TRKO wrote:Man LeBron gets away with murder on offense. Makes me want to get a banger down low. But with our luck they will call offensive fouls.
Wonder how much Tristian Thompson would cost? Too bad he wasn't in the Love trade.
Some on this board actually wanted Anthony Bennett over Tristan Thompson... I won't throw out names, but uhh... Yeah.
Ouch. Thompson would have solved the PF issue and we would still have the Payne pick. Ok I'll stop.
Eh, I bet he gets close to the max, and even though Bennett had been a bust I would rather have him knowing that he is a bust than over paying for a average at best nba starting pf
Very good point, kek. I like TT's game and think he has been very helpful in the Bulls and Hawks series, but he's offensively challenged. The guy only scored 2 points in 47 minutes last night!
Well when your offense is either ISO LeBron or ISO Irving then the other guys won't be scoring much. TT did a great job in other aspects.
But would TT other aspects like offensive rebounding be as valuable if his defender was not as focused on LBJ or Irving allowing TT to get great offensive rebounding position. That is why I would rather have Bennett, instead of paying TT close to max money for an average at best starting PF
I'm a little skeptical of TT's defense night in and out against PFs but aside from that part of me thinks if he gets a max deal or close its a joke and not to take away from him he is playing really well but he isn't a scorer. On the flip side let's say he gets a million or so maybe even 2 million a year less than the max this offseason. In one year when the cap goes up it may be like paying him around 10 million a year or something in today's dollars. That might still be overpaying a bit but if he can play good D and rebound the hell out of the ball especially on the offensive boards it might not be a bad deal. I'd imagine if we had gotten him in the trade we would be worried about overpaying because it's obvious he would have played a ton for the wolves and would have likely rebounded the hell out of the ball all season and probably scored in double digits. After seeing the bigs for the Wolves last year I would love to have that problem. Lol
Meanwhile can anyone recommend a good life coach for AB? Rubio said he just needs confidence.
Don't quote me on this but I believe he turned down 12 mil a year in the offseason
I would venture to guess the Cavs would have rather had Love's 17 ppg's last night over TT's 6 offensive boards and 2 points. They could have posted up Draymond with Love. That would have been a huge problem for the Warriors had the Cavs actually tried to take advantage of that mismatch.
That's a tough luck for Kyrie. The Cavs and their fans. At least now the team knows what they are up against. Even more now I let Lebron get his and make the other guys beat you.
Its such a bummer that kyrie got hurt and will miss the rest of the finals. I never like seeing players get hurt and the finals would have been much better if both kyrie and love can play. These are two quality players and you always want to see the best going up vs the best. I have the warriors winning the series even with a healthy kyrie and love and now they will win it without those two. Would have been sweeter if they beat a healthy cavs team for the title.
These games are just going to be terrible to watch if Cleveland is going to be allowed to muck it up this much. GS is shooting poorly this game, but this is a garbage game to watch with a lot of contact not being called.
