Down by 5, 13 seconds to go
Enzo The Baker said:
Those aren't going to be easy to come by. The rest of the league's front offices have closed the gap, if not surpassed the Spurs scouting/drafting in recent years.
Interestingly, the 2013 Toronto Raptors paired Gay and DeRozan together as Gay was traded there in January of 2013 and traded away in December of 2013, probably when they saw the two couldn't play together.Enzo The Baker said:
I'm glad we kept DeMar and Rudy, playing them big minutes to carry us to another late lottery pick while preventing our young guys from getting playing time and maybe actually getting a good shot at a top 4 pick. I don't want to hear about them helping our young guys develop. Neither are winners.
AG 2000' said:
Pop, Patty, DePression, Brian Wright, all should be gone.
Which means all will be back.
Which part?Ag Natural said:
Dumb
The parts about Pop and Wright getting booted are dumb.AG 2000' said:Which part?Ag Natural said:
Dumb
DeRozan 5/21 tonight, reitertating he's a playoff choke artist. You can't pay that guy $30 million a year when you know he's gonna fold when it matters.
I guess Patty can come back for the vet minimum but we all know Pop will play him too much.
Brian Wright - front office has been a wreck since he got here. Majority of league FOs have passed us by under his oversight. He has been a disaster everywhere he's been, nothing but a diversity hire for Pop.
As for Pop, the game has passed him by. Still treating the young guys like crap, still over relying on his vets, still can't adjust.
Dieng held his own tonight against Valenciunas, so what do we do in the fourth? Trot Poetl back out to get abused down low and used as a turnstyle by the Memphis wings.
Pop needs to hang it up, move out to CA and hang out in Napa with his buddy Kerr 24-7.
Him and Wright went out and built a roster with very few shooters and then decided to start as many of guys who can't shoot as possible. Then to make matters worse, Pop ran a scheme that deemphasized the three ball when it's at the heart of the game in the NBA these days.
Mid-range chuckers delight is a losing system, has been for years, and the senile old fool is too dumb to recognize it. Too busy saying what matters is kulture and korporate knowledge while the league dances on his head.
Ag Natural said:
I think the jury is still out on several of these young guys. 20-22 year olds aren't fully developed.
Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:
I think the jury is still out on several of these young guys. 20-22 year olds aren't fully developed.
To some extent I agree, but usually if someone is a future number one option it's obvious pretty early. I don't really see it with any of these guys.
Sacramento offered the #2 overall pick for Leonard. The Spurs could have made that deal and drafted Doncic. Plus, Leonard would have never rang. For a team that loves euro's, the sure did miss out on that one.Ulrich said:
Here's the problem. The Spurs decided that they had to get value back for Kawhi, and the best they could do was DeRozan. But that trade also lost Danny Green.
Ag Natural said:Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:
I think the jury is still out on several of these young guys. 20-22 year olds aren't fully developed.
To some extent I agree, but usually if someone is a future number one option it's obvious pretty early. I don't really see it with any of these guys.
Well you said they are all 3rd and 4th options. Yeah there probably isn't a 1st team all NBA player on the roster but a couple of guys with the potential to be borderline all star.
Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:
I think the jury is still out on several of these young guys. 20-22 year olds aren't fully developed.
To some extent I agree, but usually if someone is a future number one option it's obvious pretty early. I don't really see it with any of these guys.
Well you said they are all 3rd and 4th options. Yeah there probably isn't a 1st team all NBA player on the roster but a couple of guys with the potential to be borderline all star.
On a contender, the third and fourth best players often ARE all stars.
It's pretty easy to imagine White or Johnson putting up some really productive, efficient seasons that get them in the all star discussion if they are playing with a star who elevates the whole team. It's also easy to imagine them putting up productive, inefficient seasons if they end up as the 1/2 of a cruddy lottery team.
What is hard to imagine is a team led by White/Johnson being anything more than a scrappy first-round exit.
MookieBlaylock said:Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:
I think the jury is still out on several of these young guys. 20-22 year olds aren't fully developed.
To some extent I agree, but usually if someone is a future number one option it's obvious pretty early. I don't really see it with any of these guys.
Well you said they are all 3rd and 4th options. Yeah there probably isn't a 1st team all NBA player on the roster but a couple of guys with the potential to be borderline all star.
On a contender, the third and fourth best players often ARE all stars.
It's pretty easy to imagine White or Johnson putting up some really productive, efficient seasons that get them in the all star discussion if they are playing with a star who elevates the whole team. It's also easy to imagine them putting up productive, inefficient seasons if they end up as the 1/2 of a cruddy lottery team.
What is hard to imagine is a team led by White/Johnson being anything more than a scrappy first-round exit.
Neither of those guys are all stars
Shoukd have blown it up last year
No fans, Pop is over the hill
Might as well play the lottery
Ulrich said:MookieBlaylock said:Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:Ulrich said:Ag Natural said:
I think the jury is still out on several of these young guys. 20-22 year olds aren't fully developed.
To some extent I agree, but usually if someone is a future number one option it's obvious pretty early. I don't really see it with any of these guys.
Well you said they are all 3rd and 4th options. Yeah there probably isn't a 1st team all NBA player on the roster but a couple of guys with the potential to be borderline all star.
On a contender, the third and fourth best players often ARE all stars.
It's pretty easy to imagine White or Johnson putting up some really productive, efficient seasons that get them in the all star discussion if they are playing with a star who elevates the whole team. It's also easy to imagine them putting up productive, inefficient seasons if they end up as the 1/2 of a cruddy lottery team.
What is hard to imagine is a team led by White/Johnson being anything more than a scrappy first-round exit.
Neither of those guys are all stars
Shoukd have blown it up last year
No fans, Pop is over the hill
Might as well play the lottery
Lonnie Walker future HOF, book it.
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