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[RaisingArizona]

Goran and Marcus are like jealous ex significant others who can't get over the past.

[aIvin adams]

Goran and Marcus are like jealous ex significant others who can't get over the past.

and Robert Sarver is their narcissistic passive-aggressive ex that they both eventually got away from

[lilfishi22]

Goran and Marcus are like jealous ex significant others who can't get over the past.

I think Goran made good points. We tried to fix what wasn't broken instead of making addition to bolster the team. The constant change is always going to make it difficult and there's always a chance a good player is potentially marginalised or at the very least, impacted.

[AtheJ415]

Goran and Marcus are like jealous ex significant others who can't get over the past.

Yup. The harsh truth is this team had 0 shot at a title with that crew. It had to be broken up to get younger. Those picks are more valuable to us than either player. Why they care so much is ridiculous to me. Goran in particular. Goran has a better shot at a title with Miami than he ever would here. He needed a vet team around him with guys his age, not a bunch of youngsters and the Morrii.

[lilfishi22]

Goran and Marcus are like jealous ex significant others who can't get over the past.

Yup. The harsh truth is this team had 0 shot at a title with that crew. It had to be broken up to get younger. Those picks are more valuable to us than either player. Why they care so much is ridiculous to me. Goran in particular. Goran has a better shot at a title with Miami than he ever would here. He needed a vet team around him with guys his age, not a bunch of youngsters and the Morrii.

I assume he was asked a question regarding why he thought Phoenix hasn't panned out after seeing some early success and he gave an honest and probably accurate critique. I don't think he was being out of order saying anything he did.

[bwgood77]

Goran and Marcus are like jealous ex significant others who can't get over the past.

Yup. The harsh truth is this team had 0 shot at a title with that crew. It had to be broken up to get younger. Those picks are more valuable to us than either player. Why they care so much is ridiculous to me. Goran in particular. Goran has a better shot at a title with Miami than he ever would here. He needed a vet team around him with guys his age, not a bunch of youngsters and the Morrii.

I assume he was asked a question regarding why he thought Phoenix hasn't panned out after seeing some early success and he gave an honest and probably accurate critique. I don't think he was being out of order saying anything he did.

Yeah, he was asked a question that he answered. The answer certainly makes sense to me. He was asked it while talking about their upcoming game.

[lilfishi22]

Yeah, I don't see him as a jealous ex-GF type talking crap about the Suns every chance he got. It was all within the flow of the interview

[bwgood77]

Yormark is pushing Prokhorov to reach back to the Nets' Jersey roots, dust off a failed '90s experiment and sell it as something sparkling and new. Twenty years ago, the Nets stunned everyone with a five-year, $15 million contract for the UMass coach. For Calipari to consider the Nets – and, yes, the Sacramento Kings, too – league sources tell Yahoo Sports that the teams have been informed of his asking price: 10 years, $120 million.

When Calipari spoke with minority ownership in Sacramento last spring, he told them that it would take an offer of $11 million-plus a year to get his attention, league sources said. Calipari turned down a 10-year, $80 million-plus offer with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014, because he wouldn't leave Kentucky with only an incremental raise on what is now an $8 million to $9 million annual package on campus.

Cleveland's offer has become a baseline for Calipari's contractual demands: He wants the 10 years and now the $12 million a year that Phil Jackson makes to run the Knicks.

Calipari's sell will be this: As his old Kentucky stars – DeMarcus Cousins (2018), John Wall (2019) – become free agents, he'll have the Nets positioned to sign them. His former players have largely kept excellent relationships with him, but there are those close to them who say that most of his ex-stars remain reluctant to committing to 82 games a year of Cal's abrasive style. It wore out players fast in the 1990s in New Jersey, and Calipari would need to bring a different disposition to the NBA and prove that he's willing to treat NBA players like men, not teenagers.

Around Calipari, there are some who prefer him to take the Kings job, because there's more of an infrastructure in place. Brooklyn has been left in shambles, with immense limitations on reshaping the roster. Nevertheless, New York is New York, and Calipari has never stopped thinking about redeeming himself in the pros. His enshrinement into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in September makes it even easier to justify the years of NBA losing that will likely prelude a turnaround, because he no longer needs to keep shining that résumé for Springfield.

Before the Kings approached him late last spring, Calipari had been hoping the New Orleans Pelicans would consider him, league sources told Yahoo. The idea of reuniting with Anthony Davis was the allure, but New Orleans had no interest in giving him complete control, nor paying his massive salary.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/john-calipari-s-unprecedented-asking-price-for-return-as-nets--savior-073022113.html

[Ryu]

Is there a player with higher upside than Kristaps Porzingis? An unbelieveable talent.

[thamadkant]

Hence i was willing to give up Bledsoe and Suns pick at the draft for pick 4 and change.


Getting star players do need some risk taking.
Plenty of star talent but bad off court issues... Talented but lazy.. Etc. Risks everywhere.

Porzingis wasnt on my radar.. Then i saw his athleticism and the guy explodes...a 7'1 guy on socks exploding like that at the very least would be a tremendous shot blocker inside and outside...

He is potentially the next Yao Ming... In that he is a freak of natutr size wise who is able to out it together and use it correctly.

A slower less skilled Dirk and Ibaka hybrid...22ppg 10rpg 3bpg and unguardable from the outside.

Only health can slow him down... If he stays healthy... You have a superstar in the making.

[TASTIC]

He's a freak.

That much talent and those stats already? Unreal.

He looks like a combo of Pau's rebounding/shot-blocking with an outside shot...Yikes

I thought he was going to be Tskitishvili 2.0....

[Ryu]

Hence i was willing to give up Bledsoe and Suns pick at the draft for pick 4 and change.


