NBA Off-Season Discussion Thread

[LaBrandon Aldridge]

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How the fuck is JJ killing the cap?

 

[SAIYANS]

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His salary is ridiculous but that has more to do with Chicago.

...Okay? You found a picture of Dwight wearing a Lakers hat. Want a fucking cookie? If the Nuggets got all of that shit for 'Melo, the Lakers would have to pay out of their ass for Dwight, especially since he's better than 'Melo & outstanding bigs are much harder to come across than scoring SFs.

The Lakers aren't the Knicks. Check how they got Kareem, Scott, Kobe, Shaq, and Pau. They were lucky to have the Jazz's pick for Magic, but the rest of the guys they wanted and got at a price they wanted.

If it isn't LA, the Bulls will be the ones beating on the door for him.

 

[LaBrandon Aldridge]

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The beautiful thing is, if Orlando doesn't trade Dwight to LA, he can't go there at all. I'd rather have him leave in free agency with no compensation whatsoever than trade him to LA for a worthless C.

 

[SAIYANS]

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Just because the recent precedent is bailing on the team that made you rich doesn't mean everybody has to/wants to.

He just called out this group of players as well for not showing up, like he did the last group that was traded. Dwight is going to get tired of carrying them when they can't defend, rebound, or even score that well without him.

 

[SAIYANS]

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The beautiful thing is, if Orlando doesn't trade Dwight to LA, he can't go there at all. I'd rather have him leave in free agency with no compensation whatsoever than trade him to LA for a worthless C.

In short, you would be okay with Shaq 2.0 where they got nothing for him. I think they would take Bynum before looking like fools again after 1996. Maybe it would hurt to much to watch another great Magic C reach his peak with LA and win titles, but I doubt they wouldn't want something in return for him after the Shaq debacle.

 

[SAL]

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The beautiful thing is, if Orlando doesn't trade Dwight to LA, he can't go there at all. I'd rather have him leave in free agency with no compensation whatsoever than trade him to LA for a worthless C.

This is a solid point. If Orlando can't win a title with Howard, the same team won't win shit with Bynum, and in a weird way they might be better off getting nothing and blowing it all up.

 

[SAIYANS]

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If he walks for nothing let it be to BK

 

[LaBrandon Aldridge]

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Bynum would do absolutely nothing for this team. If Dwight does indeed leave, I'd rather completely start over. Dump the 1-4 offense (and probably SVG) and if Otis doesn't do anything to improve the team by then, him too.

 

[SAIYANS]

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Bynum is not the picture of health, but he has anchored the best defensive and rebounding team in the playoffs the last two postseasons statistically on one leg. He can't be an iron man like Dwight, but he would be about as good of a sub as you can get on that end of the floor with an offensive game to boot. I admit it is in small stretches, but without Pau in the lineup and as the primary postup big he scores and does so efficently.

I doubt he would work in the 1-4 O though since he is used to hitting cutters instead of shooters for most of his career

 

[SAIYANS]

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Sal, do you think Jeff Green will be the James Posey replacement that the Celtics hope he will be?

 

[SAL]

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i dunno

 

[Phenomenal1]

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I'm wondering if Gerald Wallace is gonna be the Brandon Roy replacement after he hangs it up in the next couple years because if so I think they jumped on him too early. I'm not real sure how this roster is gonna do right now. Should be interesting to watch.

I also wonder if Wallace comes off the bench how he will take it because the last Wallace Portland had didn't like coming off the bench at all.

 

[SAIYANS]

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Gearld starts at PF and Aldridge at C.

Roy, Rudy, and Camby all come off the bench

 

[SAL]

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Gearld starts at PF and Aldridge at C.

Roy, Rudy, and Camby all come off the bench

They could mess around with Batum at the 2, go Andre/Batum/Gerald/LA/Camby and wreak havoc on defense.

 

[SAL]

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I've criticized Melo plenty, but here's a different tack. Everyone criticized LeBron, Bosh, and Wade (mostly LeBron) for coming together. But they all took less money (I know, not a lot less) to do it. Carmelo Anthony, on the other hand, had the option of going to NY in free agency next year and possibly giving up some money (if the new CBA lowered max contracts, or did rollbacks, or whatever). Instead, he forced the trade through so he could sign the max contract, get the most money, and hurt NY's chances of adding another superstar. Why hasn't this been talked about?