I was referring to LA last season and his .458 FG%, not the years where he was over or near 50%. Last season LA took the most shots of his career and did so while posting his worst ever shooting percentages from the field. That version of LA needs to change.
Really we are talking about Cleveland making smart decisions come on they hired and fired Mike Brown twice. They are the reason why the NBA prohibits trading first round picks in consecutive years. They traded an unprotected first round pick (Blake Griffin) to pay a fat Baron Davis over 10 million a season. They refused to trade JJ Hickson for a healthy Amare Stoudamire. Etc. It would not surprise me if they included Waiters and Thompson
If that is the case trading Lillard to Cleveland would not be as prolific as trading him to Philly for picks 3 and 10 then letting them deal MCW. We could then draft Exum and someone like Zach Lavine or Dario Saric.
So did Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker and Nic Batum It's not a perfect science, and I was simply responding to someone saying he hasn't played against anyone. Kanter, by the way, is 21 years old and has a career PER of 15.9. Per 36 of 16/10. It's not like he's some scrub
Do you fact check anything? Trading picks in consecutive years was done by a Cleveland owner ages ago. It would be like holding Steve Ballmer accountable for anything Sterling did. Amare has never been healthy. Cleveland did not lose an unprotectected first for taking on Baron Davis's contract. They got one from the Clippers, won the lottery, and drafted Irving.
You can't trade picks in consecutive years. You can however make the pick and trade the rights to that player
I understand the rule. It was created due to the old Cleveland owner being cheap. cmeese was saying that the decisions made by previous ownership groups somehow has anything to do with what they are doing now. Not to sidetrack the conversation, but I do not think it will be long before they stop allowing teams to circumvent this provision by swapping 1st round picks like the Knicks and the Nets have done.
He was the #3 pick in the 2011 NBA draft, and he was highly thought of after he dominated the Hoop Summit. He doesn't even start full time for a bad Jazz team, and even with his 16 PER, he needed 22 USG to get it. The Jazz have the #3 picks from both the 2010 and 2011 NBA drafts (Derrick Favors, too), and they suck as a team and don't appear to be headed on an upswing. Relying on high draft picks is a crapshoot, and it's foolish to take a 54-win team with no starters over 30 and break it up for 19 year-old kids who may or may not pan out in 5 years. I'll also point out that Leonard was 21 last season, has a career PER of 12 on 13 USG, and has per/36 of 11/8. He also wasn't the #3 pick in the draft who was picked ahead of players like Kawhi Leonard, Kemba Walker, and Klay Thompson. It's not like he's some scrub! Meyers also
