Yeah. Either the team needs to upgrade the top seven/eight or just make a small trade for RS filler. If Pop runs a regular playoff rotation, it's gonna be hard for Beli to get a lot of minutes, let alone another wing.
If you look at the stats, Cory's been playing really well recently. I think his time at the two has served him well.
the team needs another player who can perform in a wcf or finals when things get tight and players have to step up. The offseason became a failure when the front office didn't get a player like that. it's why the Spurs not clearing cap space was a disaster because it kept them from getting a Kirilenko, who they would have had with cap room but instead found themselves at the mercy of Minnesota's willingness to take on a year of salary in a trade. unfortunately in the end they just replaced Neal with Belineli. not enough of an improvement, but in the meantime OKC improved both internally and drafting a rotation big.
SA could have improved internally but couldn't even remember that Kawhi was on the team, let alone involve him in the offense more.
If we end up with anyone, it will be another 3pt shooter. We don't have enough already.
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Y! Sources: Minnesota, Memphis discussing trade package centered on Chase Budinger and Tayshaun Prince. yhoo.it/M7K2k7
Lol. I was thinking the exact same thing.
My sentiments exactly!
The NYC teams to get over themselves. No one's gonna give them starting players for free. They have few assets and need to temper their expectations.
Memphis and Minny are just trying to shake things up. Not going to help either.
10. Golden State Warriors (31-22; last week's ranking: 9): Golden State executives have told forward Harrison Barnes that, barring a blockbuster offer, he will not be traded before Thursday's deadline, sources said.
19. New Orleans Pelicans (23-29; last week's ranking: 19): Source said New Orleans could be trading guard Austin Rivers and the rights to hot-scoring D-League guard Pierre Jackson.
22. New York Knicks (20-32; last week's ranking: 22): New York is trying to make a deal before the trade deadline to show Carmelo Anthony they’re serious about improving.
25. Sacramento Kings (18-35; last week's ranking: 24): The Kings are in the market for a veteran backup point guard who pushes the ball, a source said.
26. Boston Celtics (19-35; last week's ranking: 26): Source said Sacramento offered Isaiah Thomas, Ben McLemore and two picks for Rajon Rondo. Rondo wasn’t interested in re-signing with Sacramento.
29. Philadelphia 76ers (15-39, last week's ranking: 28): The Sixers will be looking to move Evan Turner and Spencer Hawes and also could be a third team in a big trade, a source said.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba-pow...medium=twitter
Please tell me that Kings offer is joke. Why would they do that?
would be great if spurs can get in on that
i've heard boylen tried to convince pop and rc that we needed to make a trade for a SF because he sees that we don't have one. When they told him about kawhi, boylen reportedly said ''why? Because we've been playing without a true wing player all year, that's why!" And pop and rc then said, "no we mean kawhi Leonard, the guy you forgot to put in that one game. He's our true wing player!" Boylen apparently left, confused, trying to figure out who the they were talking about before heading over to see Ayres.
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Bulls will sign D-League forward Jarvis Varnado to a 10-day contract, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. He worked out in Chicago on Monday.
Yep. With Kawhi playing small ball 4 and Manu sharing the floor with Patty and Beli as SF.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...pNL/story.html“The public probably views us more as sellers than as buyers,” Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge told the Globe recently. “But I do think that people around the league know that we have some good players — good veteran players, good young players — and lots of draft picks. I’ve had calls for both.
“I’ve had teams contact me with the idea of trying to acquire young players and draft picks, and I’ve had teams that have called that are looking to get some of those. And I’ve had teams that have called looking for some of our veteran players as well. I think it just depends on who you talk to, but I think everybody knows that we have a lot of young assets.”
“I really don’t have an answer for that,” Ainge said. “I mean, trades sort of come out of nowhere a lot of times. A lot of times they’re from past conversations that rekindle when deals are not going to happen, and then, all of the sudden, someone changes their mind. I really don’t know how much dealing there will be around the league or how much dealing we’ll do.”
“I think the difference between other years and this year is that there’s a lot of different directions we could go,” Ainge said. “In past years, we’re focusing on just getting better for the playoff run. And now, we’re looking for possibilities of flexibility, young assets, things of that nature, but, at the same time, [we’re] opportunistic for any deals that could come along and speed up our rebuilding process.”
^ interesting, I still like the idea of taking back Wallace to buy picks...
They obviously won't trade their best pick but they have another pick that's currently 19th in the first round... And two picks next years as well.
If Tim is really rolling off this summer, they'll never take on a horrible contract like Wallace, especially for a pick (19) not much better than our own. For a contract with 2yrs/20M AFTER this year for a clearly failing player, you'd need a lottery pick in this year's draft.
i really feel like the assistant coaching staff have a lot to do with our struggles this year.
i miss bud.
that's not the type of deal they would do. Either they sell a veteran for an expiring + pick or they would be looking at young players. They are not selling their young players or their picks unless they get better younger players or better picks tbh
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Charlotte had traction on deal to bring it Milwaukee's Caron Butler and Gary Neal, but talks crumbled in recent days, league sources tell Y!
Ben Gordon for Neal and Butler would be a good deal for both teams.
Adrian WojnarowskiVerified account @WojYahooNBA Clippers GM/coach Doc Rivers on the search for a big man to bolster his bench, league sources tell Yahoo.
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Clippers interested in flipping wing player (Dudley, perhaps Barnes) for frontcourt help, per source. Jamison, Mullens also available.
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