Portland seems the right place for him. People rage about their beliefs all the time. Take a trip downtown...people raging, ranting, chanting and protesting about seemingly everything. The fact that his might not agree with most of those shouldn't make a difference.
Channing Frye is 31 yrs old. Too old for this team and his expected role. Sorry, this ship has sailed. Monroe is a young beast. Rebounds and Scores in the paint. Power basketball. Toughness. Hawes is more of a finesse center. Shoots 3's and facing up. But at 7'1" can get his share of rebounds too. For me, it comes down to which S&T leaves us better off. I say a flat "no" to Frye.
Frye is the old EX from days gone by. Monroe is the smoking hot minx. But Hawes is the one who's pretty and will always be true to you.
Are you going to whine for the rest of the season that we didn't go after Lebron? Tell me now, so I can make sure to put you on ignore asap.
Well put. I also think Monroe will command a bigger salary, and for a longer term. Plus, I think Hawes, if anyone, could be the perfect mentor for Leonard.
Oh and I forgot that Hawes would fit with Trob much better than Monroe. edit: If we go after Monroe, I'd expect we ship out Truck, CJ (to make them happy) and Meyers. We keep Freeland to compliment the lack of defense.
I haven't even mentioned LeBron. All I'm saying is I doubt any agent would list Portland as a suitor to get more money. Chill out. Only guy I haven't been giddy about is hawes but even then I'd be ok with him if it only cost us freeland and wright. How is that whining? Tell me now.
Totally, who gives a shit. I don't care if Spencer comes to town and walks around with teabags hanging from his fucking head, as long as he keeps hitting that three at a 41% clip.
I might not know what I'm talking about at all, but I would think Olshey's #1 objective would be to sign Hawes and then send him to detroit for Monroe if Detroit agrees to that. That way worse case scenario is you signed Spencer Hawes, best case you turn that into Greg Monroe who I think is our real Target. Is this at all a possibility? Or are there restrictions on doing something like that?
I can't believe the answer isn't a unanimous "Greg Monroe" continent upon keeping Batum, Lillard, Aldridge. Virtually everyone outside of Portland, if you look at the tweets by the "major" people, think that core four is TOP NOTCH. He is 24. He rebounds. He can score. He's a beast in the paint and has a solid mid range game and an underrated passer. Not to mention the flexibility he allows us with the unknown of the LMA situation (although I'd assume LMA re-signs with us at this point). STAR. DRIVEN. LEAGUE.
You can't sign with a new team and immediately be traded, I think you have to wait either A) year or B) a different length of time, maybe January? However, trading for Monroe and then using our MLE on Hawes, I think works...
Yes. I want to like the players that I root for. Now, I like some Republicans, and hate plenty of non-Republicans and Hawes sounds like he's not too bad, but it's one element. If Hawes got in a fight with Dwight Howard, I'd probably root for Hawes (not that that would save him from being killed) even if Howard is a Democrat. I know some people never had a problem with rooting for Ruben Patterson, but it really turned me off the team. (No, I'm not equating being a Republican with being a rapist, I'm just responding to the "I don't give a shit about anything about on the court" meme.) Haven't you been paying attention? We're Nazis at heart. That's also why we want your guns.
If getting Monroe doesn't require us to give up on any of our starters, he's the unanimous choice by landslide. Problem is, I doubt Detroit will give us Monroe unless we give one of them up (most likely batum). And if that's the case, then I say "fuck no"
As an Englishman, the whole "Tea Party" thing enrages me as much for the waste of tea as it does anything. (It's also pretty hilarious that the original Tea Partiers dressed up as Native Americans because they were totally chickenshit.)
Woah now you think republicans are in the same light as a rapest? Holy Shit man!!! I never knew you hated republicans gm that much?!
No shit. Now you know why our political system is so fucked up. You have stupid knuckleheads on both sides pointing the finger at the other (it's a fairly small minority all-in-all), with the majority stuck in the middle asking, "Why are you so stupid?" but all the while not really giving a fuck because the system is fucked. Lamest. Reasoning. Ever.
