02-24-2024, 03:51 AM
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#561
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
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Alex Poku released by OKC.
Anyone interested?
Skilled 7 footer and only 22yo.
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03-01-2024, 11:26 AM
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#562
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Platinum Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: state of eternal optimism
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Hawks waiving Patty Mills. Could be a good pick-up for the Mavs given Exum's shaky health. I would prefer to have another PG around just in case....
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03-01-2024, 02:32 PM
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#563
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Platinum Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 2,973
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Always liked me some Patty Mills
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03-04-2024, 01:01 PM
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#564
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 5,475
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We signed Lawson to the last roster spot and Alex Fudge to 2 way.
Watched highlights and saw nothing but spectacular dunks and blocked shots.
Not sure he'd ever develop into anything usable because I don't see a lot of offensive skills.
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03-06-2024, 01:06 PM
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#565
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 1,046
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky
I want Hardy to succeed but he is more a SG than a PG. I won?t say he can never be that guy but this season he isn?t.
We had two problems:
*1) defensive presence when Lively isn?t playing. Kleber helped. Gafford should be the end of that*
2) what we do when we don?t have two ball handlers. Our biggest losses in +/- all happen during periods where Luka or Kyrie are resting. We?re dominant for the first 6-7 minutes and okay the last 4-6 minutes when we have both Kyrie and Luka out there but we give up huge runs when we only have one ball handler out there. Exum is perfect but may never be healthy again. Hardy can?t help that. THJ can?t help that. We still desperately need a third ball handler.
Not to be a downer but Spence would have really helped. Maybe by getting consistent defense and frontcourt scoring we won?t miss him as much as I think.
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** Great point. Jason Kidd agrees with you on that. But he still plays Gafford in situations that are not very defensively challenging in terms of moving out of the paint. Gafford is a paint guy. He gets totally lost defensively outside of the paint.
Last edited by LukaMagic; 03-06-2024 at 01:11 PM.
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03-06-2024, 01:08 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 1,046
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky
I want Hardy to succeed but he is more a SG than a PG. I won?t say he can never be that guy but this season he isn?t.
We had two problems:
1) defensive presence when Lively isn?t playing. Kleber helped. Gafford should be the end of that
*2) what we do when we don?t have two ball handlers. Our biggest losses in +/- all happen during periods where Luka or Kyrie are resting. We?re dominant for the first 6-7 minutes and okay the last 4-6 minutes when we have both Kyrie and Luka out there but we give up huge runs when we only have one ball handler out there. Exum is perfect but may never be healthy again. Hardy can?t help that. THJ can?t help that. We still desperately need a third ball handler.*
Not to be a downer but Spence would have really helped. Maybe by getting consistent defense and frontcourt scoring we won?t miss him as much as I think.
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** And this is also a very, very good point. When it comes to ball handling you have Luka (first), Kyrie (second), Exum (third), and PJ (fourth) (though he is not used to doing that), then Green (but Green rushes a lot and makes poor decisions), and then nobody else.
THJ should be PREVENTED from handling the ball. He is just an executioner. He can shoot or drive the ball when given to him. But he is horrendous at passing. A ball-handler must be able to assess whether it is good/better to shoot, or to keep hold of the ball, or to pass. THJ has zero such skills. Green is better but HE RUSHES. Rushes in and then he can't stop. Luka is great at that, of course. Kyrie has such natural abilities/affinities. And Exum is great at that too but at a lower skill level.
Last edited by LukaMagic; 03-06-2024 at 03:53 PM.
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03-06-2024, 01:17 PM
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#567
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 1,046
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky
***Sounds like Spence wasn?t our main target so maybe Mavs know something I don?t*** about Exum or the offense with PJ
Rumors are our first call was Marcus Morris. 7pts, 3reb on 40% from three on a winning team (76ers)
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******Yes !!!! That's how trades work. Organizations keep their real preferences hidden from everyone. Even players themselves. Organizations bring in players with a view to their selling or trade potential later on.
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05-24-2024, 06:01 PM
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#568
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Guru
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Arlington, TX
Posts: 13,212
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart
It's not just the media though. Dinwiddie and Kuzma talking shit is just plain bizarre.
Kuzma talking shit on us like we're some peasant team that has no shot. Like dude, if you had come in the Gafford trade, we'd sure as hell be contenders.
Who thought we were going to the WCF in 2022? Guess Dinwiddie forgot about that.
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I wonder if Kuzma regrets turning down the Mavs trade. I know that I greatly prefer PJ for sure.
And Dinwiddie would certainly be a help right now. I think he would have greatly impacted his free agency in a positive way by choosing us over the Lakers.
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05-24-2024, 06:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MFFL
I wonder if Kuzma regrets turning down the Mavs trade. I know that I greatly prefer PJ for sure.
And Dinwiddie would certainly be a help right now. I think he would have greatly impacted his free agency in a positive way by choosing us over the Lakers.
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Spence? I loved him here in Dallas last stint, but nothing makes me think that he would be preferable to Exum i.e. actually playable when it counted.
BTW here's Exum and Spence's per36 in the playoffs:
Spence - 7pts, 4reb, 3ast, 1TO on bad efficiency
Exum - 8pts, 4reb, 4ast, 1TO on bad efficiency
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05-24-2024, 06:46 PM
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#570
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Guru
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 23,255
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MFFL
I wonder if Kuzma regrets turning down the Mavs trade. I know that I greatly prefer PJ for sure.
And Dinwiddie would certainly be a help right now. I think he would have greatly impacted his free agency in a positive way by choosing us over the Lakers.
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Dinwiddie would have just taken Hardy's minutes, and I don't think he is better than hardy at this point.
Kuzma would have gotten us wins, but we needed PJ's defense. And Kuzma can be a real black hole on offense when the shots aren't falling (not dissimilar from THJ).
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