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There is more to life (and basketball) than stats. The deal is already done, so let's look on the upside:
1. Rondo has won an NBA championship and knows what is necessary to get it done. He has seen the work P. Pierce and K. Garnett put in.
2. Rondo is tough and does not back down.
3. We have good players who need to be tougher. Many of them are quite young and probably don't know the level of effort that is necessary to win championships or even have playoff success. Maybe Rondo can kick the whole team's effort up a notch.
4. Rondo is an elite passer. He could get 15apg with the guys we already have.
5. Rondo will attract more national attention than we otherwise would get and perhaps some more national TV games.
Maybe I'm wrong. I think, however, that is why they play the games.
Starting over and tanking maybe gets us another AD. Probably not. More likely a Kyrie Irving or such, if that.
The Warriors own the NBA right now. The West is stacked. Having a championship or bust mindset right now is setting yourself up for disappointment.
Which is your prerogative. Do what you want. But eventually the team actually has to try and beat the good teams, even if they're the underdog. The hope of cleaning house and getting lottery luck doesn't actually do anything.
@DanielVeuleman
Two superstar bigs in the hand, in a teeny tiny market, and yet an argument was being advanced to blow it up? I mean...good lord.
A market the size of New Orleans could draft for 1000 years and not luck into two talents the size of A.D. and Boogie both in their prime at the same time. These are halcyon days for the organization, or might be. You have to be nuts not to give it a try. The whole and entire purpose of drafting is to draft superstar talents. And you already are sitting on two of them.
Dell was trying to hit home runs with hill and omer and they backfired he basically shot himself in the foot and tied his hands financially
If that sports writer looks suspiciously like the wicked witch of the West and writes for the Sac Bee I wouldn't put an ounce of credibility in it. She's not a sports writer, she's a sports editorialist who thinks she runs the Kings and had a half decade feud with Boogie. She immediately took to George Karl because Karl was going to teach Boogie a lesson and put him in his place, and then spent the next year and a half shrieking as Boogie beat the hell out of him and sent him into retirement. Actually, players break down into two camps for her, soft pretty little submissive betas who she develops cougar crushes on and ickily praises for their rippling muscles in her columns, and then big mean scary men who are bullies a decent little town like Sacramento can never accept.
One day, if they are lucky, a house will fall on her and her feet will shrivel up and disappear beneath it. Until then though she ironically is about as bad a source of news about the Kings as you can find, because everything she writes is blatantly full of her own agendas. She wants to be queen of her own little dunghill.
Last edited by Bricklayer; 07-15-2017 at 09:38 PM.
Yup let's go with crap shoot that is the draft some of you people and your obsession with the draft is amazing bc guess what cleavland had 3 chances to get it right and yet it didn't happen sp totally let's rely on the draft cause ya know casuals fans ad all that smh
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C- Cousins
PF- Davis
SF- Hill
SG- Holiday
PG- Rondo
6th- Crawford
7th- Pondexter?
8th- Moore
9th- SF/PF to be signed (Cunningham? Barnes?)
10th- Diallo
11th- Ajinca
12th- Asik
13th- Cook and rookies
Good pieces forming up, it's just still being trapped with too many of the old middling pieces which is holding things back. Can't just add here, need to clear some of the mediocre pieces out of the way to make room for anything new.
Last edited by Bricklayer; 07-15-2017 at 09:49 PM.
Because Cleveland is terrible at drafting. Golden State built their core through the draft (prior to KD). All I see is that we could have had AD, Hield, one of Isaac, Dennis Smith JR, Donovan Mitchell or Markkanen and I would have felt like "Sure, its not gonna be a playoffs team, but I'm interested to see where this goes".
I'd have been completely fine to ride out this GS dynasty a little and aim to compete with a well built squad when AD is like 27. Instead we're trying to double dip and contend now, and then possibly re-stack when Boogie and Jrue get old. I think I just would have taken development route with players you can control for 7+ years (rookies/RFA's) especially knowing that this draft was STACKED.
But we'll see how it plays out, maybe the Pels make noise this year, I see some chance of that happening, but I think there were better routes to take.
I just did so what's your point?
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My point is that you simply pulling stuff out of the air. It does not make it accurate. If they were easy to beat, teams would be doing it. How many titles have the Spurs won the last 3 years? The Spurs may have the game plan for beating them, but it certainly is not "easy" and the proof is clearly in the actual results.
Put of the air and yet the celtics usually beat them and 76 ers beat them lol sorry bug when you let teams like that beat you you aren't that good
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