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I think the Shumpert deal wins the turd of the day.

carey wrote:

dragickingdom wrote:They are clearing out space for Rondo!

Rondo & Wes Matthews supposedly.

kings are better off with jeremy lin over rondo.

Shabazz wrote:Are any teams in the West not "going for it" other than Minny and maybe Denver. There are going to be a lot of disappointed teams come playoff time. The Wolves are in really good shape to capitalize when the other top teams start falling off.

minnesota as is (current roster), is one of my surprise teams to make the playoffs next season--as long as rubio plays all 82 games. imagine if love decides to return to sota.

you can add the lakers as one of the teams not going for it next season (kobe's final year).

SDC wrote:

Shabazz wrote:Are any teams in the West not "going for it" other than Minny and maybe Denver. There are going to be a lot of disappointed teams come playoff time. The Wolves are in really good shape to capitalize when the other top teams start falling off.

minnesota as is (current roster), is one of my surprise teams to make the playoffs next season--as long as rubio plays all 82 games. imagine if love decides to return to sota.

Pay attention, SDC. Love resigned with the Cavs long term.

Asik gets 5yr $60m deal from NO. Yikes

Shabazz wrote:Are any teams in the West not "going for it" other than Minny and maybe Denver. There are going to be a lot of disappointed teams come playoff time. The Wolves are in really good shape to capitalize when the other top teams start falling off.

I don't think they need other teams to fall off. Wiggins and KAT are going to be a force to reckon with no matter what other teams do in the West. Cleveland's Kevin Love trade will always stink.

Gladiator wrote:Asik gets 5yr $60m deal from NO. Yikes

$12 million a year? There's nothing "Yikes" about that.

any aspirational west team that has laker games and denver games and warrior games and clipper games in late april will get a boost

INFORMER wrote:

Gladiator wrote:Asik gets 5yr $60m deal from NO. Yikes

$12 million a year? There's nothing "Yikes" about that.

I think that's a fair but for someone who's so limited offensively and will be borderline unplayable some nights when teams go small ball against them. Also I was reading somewhere stats suggest his d has been slipping slightly and isn't quite as good as advertised. But in light of the cash being splashed around maybe that's just what it takes to sign him.

Edit: the last year isn't guaranteed ($15mil) so that's not too bad a deal. I still think he'll be something of a spot duty player though

INFORMER wrote:

Shabazz wrote:Are any teams in the West not "going for it" other than Minny and maybe Denver. There are going to be a lot of disappointed teams come playoff time. The Wolves are in really good shape to capitalize when the other top teams start falling off.

I don't think they need other teams to fall off. Wiggins and KAT are going to be a force to reckon with no matter what other teams do in the West. Cleveland's Kevin Love trade will always stink.

I love their roster, but it will take a few years.

sota staring 5:

towns
rubio
pekovic
wiggins
martin (2 guard)

bench
budinger
dieng
lavine
neal
shabazz

Apparently well in excess of $1 billion got spent/promised on the first day of free agency.

Regarding Gambo's tweets about SA...I'd just assumed Duncan would play the 5 or they'd switch off at times. I didn't think Aldridge would be a fulltime 5 there. But our situation is more attractive overall IMO because Chandlers still only 32 and we have a legit young center on the roster. Again, that's a key thing for Aldridge.

ShelC wrote:Regarding Gambo's tweets about SA...I'd just assumed Duncan would play the 5 or they'd switch off at times. I didn't think Aldridge would be a fulltime 5 there. But our situation is more attractive overall IMO because Chandlers still only 32 and we have a legit young center on the roster. Again, that's a key thing for Aldridge.

I don't think Duncan has ever played the 5 there or very rarely at least - certainly in the starting line-up. I vaguely remember reading about how Pop makes a point of always naming Duncan at the 4

According to Basketball-Reference.com Duncan hasn't played less than half his minutes at center since 2005-06 -

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... ati01.html

The Bobster wrote:According to Basketball-Reference.com Duncan hasn't played less than half his minutes at center since 2005-06 -

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... ati01.html

That's probably right but the Spurs have gone out of their way to at least start someone else at the 5 - Splitter, Diaw even Baynes. I'm confident if LMA was there he'd be the 5. Whether of not that helps us or not is another question.

Afflalo to the Knicks - 2yrs, $16mil

Monroe takes max deal with Bucks.
https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/616622590472269824

Not sure how a Parker-Monroe frontcourt is going to be defensively, but it's an interesting move

Monroe got 3yrs 50mil. Knicks supposedly offered less than the max according to some reports. Bucks are a fun, young team. They can use the halfcourt offense Monroe will provide. Kidd's getting guys to Milwaukee. Guys used to want to play with him, now they want to play for him.