Minnesota wants Batum @ 11.25M a year

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  1. Fez Hammersticks

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    More accurate, not any less hurtful
     
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    This 11-day wait is fucking brutal.
     
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    Perhaps it'll change your mind to know I have a call girl I send out to do that actual ball busting, she is a wife of someone on this forum perhaps you've met her before.

    She is talented enough to break even a pair of iron balls.
     
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    MN should take that Williams/Iggy deal for themselves.
     
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    I want Williams

    Hell, let's sign D Williams, L. Williams just to fuck with Rice
     
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    Leonard, Lillard, 3 Williamses ... awesome.
     
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    I'm almost sad now that they waived Shawn Williams
     
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    I'll go out on a limb and say that when he did that for France, it wasn't against NBA caliber defenders. Seems to me that Nic is a turnover waiting to happen he drives the lane for the Blazers.

    Go Blazers
     
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    Nic has been tweeting about how he's been working on his dribbling and handles all off-season. He knows it's one of his weaknesses.
     
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    Then it's disingenuous of him and his agent to blame McMillan for his lack of driving ability in the half-court set. Did it occur to anyone that Nate saw that in Nic when he was a rookie, and started him, hoping that Batum's drive to the basket game would develop in the offseasons? I wouldn't surprised if Nate is somewhat upset at Nic never taking the next step in his own development. Why start him as a rookie if you didn't see potential for more?
     
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    It's hard to speculate what Nate's reasons were. I just think it was bushleague to blame the team for supposedly using him wrong. I highly doubt that McMillan told him "stand in this corner and don't move....ever".
     
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    Seriously? People wouldn't do Iggy for Batum?

    I love Nic, and I'd be tempted.
     
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    I think you are probably both right, to a degree. I think Batum was frustrated by Nate, but he was visibly frustrated by Crawchuck. God, Crawchuck simply would not give him the ball, and certainly not in a position to do anything with it.
     
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    Maybe nothing that extreme, but I know Nate had a pretty short hook for guys who didn't stay their lane in his eyes.
     
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    He had an especially short hook for Batum.... but Nate isn't here anymore. Did Kaleb use Batum in much the same manner?
     
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    Unless some kind of three team sign-and-trade can get worked out, I'm not sure it matters.
     
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