LMA out of town and Poeltl puts up 20&9 in 31 min with the start. Very nice. Sure could use a Poeltl on this team.
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S.R. wrote: View PostLMA out of town and Poeltl puts up 20&9 in 31 min with the start. Very nice. Sure could use a Poeltl on this team.To be the champs you got to beat the champs
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I don't understand how we are now at the point that it's fully ok to sit a healthy player for no reason. Horford is sitting the rest of the season with no injury, getting paid millions of dollars. I thought the idea was the fans were paying to see the stars, not a D-league game? What if every team did this?
Hey, lets just sit Siakam, Freddy, and Kyle for the rest of the season to develop our young tallent......
Super lame.
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Dvdvideo wrote: View PostI don't understand how we are now at the point that it's fully ok to sit a healthy player for no reason. Horford is sitting the rest of the season with no injury, getting paid millions of dollars. I thought the idea was the fans were paying to see the stars, not a D-league game? What if every team did this?
Hey, lets just sit Siakam, Freddy, and Kyle for the rest of the season to develop our young tallent......
Super lame.
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Dvdvideo wrote: View PostI don't understand how we are now at the point that it's fully ok to sit a healthy player for no reason. Horford is sitting the rest of the season with no injury, getting paid millions of dollars. I thought the idea was the fans were paying to see the stars, not a D-league game? What if every team did this?
Hey, lets just sit Siakam, Freddy, and Kyle for the rest of the season to develop our young tallent......
Super lame.
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TheWaterboy wrote: View Post
To be fair, though, when was the last time Horford was actually a star? I mean, who goes out to a basketball game to see Horford in particular?
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LJ2 wrote: View PostHow is Brooklyn able to sign all these guys? Are they signing for lunch money? If the league could stop CP3 to LA, can't they stop BKN from tipping the scales this much?
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LJ2 wrote: View PostHow is Brooklyn able to sign all these guys? Are they signing for lunch money? If the league could stop CP3 to LA, can't they stop BKN from tipping the scales this much?
CP3 had a full contract. And to be honest it's a black mark on David Stern's resume. He should not have stopped that transaction. But he only did because the NBA owned the New Orleans team at the time. So the commish had veto power on any transaction.
Ultimately I'm not sure New Orleans got better or worse from the trade that did happen.
The original trade was:
LAL: Paul
NO: Odom, Martin (via Houston), Scola (via Houston), Dragic (via Houston)
Houston: Pau Gasol
The trade that did happen:
LAC: Paul
NO: Gordon, Aminu, Kaman, 2012 pick (became Austin Rivers)
I wonder if Harden would have been a Rocket though if the first trade ever happened. Martin was the big contract going back to OKC in that trade.
Both packages are meh in hindsight.. I guess the pick was pretty valuable at the time (it was the 10th pick in the draft). Gordon seemed to have all-star talent at the time too.
But going back to your point.. yeah a lot of people get ticked off over the buyout market. The NBA could add a rule in the next CBA to make it harder for buyouts to land in great environments (maybe make a rule that they are not playoff eligible), but at the end of the day the players association like it, and they have equal say in negotiations. These guys can go anywhere they want for whatever price they want. I mean we could sign Michael Jordan and Larry Bird to contracts too right now. I don't think they'll suite up and play though.. and even if they did they won't be that good.
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TheWaterboy wrote: View Post
To be fair, though, when was the last time Horford was actually a star? I mean, who goes out to a basketball game to see Horford in particular?
He's actually thier second leading scorer at 14pts per game, and 7 rebounds per game. So if I were an okc fan it would be kind of like saying, ok, let's sit og for the rest of the year. That's not cool at all.
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Ebonhawke wrote: View Post
So, should we, as Raptors fans, be up in arms that a 3-time NBA champion has had their behind stapled to the end of the bench for the entirety of the season, since returning from injury?
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Dvdvideo wrote: View Post
He's actually thier second leading scorer at 14pts per game, and 7 rebounds per game. So if I were an okc fan it would be kind of like saying, ok, let's sit og for the rest of the year. That's not cool at all.
Presti knows how to tank. #TrustTheProcessPart2
BTW, how TF do the Raptors not sign this guy? Bobby, are you awake?
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Nice game, but this is still a problem, I don't understand why the NBA is suddenly ok with it when they were fining teams for sitting a guy one night let alone the whole season a couple of years ago. The TV deals rely on the stars playing, they can't have half the league bail out.
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