Anybody Interested in Chris Bosh?

[Bricklayer]

The only place I have heard this is from Grant Napier (haven't been able to find anything anywhere else to back it up). Considering Grant's attitude toward Cousins this season, I would take most of what he says with a grain of salt. Even when he was calling games he couldn't compliment Cousins play without following it up something negative.

I've never been sure on this point myself. I actually started to list out all the little incidents and stories cutting both ways, and realized what a long and confused narrative it made. Suffice it to say at various points I have gotten the distinct impression that Reke and Cousins have some level of mutual respect and recognize they at the least need each other, if not even more. It certainly could go the other way. Reke is all class in the lockerroom and doesn't say anything, but he could privately resent it and Cousins simply cannot be easy to deal with. But Napear has long since lost all credibility on the Cousins issue and I'm certainly not going to just take his word for it.

 

[The_Jamal]

Puppy? You're new around here obviously. And BTW I referred to Wade, Harden and Kobe as confused puppies, not you. As obviously Tyreke's game is a mess and yet he shoots it more efficiently and turns it over less than the best in the league.

And I would say this: if I told you these 4 guys were all available as free agents, you would take a look at them and go hmm, all kind of the same class of player:
Player1: .463FG% .324Tpt% .839FT% 5.2reb 5.6ast 1.3stl 0.3blk 3.4TO
Player2: .478FG% .338Tpt% .775FT% 5.1reb 4.1ast 1.6stl 0.5blk 2.3TO
Player3: .438FG% .368Tpt% .851FT% 4.6reb 5.5ast 1.7stl 0.5blk 3.6TO
Player4: .521FG% .258Tpt% .725FT% 5.2reb 5.3ast 1.9stl 0.8blk 2.9TO

If I then explained to you that their usage percentages were:
Player1: 31.9
Player2: 22.3
Player3: 29.0
Player4: 29.5

you might appropriately wonder what the hell the coach of Player2 was thinking, and just what his numbers would look like if he was actually featured like the other guys.

Those are the per 36 numbers of Kobe, Tyreke, Harden and Wade BTW. Many Kings fans got off to a bad start with Reke's game and never recovered or even cared to bother trying to see through the Keith Smart haze. I can't see through it clearly either, but I can damn well tell SOMETHING is going on, and that it would be a great way to look foolish if you did not make sure of what you were seeing. He doesn't have to be any of those guys to be a helluva player. Even if he were 20-5-5 and nothing more he could easily be the #2 SG in the league in a couple of years with Wade and Kobe departing stage left.

Why do you insist on using absolutely atrocious stats! Why!

Get out of the dark ages. Please!

 

[jalfa]

When the Heat win, Bosh plays well. He plays poorly, they lose. Lebron as well. They're the two most important parts.

Wade, not so much. He can play well and the Heat still lose, or play poorly and win. He's a great player, but Bosh is the lone hand in the frontcourt.

it's more like, if anybody besides LeBron has a good game, they win. LeBron having a good game is pretty much a given at this point.

as far as Bosh: give me some sort of guarantee that Cuz will be a good man defender and I'm all for that pairing. as much as Bosh has been torn apart by Duncan and Hibbert, he has made some crucial plays as a help defender and is apparently often cited as being one of the leagues best pick-and-roll defenders. if you put him at the four, his rebounding improves and he can get Cuz more space on the offensive end than pretty much any other PF can. trading for him might be pointless, though, considering he'll be a free agent after next year, so putting this conversation off for a year might make sense.

 

[KevinSalvadori]

it's more like, if anybody besides LeBron has a good game, they win. LeBron having a good game is pretty much a given at this point.

as far as Bosh: give me some sort of guarantee that Cuz will be a good man defender and I'm all for that pairing. as much as Bosh has been torn apart by Duncan and Hibbert, he has made some crucial plays as a help defender and is apparently often cited as being one of the leagues best pick-and-roll defenders. if you put him at the four, his rebounding improves and he can get Cuz more space on the offensive end than pretty much any other PF can. trading for him might be pointless, though, considering he'll be a free agent after next year, so putting this conversation off for a year might make sense.

I can't see any scenario on Earth in which Bosh doesn't opt in for his final 2 years at $21/22M per year, respectively. He'd be lucky to get half that on the open market, considering the way he's looked that last 1.5 seasons or so, as well as with the new re-calibrating being done by most teams under the new CBA. That's the risk Miami took when they signed him to that absurd deal, although it's obviously paid off some.

 

[ParniValjak]

I can't see any scenario on Earth in which Bosh doesn't opt in for his final 2 years at $21/22M per year, respectively. He'd be lucky to get half that on the open market, considering the way he's looked that last 1.5 seasons or so, as well as with the new re-calibrating being done by most teams under the new CBA. That's the risk Miami took when they signed him to that absurd deal, although it's obviously paid off some.

But Miami might be just forced to break up the big 3 with the punishing luxury tax coming into play.

 

[jalfa]

I can't see any scenario on Earth in which Bosh doesn't opt in for his final 2 years at $21/22M per year, respectively. He'd be lucky to get half that on the open market, considering the way he's looked that last 1.5 seasons or so, as well as with the new re-calibrating being done by most teams under the new CBA. That's the risk Miami took when they signed him to that absurd deal, although it's obviously paid off some.

kind of the same scenario as for Iggy. short term pay out or long term security. you're right, though, it's definitely not a given that he'll opt out and will probably depend a lot on what James and Wade are doing, as well as on what direction the Heat as an organisation will be taking. if he's traded somewhere he doesn't want to be, for instance, that should influence his thinking a lot, one would think.

 

[Dime Dropper]

Why do you insist on using absolutely atrocious stats! Why!

Get out of the dark ages. Please!

How many topics do you have to absolutely bomb out on before you consider the alternative? I don't know if you just like going against the grain, or if your understanding of basketball is, shall we say, questionable.