2014 NBA Offseason |OT| Hair today, gone tomorrow

good hire

now lets see how smart they are

:ugeek:

good hire

now lets see how smart they are

:ugeek:

Orlando might take him apparently…

making me mad scared of a Parker for Exum swap with the Jazz

good hire

now lets see how smart they are

:ugeek:

Orlando might take him apparently…

making me mad scared of a Parker for Exum swap with the Jazz

I thought Orlando was dead set on Exum.

My front office

goddamn

country club bullshit

My front office

goddamn

country club bullshit

Welcome!

And yes, nepotism is kind of the core tenet of the Wolves' existence. How did Glen Taylor ever become a billionaire?

Host: “Doesn’t he [Love] have a right to be frustrated?”
Saunders: “No.”
Host: “You don’t think so?”
Saunders: “Just like I told Garnett, he didn’t have a right to be frustrated. Why does any player have a right to be frustrated? You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.”
Saunders: “Should the team be frustrated? Yeah, the team can be frustrated. But I don’t think any one individual should be frustrated.”
Saunders: “I tell a story. I tell a story about – we were in the locker room when KG was in like his third year in the league, and Sam Mitchell was sitting in the locker room. KG was in there, and we had lost a couple games, and we were all sitting there talking. KG started going, ‘Hey, you’ve got to start doing more.’ And he’s talking to some of the bench guys. ‘You’ve got to start doing more.’ And Sam said, ‘Hey, hold it, hold it. Let me tell you something. You’re making all the money. Hey, it’s your responsibility. You make the money, you’ve got to live up to that.’ So, that was the mentality, and from that time, KG never ever from that point, he always took responsibility.”

Suns interested in Love deal w/best assets Dragic, Bledsoe & picks.NBA sources say it will take full max deal to control free agent Bledsoe.

Flip Saunders going out of his way to show that he didn't get unlimited power because of intelligence or people skills or stuff like that.

Flip Saunders going out of his way to show that he didn't get unlimited power because of intelligence or people skills or stuff like that.

an out of touch asshole that builds his team the same way

this is going to be a fucking horrible horrible era rodeo..and it pisses me off because you deserve better

If I'm Love I'd decline a trade to the Suns without a 2nd star there. Dragic is good but lets not get too crazy. You only get one shot at controlling your destiny before you hit your prime…you gotta try to pull some Heat like shit if possible.

Flip Saunders going out of his way to show that he didn't get unlimited power because of intelligence or people skills or stuff like that.

an out of touch asshole that builds his team the same way

this is going to be a fucking horrible horrible era rodeo..and it pisses me off because you deserve better

If I'm Love I'd decline a trade to the Suns without a 2nd star there. Dragic is good but lets not get too crazy. You only get one shot at controlling your destiny before you hit your prime…you gotta try to pull some Heat like shit if possible.

Dragic wouldn't start over Kyrie or Wade unless he was putting up 26 and 12 or something ridiculous–just not popular enough.

I wouldn't mind seeing Nash ball 2.0 in Phoenix. Melo at the 4, Love at the 5. It would work in the East because they wouldn't have to kill themselves every night. In the West they'd have nothing left by playoff time by how hard they'd have to work both ends every night. Still though, a bulked up love at Center is interesting. With both Melo and Love forcing the defense completely away from the paint it would really hope things up for Dragic.

Contrary to popular belief you could still protect the rim by playing a Miami Heat kind of game–Flushing the paint with doubles, some soft zone defense, switches on PNR, etc…you'd give up perimeter shooting but you can do enough to be average defensively this way and that's all you'd need with such an elite offense.

My front office

goddamn

country club bullshit

Welcome!

And yes, nepotism is kind of the core tenet of the Wolves' existence. How did Glen Taylor ever become a billionaire?

You probably already know the answer but…greeting cards and stationary…lol…

Dragic wouldn't start over Kyrie or Wade unless he was putting up 26 and 12 or something ridiculous–just not popular enough.

I wouldn't mind seeing Nash ball 2.0 in Phoenix. Melo at the 4, Love at the 5. It would work in the East because they wouldn't have to kill themselves every night. In the West they'd have nothing left by playoff time by how hard they'd have to work both ends every night. Still though, a bulked up love at Center is interesting. With both Melo and Love forcing the defense completely away from the paint it would really hope things up for Dragic.

Contrary to popular belief you could still protect the rim by playing a Miami Heat kind of game–Flushing the paint with doubles, some soft zone defense, switches on PNR, etc…you'd give up perimeter shooting but you can do enough to be average defensively this way and that's all you'd need with such an elite offense.

Melo can play D when he wants to. But love is just Bad.

