Are you forgetting the binge drinking and hangovers? Takes up at least 25-30 hours a week. Plus all the many hours of procrastinating to study, and then the few hours of actual studying. Its probably over a 90 hour per week job.
Naming your price is poor negotiating tactic. Listening to offers and rejecting offers is what Joe needs to be doing, unless of course the offer is no-brainer
I would tell the Heat that they have to get access to their 2024 pick, send that, 2028 and 2030, swaps in 2027 and 2029 all unprotected, Herro, Martin, Jaquez, Jovic and Lowry for Dame and Nurk. We can find the third and/or fourth team(s) if the Heat meet those demands. I don't understand why we shouldn't open up negotiations. Also if someone makes an offer that is obviously lowball, it's fine for us to give them our demands. We're ready to go into the regular season with Dame so we don't have to take anything less than what we want, as long as that is realistic.
I don't think the "Nope" and then just silence thing really works. I hope we're communicating a little more openly than that as far as what it's going to take for us to move Dame.
It looks like Cronin has told Miami that he wants all their assets and the silence is from Miami. The silence from Miami means other teams will be making offers which I am sure Joe is listening to.
To me the Nets would be able to make an acceptable offer for Dame. They have young players and picks. All they need is a legit, top ten player, pg, that has 4-6 years left of super star play, and they are in the mix to contend.
Portland Trail Blazers Trade Breakdown Change in Team Outlook: 0.0 ppg, 0.0 rpg, and 0.0 apg. Incoming Players Ben Simmons 27 year old, 6-10, 240 lb PF from LSU Nicolas Claxton 24 year old, 6-11, 215 lb C from Georgia Royce O'Neale 30 year old, 6-6, 226 lb SF from Baylor No games yet played in 2023-2024 Damian Lillard 33 year old, 6-2, 195 lb G from Weber State Jusuf Nurkic 29 year old, 7-0, 290 lb FC from Cedevita (Croatia) Be worth a gamble on Simons if they'd give up Clax. We'd also take Royce. Those three would compliment Scoot, Sharpe, & Simmons. Think of the defense we would have to compliment some scoring.
I would imagine that Herro is a big part of that issue. Joe probably does not want to try to trade another team's player and Pat seems to think he shouldn't have to try either. On another note, I usually like listening to Amin Elhassan, but he was an ass today talking about the Blazers. He essentially said no team other than Miami will/should trade for Dame and Portland should take whatever Miami offers........or Portland can forget about having Dame come back after he retires. I am pretty sure neither Jody nor Joe are too worried about that...they will be long gone as well. Either way that ship has sailed. He also insinuated that the Blazers laughed at Miami for offering Herro. Not because he was a duplication (which he admitted he was) but because Herro wasn't any good. That is a flat-out lie. The Blazers have not commented about anything. Not sure where he came up with that.
so...tell me if I'm way off-base in this: the only reason we're hearing any buzz at all is because Portland may be having some preliminary 'what-if' discussions with a couple of teams other than Miami...and sources for those teams are leaking. Which in turn is causing Pat Riley to go to his back-channel leaking tools and make a lot of noise trying to throw monkey wrenches in Portland's way and right now, it's still a long way from being any done deal...
my guess is neither team wants to be the first team to pick up the phone and call the other. certainly not portland.
Have you ever done 15 credits? + a job? That's full time bro. Ive done both and if you're saying 5 hours a day 5 days a week. And then you do 8 hour work days 5 days a week. Plus commute. Yeah, you have no fucking time. Trust me.
I've worked and taken 15 credits, it was over 15 years ago but I did it and you're right but this is what the guy said: "I go to college big dawg, no time for job or hobbys" So just college, no job or hobbys even though he does this and it's definitely a kind of hobby.
benching Sharpe is already a point of emphasis by certain podcasters. Shaedon will see limited action, and here are all the reasons why .... ummm ... he's not very good at defense. Because Chauncey's coaching style clearly emphasizes defense.
