http://www.rotoworld.com/content/pla...=137927&spln=1
Matt Barnes is expected to make an announcement on Friday about which team he'll join, but it looks like Miami is his most likely destination.
The Celtics, Mavericks and Lakers are under consideration, but the Heat seem to be winning the fight for his services. The Heat remind us of that owner that blows all his money in a fantasy auction on a couple players, but then sees a bunch of steals fall to him at the end of the draft.
Jul. 15 - 4:13 pm et
^^ fail
lol Matt Bricks
Again I ask "What the is the Spurs waiting on to try & sign some dam body! I hope they don't think Spillter is all we need to get over the top! The best shooters are gone, the centers are gone, an dam near the best defenders are gone! Oyea wait my bad they takin a very hard look at "Sweet James Jones"! The only hard look they takin is that dumb founded stare Pop gives in a game when someone keeps in up! Who the tryin to get Brewer while the Spurs gaze at people?
I think we were looking at Raja, and after he officially signed with Utah, we're probably talking to Jones right now...
I like to thank you 4 sharing dat wit me!
Not sure if I'm right or not...I just heard somewhere that Jones would be what we went after if the Bell plan fell through.
Dang. First Miller, then keeping Haslem, now possibly adding Barnes?
That's three excellent role players. So much for having no depth. Even if they played Shawn Bradley at 5 they'd be really hard to beat.
Not a good fit, imo. They need shooters (specially in the PG position, 'cause Lebron and Wade will play 40 mins each either way) and centers.
Barnes will make you sorry every time.
He's a good bench player and situational player for them though..I agree that he shouldn't start, but I think it would be a good addition from an overall standpoint..
I think they should spend the little cap space they have left in a good shooting veteran PG and/or a center, what's the point of getting Barnes when you already have Lebron, Wade and Miller in the wings?
LeBron is going to play the Magic Johnson type role
don't be surprised to see
LeBron
Wade
Miller
Bosh
Center
lineups
The HIV part.
tee, hee.
So...these guys don't have to defend the best perimeter player on the floor (Barnes)? Chris Bosh gets to play weak-side defense (Haslem)? Lebron is free to go after the ball on the rim on the defensive end? You have two of the best shot-blockers for their position in Wade and James. Do they really need lock-down defenders on the ground?
This team is going to be a beast. I'm not seeing how these pieces don't fit together. James wants to pass, Bosh wants to run, and Wade wants to score. They will be fresh for the postseason because they won't rely on one guy too much. They will be (so far) 7-deep (Chalmers, Wade, James, Haslem, Bosh, Miller, and Barnes). One more big guy and passer and that should do it. If Ilgauskas has really gone there, if they can get one free agent PG that just wants to pass and win, just get out of the way. This team will win it next season. It's a corronation. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. We know how the story ends, we just got to get there. I feel sorry for all the people who are going to miss this because they think James is a pussy and a narcissist. This is going to be entertaining.
If Miami can get some good movement on offense, they are going to be impossible to stop.
Wade knows how to play off the ball from playing with Shaq in his younger days, but LeBron is useless at it, I'm sure he will improve though.
Those two off the ball for stretches, with Miller/Barnes who are both very good passers for their size initiating the offense, Bosh dragging a big guy out to 18-20 feet... Man...
When does the season start late October right?
If you have any games from the 2006 Postseason, you will know that James is not useless at it. Remember Damon Jones shooting them into the second-round off a Lebron James pass, his fourth or fifth that quarter? That's how he dominated the Pistons in games 3 and 4. Read Sports Illustrated article on this. James is going there to be Magic Johnson. He wants the triple-double record of Oscar Robertson. And that is why I marveled at him--his passing--when he was younger (2006). The media, his coaches, his teammates have too often wanted him to be Allen Iverson or Michael Jordan.
Remember the 2007 Conference Finals when he got all the flack for passing the ball to one of the greatest shooters of all-time (Donyell Marshall)? I lived in the moment that the ball went there. I said "oh ! NO! NO!" before Marshall even got the shot up. The Pistons lucked out and James got told he made a bad basketball play. He made the right play and got two days of bereating from the media. To the point, that in the middle of a Conference Finals with my beloved Pistons, I was defending the opposing team's star anytime someone brought up this particular subject.
I will admit that the bread-and-butter since 2006-07 has been for James to be a scorer, but that doesn't mean he's bad at passing or doesn't see his options. He's supposed to be agressive. He doesn't have to do that anymore--dominate through scoring--and what you said about Wade and Bosh is right-on.
Yes. October 29th or 30th.
ima have to tivo this one unfortunately , i hope he decides to take his talents to south beach . You guys think he will wake up knowing what his decision is ?
This upcoming season?
It starts in June.
I said he sucks off the ball, not at passing. Read man!
I always thought that this all out scoring type play isn't his ideal situation and he kind of wants to be setting everybody up, as you said.
I mean off the ball, as in cutting, spacing, hitting shots from a standstill. These are things that LeBron is not good at, a big reason is obviously because he has never been in that opportunity. At his size and with his speed and strength, he could be amazing off the ball when it is harder for the defense to key in on him.
A LeBron that is able to get easy points off the ball and rest up for 4th quarters is a scary though.
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