure out the pick and roll, it's more his garbage handle that will slow him up if anything in that aspect in the short term.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Because Jamal Crawford in 2017 is garbage?
https://mobile.twitter.com/tOOT3r/status/887028733365833729
Knicks fans must be desperate to trade for him next year.
Knicks fans must be desperate to trade for him next year.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
Watch Kuz-kuz go for 40...
darkwing-buck
Member
I don't care if he attempts a million shots, just give dat boy the ball.
When you have the opportunity to sign a poor man's Kelenna Azubuike, you gotta take it.