Lol @ ur wonderboy Larry Sanders.
He's a scrub, will never be the piece that turns a losing franchise into a winning one.
Thanks for your intelligent input...
Lol @ ur wonderboy Larry Sanders.
He's a scrub, will never be the piece that turns a losing franchise into a winning one.
Great, get the Bucks on the phone Pete. Jason Thompson and Carl Landry for Sanders just turned into JT and Carl for Sanders and the rights to swap firsts!!
On the flip side, this could be the perfect time to buy low.
I think at some point Sanders will revert back to his dominant self, I don't know when but at some future point some of us will look back and say, "Why didn't we get him when... "
I don't condone weed and I hate to say it, but when it comes the NBA you just have to let some things slide if you want talent. Let me give you two names and you can figure out my point: Chris Webber and Jokiam Noah.
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If you want to gamble on a player that may or may not revert back to his dominate self that makes 1 mil a year, I'm on board. But if he makes 11 mil a year for four more years, then I'm jumping ship.
I see it as trading a player who's not needed going to be rotting on the bench (Landry) and a capable backup (JT) for potentially a starting big man with elite defensive skill. Worst case scenario the Kings lost JT for nothing.
The thing is, how many weed-smoking slacker big man actually do flame out at age 25? Not many. Most guys do get their act together until they ultimately wash out around early 30s. I figure Sanders has about 5-6 more productive years before he turn into the next Lamar Odom.
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So what he smoked pot to relax while injured. Good medicinal qualities to relieve pain.
yes, like the "medicinal properties" of alcohol. Just get stoned/hammered out of your mind and you feel no pain. Very healthy and medicinal like.
You can also be a weak minded immature twit so stupid you get yourself caught THREE separate times by the NBA, an employer paying you millions a year with rules against it. then we call your dumb skinny ass Keon Clark.
Um, are you guys sure that's Larry Sanders? Larry Sanders has tattoos on his neck and right bicep...
As a matter of fact, he's got tattoos everywhere. If that's him, which I don't think it is, it's a photo from years ago...
As a matter of fact, he's got tattoos everywhere. If that's him, which I don't think it is, it's a photo from years ago...
If we traded Thompson and Landry for Sanders, our lineup for next season would be:
PG - McCallum/Thomas
SG - McLemore/Terry
SF - Gay/Williams/Outlaw
PF - Sanders/Evans/Acy
C - Cousins
*2014 1st round pick
Don't forget our #1 draft pick and FA. We could be looking at this lineup:
PG - (Lowry or Session or Augustin or Farmar) /IT
SG - Gay/McLenmore
SF - (Wiggins or Parker)/DWill
PF - Sanders/Evans/Acy
C - Cousins
If we traded Thompson and Landry for Sanders, our lineup for next season would be:
PG - McCallum/Thomas
SG - McLemore/Terry
SF - Gay/Williams/Outlaw
PF - Sanders/Evans/Acy
C - Cousins
*2014 1st round pick
Remember the entire reason we were able to trade for Chris Webber in the first place is that he was arrested in early 1998 for driving under the influence of marijuana and the Washington Bullets wanted to get rid of him. That was after he forced a trade out of GS because he didn't get along with the coach. Acquiring a player with off-the-court issues and an expensive contract is a risk, but every personnel decision in the NBA carries some risk. I think it might be warranted in this case. This isn't a guy who had one fluke series and talked his way into a big contract because of potential, he proved for an entire season that he's an elite defender. Does 23 games between injuries this season discount what he did all last season? Is there a precedent for a player blocking 200 shots in a season and then forgetting how?
Noah, Ibaka, and Davis are not realistic options. Gibson and Horford probably aren't either. None of them are on the trade block. The draft isn't the answer to everything. The only players in this draft who have the potential to maybe be as good defensively as Larry Sanders was last season are Joel Embiid and Willie Cauley-Stein and Embiid is most likely going to be off the board when we pick. We may not even have a first round pick next season. Who are we going to sign in free agency that's a dominant shot blocker and effective post defender? As I pointed out above, even if such a player were available there are 10 other teams with more cap space than we do next season and two of them play in New York and Los Angeles. I think waiting and hoping for one of those two unlikely scenarios to solve our problems should also be considered a risk. Asking a d-league call up to try and fill that hole in our lineup is a risk. If you agree with me that acquiring an interior defender should be a priority for us, you have to at least consider Larry Sanders, off the court issues be damned.
I've been on that buy-low for Sanders bandwagon all season, for pretty much the exact reasons you point out. there's basically no rim protection available whatsoever right now and that's still maybe the number one problem the Kings have. on the one hand, all these incidents he keeps having make me sceptical about his long-term viability as an NBA player, on the other hand it should make it cheap as hell to acquire. there are so few other options out there, it seems prudent to at least keep monitoring that situation.
If 11 million dollars a year is your idea of cheap, I'd hate to see your idea of expensive.
But its chewing up cap space that we no longer really have the luxury of splashing. If its someone like Ibaka, I do not even blink at the $11m-$12m per season price tag but when the player attached to it comes with some stupidity attached to it, I start to squirm.as the post states, very explicitly I might add, "cheap as hell to acquire", meaning that no major asset would have to go the Bucks way.
But its chewing up cap space that we no longer really have the luxury of splashing. If its someone like Ibaka, I do not even blink at the $11m-$12m per season price tag but when the player attached to it comes with some stupidity attached to it, I start to squirm.
But its chewing up cap space that we no longer really have the luxury of splashing. If its someone like Ibaka, I do not even blink at the $11m-$12m per season price tag but when the player attached to it comes with some stupidity attached to it, I start to squirm.
But its chewing up cap space that we no longer really have the luxury of splashing. If its someone like Ibaka, I do not even blink at the $11m-$12m per season price tag but when the player attached to it comes with some stupidity attached to it, I start to squirm.
Is there even another shot blocker defender out there that's available. Maybe Asik but we don't have the pieces and if Gay resigns for 12mill we won't have enough space to sign a defender. If all it's gonna take is JT/outlaw than you do it. You would have Acy/Landry off the bench which is very good.