2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors (Merged threads)

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  1. Boob-No-More

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

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    But the REAL question Memphis' front office needs to answer before signing him, is Delonte West a "friend" of Tony Allen's mom?

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  3. BBert

    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Wanted to put this someplace because it cracked me up:

     
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    NOVoodoo Kickin it in 2525

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    Haha, maybe that's the strategy, not with TA but with Jerryd Bayless.

    "Shit, Bayless picked up his player option!"

    "Well maybe we could bring in Delonte West to bring his mom, and then he'll leave."

    With that aside though, Mo Williams met with the Memphis brass tonight -

    http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/229177/Mo-Williams-To-Meet-With-Grizzlies-Monday-Night

    Good sign... we're the wildcard in this situation, just because we're not on the level that Miami's at in terms of contending for a title, but we do have three things working for us -

    1) More money
    2) A day's drive from his hometown
    3) Our assistant and head of player development, Lloyd Pierce, is a good friend of his that worked with him in Cleveland and developed a good relationship.

    I just found out about #3 recently... hopefully that's enough to put us over the top, because we honestly haven't had a legitimate back-up PG since Greivis Vasquez. Giving him away for cheap was one of the dumbest things our management's done since doing the same with Kyle Lowry, and ever since, we've been so desperate that we've been pulling guys out of retirement like Arenas and Dooling, and actually playing them in important games. Having Mo Williams would really add so much stability to our rotation and take a lot of pressure off Conley. It could become a really underrated move that winds up helping us back to the WCF or better.
     
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  6. Rhal

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    You can't overlook the fact he will instantly be your best three point shooter as well. Something the grizz desperately need to open up the paint.

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    NOVoodoo Kickin it in 2525

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    Yeah, no kidding. Mike Miller was a great signing, but who knows how much he can play?

    I've heard people speculate that his "injuries" were sort of bullshit, and that he was ready to play all season, but the Heat shelved him as a sort of a hidden asset to whip out and fuck the other team's scouting reports up during NBA Finals, because the Heat could have really coasted to the Finals in the East with or without him.

    That might seemed a little farfetched, but I can see some reality lining that theory.

    If we can get both Williams and Miller on the roster though, that makes this a whole nother team, not to mention that we finally have a back-up center in Kosta Koufos.

    I don't know why guys like KingSpeed would post shit that started with, "If we had the Grizzlies bench," because we've been pretty shallow for a while. We had depth in the frontcourt, but we only had one true center, one point guard, and no shooters. If this deal goes through, we'll have two true centers, two point guards, and two shooters.
     
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    I know your stoked for miller but don't get your hopes up to high on him remaining healthy. Even if the heat were holding him out he has major back and shoulder problems and hasn't remained healthy for the last five years. If he can stay healthy for the playoffs is what matters and hopefully for you guys but he is just one hard hit from the back flairing up again. If you guys need him to play though he will play through intense pain.
    As for talking about wanting the grizz bench, Blazer fans wanted any other teams bench last year. We had statistically the worst bench ever in the NBA last year and it of course led some of us to drool over a player who coupd and even avg 9 a game off the bench for us.

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    JFizzleRaider Sad Panda Global Moderator

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    Bayless would have been our best bench player last year. Speights and Arthur too probably. Our bench was worst in the league
     
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    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    Worst in league history. I'll have to dig it up, but I think we had for ~2000 minutes (~25mpg) players on the floor who were combined BELOW replacement value. As in, we might've had as much success putting Zags and HCP in instead of Ronnie and Nolan.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    To be fair: if they were tanking, they wouldn't sign anybody. Dallas has actually been one of the few teams that has made signing mid-level players work consistently. Normally that's death (see Charlie Villenueva and Ben Gordon).
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    Don't they have to fill their roster with players, though? These players seem pretty crappy to me. Blair evidently chose Dallas because he was going to play big minutes there. If Blair is playing big minutes, then DAL is going to suck. Harris is a shadow of the player we was three years ago. I think it's going to be a brutal year in Cubanland.
     
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    Here's hoping!
     
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    Because DAL is signing mid-level players at mid-level prices. DET signed mid-level players and high-level prices.
     
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    Because DAL is signing mid-level players at mid-level prices. DET signed mid-level players and high-level prices.
     
  18. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    They are going to have a very interesting mish-mash of vets. I have a feeling that by mid-season they are going to be viewed as the quintessential "should lose most games, but capable of beating anybody" team.
     
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    Bjennings to DET. Wow.

    PG: Brandon Jennings
    SG: Brandon Knight? or Caldwell-Pope, or Stuckey
    SF: Josh Smith
    PF: Greg Monroe
    C: Andre Drummond

    Is that a playoff team in the east? Mo Cheeks seems like a horrible pick to coach this group, but I guess we'll see.
     
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