We would have been a top ten team last season without injuries. Now we've upgraded Ariza into Roco, Rio into Jones and just added Enes. Nas, Ant and a hopefully re-signed Wenyen should be more developed than they were last season. I think Gary will continue to get better. I think, even with the fact that our second highest paid player is not a good fit on the team, we will compete and probably get HCA in the Western Conference. Reason would tell you that makes us top eight but we know that the East isn't as good as the West so that probably puts us higher than top 8. I know we can get injured just like we did before but so can any team, so by a month into the season I expect that we'll have all of the guys playing who were injured last year (Nurk, Hood and Zach).
From Bogdan Bogdonavic to this. Sucks. After seeing some of the money these guys got, I'm not too upset at the DJJ deal. At least there's some upside there, and the risk is quite low.
I think replacing Ariza, Mario and Whiteside for Covington, DJJ and Kanter is a solid upgrade, particularly in the BBIQ area. A full healthy year of Hood and Nurk (knock on wood), will be massive. We haven't had disruptive defenders like Covington and DJJ since Gerald Wallace was on the squad. If Trent keeps developing like we saw in the bubble, we could have a top 10 defense.
If you go look at his tweets yesterday I’m inclined to believe this is just sarcasm veiled as a compliment, something he is known for.
Waking up to the deals Harkless and Dunn got doesn't make me feel any better about the DJJ deal. Both combined to sign for less than what we paid for Jones and both would have helped Portland win now. Add in that Augustine is now off the board and Portland's backup PG options are started to get really limited ...
Dunn shoots 30.6% from 3 for his career, and his ast% last year was the same as CJs. He plays good defense. But then people knock Jones?
Carmelo is going to drag this free agency out again. I wish he would just decide. Portland, Lakers, Knicks or Mavs?
Clamoring for one while trashing the other seems comparable. The harping for a true PG off the bench has started to become the new harping for a "banger" off he bench at PF everyone used to clamor for.
Dame playing 40+ minutes because our offense stalls out would seem to indicate that the harping for another true point guard has merit.
WTF is this Hayward deal.... holy hell. 120 million? Whatchya doin, MJ. We were thinking that Batum deal was bad. What this this
Danny Ainge cares so much about trade value that he's lost 3 star level players for nothing. Serves him right.