And the whole reason the Miami D works is because the bigs they do use, Bosh / Birdman are very good defensively. Bosh means so very much to them on defense. Love just can't play extended small ball 5 because of that.

Well, i can't see it working and the team doing it, being very successful.

The era of Giant 3's playing 4, Melo/LBJ/Durant to an extent. Sure. But they're all covered by very good defenders to boot, Bosh, Chandler, Ibaka.

Until Love solves that, i'm not sold on him being a franchise all in, player. A max? sure. Franchise? eh………

Dragic wouldn't start over Kyrie or Wade unless he was putting up 26 and 12 or something ridiculous–just not popular enough.

I wouldn't mind seeing Nash ball 2.0 in Phoenix. Melo at the 4, Love at the 5. It would work in the East because they wouldn't have to kill themselves every night. In the West they'd have nothing left by playoff time by how hard they'd have to work both ends every night. Still though, a bulked up love at Center is interesting. With both Melo and Love forcing the defense completely away from the paint it would really hope things up for Dragic.

Contrary to popular belief you could still protect the rim by playing a Miami Heat kind of game–Flushing the paint with doubles, some soft zone defense, switches on PNR, etc…you'd give up perimeter shooting but you can do enough to be average defensively this way and that's all you'd need with such an elite offense.

Melo can play D when he wants to. But love is just Bad.

And the whole reason the Miami D works is because the bigs they do use, Bosh / Birdman are very good defensively. Bosh means so very much to them on defense. Love just can't play extended small ball 5 because of that.

Well, i can't see it working and the team doing it, being very successful.

The era of Giant 3's playing 4, Melo/LBJ/Durant to an extent. Sure. But they're all covered by very good defenders to boot, Bosh, Chandler, Ibaka.

Until Love solves that, i'm not sold on him being a franchise all in, player. A max? sure. Franchise? eh………

Melo never wants to play D and that is the problem…

And Bosh covers for noone the Heat have been looking for a defensive big since they colluded to make the big 3

Bosh is the best PnR defender in the league.

Dragic wouldn't start over Kyrie or Wade unless he was putting up 26 and 12 or something ridiculous–just not popular enough.

I wouldn't mind seeing Nash ball 2.0 in Phoenix. Melo at the 4, Love at the 5. It would work in the East because they wouldn't have to kill themselves every night. In the West they'd have nothing left by playoff time by how hard they'd have to work both ends every night. Still though, a bulked up love at Center is interesting. With both Melo and Love forcing the defense completely away from the paint it would really hope things up for Dragic.

Contrary to popular belief you could still protect the rim by playing a Miami Heat kind of game–Flushing the paint with doubles, some soft zone defense, switches on PNR, etc…you'd give up perimeter shooting but you can do enough to be average defensively this way and that's all you'd need with such an elite offense.

Melo can play D when he wants to. But love is just Bad.

And the whole reason the Miami D works is because the bigs they do use, Bosh / Birdman are very good defensively. Bosh means so very much to them on defense. Love just can't play extended small ball 5 because of that.

Well, i can't see it working and the team doing it, being very successful.

The era of Giant 3's playing 4, Melo/LBJ/Durant to an extent. Sure. But they're all covered by very good defenders to boot, Bosh, Chandler, Ibaka.

Until Love solves that, i'm not sold on him being a franchise all in, player. A max? sure. Franchise? eh………

Melo never wants to play D and that is the problem…

And Bosh covers for noone the Heat have been looking for a defensive big since they colluded to make the big 3

Bosh is the best PnR defender in the league and a decent rim protector.

Miami hasn't been looking for a defensive big either. We stopped running two traditional big lineups once we figured out how awesome small ball was with Bosh at the 5 during the '12 playoffs. The only big Miami was searching for was one with hands, Joel Anthony was good defensively but he had ghost hands, then came Birdman. The only reason we picked up Oden was to put a big body on Hibbert but he wasn't a problem this year.

if Silver is so hellbent on a hardcap, then surely he's smart enough to eliminate max salaries

the financial structure in the league is broken and that's why Miami gets to collude its way to multiple chips…no offense to Heat fans, it is what it is and they did what they had to.

and the Spurs are, in a different kind of way, on the same level of bs, when an elite talent like Duncan takes a paltry 10 million a year despite being worth max, and all of a sudden guys are saying "wow, spurs are so deep".

meanwhile the suns have to contemplate paying bledsoe a near max or left him walk and face treadmill or tank life because reasons

Bosh is the best PnR defender in the league and a decent rim protector.

