have to give Tom Rivers some credit for the audacity to offer Blake for every good player on Denver's roster, tbh..
I hope they trade him, though..he has been a matchup nightmare for the Spurs..getting deeper helps them against everybody else, but not vs. the Spurs and maybe not vs. the Warriors, as well..
We all love Diaw, but he would be expendable with Horford in the fold. Green is 100% necessary (particularly with Manu nearing retirement) given matchups with OKC/GS unless you were to get back an elite wing in a trade. In a GS series, he'd be the third or forth most important guy behind Kawhi, LMA and possibly Parker (ability to penetrate against non-shot blockers / make Curry work on D).
Not gonna lie, in hindsight I really wish the Spurs would've taken Jokic over KA in 2014. Dude is already a monster at 20 years old, and would be a great replacement once Duncan retires. I like KA and think he can be a solid player, but I think Jokic has the potential to be something special.
I mean, I wish the Spurs would have traded Blair for the 35th pick in the 2012 draft like they were rumored to be considering. Then, either they get Draymond or at least GS doesn't. I know exactly what you mean about Jokic but Kyle will be legit soon.
Nuggets should definitely be a player at the deadline..they need to unload Faried while other teams still believe he's a good player, and they should ship Chandler during the off-season before teams realize he's finished as a starter(it usually takes the majority of teams a few years to realize)..I'd probably give up Nurkic, too, since I assume he still has some prospect value around the league..
Sell high on Gallo, too..
Griffin/Jokic/Mudiay/Barton is a pretty decent core, 1 major piece away, probably..
They are holding on to jokic. He's looked like their best player at times and is just 20 if I am correct. I even think their wanting to move Varied or another non Jokic big is to open opportunities for him. I think they still have Nurkic too who was injured so they need to clean up their big depth. Clippers reaching Jokic is the prize IMO.The Clippers reportedly offered Blake Griffin & Lance Stephenson to the Nuggets for Kenneth Faried, Danilo Gallinari, Will Barton, & Nikola Jokic.
Needless to say, Denver turned it down
I think nobody knew Jokic would turn out to be this good. He was so young. Guys at 18-19 might even still be growing and skilled big men take time. I think with Kyle Spurs valued his passing above all else bc our passers are all old(Timmy, Manu, Diaw, West). We didn't have West then, but he's also old. Elite passing is very underrated in the league and Kyle was a flawed player thus we got him at 30. I think he needed to become a flat out better player than he was in everything else b4 Pop would let him do his thing, but good passing forwards are not a dime a dozen. I mean I wish we would have gotten Gobert too the season b4. The way the Spurs have been stashing picks, we are lucky we even have Kyle and not some Euro player unlikely to ever come over. I think Spurs haven't necessarily been drafting homeruns the last few seasons after Kawhi. Word is Kyle fell to them as it was....
Has Rubio learned to shoot yet? Could even Chip rescue him at this stage?
I doubt it, but if it's true and Nuggets turned it down they're idiots.The Clippers reportedly offered Blake Griffin & Lance Stephenson to the Nuggets for Kenneth Faried, Danilo Gallinari, Will Barton, & Nikola Jokic.
Needless to say, Denver turned it down
Denver should have taken Griffin. Start building that winning habit.
Boban would also be on the outside looking in. I'm in the "sell high" on Boban camp. he might be a good asset to include
Trading Green makes absolutely no sense. The one position San Antonio gets killed at defensively is point guard. That's where the Spurs need an upgrade.
Rumor is Denver's equipment manager was vehemently against it.The Clippers reportedly offered Blake Griffin & Lance Stephenson to the Nuggets for Kenneth Faried, Danilo Gallinari, Will Barton, & Nikola Jokic.
Needless to say, Denver turned it down
The only thing to be had to make us better would be better perimeter defenders, which there are none to be had because other that the claw there are none. Not in today's NBA.
I'd kill for Bradley.
They even talked about the "rumor" on Ticket 760 ��
The rumor might be a legit rumor then????
It would definitely signal Timmy can't play. He returned for that one game against the Magic and wasn't exactly lighting it up... as I said only way the trade makes sense is if Timmy can't play in which case, that combined with Manu's injury and unknown come back game and state would just have accelerated our rebuild. Still we are weak at the PG position and giving up Green who guards elite PG would hurt us. It puts in perspective all the time Pop gave to Simmons having him guard Curry, Irving, Clarkson, etc. He was lit up, but he was getting trained.
In other words their people troll this thread
It was the EXACT source/ link TBH. I was cracking up
Projected: -2 wins
Projected: -2 wins
Homie Diaz with another truth bomb
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