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

"Clippers are making big boy moves. Meanwhile the Lakers are busy at Chuck E Cheese making balloon animals with Dwight." -- @NotBillWalton

 

Both of them were heavily connected in the Patternash front office, but they lost most of their sources in the "big purge" of the front office back in the early 2000s. Not sure how connected they are now.

 

He really isn't. He plays very good D, has great size for his position, and can flat out shoot off the dribble from any distance.

Barnes is an incredible athlete and explodes to the basket. He will also be good. But don't under estimate Klay.

 

I dunno if they really are at this point, or just trying to act like they still are. Not knocking them, as they clearly had a connection at some point. But the level of vagueness they now operate under, and when they finally do put things out there, it seems like they're off, and they miss the things that do happen. It could be that they believe they are still connected, but their source is not as connected as he/she was.

 

Yeah, I don't know. I haven't talked to either one of them in like 10 years.

 

Too much $$ chasing too few quality free agents.

The Dwight-cision coming soon.

Once Dwight is signed, it seems LaMarcus will be the most valuable commodity available this summer.

Olshey has rejected several offers already.

Now, Olshey sits and waits for the offers to improve.

 

That's a good point. After Dwight makes his call, whenever the hell that is, I think the market for LMA will increase significantly.

 

My bet is the opposite. Barnes has very limited dribbling game. His solid numbers in the playoffs were all because of the Spurs deciding to leave him open. Meanwhile Klay Thompson is a much better shooter and a surprisingly solid defender. I was shocked at how good Thompson was when I saw him in Summer League. He was the best player of the Summer - so good they pulled him quickly because they realized it was a waste playing him. Barnes is, at best, a slightly better-than-average SF. (His numbers in the playoffs also looked good because he was playing PF with Lee out, so it looked like he could get round people a little. Yes, he can get round Matt Bonner.)

 

Maybe if he was playing against regular mortals, but he's nothing special against NBA players. Granted he's better than Thompson, but Thompson is much more skilled.

 

No doubt Thompson is more skilled and as I said I would prefer him over Barnes. But if I remember correctly his vertical leap is way above average for NBA players.

 

You mean like Hasheem Thabeet, Jonny Flynn, Jordan Hill and Terrence Williams?

 

Blast from the past.

Barnes had a PER of 11.08, 23rd among rookies, just below Nando de Colo. T-Rob, the player so disappointing he got traded once for scrubs and then for second-rounders, had 10.97.

 

Kevin Martin a twolve

 

hehe, so all OKC got for Harden was Steven Adams and Jeremy Lamb. Presti is no genius

 

Can someone remind me what the blazers have done?

 

Of course, they also had Drummond as over rated, and, speaking of PER, the apple of their eye Crowder was below Barnes.

 

since when? could be a long list depending on your start point

 

That's the problem though. Neither Klay, nor Barnes, are really star quality players. They're good role players, good starter quality players, but they're never going to be even as good as Aldridge. So that leaves us with either David Lee who is towards the end of his career, or Bogut who never seems to stay healthy. I just don't really like the deal. Like I said, if GS was willing to do both Klay AND Barnes, that would be one thing, but one or the other isn't enough imo.

 

Eric Bledsoe to Suns, Redick to Clips, 2nd rounders to Bucks in three-team deal.