Miami hasn't been looking for a defensive big either. We stopped running two traditional big lineups once we figured out how awesome small ball was with Bosh at the 5 during the '12 playoffs. The only big Miami was searching for was one with hands, Joel Anthony was good defensively but he had ghost hands, then came Birdman. The only reason we picked up Oden was to put a big body on Hibbert but he wasn't a problem this year.

Joel, Birdman, Oden.. all signed during the Bosh era.. and best PnR big in the league? LOL decent rim protector? ROFL..

Dragic wouldn't start over Kyrie or Wade unless he was putting up 26 and 12 or something ridiculous–just not popular enough.

I wouldn't mind seeing Nash ball 2.0 in Phoenix. Melo at the 4, Love at the 5. It would work in the East because they wouldn't have to kill themselves every night. In the West they'd have nothing left by playoff time by how hard they'd have to work both ends every night. Still though, a bulked up love at Center is interesting. With both Melo and Love forcing the defense completely away from the paint it would really hope things up for Dragic.

Contrary to popular belief you could still protect the rim by playing a Miami Heat kind of game–Flushing the paint with doubles, some soft zone defense, switches on PNR, etc…you'd give up perimeter shooting but you can do enough to be average defensively this way and that's all you'd need with such an elite offense.

Melo can play D when he wants to. But love is just Bad.

And the whole reason the Miami D works is because the bigs they do use, Bosh / Birdman are very good defensively. Bosh means so very much to them on defense. Love just can't play extended small ball 5 because of that.

Well, i can't see it working and the team doing it, being very successful.

The era of Giant 3's playing 4, Melo/LBJ/Durant to an extent. Sure. But they're all covered by very good defenders to boot, Bosh, Chandler, Ibaka.

Until Love solves that, i'm not sold on him being a franchise all in, player. A max? sure. Franchise? eh………

Melo never wants to play D and that is the problem…

And Bosh covers for noone the Heat have been looking for a defensive big since they colluded to make the big 3

Bosh is the best PnR defender in the league and a decent rim protector.

Miami hasn't been looking for a defensive big either. We stopped running two traditional big lineups once we figured out how awesome small ball was with Bosh at the 5 during the '12 playoffs. The only big Miami was searching for was one with hands, Joel Anthony was good defensively but he had ghost hands, then came Birdman. The only reason we picked up Oden was to put a big body on Hibbert but he wasn't a problem this year.

Joel, Birdman, Oden.. all signed during the Bosh era.. and best PnR big in the league? LOL decent rim protector? ROFL..

Dragic wouldn't start over Kyrie or Wade unless he was putting up 26 and 12 or something ridiculous–just not popular enough.

I wouldn't mind seeing Nash ball 2.0 in Phoenix. Melo at the 4, Love at the 5. It would work in the East because they wouldn't have to kill themselves every night. In the West they'd have nothing left by playoff time by how hard they'd have to work both ends every night. Still though, a bulked up love at Center is interesting. With both Melo and Love forcing the defense completely away from the paint it would really hope things up for Dragic.

Contrary to popular belief you could still protect the rim by playing a Miami Heat kind of game–Flushing the paint with doubles, some soft zone defense, switches on PNR, etc…you'd give up perimeter shooting but you can do enough to be average defensively this way and that's all you'd need with such an elite offense.

Melo can play D when he wants to. But love is just Bad.

And the whole reason the Miami D works is because the bigs they do use, Bosh / Birdman are very good defensively. Bosh means so very much to them on defense. Love just can't play extended small ball 5 because of that.

Well, i can't see it working and the team doing it, being very successful.

The era of Giant 3's playing 4, Melo/LBJ/Durant to an extent. Sure. But they're all covered by very good defenders to boot, Bosh, Chandler, Ibaka.

Until Love solves that, i'm not sold on him being a franchise all in, player. A max? sure. Franchise? eh………

Melo never wants to play D and that is the problem…

And Bosh covers for noone the Heat have been looking for a defensive big since they colluded to make the big 3

Bosh is the best PnR defender in the league and a decent rim protector.

Miami hasn't been looking for a defensive big either. We stopped running two traditional big lineups once we figured out how awesome small ball was with Bosh at the 5 during the '12 playoffs. The only big Miami was searching for was one with hands, Joel Anthony was good defensively but he had ghost hands, then came Birdman. The only reason we picked up Oden was to put a big body on Hibbert but he wasn't a problem this year.

Joel, Birdman, Oden.. all signed during the Bosh era.. and best PnR big in the league? LOL decent rim protector? ROFL..

If you're loling and rofling at that statement, I don't think you watch Miami play.

And Joel predated Bosh.

I have watched Bosh his entire career.. and good defender was never a label used for him. However, him being as moble as he is doesn't allow him to be helpful in the Heat's PnR D.. Maybe he does get shat more than he deserves but pretending like he a good rim protector is laughable and you know it.

