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Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#1 » by Bruin » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:00 pm

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Post#2 » by GP2 » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:02 pm

I guess he'll never forget 6.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#3 » by Zeno » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:02 pm

Rough times in Golden State. The Polish Hammer comes down on top of it all.
When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?

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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#4 » by ATLTimekeeper » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:05 pm

Bob Myers ran away. You know there's skeletons in that closet.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#5 » by Tor_Raps » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:05 pm

When was this exactly? Did we proceed to sign Lin that year instead?
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#6 » by Fairview4Life » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:06 pm

Tor_Raps wrote:When was this exactly? Did we proceed to sign Lin that year instead?


Clippers waived him on Feb. 7, 2019.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#7 » by Basketball_Jones » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:10 pm

Can he still play? lol
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#8 » by And1Skip » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:10 pm

Tor_Raps wrote:When was this exactly? Did we proceed to sign Lin that year instead?


We signed Eric Moreland in March instead.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#9 » by Lord_Zedd » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:11 pm

Tor_Raps wrote:When was this exactly? Did we proceed to sign Lin that year instead?


I imagine it was between him and Eric Moreland. Gortat decided to ghost us for a chance to be with Golden State.

Then Golden State decided to ghost him too
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Post#10 » by DreamTeam09 » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:18 pm

So did we pivot & trade for Gasol? Is that the same yr?
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Post#11 » by Fairview4Life » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:20 pm

DreamTeam09 wrote:So did we pivot & trade for Gasol? Is that the same yr?


It was the same day. I'd assume we were trading for Gasol regardless and just looking at Gortat as a Greg Monroe replacement.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#12 » by PushDaRock » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:23 pm

Lord_Zedd wrote:
Tor_Raps wrote:When was this exactly? Did we proceed to sign Lin that year instead?


I imagine it was between him and Eric Moreland. Gortat decided to ghost us for a chance to be with Golden State.

Then Golden State decided to ghost him too


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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#13 » by ontnut » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:27 pm

He would've been a "NBA champion" just like Moreland.
Unless I'm personally invested in the guy's success (like Derozan), or he's a league legacy player (like KG, Marc Gasol), I was happy to see all the ringer chasers fail (like Blake Griffin/all those BKN guys).
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#14 » by Fairview4Life » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:28 pm

PushDaRock wrote:
Lord_Zedd wrote:
Tor_Raps wrote:When was this exactly? Did we proceed to sign Lin that year instead?


I imagine it was between him and Eric Moreland. Gortat decided to ghost us for a chance to be with Golden State.

Then Golden State decided to ghost him too


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We might have gotten lucky too though. We beat Philly in game 7 thanks to Greg Monroe, basically. Think he was -6 in 1:30 in the first quarter and then -3 in 6 seconds in the 2nd quarter. We went small with Serge at C, Pascal, Kawhi, Danny G. and FVV. If we have Gortat who knows, maybe we try and run him out against Monroe and we don't win that time so handily and force Embiid back into the game, which might have kept Embiid fresher late in the game. lots of knock on effects.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#15 » by ontnut » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:28 pm

He would've been a "NBA champion" just like Moreland.
Unless I'm personally invested in the guy's success (like Derozan), or he's a league legacy player (like KG, Marc Gasol), I was happy to see all the ringer chasers fail (like Blake Griffin/all those BKN guys).

We called him 6 times and he ghosted us cuz he thought we sucked / he could ride easier coattails in GS. F-'em, no ring for you!
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#16 » by OakleyDokely » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:31 pm

He probably wouldn't have played much more than Moreland. Moreland was the lowkey MVP for ensuring Gasol didn't fall off the bus.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#17 » by Raps in 4 » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:35 pm

ATLTimekeeper wrote:Bob Myers ran away. You know there's skeletons in that closet.


He is the reason they're in the position they are right now. He wasted all their draft picks on busts instead of trading them and then bolted.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#18 » by TheGeneral99 » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:35 pm

He would been likely out of the rotation for us.
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#19 » by Pointgod » Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:53 pm

I thought we were looking at him for a minute lol
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Re: Slightly OT: Gortat 

Post#20 » by 2019nbachamps » Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:01 pm

He wasn't gonna get minutes when Ibaka was cooking off the bench.

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