2022-23 Team Developments: News / Trades / Free Agents / Rumors

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Lebron is the biggest PG in the League using your criteria. WTF are you talking about?

 

Defense wins rings. Offense wins regular season games. With today's rules nearly anyone can put up points.

AD hasn't shown consistent dominance since the bubble and Bron is squaring off against Father Time every night. I'm not betting against him, he would've won the scoring title last year if he wanted, but Father Time is coming sooner than later.

If they had a roster that made any sense and if they're healthy in the playoffs, they're still as good of a pair as you'll find in the league for a 7 game series. BUT Rob cost us any chance with this roster. Your best addition is a 34 year old PG who only plays half a season, actively hates your most expensive player and plays the same position as Russ, Nunn, and occasionally Bron. Second best is yet another undersized guard who is currently a 3rd stringer on your roster. No defense. No shooting. No chance.

I like the additions of Bryant and Jones at C. Probably my two favorite moves we made. BUT two minimum signings at the position does not make you "a problem" for other teams. Turner would.

 

They haven't played in two seasons. That's the issue. I get the what ifs but it goes both ways. If they are healthy it's a different story altogether. I wouldn't pooh on the minimum thing. Monk was an excellent minimum signing, these kids can be just as good. They won't be relied on to be stars. I don't think Bev was our best pickup..several of these kids are going to have more impact than him IMO. Nunn too, and this is only his 3rd season in the League.

 

It is not any criteria. Man you are dense.

There are these things called rosters, they list the team's players who are signed to contracts and in the info they list the position of said players.

One of those positions is PG.

There are at least 50 POINT GUARDS (listed as such on their rosters) who are 6'3 or taller in the NBA and anywhere from 15-20 will be starting the season at that position for their respective teams. Another half dozen to ten or so figure to see plenty of time at the position.

Based on that alone and NO OTHER CRITERIA...your blank statement that "we had one of the biggest PG's in the NBA" in reference to Russell Westbrook was absolutely and unequivocally dumb

 

Nope. That's not what you posted, you posted a bunch of guys of various heights and I responded that most of them were forwards. Then it turned to well they are wings and guys that have the ability to share PG duties. Now it's 50 guys listed on their rosters as PG. So now basically 30 guys in the NBA fit that criteria, how many are over 6'3?


If you don't understand that James has been the PG on every team he's been on regardless of his listed position than you are unequivocally dumb. You can start Austin Reaves at PG and say he's nominally the point, but it's James that's the actual PG. Same as it was with Kyrie or Wade. Or Bradley or KCP. I guess he is only the PG if he's listed as such? We have two of the biggest PG in the NBA. James and Westbrook. Well now only if we list LeBron as a PG

 

I would be in shock if Kyrie Irving gets max money next summer. Let alone 47 per.

Lakers going with a 3rd star next year would kill depth right off the bat. This team needs depth. No way around it.

 

Yes..and that same spiel has been posted by 100 different writers since December Cookie. Get back at me when this rumored trade goes down.

 

We've talked to Houston (last year), Charlotte, Indy, Brooklyn, Knicks, Spurs and Utah about trading Russ... how does one think we aren't shopping him after that?

The mental gymnastics...

 

Back on the hypotheticals.hypothetical..

What teams are better suited with all this size and wings, that makes them better than the Lakers with a healthy James and Davis? Why? Can someone list these superior rosters.

Golden State seems like a small ball team but what's there height and length advantage

Clippers ditto..and Kawhi and PG13 are automatically assumed to be healthier this season than James and Davis?

Denver Jokic is a bad boy, Murray is coming back from an ACL and Porter is still out with back surgery. Why are they soo good?

Dallas hate that they got Wood but who else do they have besides Luka, and Dinwiddie? That we should be fearing

Phoenix CP3 is a midget but he can still hoop. What's the glaring size advantage they have over this team.

Memphis I like these kids but size and length how do they stack up.

Minnesota..they have size with Gobert and KAT.. I'd like to see the rest of their roster.

This puts us at 8th..with a healthy Lebron AD and the size and length we have right now? I don't believe it for a second.

 

Teams talk all the time bro, we actually traded Talen. Nobody knew we were "talking " to Utah about that, until it went down.

Frankly it seems that most of the " reputed" deals don't actually go down. Especially those ones that get "talked" about for months. I guess "talking" is shopping sort of.

Actually Rob's MO is that he doesn't talk. He moves in silence, so the existence of constant chatter should be a caution sign.

 

I see you don’t have enough of an imagination to come up with your own rebuttals. So sad.

 

Ok..or there is speculation to drive page views and clicks by writers. A lot of that went down this summer. It's been said that GMs talk trades all the time every season. I guess that could be smoke if it's leaked.

 

The rebuttal was there for you to read.

 

Sometimes you just got to bite the bullet and push the ignore button

 

Ainge wants a first for each of his three assets

I think Bogdanovic can definitely net you a first. JC can probably net you a top 15 protected. Beasley? Two high 2nds? So if they want to split them, they can get better than packaging them. But how are they going to unload Conley? They need to move these guys before the season, I think the offers get worse at the deadline and they would have to put them on the shelf until they're traded because they might accidentally win them some games.

So while they might have higher pick value individually, you have to factor in negative assets.

I think one first and a swap is more than fair on our parts.

 

I looked over rosters, we could trade Damian Jones, Wenyen Gabriel, Max Christie and a 2nd for Cam if we wait until 9/29 due to Damian Jones recently having been signed. Cam wishing to be traded, and here, helps. Maybe we sweeten it with another 2nd. This is a deal Rob can pull off that helps us immediately and into the future (who knows how much) without using our FRPs and we still have Russ to maybe use around the trade deadline if the odd deal pops up. Cam is 23, can play serious minutes, makes us big defensively in the middle wing area and can hit from 3.