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[inthepaint]

Yeah and I would also add that Thomas would be more impactful then McCaw. Team is deep....

[inthepaint]

He's gonna be a starter in a couple of years, if not sooner. When I watch him play I often think of 2021. We get an elite PF-C Free Agent to join him,...

[inthepaint]

Superstars don't look like superstarts every night. Kawhi ended tonight with 17/6/3 in 37 minutes, Siakam ended 18/11/4 in 34 minutes. I don't think we...

[inthepaint]

Best post of the day...

[inthepaint]

No trade value there yet. Raptors are the ultimate player development/reclamation landing spot, if he doesn't have a rotation spot here and is not doing...

[inthepaint]

Meh. That's the Hawks we're talking about, their wing defence consists of Jabari "I-don't-get-paid-to-play-defence" Parker and a couple of rookies....

[inthepaint]

Exactly, this the kind of game you would fall back to a nice bread and butter pick and roll game between Lowry and Ibaka while all the defensive attention...

[inthepaint]

Thanks for the link, will check it out later; a lot of his next contract will be driven by his next playoff performance, so it's hard to say at this point....

[inthepaint]

The cleanest way to do this imo is to try to salary dump Norm at this coming trade deadline, clearing an extra 10M off 2021, thereby giving more flexibility...

[inthepaint]

Yeah that's way too much. Also, when was the last time you had 3 starters of a top 4 team in its conference, traded away to the same team, and with 2...

[inthepaint]

Yeah I get that, but for now that's only on paper. They said similar things about Boston the year after they went to ECF without Kyrie and Hayward. "Man...

[inthepaint]

I'm the same. Nothing against Kawhi himself, my beef is with the LA formula of "hey, we don't have to develop any player, we can just wait and/or...

[inthepaint]

Trade Norm for OKC's Andre Roberson, let Roberson walk in 2020 (clearing 10M off the books for 2021), then sign Fred for his fair market value at the...

[inthepaint]

Yeah it's tough to let players just leave for nothing, especially good players the team developed from the ground up like Fred. The only player in recent...

[inthepaint]

I like the idea of trying to structure it so that we're able to offer the multi-year deal Fred will probably look for, but with a dip on the 2021-2022...

[inthepaint]

I can imagine it. Not saying it's gonna happen, they know they're on the road and undermanned, but they look at their record and look at Portland's record...

[inthepaint]

I hope the guys don't go in too cocky on this one. Lakers came in like that vs. the raps and got schooled. Blazers are wounded but they have a good team...

[inthepaint]

Yeah that's really revealing itself now over the past 2-3 years. It's an under-the-radar perverse side of tanking. It really undermines the development...

[inthepaint]

Yeah and the other thing I noticed about this guy too is his shot selection is pretty impeccable. He never forces anything, and when he goes up he's always...

[inthepaint]

He's been good. Was great on the Lakers game, good yesterday too. You merge him and Thomas in one player, that's an all-star haha...