Getting star players do need some risk taking.

Absolutely.

Man, do we need a lucky break. I hope we play Booker, Goodwin, Warren and Len heavy minutes rest of the season and with a little bit of luck (we surely are due some of that) draft Ben Simmons or Dragan Bender.

[TASTIC]

Hence i was willing to give up Bledsoe and Suns pick at the draft for pick 4 and change.


Getting star players do need some risk taking.

Absolutely.

Man, do we need a lucky break. I hope we play Booker, Goodwin, Warren and Len heavy minutes rest of the season and with a little bit of luck (we surely are due some of that) draft Ben Simmons or Dragan Bender.

I actually want Ingram - think he's got more upside than Simmons and plays better on both ends...though really, you'd be happy with either!

[blacksun]

Ive never seen a great team like the Warriors get disrespected like this, by people who cant stop yakking about the San Antonio Spurs. It seems like the Spurs get all the attention everywhere, when it they are only the second best team. Meanwhile the Warriors are hated on so much when they are on pace to have the best record in NBA history. And to top it all off, people have the gall to call the Spurs "under the radar" or "unappreciated". Give me a break. If the media wants to suck their d**ks, they should man up and do it in plain sight.

[bwgood77]

Wow, just was reading about former MVPs and how they are doing, and came across this....

When Rose sits, the Bulls outscore opponents this season by about five points per 100 possessions. When he plays, the Bulls are easily outscored. And RPM rates him as the fourth-worst player in the NBA, with an RPM impact of -5.5.

I knew he was bad, but not THAT bad.

[Son of Ra]

Ive never seen a great team like the Warriors get disrespected like this, by people who cant stop yakking about the San Antonio Spurs. It seems like the Spurs get all the attention everywhere, when it they are only the second best team. Meanwhile the Warriors are hated on so much when they are on pace to have the best record in NBA history. And to top it all off, people have the gall to call the Spurs "under the radar" or "unappreciated". Give me a break. If the media wants to suck their d**ks, they should man up and do it in plain sight.

I know the hate for the Spurs is strong here but I personally think that they will end the season with a better record than the Warriors...they have only lost 2 games since Nov 30th, the record for this time frame is 21-2.
Their efficiency differential is 13.9! To put this in perspective, 2nd Warriors 11.1, 3rd OKC 8.2
I think we are witnessing a record setting season - by the Spurs.

[Damkac]

Wow, just was reading about former MVPs and how they are doing, and came across this....

When Rose sits, the Bulls outscore opponents this season by about five points per 100 possessions. When he plays, the Bulls are easily outscored. And RPM rates him as the fourth-worst player in the NBA, with an RPM impact of -5.5.

I knew he was bad, but not THAT bad.

And ofcourse people here wants to trade for him!

[blacksun]

Ive never seen a great team like the Warriors get disrespected like this, by people who cant stop yakking about the San Antonio Spurs. It seems like the Spurs get all the attention everywhere, when it they are only the second best team. Meanwhile the Warriors are hated on so much when they are on pace to have the best record in NBA history. And to top it all off, people have the gall to call the Spurs "under the radar" or "unappreciated". Give me a break. If the media wants to suck their d**ks, they should man up and do it in plain sight.

I know the hate for the Spurs is strong here but I personally think that they will end the season with a better record than the Warriors...they have only lost 2 games since Nov 30th, the record for this time frame is 21-2.
Their efficiency differential is 13.9! To put this in perspective, 2nd Warriors 11.1, 3rd OKC 8.2
I think we are witnessing a record setting season - by the Spurs.

There's no denying the Spurs are a damn good team. I even catch myself watching their games from time to time. But the thing that irritates me the most is when people call them underrated etc. Theyve been called that for the better part of this decade. When your franchise is regarded as the gold standard in the NBA, no way in hell can you be called underrated. (Which btw they only got because they were lucky in hiring pop and buford) /rant

[thamadkant]

Ive never seen a great team like the Warriors get disrespected like this, by people who cant stop yakking about the San Antonio Spurs. It seems like the Spurs get all the attention everywhere, when it they are only the second best team. Meanwhile the Warriors are hated on so much when they are on pace to have the best record in NBA history. And to top it all off, people have the gall to call the Spurs "under the radar" or "unappreciated". Give me a break. If the media wants to suck their d**ks, they should man up and do it in plain sight.

The amount of band wagon fans Warriors and their loyal fan base has been screaming repeat championship all season... and the media loves them.
They are favorites.

Their win/loss ratio is amazing. But plenty of games they barely won.... against bad teams too. Which suggest, they let their foot off the accelerator and coast. They usually take teams out by 3rd quarter by blitzing them with 3s and getting a 20 point lead, by 4th quarter, it doesnt matter much since the other team will just rest players.


The Spurs in the other hand... are dismantling teams systematically.. not via hot shooting blitz. They focus on the defense and absolutely makes it so hard to get a shot up clean.

Popovic also said, they are still working on offense and expects March as a good timing for a gauge to their offensive scheme.


Basically... the Warriors celing is close to what we see NOW. Unstoppable offense a lot of times and good enough defense to ward off teams.
Spurs are mastering their defense NOW..... and is on 2nd gear offensively.

[bwgood77]

Wow, Ish Smith with 16 assists today. Honestly, I feel like if he was just able to run the offense with Bledsoe out, it would make a world of difference in how the whole team played.

It's really just so disheartening, to have grown up watching KJ avg 10+ assists forever, then to have Kidd be a pure passer, than even the shoot first Marbury averaged like 8 at least, and then Nash....since then is has just not been pass first players. And with Bledsoe out, and Knight starting at pg, is is nightmarish.