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[Saint Cy of JFC]

DeAngelo Russell playing like garbage

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He's capable of having a good series but when a team exposes him he gets exposed hard.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Is this Bob Meyers on the broadcast? He's awful....but I just know the twitter nerds who see themselves in him are going to eat this up. Can they go 5 minutes without talking about how amazing he is?

He called Reeves a tough defender and I laughed

 

[KqWIN]

He called Reeves a tough defender and I laughed

He's saying a mix of the most moronic **** and most obvious ****. Either way, the other guy is just glazing and saying "wow you really know what it's like to negotiate". I can't believe how bad this is lol.

 

[MTS]

Tony Jones said the Jazz wanted to deal with the Lakers straight up in the Conley trade instead of bringing in Minnesota.

Can't help but feel like having Conley instead of D'lo would've been a much better outcome for the Lakers too.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Man, the Wolves are idiots. Taking a 3-time DPOY and surrounding him with dudes who can play defense instead of just a bunch of shooters. Who does that?

Dumbest trade ever!

We gave him away for a bunch of role players who aren’t even on the roster anymore and a handful of bad picks. Should’ve kept Rudy and traded away Mitchell. Conley, Lauri, and Gobert would’ve been an interesting team.

 

[KqWIN]

It’s the west… they are a playoff quality team… just like the Warriors. I’m not sure what you are arguing about. I never said they are or will be contenders… but there was always going to be a ceiling to this. Talent is part of the issue… the other issues include cap, no additional draft assets, and limitations on the all star players they have. Add Jaden McDaniels or someone like that and they are better but still not a final four team in the west. I never said they needed to worry about the next 2-3 steps or whatever… simply stated this is basically what they were signing up for… and it’s better than their recent history. Ponying up the assets for pascal makes them better but they wouldn’t get the best version of Siakham or Sabonis… so ya just plug along with Barnes Heurter for now and hope Keegan levels up… or maybe you hit a home run in the draft. If they landed Chet they might be able to break through and become a conference finals team… maybe Isaac if they could get him and keep him healthy.

For me, I was never talking about being a contender. I was also very clear about what I was talking about voicing it several times. You are the one who kept bringing up building a contender. It was never about that for me, it was about what led to their season disappointment. Not being a playoff team is why it's a disappointment. Sabonis is a non issue when you're talking about trying to make the playoffs. If you're talking about winning a championship and thinking about the highest of highs, that's maybe a different conversation. But, if your talent level is not up to par to make the playoffs....I would also that is also the main problem as to why you're not a contender.

 

[Deleted member 365]

McDaniels is listed at 6 foot 9 and 195 pounds

Hendricks is listed at 6 foot 9 and 215 pounds

Nice

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It’s pretty incredible how good they are on defense with Rudy and those other long defenders. There were so many times I kept waiting for Rudy to have to bail guys out and instead mcdaniels or Ant put up incredible resistance and got a steal or deflection. I really wonder what might’ve been had we drafted mcdaniels.

 

[fishonjazz]

Dumbest trade ever!

We gave him away for a bunch of role players who aren’t even on the roster anymore and a handful of bad picks. Should’ve kept Rudy and traded away Mitchell. Conley, Lauri, and Gobert would’ve been an interesting team.

And Sexton

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[KqWIN]

It’s pretty incredible how good they are on defense with Rudy and those other long defenders. There were so many times I kept waiting for Rudy to have to bail guys out and instead mcdaniels or Ant put up incredible resistance and got a steal or deflection. I really wonder what might’ve been had we drafted mcdaniels.

To think that our primary playoffs perimeter defender was Bogey….insane.

Also, the amount of people who bickered with me over the idea of trading for Josh Hart. Complete insanity.

 

[Deleted member 365]

To think that our primary playoffs perimeter defender was Bogey….insane.

Also, the amount of people who bickered with me over the idea of trading for Josh Hart. Complete insanity.

LOL wow! Forgot about that. We really ****ed up

Also, why did we give NAW away again? Was he thrown into the deal with Gobert? It’s pretty crazy to me that 3 of Minny’s contributors were on our team. 2 of them are starters for a top WC team spanking the Phx all stars. NAW and Rudy were looked great today. I also see that Royce had double figures for Phx.

What do we have to show for it?

These next few drafts better yield a franchise player or two or we could be in some real trouble.

I’m really pulling for Minny. I’ve adopted them as my team this year. I’d just love for Rudy and Mike to finally win it. Well deserved for both of those studs.

 

[KqWIN]

LOL wow! Forgot about that. We really ****ed up

Also, why did we give NAW away again? Was he thrown into the deal with Gobert? It’s pretty crazy to me that 3 of Minny’s contributors were on our team. 2 of them are starters for a top WC team spanking the Phx all stars. NAW and Rudy were looked great today. I also see that Royce had double figures for Phx.

What do we have to show for it?

These next few drafts better yield a franchise player or two or we could be in some real trouble.

I’m really pulling for Minny. I’ve adopted them as my team this year. I’d just love for Rudy and Mike to finally win it. Well deserved for both of those studs.

We did a lot of strange **** at the end of the Don/Rudy days. You mentioned McDaniels. Hindsight is 20/20, but I think 100% of this forum and fans in general wanted Jaden or Bane. Nobody wanted another C after we had committed so much to that position.

I also don’t want to let it go that people really thought Rudy Gay, in place of Rudy Gobert at the 5, was going to be our saving grace. Old *** Rudy Gay with those traffic cones. What a joke. That concluded our run of MLE signings that went Ed Davis - Favors - Gay. What a pathetic run of signings lol.

People will have different opinions on Don and Rudy, but there’s no mistaking the fact that as a franchise we just totally boofed it.

 

[UpArrow]

People will have different opinions on Don and Rudy, but there’s no mistaking the fact that as a franchise we just totally boofed it.

In the draft absolutely. It's even fair to guess that if we'd drafted Bane the Don/Rudy window would have been extended another two or three years.
As to FA's it's not like we get to bring in the cream of the crop from the FA market so Rudy Gay it was.
Going back as far as Antoin Carr, Eric Leckner etc etc we most often sign guys clinging to hope that their earning days aren't over.