AtheJ415 wrote:You do realize that 24 is 5 years older than 19, 4 older than 20. ]
-- Ummm, Bender, our ONLY 19YO right now, turns 20, about 20 days into the season, but you go on ahead and keep acting like out 'core' is one player who averaged 13.3 MPG in 43 games last season...oh, and look, I can use emoticons too... 
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27 is 7 years older than 20. ]
-- But it's not older than 27, you know, of one of our Core, which is Bledsoe's age (as of this post). But you go on ahead and act like he's not part of our core (until he get's traded for Kyrie 
) And when that happens, Kyrie will ALSO be part of our Core, believe it or not, and he's 25.[/b]
Booker also isn't 21.
I guess you weren't able to figure out that I projected ages DURING next season, when it matters, as opposed to now, when, well, it doesn't??? And yes, I did that for every team's player throughout my post, which is why I said 'is turning' or 'will be' if they were born between now and Dec of the year they were born. Booker turns 21 4 days into the season, but you hold onto that "but he's only 20" bit... 
Also, I wasn't talking about only 3 players, but the general roster. We had the youngest roster per minute played in the league to end the season. ]
-- Oh, OK, so where's this list? I want to see where our team was 5-7 years younger than the rest of the league...[/b]
Regardless, so...NO is 4 and 7 years older with their top players relative to ours. ]
-- Wait, I'm confused. You just said in the last sentence that it's not about the 'core' or just 3 players, but about the whole team, and in your next breath, you say NO is 4 and 7 years older with their top players than ours...so which is it?? And again, why do you dismiss Bledsoe? Do you not think he is one of the top players, if not THE top player on our team RIGHT now? Well, he's going to be 28 in December; Kyrie is 25, if we get him. So that leaves AD, who just turned 24, and Booker who will be 21 when they play each other.[/b]
Hield also plays for the Kings by the way.
-- Yes, I forgot about that trade, and was looking at last year's roster. So now, Jrue is in their top 3, and he's 27Jazz are 5-7 years older than most of our core. ]
-- I'm confused again, you said it was about the whole team, not core? But let's go with your 'core' argument, or better yet, let's go starting 4, (let's cancel out Ingles for Chandler). They have Gobert (25), Favors (26), Rubio (27), Hood (25)--We have Bledsoe (28), Booker (21), Warren (24), Chriss (20) do the math, and we are down 9 years spread across four players, which is 2 1/4 years...hardly 5-7. I know you'd LOVE to, and obviously have been, discounting Bledsoe, but youcannot do that...that is disingenuous to the argument.([/b]
Denver...Murray doesn't even start
-- Ahhh...I was waiting for a statement like this from you to completely invalidate you're whole argument. See, now, you are going by starters, and by starters, we only have two 'young' ones--Chriss and Booker. And guess what. If all the RUMINT is true, and we get Kyrie and Chriss goes away, then Jackson starts, and he's OLDER than Chriss by 5 months. and most of their guys are older than that, though overall they are young. Still, seems to be absolutely random as to how you are determining the 3 players here.
-- I was picking the 3 likely 'best' players on the team per the fans, but we can swap Murray for the soon-to-be 23YO Harris, that's fine.Portland...You included Vonleh who barely plays ahead of McCollum, who is 25, which is, once again, 5 years older than Booker.
-- And once again, you are wrong...Booker will be 21 at the start of the season, so 4 years...and now look at this... http://bkref.com/tiny/hl2SG ...notice anything there? Like McCollum has 2200 more total minutes than Booker? That's less than a season for Booker. Plus. McCollum has played 4 seasons to Bookers 2, so that's TWO years EFFECTIVE difference, as oppsed to FOUR years WHO CARES BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MATTER, DIFFERENCE. Lillard is 27, which would make him damn near a decade older than Jackson, Bender, Booker, Ulis, DJJ, Chriss.
-- You are hilarious?? 7 years is now 'damn near a decade' ?? OK, let me ask you this? Which one of them is our starting PG?? Oops!! I guess you forgot we have this guy on our roster named Bledsoe? Wow...you are attempting to try everything in the book to make your point, and it has more holes in it than Swiss cheese!!Memphis--Marc Freaking Gasol, Mike Conley, and whoever the hell you want. Hell, count a random fan from the stands. That team is killing us. It is exactly my point. Age matters. Even those guys exiting their primes are still performing at a very high level. Gasol alone is better than any player on our team. Expecting us to outperform them is absolute nonsense, and the vegas numbers will bear that out even after we get Kyrie.
All of that to say, more than any of this, you think the Suns are somehow in the thick of the playoff hunt NOW?
What team have you been watching for the past 3 years?
