By Dark PhaZe Go To PostAging your core by 6 years in order to get swept by GS is probably a bad ideaNo, I have zero interest in getting even younger. Playoffs now. There is no other way. It's been 13 years.
If you want to move Wiggins then do it for a younger piece. Because the next thing you know you've got Kat and old man Butler and Kat starts looking to pull a K-Love
Look, I don't think Andrew Wiggins is very good. He doesn't defend, he doesn't rebound, he doesn't make plays for anybody else. The one thing he does somewhat well is score and get to the line and Butler does that better, too. He'd have to improve by orders of magnitude to ever get on Butler's level. If that deal is ever on the table, Thibs would have to be a lunatic to say no.
Kris Dunn is 23 years old and had a higher to% than ast% last year. In case anybody wants to know about Thibs as talent evaluator.
By Fenderputty Go To PostDream Scenario:mkg for paul george and a 1st
Cavs trade for Butler
Celts acquire Hayward in FA
Pacers lose any and all leverage
By DY_nasty Go To Postmkg for paul george and a 1st
They'll take Clarkson and the 27 and they'll like it.
@APkrawczynski I've said before, the whole "Bulls won't deal with Thibs" idea was overblown. Teams were close on draft night last year.This still hurts my feelings. We could've had Butler last year and instead I got 1300 minutes of Kris Dunn.
Guarantee Chicago asks for Tyus during these new negotiations, which could potentially leave me with even more Dunn.
Wiggins is a SG. His best numbers are when LaVine isn't playing. He doesn't defend, and still doesn't shoot from 3 well. He does put up nice scoring totals when he is at SG. But that's about it. Wiggins is quickly turning into Rudy Gay.
LaVine can shoot from 3, and plays passable defense.
If Minny can turn Wiggins into Buttler, even if it costs them a Pick, they have to do it.
They then have a KAT, Buttler, LaVine core. And that sounds infinitely better than with wiggins in there.
You then have 3 wings that play passable to very good defense (Buttler, LaVine, Rubio). It's then up to KAT to develop his overall game.
LaVine can shoot from 3, and plays passable defense.
If Minny can turn Wiggins into Buttler, even if it costs them a Pick, they have to do it.
They then have a KAT, Buttler, LaVine core. And that sounds infinitely better than with wiggins in there.
You then have 3 wings that play passable to very good defense (Buttler, LaVine, Rubio). It's then up to KAT to develop his overall game.
Well, it's a hundred times easier to hide LaVine on defense when your perimeter defenders at Butler and Rubio, I'll give you that.
Man, I just thought about Butler and Rubio wrecking teams on defense and how I could've been watching that last year.
Man, I just thought about Butler and Rubio wrecking teams on defense and how I could've been watching that last year.
By s y Go To PostwatHe trys. He's no defensive maestro or anything. But he genuinely trys on defense. Which for someone with his athleticism translates into passable defense.
I'll say this for Zach: if I'm going to keep one wing that scores and doesn't do much else, it's going to be Zach.
I think a Rubio/LaVine/Butler lineup is much more versatile one that has Wiggins subbed into that 2 spot.
I think a Rubio/LaVine/Butler lineup is much more versatile one that has Wiggins subbed into that 2 spot.
By Kabro Go To PostHouston offering eric gordon + 2 1st round picks.
Morey's "something up our sleeve" move? lol
“They are not unbeatable,” Morey said of Golden State. “There have been bigger upsets in sports history. We are going to keep improving our roster.” […]
“We are used to long odds. If Golden State makes the odds longer, we might up our risk profile and get even more aggressive.
“We have something up our sleeve.”
Read more at http://www.slamonline.com/nba/daryl-morey-rockets-something-up-our-sleeve-warriors/#BYWkjXsGfypezDtV.99
By DY_nasty Go To Postyou just don't like wiggins' faceperfectly reasonble not to like a player.
see Klay thompson's default looking face.
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostMorey's "something up our sleeve" move? lolLol Dubs got GMs out here wilding out
“Teams are trying to decide what’s the appropriate cost for a player who they’re being told, pretty adamantly by Paul George’s camp, will be a rental."https://audioboom.com/posts/6031132-the-chris-mannix-show-adrian-wojnarowski-joins-the-show
"No matter who you are, no matter who has checked in or who potentially will check in, they’re gonna be told that Paul George is gonna play the season out and then he’s gonna go to the Lakers, that that’s his plan.”
