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RRFB wrote:$11mil over four years? Hahahahahaha.

SnakefromHell wrote:Matt Barnes is a natural born loser... that's why Suns don't want him back. If we get him, maybe we'll see 3-4 fights involving him, Nene and some other teams' weak players.

The Rebel wrote:Anybody else just find other teams and their fans comical when they get the Nuggets crap.

Last year everybody was writing off the Nuggets because they lost Camby for nothing, which actually did not hurt the nuggets as he was replaced with Birdman. The Clippers claimed they were contenders.

Nets fans were bragging all over the place when they paid najera his $12 million 4 year deal.

Bucks fans were all over the place when they Stole Boykins from us, while sending us an expiring in Blake and saving us from the luxury tax.

Dallas fans had Buckner as their starting Sg for the next 4 years when they stole him from us.

And now Jones gets a 4 year $11 million deal, and Pacers fans are claiming that they know more then we do about him, and it is a steal.

Over the last few years we have lost several players who played large roles in Denver only to watch them go fall on their face elsewhere. The funniest thing is we constantly hear how Melo does not make anybody better, and everybody on our team is overrated. When do they start to learn, Denver's role players only do one or two things well usually, and the team has a habit of finding their perfect roles, once they leave they cannot do anything else, and become busts. Meanwhile our top players are the ones that really make the team work.

8305 wrote:
Pacer fan here. It has been amusing to read posts from both teams on this one. I must admit you can throw up an impressive litany of role players who built credibility in Denver and signed relatively lucurative free agent contracts somepace elsewhere and then failed to meet expectations. Is that a testiment to Karl and his ability to get something out of these guys others can't?

As a fan you have to optomistic and I think there is some logic for it in this case. I haven't spent much time watching Jones but from comments he is at worst a willing defender and at best a lockdown defender. Even the worst case scenario will be welcome in Indiana. Secondly and maybe most important there will be minutes for him. A trap alot of bench rotation guys fall into is a set of circumstances where through no fault of his own the minutes aren't there. As the Pacers are constructed now he is the third wing in a rotation with Granger and Rush until Dunleavy gets back. That means early on he could get 25 to 30 minutes a game. A great opportunity for him.

Beefsicle wrote:That 25-30 minutes better have Danny Granger making up for a missing player on offense.

8305 wrote:
Pacer fan here. It has been amusing to read posts from both teams on this one. I must admit you can throw up an impressive litany of role players who built credibility in Denver and signed relatively lucurative free agent contracts somepace elsewhere and then failed to meet expectations. Is that a testiment to Karl and his ability to get something out of these guys others can't?

8305 wrote:As a fan you have to optomistic and I think there is some logic for it in this case. I haven't spent much time watching Jones but from comments he is at worst a willing defender and at best a lockdown defender. Even the worst case scenario will be welcome in Indiana. Secondly and maybe most important there will be minutes for him. A trap alot of bench rotation guys fall into is a set of circumstances where through no fault of his own the minutes aren't there. As the Pacers are constructed now he is the third wing in a rotation with Granger and Rush until Dunleavy gets back. That means early on he could get 25 to 30 minutes a game. A great opportunity for him.