Kings free agency, part 3

hrdboild

Moloch in whom I dream Angels!
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...the-nba-s-2015-free-agent-turn-225441763.html

If any other team got the players we got, they would have said, "A+++++++".
He also put the Lakers as winners and the Knicks as losers even though the Knicks made better additions in free agency and might actually have a shot at a low playoff seed in the East while the Lakers will almost certainly be a trainwreck and there's a good chance they'll lose their pick no matter what. Then he puts the Pistons as losers for re-signing Reggie Jackson to a deal which is no more ridiculous that a dozen others handed out this summer and supposedly botching the draft even though they didn't. Stanley Johnson is tearing up the Orlando Summer League right now and could start for them on day 1. Everything he said about the Kings is complete nonsense. Will he ever eat his words? Probably not. I couldn't care less what guys like this have to say. Even after it becomes obvious that most of his analysis is completely wrong he'll probably just go on blathering ignorant nonsense to idiots and getting paid for it.
 
Koufos was a pretty decent 3 pt shooter in college at 34%, but has only taken 3 3pt shots in his entire career. Was the change in distance too big of a change or him?
 
It took them 5 years to see Cousins for what he was, a beast, when we knew what he was after his first summer league game. It's going to take them much longer than that to admit that we as an organization did anything well after 10 straight years of sucking and possibly being the worst run franchise in all sports during that time period. Just like it took time with Cousins, it will take time with this.
 

Mr. S£im Citrus

Doryphore of KingsFans.com
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No. His name is Luc Richard Mbah a Moute. Irony lol. Next time you call Cousins, Cousins I will nitpick! I don't know which one is his middle name or last name. Luc Richard could be his entire first name.
This comment would carry more weight if players wore their first name on their jersey. His last name is Mbah a Moute; to paraphrase the great American philosopher Dwayne Johnson, IT DOESN'T MATTER what his first name is.
 

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Koufos was a pretty decent 3 pt shooter in college at 34%, but has only taken 3 3pt shots in his entire career. Was the change in distance too big of a change or him?
Likely.

That and coaches likely saying you're 7'0" 265lbs knock that wussy crap off and get into the paint with the big boys.

Everybody has to get off this Koufos jumpshooter stuff. He's a big who PLAYS big. That is a good thing. Cousins is the guy with all the perimeter and ball skills.
 
It took them 5 years to see Cousins for what he was, a beast, when we knew what he was after his first summer league game. It's going to take them much longer than that to admit that we as an organization did anything well after 10 straight years of sucking and possibly being the worst run franchise in all sports during that time period. Just like it took time with Cousins, it will take time with this.
Wins have a way of convincing people.

If we win, our media coverage is going to go nuts... we will be a great story.
 

gunks

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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...the-nba-s-2015-free-agent-turn-225441763.html



If any other team got the players we got, they would have said, "A+++++++".
Pffffft.... Kelly Dweyer.

Every time I see his face next to one of his horrible sports columns I think..."Wow! I didn't know John Belushi survived his drug overdose, and now he's writing basketball blogs in a semi vegetative state! Oh wait, that's just Kelly Dweyer."

We're a target right now. That ends when we make a playoff push. And honestly, some of these moves could backfire... I'd like to hope for the best though!

Calling the Lakers winners because they got Hibbert? Lulz. Have fun watching your Cuz consolation prize put up 8/4 this season Lakers fans!
 

VF21

Super Moderator Emeritus
SME
Entity claims that her/his water usage causes FA signings. Then said there is Smith lake near by so I suggested that we could set up a kickstarter to get money if need for the trip... I guess GoFundMe might have been funnier...
Entity is a him. :)
 

Capt. Factorial

ceterum censeo delendum esse Argentum
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Pffffft.... Kelly Dweyer.

Every time I see his face next to one of his horrible sports columns I think..."Wow! I didn't know John Belushi survived his drug overdose, and now he's writing basketball blogs in a semi vegetative state! Oh wait, that's just Kelly Dweyer."
Come on, guys. Don't be so hard on Dwyer. I mean, the Lakers KILLED IT in free agency this year, right? And this is a column about who was a winner in free agency. Let's just follow, in Peanut-Brain's own words, exactly what the Lakers did in free agency to earn being winners:

As it stands, for the third season in a row, the Lakers will have lost out in their attempts to convince a superstar free agent to join Bryant and company.
How can you beat that? THREE STRAIGHT YEARS!

they will once again enter a season hoping Kobe doesn’t decide to shoot 25 times at 37 percent while also hoping he’ll finish what could be his last season
See? They've got one of the best players in the game! And they signed him in free agency this year, right?

Where did you think you were going with a 30-year-old LaMarcus Aldridge
I mean, just LOOK at those grapes! They MUST be full of acetic acid! The visual assay can't be wrong on this one, folks.

On top of that, if the Lakers fall out of the top three in the lottery next season, the team’s first-round draft pick goes to Philadelphia. Wouldn’t the whole point of signing an Aldridge basically gift Philly that draft pick? ... You’re going to have to be terrible again in 2015-16.
Free agency is about Maintaining The Awful. This is how all the great big-money we're-going-to-sign-every-big-free-agent teams do it these days. That's why this is such a win. Winning in free agency is about the future.

It’s going to be awful to watch Kobe go out this way, but this is what YouTube is for.
And the past. Winning in free agency is about the past, too.

Just hope that your ownership group and front office takes this summer as a lesson.
Yes, a lesson that signing nobody is WINNING! Also, TIGER BLOOD!

Mr. Dwyer, what you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent column were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on the entire internet is now dumber for having clicked on it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.