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  1. abeer3

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    if aaron gordon is a "big", lebron's a "big".

    vuc does not have the same level of lateral quickness on d as rui. that is a wild claim. wild.

    knicks don't play robinson and towns together. they start anunoby at pf.

    again, the only successful team playing two bigs together is houston with adams and sengun (and even then, they've gone away from starting them together). memphis sometimes played jjj and edey, but...not super successfully.

    other teams that people will claim play two "bigs" play two "talls", one of whom is a "big" and the other is just a really tall forward. these guys (mobley, holmgren, jabari smith, etc.) can all shoot the three AND defend out to the three point line but also rebound a little and block shots.

    if we add vuc, who's doing that? none of ayton/hayes/vuc are, that's for damn sure.
     
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    Pray for Jason Collins. He’s going through it. Stage 4 Cancer. He’s fighting. Local kid Harvard Westlake. The Collins twins were it. Before the Lopez Twins in North Hollywood. These were the best twin big Centers in the Valley.
     
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    Reading the Chris Paul article. The Clippers did him dirty.

    actually when I mentioned him signing here. That’s what I was talking about intel on Devin Booker and Shai Gillis Alexander. He got the best out of Ayton. Gives LeBron a dominoes buddy. I know he’s intense.

    But that’s a guy who can get under somebodys skin defending. Even at his advanced age. Him and Smart together.
     
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    yeah, i said that if we moved gabe for help elsewhere that cp3 wouldn't be a crazy add. he's going to be on his best behavior at this point. i know it would upset the fanbase, but he's somehow still a plus player at age 40.
     
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    What was with those articles, or is it just one that I imagined only several years into his career, about him having meniscus or some kind of knee problems? Then poof next fifteen years nothing.

    :KobeConfused:
     
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    If I was to get a big it would be Bobby Portis.can play the 4/5 stretch.Can play him as small ball 5 or pair him with Ayton and go big
     
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    Would not upset me one bit if we could get him to play the Gabe role.
     
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    At this point it would be good to throw Paul out there to piss Alexander off or Booker. I mean he does it even Edwards.

    he’s good at being a OG like udonis on Miami.

    he can still give you 8 points. He’s good for 10 minutes in games.

    and was Reddicks boy.
     
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    yeah, word was his knee was bone on bone way back. could be that he just shoots it up like a demon.

    btw, if that's the case, he probably had some issues with kawhi, lol. dude won't play through a hangnail.
     
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    Exactly … I remember reading “bone on bone” way back then, and yet look how long he has played. Don’t understand that at all.
     

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