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DOOMSDAY:Cookin The Tears Of The Oposition

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  1. therealdeal

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    Yeah. Russell is the same as Smart.

    And Kelly Olynyk is the same as Julius Randle.
     
    therealdeal, Dec 30, 2015
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    Sad thing for Foston is that they could've had Randle lol. They're still better now and with better coaching and management but for one game we crushed them lol
     
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    Let's trade Boron , Sacre , Kelly and Brown for Stevens .

    I happily will take a giant s*** on the gift package before it sends to the C-bags
     
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    GREAT Doom. Thank you!!!
     
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    That was delicious.
     
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    I honestly don't think they're that far ahead of us. Our roster is a LOT more interesting, diverse, and effective than theirs. The only thing they've got on us is a progressive coach. Yeah their record is nice, but they play in the East with a decent coach. We play in the West with the worst coach in the NBA.

    Everyone is out there saying Boston did the rebuild right, really? We've got four guys worth building around in Russell, Randle, Clarkson, and now Larry Nance Jr. Who are Boston building around? Avery Bradley? Joe Young? Jamison Crowder? I like Isaiah Thomas, but he's the kind of guy you get AFTER the rebuild, not to help establish it.

    Boston is waiting until THIS draft to get their real franchise builder in the draft. We've got ours. All we need is someone to lead the way now.
     
    therealdeal, Dec 31, 2015
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    im still laughing at the Smart/Russell comparison
     
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    It was worth reading again today!

    :Kobejerseypull:
     
    sirronstuff, Dec 31, 2015
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    Totally agree. What our team would look like even in the West with their coach, playing to the strengths of our guys and lineup options and modern basketball. Playoffs! That's what. We have the freaking talent. It's what's so maddening with the "A-hole". As long as the health for key players holds.
     
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    I literally spit out my drink in laughter at this because it's so on point.
     
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    word. for all the media bluster about boston, they've got exactly zero potential allstars on the roster. the lakers have at least two. and they didn't unceremoniously dump their championship core to do it.

    and LOL at comparing smart to randle or Russell. you can almost see them trying to convince themselves of this. it's the bargaining stage. acceptance is soon.
     
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    Stevens is a tremendous coach, but I'd much rather have some legit building blocks like the Lakers do as opposed to a team full of role players like Boston does. They have a good solid team, but they've likely already reached their ceiling. Unless they get Ben Simmons they still won't have that franchise type guy. Isiah Thomas is a guy who I voted for in my All Star ballot, but is he good enough to be that guy? I don't believe so. I think he can be a solid #2 and a great #3. They remind me of the Hawks from last year. Well well balanced, solid roster that plays well together, but their lack of a true superstar will rear it's ugly head come playoffs.
     
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    well, except millsap, horford, and even Teague are all better than whomever one would name as boston's best player. I can't even think of a guy on that squad who projects to be as good as any of those three.

    their primary asset seems to be stevens. which is good, btw. a good coach is worth a ton. popovich, Carlisle--those types are probably worth superstar money in terms of impact. in fact, I think Cuban had some in-house metrics he used when hiring Carlisle that indicating something to this effect.

    so, if stevens ends up in that class, I consider it akin to having an allstar on the roster. and the lakers having Byron is the functional equivalent of the kobe from the first 20 games of this season.
     
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    Isiah Thomas has been a 21 and 7 player this season and the team is winning so I think you can argue he's been an All Star caliber player. Bradley has been terrific as well. Atlanta had I believe three All Stars this year. Boston I think will end up with two, but the problem for both is while they do have All Star caliber players neither team has that one guy who can take over a game and put the team on his back consistently. Every championship team typically has that one guy. They do not.
     
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    We have way better potential on our team while they have a very solid coach and the Nets next three 1st round picks .

    They actually did a great job at getting rid of the dead weights of their roster while we lost Coward AND especially Pau for nothing ( it's just beyond inacceptable for Pau).

    As I said before we better hope they never get a real franchise player soon ... especially in the Least with Lebron starting to decline .

    Unfortunately I don't underestimate the current dysfunctional state of our FO .

    It will get better but I think it will be more complicated than just " get rid of Scott and all our pbs will be fixed"
     
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    Thomas is just too small to impact the game against the best defensive teams ... nothing he can do about it .

    He would come off the bench for a championship team at best
     
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    I'm also still laughing at Kobe passing the torch to Crowder. :D :D :D :D What?? I hope that was sarcasm.

    Agreed though. Their roster is full of guys who are pretty okay as they keep wasting picks on guards and getting big men that are all sorts of average. A horribly constructed roster.
     
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    isiah Thomas and avery Bradley as allstars? how shallow is the east in terms of guards this year?

    better guards in their conference off the top of my head:

    wall, beal, lowry, derozan, Teague, butler, rose, wade, kemba (yeah), reggie Jackson.

    there's just no top shelf talent on that team.
     
    abeer3, Jan 1, 2016
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    Let us feast!
     
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    Suns were beaming upon hearing the lowly Lakers were hosting them

    Quickly though, reality strikes.

    Some laughed
    Some cried
    Most were silent

    Oh so close
    Stay tuned for part 2 of our epic adventure.
     
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