Official 2018 NBA Offseason Thread: free agency starts 7/1 - Summer League action is here!
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24 hours ago niggas said they don't know about taking cousins
Dude Kerr stays upstaging folks on the humble... LeBron and Magic always have to be in the public eye, announcing their every move, Kerr, quietly put together the damn holy trinity...
Not fair man, LeBron must have made this move for after basketball purposes... His run to the finals is over...
Nah
I'm just out here thanking the Lakers for poaching javale.
You're missing the point. You're too busy being a blind fanboy.
Naw, you should thank New Orleans. Them not giving him what he wanted is the reason he wants to show them.
Dudes, are acting like they weren't the favorites already or something.
I'm not.
My point is that nobody was willing to give him max money off the acl.
So that is in effect why we were able to get him for a 1 year rental
Nothing blind or fanboy about any of that
Exactly what my point was.
In reference to how we ever landed cousins
But also I doubt if McGee goes do they ever even think about cousins but you gotta do something right?
Another notch in you belt Bro... tell me, shit since you got that prophet hat on, who are my Sixers gonna end up with if anybody?
Did yall a favor on the low... lol
Naw they would have tried for Cousins anyway. He's going to miss part of the season.
Who wouldn't at that salary
McGee didn't even play some games
They could have just gotten rid of Looney.
Nah. Yall got him because hes a bitch ass nigga like ive been saying for years. He turned down more money and better options to get playing time elsewhere to sit on his fat ass and towel wave his way to a title while playing garbage minutes. I honestly dont think it moves the needle as far as your overall title shot tho so thats not even my gripe. The guy may be done and i dont see him being significantly productive anytime time soon. My issue is with HIM and the move itself being flat out ho shit on all fronts (personal and business).
I think Kawhi is your best shot but they say you guys dont wanna throw in Fultz so Spurs not gonna play ball.Another notch in you belt Bro... tell me, shit since you got that prophet hat on, who are my Sixers gonna end up with if anybody?
When the Kings put Cousins on the trading block, nobody wanted him, everybody said he was a locker room killer and more trouble than he was worth. The Pelicans who were the mist of a second straight losing season, dwindling interest and risk of losing another star decided to roll the dice took a chance. Especially since Mickey Loomis came over from the Saints and told Dell Demps to "win now or else".
At the end of the 2016-17 season, the results were "eh" and even starting the 2017-18 season the results were so-so, then they started to hit their stride and Boogie got hurt on a nationally televised game against a loaded Rockets team with four former Hornets/Pels in front of a sellout crowd that had a Saints game level of enthusiasm for the team.
They then proceed to do fine without him, scoop up Mirotic and reach the second round Now they are stuck with the decision of giving a 270 pounder with a shredded achilles a contract that could kill the franchise and have it reincarnated as the rebooted SuperSonics.
That's what Demps was facing but given the market, the fanbase and Mickey Loomis' directive, they decided to play it safe. Could the Pels have traded him and gotten something back that probably would have helped in the long run? Yes but once again as I told you in the other thread, this market, this fan base will dictate that the Pels make moves that other teams more than likely would not. That playoff run without Boogie, in some ways is the payoff.
Keep in mind, One of the reasons Monty Williams was fired because his style of play was considered too slow and boring for this market. Gentry has a job because his style was looked at as being more exciting and easy to understand. That's how shit is ran down here.
This isnt true. Several teams has interest and NO didnt pursue options. I know for a fact the Wizards reached out and were stiff armed. There were absolutely willing trade partners. To allow him to walk for nothing is atrocious. He should have been traded after year one when it was clear the experiment wasnt an ideal one for AD. Now he and Rondo walk with nothing to show for it.
I’m not worried too much about Cousins going there, because either you will start giving him the rock inside and take it out your other stars hands or by the end of the season he’ll be an unhappy camper.
Even if those teams has interest they were apprehensive as hell.
You still have the idea that the experiment wasn't working. It seemed to start to click by the time he got injured. Fact is we will probably never really know now.
Or we'll devise a way to get him involved.
Ball movement and team culture makes a huge difference man. I have no idea if he'll even be healthy but if he is? I have no doubt in my mind we'll use him the right way
and if you toss it inside to cousins and he can go 1 on 1 all night and day I don't see how anyone wouldn't have a problem with that
and as soon as you leave him you have to leave steph or klay or kd?
pick and roll with cousins and steph or cousins and kd?
Yup things finally starting clicking...
I think dude was getting low balled and he figured if I'm take a cheaply deal I'll take it from the Dubs
I think Carmelo would rather join the Lakers with LeBron. Kawhi needs to join the Celtics with Kyrie being shipped to the Spurs. Terry Rozier needs to be the Celtics starting point guard he played his ass off last year and it sucks he gotta sit back on the bench again behind Kyrie.
Those same teams that didn't want him don't want to win.
Fam, I’d let you throw it down to Boogie one on one all game. What has throwing the ball to Boogie one on one ever won? Thing is, Boogie getting 5 shots in the post won’t matter. And if he gets more than that, great. Because every shot Boogie takes is a shot KD or Steph doesn’t take. And it won’t be a three.
Now if Boogie decides to stop being a scorer and just do the dirty work, that would be a problem.
But Boogie is going to want a contract after the season, and averaging 10 points a game won’t get him paid.
We’ll see how it works out. That shit may work out great. I’m not shitting on the move at all. I’m just sceptical until I see you guys make it work.
It's a gamble
The one thing the warriors have is a locker room
He's not going to a team that hasn't won.
So he's gotta get in where he fits in
There's tons of creative things the team can do
But what's not gonna happen is everyone saying the key to beat them is to dump it inside and etc
And now that we may have gotten the piece we've never had that it's a bad thing
Gotta wait and see but also to your stat point y'all bout to pay capella how much and he just flat out don't have the same talent as boogie? And that's not a diss it's just true
He ain't gotta put up 25
He's proven he can do everything but do the dirty work be a good locker room guy and win.
So exactly what you said if he did it'd be trouble is exactly what he has to do to show a team he deserves s big contract
He's this generations version of Rasheed Wallace
Magic is on the phone right now with Clint Capella
no Kawhi next year if he does sign, unless its a one year deal
dwight on a 1yr deal will be a nice addition...im sure he ready to act right knowing folks getting tired of his act
Rozier can't run an offense...hes best coming off the bench. Kawhi makes more sense in philly, he plays the same position as most of our guys in the Celtics.
correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought terry ro really the 3rd point guard....
well they have smart, Terry, Kryie, Danny Angie been drafting guards for a while. Smart is a defensive guard...jacks ups 3s and plays defense and can actually run an offense better than Terry ,smart is great on the pick and roll. Terry has improved but he's more of a scoring guard, his playmaking has come a long way though. its going to be interesting to see what happens, Smart hasn't signed the QO yet but things are drying up...
naw i know smart, i thought there was another point but he got hurt and that allowed Terry all the burn, i think he got hurt early in the season