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The mutha****in BX
Where's the " smelly junkie strung out on dope with an incurable disease who hangs out at Kennedy's asking for change and a snack box watching the college student and middle class man eat with tears in his eyes not tripping if he doesn't wake up tomorrow" option, because I know a couple of teams that fit this description?
Conley for Rubio/2017 1st then:mjgrin:

The problem with this analogy is that the overwhelming majority of these broke college kids who "dream" never even achieve what the middle aged man with no future has. At least he has a home and a job to work 60 hours at...that college kid is somewhere applying to starbucks trying to get 20 hours and an efficiency apartment...

The 76ers have been bad for a long time and their is no hope for them to get much better since their franchise big man can't play a full season...he can't even play the second game of a back to back...

The Lakers have been a lottery team for what...3 years now...and they are about to be a lottery team again WHILE paying Deng and Mozgov around 130 million combined for the next few years...

The celtics seem like they are in a good space...until you realize they haven't won a playoff series since brad stevens got their...their best two players are 30 and about to be 30...they have so many draft picks they don't even have enough roster spots for them...and they need to make a decision on rather to pay a dude barely tall enough to ride the rides at six flags 200 million or let him walk...

The kings couldn't build around a dominate big man and now they about to try to build around a buck toothed undersized shooting guard...

Memphis is a perennial playoff team...which is what these teams in the lottery are trying to be...so why would memphis purposely go backwards only so they can try to get back to where they are now?
The reason why it's a problem is because this isn't gonna last forever. Z-bo and TA are 35. Gasol is 32 and declining defensively. How much do you really think this is gonna last? And when you're content with staying at neutral, you make short-sighted decisions that in turn has long-term ramifications: Chandler Parsons, 8 years worth of terrible draft picks, not trading Koufos who was a FA to Cleveland to recoup your pick, and collect an extra one, basically pigeon-holed into giving Conley $150 Million because you have no talent after him. shyt, the Grizzlies cut Troy Williams, who just dropped six three-pointers for Houston the other day, for Toney fukking Douglas, who's was out the league in December, and is back out of the league now.

The Celtics are winning while getting the no.1 pick in the draft. That's.........a great fukking position to be in.

Embiid and Simmons is more bad luck than incompetence in the F.O

This isn't the NFL or baseball when you can get hot and win a title. Grizz were not good last year, and they've been below .500 since the New year. They're 5 games over, and the roster is old. No team, except maybe the Kings or the Knicks, would trade their situation for ours. And the ironic part about all this is Chris Wallace said the worst place to be in the NBA is mediocre and in the middle, yet, here we are..
 

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Their medical staff is even scarier :to:
I wanted to ignore that part of the game for just once :francis:. The rim should be absolutely off limits with 3 7 footers out there though (assuming they find a way to play both Saric and Simmons together)
 

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Why do people act like the could have upgraded their teams and be make at LeBron teams smokin these squads... The C's could have had Jimmy or paul but yout team didnt know to

shyt they damn near could have both and still keep Isiah or they could of had a Cousins and Butler
 

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Pacers wanted way too much for PG.

I believe it I don't know why they didn't at least kick the tires on Cousins or make a play for Ibaka talking about they don't want to move Rozier
 

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They really should have said fukk it and pulled the trigger..

As much as I wanted them to make a move because Cleveland looks vulnerable they probably made me the right move by not pulling the tigger. If Hayward doesn't make the all NBA team they have a real shot at both him and Fultz/Ball.

Are we even sure PG/Butler puts them over the hump by giving up picks + their core.
 

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@#1 pick @charmander @AVXL @Steezy

Yall got one with Prince, looks like you got the coveted 3 & D guy at SF.
We knew that's what he could be if he is more consistent shooting threes. We are hoping he can develop into more. His offensive game is nice but he has some more growth to do on defense. Especially off the ball D.
 

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@#1 pick @charmander @AVXL @Steezy

Yall got one with Prince, looks like you got the coveted 3 & D guy at SF.

Yea he's got potential. Natural feel on defense, just gotta smooth out his offensive game and he'll be a solid pro. Just gotta trick some team into trading for WOAT (Kent Bazemore) and we'll be good
 

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Yea he's got potential. Natural feel on defense, just gotta smooth out his offensive game and he'll be a solid pro. Just gotta trick some team into trading for WOAT (Kent Bazemore) and we'll be good
We on different ends. I like what he does on offense. His off ball movement, feel for the game on when the attack or pass, he could improve his handles but he is miles better than he was in Summer League. Defensively, that's my issue with him when it off ball defense. His man defense is pretty good and got potential to be great.
 

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As much as I wanted them to make a move because Cleveland looks vulnerable they probably made me the right move by not pulling the tigger. If Hayward doesn't make the all NBA team they have a real shot at both him and Fultz/Ball.

Are we even sure PG/Butler puts them over the hump by giving up picks + their core.


I thought about PG or Butler putting them over the top but I just didn't see it this year lol.. I was just looking at it from the "LeBron cakewalks through the East" narrative.. Would have been interesting but you are right.. They have picks and could sign somebody that's worth it.. They had them picks since 2012 or something like that?
 
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