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blame flip sanders for bailing brooklyn out by giving them thaddeus young (who he gave up a miami 1st rounder for b4 the season started) for KG on his last legs because he wanted a BS reunion which lasted about 5 games.

these are the kind of scenarios the cavs are facing once everyone gets paid and contracts are finalized. NO ONE is going to stop dan gilbert from spending that kind of money if he is willing, especially since luxury tax money gets redistributed around the league.

its not like they are getting these guys for free, the owner is paying the ultimate price of a 100 mil+ luxury tax, which few owners in the league would do. edit: actually I dont think any other owner besides the nets owner would even entertain the idea of taking on that much salary.

LMA please, he is a scorer that you can basically give the ball to and guarantee to give you 20 a night. You need that kind of scorer if you want to do well in the latter rounds of the playoffs. millsap is more versatile scorer but he is pretty mediocre at every facet of scoring.

well to be honest just about everyone will have flexibility and cap space in the next couple of years when the cap sky rockets.

take away the highlights and you get this

still not happy about the THJ trade, but having legit size and depth at C when it was basically ignored/ bandaged with vet mins during the whole ASG tenure is a welcomed change.

nothing will happen, they could of waited until after aldridge committed to them b4 trading away spiltter. They are the ones that chose to gamble. If they reneged, they would look extremely incompetent and hurt their credibility around the league.

its going to feel so weird seeing a 7 footer let alone a 7 ft 3er, in a hawks uniform.

LOL, we are going to make alot of role players rich if thats going to be our line up for the year.

bud's love fest with monta ellis is extremely annoying. He was probably the 1 that was lobbying for him when the spurs were "supposedly" interested in him a few years ago.

Lmao when was the last time you checked?

so DMC took 15mil to play PF?

if we pay millsap 20 mil per we will have an expensive frontcourt with no starting wing player. Trading for spiltter threw a wrench into everything.

not drafting a Wing perimeter defender and trading for tim hardaway looks even worst now and I didnt think that was even possible!

but he also opted out and gave up money last offseason so the heat could get someone like luol deng.

I agree, asking a 30 year old millsap to chase shooting SFs around screens and having him run shooters off the 3 point line full time seems like a bad idea considering that he has never done that before in his career and hes on the wrong side of 30. its different when you are asking him to play LBJ who was terrible from the perimeter in the playoffs and was isoing/posting up all game. Even boris diaw was able to get away with guarding him in the finals.

Millsap main strengths is being a highly versatile PF who can blow by slow, stiff PFs, take his big man assignment out to the 3 point line, and score around the basket. AT SF you take away his dribble game, he will have less opportunities to get off his jumpshot, he will have less room to operate around the basket, and he is not providing that extra spacing to our offense. The reason why millsap is so valuable is because he brings that unique skillset to the PF position. At SF you arent getting that All star skill set at the big man position, you are getting a mediocre SF who isnt going to be worth the 15 mill+ that he is going to be paid. Asking millsap to be SF is similiar to asking a player like draymond green to be a SF. He probably can be decent at SF but arent going to get that full DPOY runner up value that you are going to get from him when you play him at PF/C.

THJ probably could of been had for some 2nds, everyone was surprised they even got a 1st for him.

LOL great asset management

he doesnt provide ANY new skill set to this roster and he will never be a heavy min player on a winning team because he shown has no ability to defend anyone at a NBA level and his offense doesnt offset that since hes a inefficient volume scorer.

we need a multi dimensional SG who can defend, create his own shot, and play-make so some of the playmaking responsibilities isnt all on teague. If he cant do that at the very least he needs to be a 3 and D guy since this roster lacks two way players. THJ does none of that.

bud is slowly becoming doc the gm east smh

NO way he is a starting SG. He is AWFUL defensively arguably the worst at his position, he rarely passes the ball, and hes is a streaky shooter. Hes nothing much than a gunner off the bench.

Lmao really??? THJ is a 1 dimensional chucker. hes an AWFUL defender, doesnt rebound, and doesnt move the ball at all.