It was 3 picks and anyone not named CJ/Dame/Nurk in what was considered a very deep draft. This is why iv taken such an umbrage with your posts because you just assume we could have done the same thing other teams had or that NO is doing nothing but sitting in his office twiddling his thumbs since we don't have rumors swirling left and right since very little leaks out of portlands front office. EVEYRONE and I do mean everyone, thought that PG was bolting after 1 year for LA. PG never once said he was going to resign with OKC and it was a great shock when he did since It was considered a forgone conclusion that it was happening otherwise he would have gotten a lot more then Oladipo and Sabonis for him.
it doesn't matter though. whether it was Meyers + Harkless, or Turner, or Turner + Baldwin, or Meyers + Aminu, or Harkless + Davis, there's simply no competitive offer there. Turner, Meyers, and Harkless all have bloated contracts, and Davis was an expiring. The value was so low it was never a serious proposal. And if we're talking about 2 players and 3 draft picks, how many rosters have room for 5 guaranteed contracts?
yeah I know, and you're right...I was just using it as an easy example of why the "we offered three 1st's" was really misleading as for the 2017 draft, I remembered it as being weak, but maybe that was in top-end talent compared to other drafts, but the depth was better. Certainly, at this point, several players taken after Zach are performing better. I was pretty impressed with Terrance Ferguson last night
The Pacers blew their pick too when they took TJ Leaf at #18. I don't think I've had the pleasure of having this argument with you but the Pacers with 4 1sts (including their own or they could have asked for a future 1st instead of pick #26) could've easily moved up a few spots from #15 to get Donovan Mitchell (Utah traded #24 and Trey Lyles to move up to #13). Then they could've drafted any two of players including John Collins, OG Anunboy, Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart, etc. I'd argue that a Mitchell, Collins, and OG trio might be better long term than Oladipo and Sabonis.
Our guard defense makes almost every other team's guards look good....so tough to know what he is really like. He's averaging 6 ppg this year....so is he good, or just good against lilliputian defense?
Why weird? We don't have Comcast, so I've never seen ANY Comcast show. I don't listen to local radio. And don't follow any local people on Twitter. So at what point do you think I would ever come across these people? I just rode up in the elevator with Dame. Thats where I get my "inside" team info......not from some local radio hack.
Because Freeman is a cool guy the you could sit down, have a beer with and talk sports. He doesn't make it about him. He doesn't include himself in his articles. I actually liked Haynes as well for the opposite reason. He really got in there and tried to get that scoop regardless. Thing with him is, he is actually a really nice cool guy. I guess with me having the opportunity to get to know these guys, if I don't like em personally, their opinion doesn't mean anything to me. I can promise you, the players aren't revealing anything to Jaynes and Quick...... they do with Haynes. He's a good follow.
He said he wanted to stick with me and didn't want to disrupt our chemistry! HA! Actually we never talk basketball really. Boxing, movies and music. We were talking about the new boxing company/streaming service DAZN. Since I'm no longer covering boxing for HBO, he was asking if I plan on working with them. That kid knows more about the sweet science the anybody I know.
Yeah I dont have a twitter account but from what I see he posts a lot about boxing. He seems really, really into it. I know he does it in the off season.
It just cracks me up how guys on this message board love to rip sports talk guys when all you/we do here is talk sports. But we don't get paid for it. Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
This is a false equivalance type of arguement. Its not really true. We dont “love to rip,” on sports talk shows, but if someone makes a thread about a sports talk show person were going to talk about the sports talk show person. Also were not “protesting” Ropp or anyone else talking about sports, the protest if you want to call it that is a disagreement on his opinion. For the record I actually kind of agree with his opinion in this particular case.
I get paid for it It's funny how people don't realize that the main quality networks look for in on-air talent is entertainment, not basketball knowledge. Hell, one of the 3 post-game guys is a comedian, and another one came from this forum!!