ESPN’s “The Lowe Post” podcast, Zach Lowe:
There are teams around the league that are interested in Paul George who are rooting for him to be traded to the Lakers now, so that he goes there, and they suck, and he says ‘Oh boy, I need to get somewhere else. Let me look around again and see where I can get.’ And then those teams will chase him in free agency having surrounded nothing and having watched the Lakers surrender some real things.a bunch of haters. even at the bottom we're still PE#1
Nothing about "I have to leave Indiana to go win" jives with "I want to go to the Lakers." It's either or. Do you want to play for the Lakers or do you want to play on a team that wins 55 games and has a shot at the conference finals?
There are teams around the league that are interested in Paul George who are rooting for him to be traded to the Lakers now, so that he goes there, and they suck, and he says ‘Oh boy, I need to get somewhere else. Let me look around again and see where I can get.’
:laff
Good luck with that rest of the NBA
Bless PG.
By rodeoclown Go To PostNothing about "I have to leave Indiana to go win" jives with "I want to go to the Lakers." It's either or. Do you want to play for the Lakers or do you want to play on a team that wins 55 games and has a shot at the conference finals?dude just wants to be in la
the losing in indy just makes it easier to talk his way out. they could win 55 and be a top seed but PG would still likely opt out and head to LA, he'd just be nicer about it
I feel like Adam Silver should just basketball reasons Paul George onto the Spurs so we can have a good post season next year.
Let him go be a rental elsewhere. Let the other team give up their players or draft picks for a rental. If he really wants to come to LA. He can be signed as a free agent. Don't play into other teams hands when it's not necessary. You can let George force himself on the Lakers and just acquiesce.
By domino Go To Post:laff
Good luck with that rest of the NBA
Bless PG.
PG gonna Dwightmare the Lakers
By DY_nasty Go To Poststraight upBall didn't work out for the teams that could pick him before the Lakers so who are they smoke screening? lol
blackace acting like he never seen a smokescreen before
Besides it's something to talk about. Stop acting like rumors aren't fun... this is already a fun draft
By diehard Go To Postlol spoilers for a 12 year old gamewho
Aerith dies btw bro
By IWMTB19 Go To PostThis is not a fucking spoiler omgi wouldn't have not not known that goofy died
GOOFY IS IN THE TRAILER FOR KH3.
lol
Another off season of McD failing to get a star in a trade or free agency woohoo. Let's see if his thirsty ass can even get to be the third team in a trade this time
By pkaz01 Go To PostAnother off season of McD failing to get a star in a trade or free agency woohoo. Let's see if his thirsty ass can even get to be the third team in a trade this timeI'm not sure what single trade puts us over the hump though.
I'm not too fussed.
By HasphatsAnts Go To PostWhat is the statute of limitations on spoilers tho?
Is anything older than 12 months fair game?
Yeah.
By HasphatsAnts Go To PostWhat is the statute of limitations on spoilers tho?
Is anything older than 12 months fair game?
2-3 Months?
By HasphatsAnts Go To PostWhat is the statute of limitations on spoilers tho?
Is anything older than 12 months fair game?
with how easy it is to build up a backlog idk
i think about spoiler tagging anything released within 2-3 years
I'm okay with only a couple of months, but I don't understand spoiler culture. I knew Aeris died for a while before I ever played Final Fantasy VII and it didn't lessen my enjoyment.
If you haven't played / watched / done what ever with in 2 - 3 months of its release the thing doesn't mean enough that a spoiler is going to ruin it for you.
By rodeoclown Go To PostI'm okay with only a couple of months, but I don't understand spoiler culture. I knew Aeris died for a while before I ever played Final Fantasy VII and it didn't lessen my enjoyment.there has been a study about that... says it doesn't matter lol
By Fenderputty Go To PostIf you you're the lakers, do you consider given up the #2 for PG if Indy will take on Deng?I'd be trying to give JC the late pick and Deng to see if they bite
By Omzz Go To PostWhat the hell??
By Fenderputty Go To PostIf you you're the lakers, do you consider given up the #2 for PG if Indy will take on Deng?Eh but Hell naw