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Burn this down.
Burn this down.
How awesome would it be if this guy was an expiring right now?
CP3 screwed the Spurs over. Ensured a rival got weaker.
I liked the thought of Pau on the Spurs as a reserve for the vet minimum. His monster contract and insistence on starting makes me regret ever wanting him on the Spurs.
He's awful. He and Mills combine to suck ass.
How do you know this?
PATFO did all the screwing tbh.
Can we change the thread le from “Existentialist Coffee House” to “Llama Farm” instead?
All kinds of great options.
1. Would be playing harder to get another fat paycheck.
2. Whether Spurs were in contention or not, would be excellent trade bait at deadline.
3. Even if not traded, would have cleared 16 mil off next season.
Just a colossal phuck up by the Spurs combined with Fatty Mills.
Arrogant prick CIA Popped and his Yes Men including Drunkford.
Yep. CP3 had a team in mind and he went there. The Spurs having no real backup plan (if he was even a sure target to begin with), and making knee-jerk moves at to sign culture at 12:01, promising an old washed up ostrich big bucks just for chilling in Spain without a paycheck for a few weeks, letting go of depth without adequately replacing it, and still relying on mummies is all on PATFO.
That about sums up my understanding of that whole mess. I have never heard anything authoritative about any tentative deal or handshake or "understanding" between CP3 and PATFO - just speculation on ST (go figure).
I thought they asked Pau to opt out of his deal to give them cap space so they could sign a FA, rumored to be CP3. CP3 then got together with buddy Harden and chose to go elsewhere. It's possible Gasol opted out so they could pay up to retain JSimms too. JSimms choosing to play elsewhere also screwed up PATFO.
However, everything else was as Tim Dunkem said.
At least, this is basically my recollection of events. I exaggerated CP3 fault in this. His only "fault" was to change his mind which is his prerogative. PATFO having a backup plan of 12:01 Paddy and just reup Pau after JSImms chose to leave was their own doing.
Well, like I implied, I do not believe he had ever made up his mind to come to the Spurs in order for him to "change" it later. I think it was PATFO acting on their own initiative to clear space because the Spurs (among a couple of other teams) were thought or rumored to be in the running for Paul. Nothing more.
You are probably right. CP3 was rumored to have interest on the Spurs among other possibilities which could be made up by the media of course.
I don't fault PATFO for making due diligence moves to try to get CP3, but we can fault them for their backup plan. All things considered, my original comment about CP3 was illogical. Kinda wished he was never rumored to come to the Spurs though so Pau would have just picked up his option and then be done. The way PATFO thinks though they would properly sign him back.
https://www.poundingtherock.com/2018...e-for-playoffs
It's a fans article, but wha t caught my eye was
The last 2 games Aldridge was guarded by the other team's center - Adams, McGee. Teams could care less about Gasol. Can Gasol punish the other team's 4 man on the block? No. Aldridge has to roam the perimeter defensively. Can Gasol pump fake a 3 and drive to the basket? No. Can Gasol guard a pick and roll switch? No. Gasol needs to be a 12 minute a game player and on the floor only when Aldridge isn't. Those extra 12 minutes need to go to in some kind of combination to Anderson/Gay/Bertans.
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