You are right Joel was on the team before the big 3.. but the Heat have always been trying to find ways to get more help protecting the rim.. Because if a team does beat the trapping D noone can really protect the hoop that well..

looking at the 2008 draft, man that shit was loaded. picks 24, 25 and 26 are all starters on playoff teams. i think this year's draft is a good comp for it, just need to see who's this years oj mayo.

The New York Knicks' pursuit of Derek Fisher to be their new coach will ramp up this week and is widely expected to result in the hiring of the 17-year veteran guard, according to NBA coaching sources.

Flip Saunders going out of his way to show that he didn't get unlimited power because of intelligence or people skills or stuff like that.

an out of touch asshole that builds his team the same way

this is going to be a fucking horrible horrible era rodeo..and it pisses me off because you deserve better

If I'm Love I'd decline a trade to the Suns without a 2nd star there. Dragic is good but lets not get too crazy. You only get one shot at controlling your destiny before you hit your prime…you gotta try to pull some Heat like shit if possible.

And lets also not kid ourselves. Out east, Dragic isn't just an allstar, he's starting.

Host: “Doesn’t he [Love] have a right to be frustrated?”
Saunders: “No.”
Host: “You don’t think so?”
Saunders: “Just like I told Garnett, he didn’t have a right to be frustrated. Why does any player have a right to be frustrated? You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.”
Saunders: “Should the team be frustrated? Yeah, the team can be frustrated. But I don’t think any one individual should be frustrated.”
Saunders: “I tell a story. I tell a story about – we were in the locker room when KG was in like his third year in the league, and Sam Mitchell was sitting in the locker room. KG was in there, and we had lost a couple games, and we were all sitting there talking. KG started going, ‘Hey, you’ve got to start doing more.’ And he’s talking to some of the bench guys. ‘You’ve got to start doing more.’ And Sam said, ‘Hey, hold it, hold it. Let me tell you something. You’re making all the money. Hey, it’s your responsibility. You make the money, you’ve got to live up to that.’ So, that was the mentality, and from that time, KG never ever from that point, he always took responsibility.”

Flip Saunders going out of his way to show that he didn't get unlimited power because of intelligence or people skills or stuff like that.

The New York Knicks' pursuit of Derek Fisher to be their new coach will ramp up this week and is widely expected to result in the hiring of the 17-year veteran guard, according to NBA coaching sources.

#it'shappening

The New York Knicks' pursuit of Derek Fisher to be their new coach will ramp up this week and is widely expected to result in the hiring of the 17-year veteran guard

The New York Knicks' pursuit of Derek Fisher to be their new coach will ramp up this week

pursuit of Derek Fisher to be their new coach will ramp up

pursuit…Derek Fisher…ramp up

Host: “Doesn’t he [Love] have a right to be frustrated?”
Saunders: “No.”
Host: “You don’t think so?”
Saunders: “Just like I told Garnett, he didn’t have a right to be frustrated. Why does any player have a right to be frustrated? You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.”
Saunders: “Should the team be frustrated? Yeah, the team can be frustrated. But I don’t think any one individual should be frustrated.”
Saunders: “I tell a story. I tell a story about – we were in the locker room when KG was in like his third year in the league, and Sam Mitchell was sitting in the locker room. KG was in there, and we had lost a couple games, and we were all sitting there talking. KG started going, ‘Hey, you’ve got to start doing more.’ And he’s talking to some of the bench guys. ‘You’ve got to start doing more.’ And Sam said, ‘Hey, hold it, hold it. Let me tell you something. You’re making all the money. Hey, it’s your responsibility. You make the money, you’ve got to live up to that.’ So, that was the mentality, and from that time, KG never ever from that point, he always took responsibility.”

Flip Saunders going out of his way to show that he didn't get unlimited power because of intelligence or people skills or stuff like that.

Lakers about to eat.

Fisher's staff is very likely to include Kurt Rambis. Others in mix: Rick Fox, Luke Walton, Bill Cartwright.

Fisher's staff is very likely to include Kurt Rambis. Others in mix: Rick Fox, Luke Walton, Bill Cartwright.

Is Rambis still involved in all this NBA stuff just because of nepotism?

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Knicks, Derek Fisher still working on length of deal, source tells Yahoo. Discussions centered on a four or five year contract.

Fisher's staff is very likely to include Kurt Rambis. Others in mix: Rick Fox, Luke Walton, Bill Cartwright.

Is Rambis still involved in all this NBA stuff just because of nepotism?

yes, go full stupid, dolan.

Eh, money is irrelevant to a team like the knicks. who cares?