I never said I wouldn't trade him.
Unless you are a superstar or John Wall you can be traded.
As a fan it would suck to see him go because it is super satisfying to watch the players develop into stars.
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Unless you are a superstar or John Wall you can be traded.
As a fan it would suck to see him go because it is super satisfying to watch the players develop into stars.
With a healthy Gary Harris...........forever. Still mad that we traded both harris and Nurkic for McDermott
DeRozan shooting ten thousand midrangers, making his team worse when he's on the court, and inexplicably still making top-25 lists? Some things never change.
He's doubling down on the idea that Tatum is a future top 2 player in the league. Like, yeah, Tatum is really good, and has a chance to be really great, but the odds that he is ever as good as AD is now are pretty low, let alone better. Championship windows are always smaller than you think. I think if push comes to shove Danny has to make that trade. Bill talked up Tatum so much he can't evaluate that trade w/o bias.
Horford has at best 1-2 more years in this league as a starter. If I were the Pelicans, that would nix the trade right there.
It was a weird conversation because Simmons said he thinks Tatum would be an MVP candidate someday... but AD is right now. Like, I get being reluctant to part with a bunch of assets (plus Tatum) because you're stripping out any depth/flexibility. That's at least a conversation. But a nearly washed up Horford + Tatum would be too little (in my mind) for New Orleans. I'd want a pick, too.
Homer Bill is pretty annoying.
I think Tatum could be pretty good too but you will hear Bill make the dumbest excuses for his guys. I remember when Rondo would suck he would say he might just be too smart and that is why he is not shooting enough or fucking around on the court. When Tatum is taking bad shots its because he learned bad habits from Kobe or might just be too good and is trying to show everyone or some other bullshit.
It especially stupid to say you would not trade Horford. Dude is old as fuck and makes a ton of money. He was money for them the last 2 years but no good GM would pass up AD for Horford and Tatum. As you said you don't get a lot of chances to win it all and that team should be able to get to the finals.
Eventually you have to take your shot..
Curry and LeBron could play together because they are not sociopaths. But Kobe, MJ and Shaq would not be able to get along long term with Steph or even each other. You can't have that many alpha dogs in one house. I could see Shaq or someone else freezing Steph out if he was getting too many buckets or too much attention.
yeah probably but in terms of just basketball talent it would be wild. I also think the strategy for other teams would be to let shaq eat because you're ok with 2's over 3's and shaq at the line doesn't scare anybody.
You can win with 2s over 3s if you make a really high percentage of the 2s. With space and in his prime Shaq might be able to shoot 70% in the paint.
Though you are right about the FTs, which would hurt his efficiency but I think that is still worth it because he will make half of them and it kills the other teams offense and gets them all in foul trouble. Hack a Shaq would just kill the pace and might hurt the run and gun teams.
Shaq would put teams in major foul trouble and those 2's are near automatic if we're talking prime O'Neal.
yeah true. also we are talking about a team with 5 goats. you can't really pick a poison
If you had Kobe and MJ on one team they would conspire to murder all of the other stars on the team and then when it was only the two of them left they would fight to the death.
Poor Steph would be the first to go. The predators always go for the little guy first...
Assuming everyone is healthy and prime....Trust LeProcess
Yeah...they'd steamroll the entire League.
80-2 regular season record. Easily.
could you imagine that team...holy fuck.Trust LeProcess
Bill Simmons the voice piece of Ainge. How much is Bill getting paid to inflate Tatum's worth. 🤣
This piece might lead me to believe there might be some action going behind the scenes.
LOL.....good one.
Prime Kobe would demolish Durant, Lebron, Scottie. Only player to match up to him on AI's list would be MJ.
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While the offense has been meh, the Lakers had the second best defense in November and have been winning games on that end.
idk man, i'd take hakeem over shaq on that team. maybe replace kobe with reggie miller, shawn kemp, charles barkley, larry birb or detlef schremphf
this would be the most interesting psychological case study in all of sports. Like who between Kobe and MJ would end up being the top Alpha while the rest are mentally broken. And who would conspire with who to kick the other out. Survivor needs to bring this cast to an island somewhere.
Was it a "Top 5 movies you'll catch on TNT on a Sunday afternoon" list?
I'll ride with him in Casino and Devil in a Blue Dress tho
MJ wins that easily. And I am saying this as a MJ hater.
Everyone close to him either gets murdered, raped in the shower or gets a horrible case of AIDS.
Kobe will break you down mentally but he is killer on the court. Not a legit stab you in the eyes in your sleep killer like Jordan.
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