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LamarMatic7 · Post #1501 » by **LamarMatic7** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:54 pm

Caldwell Jones dead at 64...

A great defensive center and by all accounts a great guy. Sad to see another Spirit of St. Louis leave us in such a short period of time.

TheKingofSting · Post #1502 » by **TheKingofSting** » Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:48 am

RIP Mr. Jones

Post #1503 » by **fatlever** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:12 am

who gets traded? goran dragic, eric bledsoe, isaiah thomas or tyler ennis? + they are talking about bringing in zoran dragic as well.

i never understood that thomas signing for the suns. makes even less sense now.

HornetJail · Post #1504 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:18 am

fatlever wrote:who gets traded? goran dragic, eric bledsoe, isaiah thomas or tyler ennis? + they are talking about bringing in zoran dragic as well.

i never understood that thomas signing for the suns. makes even less sense now.

A lineup of Thomas/Ennis/Dragic/Dragic/Bledsoe could be a mismatch :dontknow:

TheKingofSting · Post #1505 » by **TheKingofSting** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:20 am

fatlever wrote:who gets traded? goran dragic, eric bledsoe, isaiah thomas or tyler ennis? + they are talking about bringing in zoran dragic as well.

i never understood that thomas signing for the suns. makes even less sense now.

Maybe Ennis but couldn't they just send him to the D-League?

Post #1506 » by **fatlever** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:20 am

BizGilwalker wrote:
fatlever wrote:who gets traded? goran dragic, eric bledsoe, isaiah thomas or tyler ennis? + they are talking about bringing in zoran dragic as well.

i never understood that thomas signing for the suns. makes even less sense now.

A lineup of Thomas/Ennis/Dragic/Dragic/Bledsoe could be a mismatch

would be hellacious in the 6-4 and under league.

Liver_Pooty · Post #1507 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:26 am

fatlever wrote:who gets traded? goran dragic, eric bledsoe, isaiah thomas or tyler ennis? + they are talking about bringing in zoran dragic as well.

i never understood that thomas signing for the suns. makes even less sense now.

Id keep Thomas as a great 6th man off the bench. I like Bledsoe alot. He has to stay healthy, though.

TheKingofSting · Post #1508 » by **TheKingofSting** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:46 am

Suns plan may make sense to seem to make not much sense.

Post #1509 » by **JDR720** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:26 pm

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Post #1510 » by **fatlever** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:43 pm

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Snidely FC · Post #1511 » by **Snidely FC** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:56 am

So yesterday Lebron tells Rachel Nichols on CNN that yeah it would have been hard to leave MIA if they had won their third championship in a row, raising the specter that maybe for the second time in his career he gave up on his existing team IN THE FINALS in order to make his escape to a different franchise? Can we say that about any other "Greatest Player of his Generation?"

Liver_Pooty · Post #1512 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 12:09 pm

Snidely FC wrote:So yesterday Lebron tells Rachel Nichols on CNN that yeah it would have been hard to leave MIA if they had won their third championship in a row, raising the specter that maybe for the second time in his career he gave up on his existing team IN THE FINALS in order to make his escape to a different franchise? Can we say that about any other "Greatest Player of his Generation?"

I think it was the way they got beat more than just thelosing part. The Spurs just made him and Miami look silly. Either way its pathetic.

LamarMatic7 · Post #1513 » by **LamarMatic7** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:29 pm

Snidely FC wrote:So yesterday Lebron tells Rachel Nichols on CNN that yeah it would have been hard to leave MIA if they had won their third championship in a row, raising the specter that maybe for the second time in his career he gave up on his existing team IN THE FINALS in order to make his escape to a different franchise? Can we say that about any other "Greatest Player of his Generation?"

The coverage and perception of him always reminds me of how Wilt was viewed, in a way.

Nobody has ever given up on a existing team like he has, but why I mentioned Wilt is that there hasn't been a player as great as him who wore out his welcome in two places that they would just rather give him up for peanuts. Not the same thing, but the parallels came to my mind.

Liver_Pooty · Post #1514 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:47 pm

Rondo just broke his hand. No timetable for his return. Sucks for Boston fans.

HornetJail · Post #1515 » by **HornetJail** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:18 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:Rondo just broke his hand. No timetable for his return. Sucks for Boston fans.

He'll probably only be out for a couple of weeks in the regular season. Time to throw Marcus Smart into the spotlight right away to see whether he's Rodney Stuckey or Deron Williams.

Liver_Pooty · Post #1516 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:33 am

BizGilwalker wrote:
Liver_Pooty wrote:Rondo just broke his hand. No timetable for his return. Sucks for Boston fans.

He'll probably only be out for a couple of weeks in the regular season. Time to throw Marcus Smart into the spotlight right away to see whether he's Rodney Stuckey or Deron Williams.

I think Smart is going to be fantastic. We will see.

Post #1517 » by **Diop** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:25 am

LamarMatic7 wrote:Imo, Beasley was never that good to begin with. If you're a decent shooter you're bound to explode once in a while when you take numerous dumb long twos every game or as the great Sidney Deane once said - even the sun shines on a dog's ass some days.

4 years ago if you had of posted on here that Charlotte would rather over pay for Williams than get Beasley for the minimum you would have been crucified as a nutter.

he really has disappointed.

HornetJail · Post #1518 » by **HornetJail** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 10:30 pm

Liver_Pooty wrote:Rondo just broke his hand. No timetable for his return. Sucks for Boston fans.

Been seeing rumors that Rondo may have broken his hand at a trampoline park. This may get interesting

TheKingofSting · Post #1519 » by **TheKingofSting** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:02 am

Rondo isn't happy / wants trade so he goes and breaks his hand.

Liver_Pooty · Post #1520 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:33 am

Watching Dunks afyer Dark. Wolves are very athletic.