Quick: LA and Deron have talked about playing together

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  1. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    http://www.750thegame.com/common/global_audio/379/55426.mp3

    About a third of the way through, Quick mentions that LA is going to play a big role in FA recruitment again, and will make a pitch to Deron this summer. Also, he said that they grew up together in Dallas and they want to finish their careers together.

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  2. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    In Portland or New Jersey?

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  3. illmatic99

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    Actually listening to it again, he said Dallas.

    But LA isn't a FA until 2015, so no worries there.
     
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    I don't like those two conspiring together.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    About the time Dirk retires. Kidd will be gone by then, too. And Cuban is one of the few owners still willing to pay luxury tax to field a competitive team.

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    Might as well make LaMarcus the GM if he makes it happen. And hopefully they don't embarrass Jay Jensen again in the recruitment with holding up signs at the airport.
     
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    This could actually be a bad thing.... because they might be talking in 2015.
     
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    Quick specifically said LA would be very involved with the recruitment process this summer for Portland.
     
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    Well I would hope so. He certainly was before this season. If we could nab Deron and pull in a decent coach, I think this team could be really good with the right draft picks.
     
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    well, unless blazer fans revolt halfway through next season and start calling him "Dewrong Williams" with pitchforks and torches in hand.

    better trade Aldridge before he can help recruit some all stars!
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    Deron would wreck our tank!
     
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    But Deron is Deron....
     
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    as far as just our team situation goes (not considering market size) we should be WAY more attractive than dallas to deron. we will be more or less a clean slate starting with a decent poor man's big 2 of LMA & batum (plus matthews) + hopefully 2 lottery picks and possibly even a new veteren coach who would defer to him. he could step in and run everything if he wanted to : )

    at this point dallas will be just aging dirk & marion + 27 million in cap space tied up in brendan haywood over the next 3 years (plus terry who will be a FA himself).
     
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    If we were to sign him as a FA, I think Batum would stay and we'd start to have a real team in this town.
     
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    batum is a RFA

    the main trouble is someone might play a game of chicken with us and sign batum to an overvalued offer sheet the first week of july just to screw with our cap space, like we did with utah on millsap and matthews only on what would be an even larger scale.

    dunno if we will have cap space for a vet max contract left over if we re-up batum at 8-10 million first.
     
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    I swear someone could make a fortune selling tinfoil to the posters on this board. Nothing can be said without a "OMG, I know you didn't mean it this way, but I'm going to interpret this as the worst news EVER!!!!!" reply.
     
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    Veeerrry Niiiice. LA for GM !
     
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    It seems more likely they both end up in Dallas than they both end up in Portland. But I can dream.
     
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    Didn't LA recruit Crawford to here? How'd that work out for us?
     
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    +1. No shit - this board is the biggest group of pessimists I've ever encountered. Even Mags' consistent, effervescing optimism doesn't cause the pessimism meter to register any optimism coming from this message board.
     
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