[NBA] Comments that don't warrant a thread (JUN)
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Feels like the Mavs are still in the trade Jason Thompson and Carl Landry’s bad contracts and several unprotected picks/pick swaps for the cap space to sign Marco Bellinelli portion of their Kangzification and not the “trade your star (preferably while he’s playing in the all-star game) for a pick, an underachieving high draft pick, and the dessicated corpse of Tyreke Evans” part of their process.
I don't think you're wrong. I think Dame is a little less set in this mentality and it may haunt Luka more over his career because he won't be national team teammates with the bulk of NBA all stars on Team USA (though I saw Lillard wasn't picked and is upset about it, per my google feed this afternoon).
He has the opposite problem Muss had - which is Muss inherited a team that was out of gas but the ownership thought was still a contender while Luke took a young team that should have finished .500 the year prior and has been dog poop.
It's clear that Malone was far and away the best coach we had in the post Adelman era, outside of that it is really tough to evaluate some guys like Muss and Theus who have had some NCAA success and probably were just the wrong hires for a team that needed a hard reset. Then you have Joerger who seemed like a good coach with some personality quirks that have lead him to burn bridges and Walton who may be a good manager of a high end team but is lost with a fringe team.
It's clear that Malone was far and away the best coach we had in the post Adelman era, outside of that it is really tough to evaluate some guys like Muss and Theus who have had some NCAA success and probably were just the wrong hires for a team that needed a hard reset. Then you have Joerger who seemed like a good coach with some personality quirks that have lead him to burn bridges and Walton who may be a good manager of a high end team but is lost with a fringe team.
Man, anyone trying to come at KD for being a poor teammate after his Big Three wingmen both got injured and he balled out so hard that he still willed the Nets to the brink of a game 7 victory is really just exposing themselves. Pippen played in a lot of playoff series and he never had a single series as impressive as Durant just did despite the losing effort. That's a Shaq level poor take right there. If I'm the Nets I'd be wondering if selling off everything to put a big three together was a smart move considering all those guys they traded to add Harden would surely have given them more than 10ppg on 30% shooting against Milwaukee. Maybe they manage to keep everyone healthy next year but it kinda looks like they had a winning hand and lost because they wanted an even better one.
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