Welp clippers lost to Denver. Hate the clippers man, what a shit team that will become even more shit.
Like I said earlier, terrible business decision by Balmer. Bought the Clips at their peak value two seasons before they implode.
With Nikola Jokic, that team has a generational talent. He's may be the best passing big man since Sabonis. I watch his passes and they just don't seem possible for a guy that big.
Denver are winning games they should lose but then again so are we. Its going to be which one of us loses more of the games we should win that decides the playoff spot.
Yup. Watch CP3 return to the Pelicans and Griffin sign with the Lakers. Redick would then go somewhere like Golden State lol.
Rules have to be changed anyway. It's silly that the sole purpose of several teams for the last two months of season is to lose as many games as possible to have a high draft position. Sport should be about winning, not deliberately losing.
1. Have an academy system wear players sign with pro clubs and are assigned to various amateur teams. Make it so are strict time limits on these contracts and that they are regulated while the kids are under 18 years old. No different from the ones foreign soccer players sign. 2, Make it so that any coaching and training fees are passed on in the contracts if the players signs with another pro team. Any club that originally signed gets a percentage of what the other pro team wants to pay. A pass on fee if you will. 3. Make the pro team also financially responsible for housing, education and any tutoring that is needed. Making a criteria where there are strict penalties both to the delinquent aspiring athlete and the team if they break these stipulations. 4. Once the kid is 18 is an adult and playing pro ball of some kind. They can be traded and their salary is a part of the team payroll which goes against the salary cap. 5. Make a relegation system of tiers where certain pro teams pass into lower divisions if they do not meet competitive guidelines. Reward success, punish mediocrity. The better teams get more of the cable pie and rights to be in exclusive tournaments. Now that's just off the top of my head but it follows a similar path to the UEFA setup. But there is no reason why a system like that couldn't work here.
I actually like the idea of regulation. Utilize the D-League and drop the worst 4 teams each year into D-League & let the best 4 teams in D-League play in the NBA the following year. This would only work if everyone had a true D-League affiliate. Some organizations would figure out how to run 2 teams effectively. One would be upper tier and one would be mid tier. Other organizations would likely effectively have 2 d-league teams.
Jokic and Plumlee had 17 assists between them; experiment of starting them together seems to be working.
