Cris Carter logic lol. Lots of guys here would make great Colin Cowherd/Cris Carter types tbh. Contrarian edgelords with dumbass takes
Dude, what the kind of argument is this?
Cris Carter logic lol. Lots of guys here would make great Colin Cowherd/Cris Carter types tbh. Contrarian edgelords with dumbass takes
End of story?
Patty Mills and Pau Gasol are role players too. They got paid, two $50M deals.
But the Spurs couldn't pay a DD contract? So funny.
LeBron is a toxic to any franchise, he'll leave everytime...But I would do my best effort to keep him or Kawhi on my team.
I'm tired to read "toxic in the locker room" like it's a big issue.
No one teammate liked Kobe, MJ was a b*tch...And they still won everything
Pop was so lucky with Tim but there is just one Tim Duncan. The Spurs should know it and keep "toxic" Kawhi on the team, like Phil could handle MJ and Kobe.
Those guys that you mentioned were stars not end of bench guys.
I think part of this is that Uncle D wants his nephew to be like Lebron - taking on owners (racial overtones and all), setting his terms, living the superstar life with a permanent entourage and constant special treatment, etc.
The irony is that Lebron is tired of some of that and is trading his much admired "freedom" for the stability a declining player will need. What a rebel.
I wouldn't doubt that Kawhi's group, over the years, wanted more and more of this experience for Kawhi, but had no idea how to create it with Kawhi because he has no knack for it; instead they seemed to blame "the organization" and did very little to improve things, largely because they probably have no ing idea what they are doing.
And then, like spoiled brats and millennials, they just gave up on the organization and poisoned Kawhi's mind against it over time. Honestly, without the Spurs, Kawhi never becomes the star he is today. That isn't to say he didn't have the talent. But it is to say that other teams are not as well equipped to unlock it. So ungrateful.
He said Kawhi was so toxic to keep him...I said a team should keep top talented guys, always...doesn't matter what. I also doubt Kawhi's end of bench guys
He was talking about Dedmon.
I'll never understand the God-like complexes that Sports writers/journalists have & I can tell Lowe's has increased markedly over the past 3 or 4 years. Even down here, some of their ego's are out of control, you would think they're as irreplaceable as the athletes themselves.
Simmons wasn't a locker room problem. If he was, they wouldn't have put the QO on him. Only after weeks of him refusing to sign did the Magic, desperate for a signing, come in and negotiate, leading to the Spurs doing Simmons the favor of rescinding.
If Simmons was such a problem they would have dumped him at the start, and if he was so obviously Kawhi's guy, they would have paid him.
Talked about the three guys, Kawhi, Simmons and Dedmon.
Lowe is a low integrity fool on this sort of stuff, but he's not alone. The entire blogboy media intelligencia are clowns
On the Dunc'd On Podcast, those guys flipped so hard it was disgusting. For the last 2 years they went on and on about how the Spurs couldn't even compete with Golden State, that Kawhi wasn't good enough.
Then on their trade reaction podcast they said something like, paraphrasing ... ___---- "Kawhi AND Green? That's a monster defensively, they can compete with Golden State" ----
WTF? They didn't even go into any reason the rest of the roster was so much more equipped to beat GS. It was as simple as "Kawhi and Green = beating Golden State". They would laugh at the idea of Kawhi and Green against Golden State for months.
IDK...Like they paid CoJo? Kawhi didn't have friends on the roster but he had chemistry on/off court with a few guys, Cory, Danny, Jonathon, Dedmon...
You didn't see pics of Kawhi and TP/Manu doing off-court things in 7 years in SA but you see Kawhi with Cory buying a suit, with Danny and Jon in clubs...
And he was talking about Dedmon being toxic. You suck at reading comprehension.
DUI RC has been know to be an asshole to player during negotiations.
Some dysfunction on the Spurs part; don't believe it absolves Kawhi at all though, tbh.
I never saw pics of Cory doing anything. The only time I saw him with Simmons in the last summer league. I don't follow these guys on gram or anything, if it's not here or on TV I don't see it
And Green? Well, the Spurs kept him, didn't they? They paid him. They had opportunities to trade him every year and they never did.
And yeah, they would have paid him. They traded for Antonio Daniela to keep Duncan happy. Pop didn't want that guy, never did. Only after enough years had passed and Duncan chilled was he okay with them trading him.
They kept Parker and Manu happy in their ways. Oberto for Manu. Paris training camp and various French players for Parker.
If Kawhi had told RC, "I think it's very important that we keep Simmons, and if we don't I might not like the direction the team is going" they sign him.
The fact that these lame rumors about JS and Dedmon come out after the other 20+ excuses didn't stick explains it all. Clutching at straws.
I don't buy the bull that Buford is a savant. This organization won the D-Rob/Duncan sweepstakes and then took enough advantage of the fact that most NBA GMs are terrible at their jobs.
Read the post I quoted instead of whining like a little school girl. That poor reading comprehension will get you every time. He was talking about Dedmon and Simmons being role players yet the two players the Spurs replaced those supposed Role players with were fringe NBA talent purposeful for garbage time minutes. In a nuts , The Spurs let two role players go only to sign two non-role players in their place because the PATFO thought it would be cute to re-sign Paddy and Pau to an ungodly sum of money. I guess the moral of the story is you get what you pay for.
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But none of us know that, is the point. Unless you're claiming to speak directly for the principals we're talking about, none of us know whether or not Kawhi made such a demand. There's an implicit assumption built on decades of seeming familiarity with how PATFO operates that automatically assigns Leonard as the passive actor in that scenario, when the front office we are talking about lost the trust of a franchise player. Leonard could have just easily been overruled and chose to follow the chain of command. Until he no longer didn't.
Thank you good Sir. Would you elaborate more pn this please?
Is he a real Filipino like us??
Purang ina nitong kawhi na to, bwisit, sinira Spurs ko
Ipakulam natin to mga tol.....
Mukha pa syang ewan hahaha
Mabuhay sa lahat ng mga kababayan ko dito!
Your consistent evisceration of this troll has been satisfying to watch and I salute you for it.
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