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    If Rose is truly hobbled and not just rusty, the Cavs bump up a notch.
     
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    Isn't that what people said about LeBron James in relation to Dwyane Wade when James joined Miami?

    Not that I think Love will eclipse James and be the best player in basketball, but I think he'll probably pull his own weight.
     
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    Almost every team got better this offseason except Philly. The east will be more competitive for sure. I still have the Bulls at the top of the heap there.
     
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    with the shaky condition of Rose's knee's IMO that is a very precarious top of the heap pick, I gotta go for Lebron and CLE
     
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    Agreed. Rose was already icing his both knees ala Brandon Roy. No play today, I do believe.
     
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    Well if a FIBA trophy is the peak for Rose's career, I guess it's worth the test drive.
     
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    Chris Paul at the Seattle Pro-Am:

    [video=youtube;7drnqMPzbkI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7drnqMPzbkI[/video]
     
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    Magic Johnson?
     
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    I didn't see anything in that video that looked like a hall of famer.
     
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    So Hashim Thabeet just got sent from OKC to Philly where he's getting waived. Philly is tanking hard this season. Just thinking about Thabeet makes me feel so good about our bench now.
     
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    I think it's kind of ridiculous to crown most NBA players as future HOF locks. Never know when one will go all Lamar Odom on you
     
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    They tanked just as hard last season. I'v never seen a team use such a blatant tanking strategy, teams usually try and disguise it a bit but Philly has just said "fuck it were tanking and were going to be really really bad and there is nothing you guys can do about it".
     
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    I'm starting to think that the Wolves are going to be very interesting this year, and potentially very good within a couple years.

    Rubio/Lavine/Barea/Mo
    Wiggins/Martin/Robinson III
    Budinger/Brewer/Muhammad
    Young/Bennett/Cunningham
    Pekovic/Dieng/Turiaf

    They have a lot of interchangeable parts at the 2/3, a lot of highly-touted youth, but also 9 veterans between the ages of 26-31. If Flip does a decent job, he should be able to throw out a lot of different looks this season, and might be a lot better than many are projecting.

    I also think they got the best return in trade for an all-NBA player that we've seen in decades.
     
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    Maybe i'm crazy, but i just don't see it outside of Wiggins. Pek is already in his late 20s i think, so he'll be like Kaman's age by the time that team is ready to compete, Young is probably going to bolt after his contract is up, and outside of Wiggins like i said, Dieng, and maybe LaVine depending on how he does, i'm not that impressed with their young talent.
     
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    Wolves are as raw as a team could be this season. Great talent but is Flip the guy to get them to gell? I think they need a coaching upgrade personally. The guys returning are raw as well seeing as Kevin Love always had the ball. Flip has his work cut out for him but does he deliver? I don't think so
     
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    that's 16 men.
     
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    IMO, Flip Saunders is a pretty good offensive coach. At least, he did some nice things with motion offense in his first stint with Minnesota. He's not a great coach, but he has a perfectly reasonable chance of getting a lot out of the players he has now (assuming wearing the dual hat of coach/GM doesn't dilute his focus, which it might).
     
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    I know, but they're all on the roster at the moment. I didn't want to speculate as to which one of them would get waived. Turiaf would be the cheapest one, but then they would be short on bigs. Honestly, Mo seems to me to be the piece that doesn't fit.
     
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