He's overpaid, we get it. Literally nobody here is arguing against that.Zach is not even on the roster for 29 other teams at that price.
You may want to trademark that last sentence “You have to put yourself in the shoes of the camel.”My point is that you don't ask a dog to carry your packs across the desert and you don't ask a camel to hunt. Vivek is what he is - call him the camel - but you insist on trying to frame every single thing this franchise does as if he were the dog. He's not the dog. If you keep trying to analyze his moves as if he's the dog, you're not going to get anywhere. You have to put yourself in the shoes of the camel.
LOL they have zero leverage, actually, and they're about to screw themselves in this process. Kuminga isn't a dream of mine, so I'll be happy either way and I have a feeling the Kings share a similar sentiment. If we can get him for something reasonable, I'll certainly celebrate that but if the Warriors think everyone needs to bend the knee just because they won a few championships in the last 10 years, they're in for a rude awakening.
As the Golden State Warriors have tried to find a resolution to their Jonathan Kuminga conundrum this offseason, a serious suitor has emerged who could relieve the team of their worries. Although a deal getting done sooner rather than later would likely be in Golden State's best interest, they can afford to wait given their considerable leverage in this situation.
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Jesus. There's no way the thread continues the argument after this post right here, right? This should end it.He's overpaid, we get it. Literally nobody here is arguing against that.
His money will be off the books by the time we need it to stay under the apron. We're 50 million+ over the cap. The difference between him and Fox and a bunch of dead weight eating up 35 million is that he is playing and shooting 3s at a high level. If he's healthy, and we put the right players around him, all of that is fine. We'd have to delete 70+ million to even make an offer above the MLE.
So who you trading: Zach or Sabonis? You make the same argument against both of them and neither are the player the other one needs.He's overpaid, we get it. Literally nobody here is arguing against that.
His money will be off the books by the time we need it to stay under the apron. We're 50 million+ over the cap. The difference between him and Fox and a bunch of dead weight eating up 35 million is that he is playing and shooting 3s at a high level. If he's healthy, and we put the right players around him, all of that is fine. We'd have to delete 70+ million to even make an offer above the MLE.
Or said another way…..Why deal in reality when you can just engage in bridled speculation that would have approximately zero chance of actually happening?
So who you trading: Zach or Sabonis? You make the same argument against both of them and neither are the player the other one needs.
Because you spend all of your time being angry at the camel for not being a dog, and coming here to complain about the camel not being a dog. It's a dead end.Why?
Sites that I avoid: Blue Man Hoops, Athlon Sports, Motorcycle Sports, A Royal Pain (unremitting negativity). All but the last are click bait.This is the same website that declared Devin Carter was a bust after the first summer league game and then immediately did an about face after the second one so it’s par for the course for them lol
Carter was an older rookie in the lottery now going into his second season zero reason for him not to be getting major minuets catering to this gap year bull crap
This may be 100 percent correct, but my thing is we really don’t have much of a sample size of them together. We as fans underrate how hard it is to implement a piece like LaVine mid season. New schemes, new teammates, just up and move your family at the drop of a dime and expect to perform at a high level. LaVine at times looked lost on how to play off Domas. On top of that Domas missed a big chunk of the 2nd half of the year, then the 1 game play in happened and left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. I think theres potentially another level LaVine and Sabonis can get to with a year of continuity and a training camp together.
Any article whose headline is "[Team] could trade for [$ amount] player" or "[Team] could trade for [X]-time All-Star"Sites that I avoid: Blue Man Hoops, Athlon Sports, Motorcycle Sports, A Royal Pain (unremitting negativity). All but the last are click bait.
Oh, I get all that.Eh, a distraction from what? The Kings were 25-24 at the time De'Aaron Fox was traded. This is the Western Conference. The 8th seed finished 14 games over .500 last season. The 6th seed finished 16 games over .500. The Kings were not making up that kind of ground after a major mid-season trade. It almost never happens in the NBA. Roster shifts like that at the deadline are disruptive more often than not. The season was essentially lost the minute De'Aaron Fox demanded a trade. The Kings were consigned to the 9th or 10th seed, at best, whether or not they moved Fox.
We already knew he wanted a max extension and we already knew he was likely going to need surgery on his finger. Likewise, the Spurs already knew he wanted a max extension and already knew he was likely going to need surgery on his finger. And Chicago wasn't going to have any other suitors for Zach LaVine. Whatever "mystery injury" Fox may have suffered this off-season, it didn't stop San Antonio from inking him to that max extension, so they seem unconcerned by it. There was simply no downside to waiting to see how the array of possible outcomes developed in the off-season, after the draft reshaped the NBA landscape. It's harder for franchises under duress to maneuver at the trade deadline. You give away your leverage when you let the pressure of that deadline force your hand. That's exactly what Rich Paul wanted, and a franchise with greater conviction wouldn't have blinked. I stand by it.
All my time huh. Seems I had a pretty good weekend not posting at all. And yes Monte and Vivek were almost as bad as Vlade and Vivek. Hopefully the latest iteration will be better.Because you spend all of your time being angry at the camel for not being a dog, and coming here to complain about the camel not being a dog. It's a dead end.