your have every right to be here.. but if you really believe the crap you have been typing then I feel sorry for your kool-aid drinking ass
As a closet Hawks fan i'm very relieved to see they did the painfully obvious right move and matched the offer from Memphis. Conley/Mayo/Gay/Smith/Gasol would have been a fun (yet terrible initially) line up to see, though. So much upside it's not even funny.
MEMPHISX i like your posts, you are a great member of this board. definitely, please, don't GTFO. this board is better with you. but you are so wrong, and quite frankly making yourself look like a jackass. ignorant memphis hate IS NOT remedied by your half-assed, 'strictly-out-of-spite' tmac/yao bashing. just let the fools go, you are better than that. don't sink to that level. maybe you are just mad because we owned in the battier trade...
I love MemphisX! Who else has the cajones to rep *that* team *this* year to *anybody?!* I mean, you have a team who dumped Pau Gasol and Mike Miller for cap space they will never use and players who are completely redundant. Nice roster, by the way. Why have one undersized point guard who can't shoot when you can have two? And, sure, let's get *more* wing players and "power" forwards who don't play defense! Oh, I forgot...Mark Gasol and Marko Jaric are going to lead the "rebuilding" effort. Your owner basically made a token offer to Josh Smith just so it can appear that he's not the cheapest, most useless owner in the league. Here's MemphisX rolling in here to talk up some kind of mythical rebuilding plan knowing Chris Wallace is in charge. Good luck with that. Your team won't even be in Memphis in five years. Enjoy 60 losses. Again.
Yeah, seriously. If your plan is to go toe-to-toe with A_3PO you better bring your "A-game". MemphisX is a good poster that I can empathize with as a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. It's hard to harness all that passion and devotion into a team that makes a minimum effort to be competitive. Losing is a tough pill for any fan to swallow. Try 16 years of it.
If anyone has reasonable counter-arguments to what Memphis X or anyone else is saying put them on the board,and stop swearing.
Hamadi won't be able to see her like that in Iran ! She would have to cover herself from head to toe. HeadScarf is a must in Iran.
Agree fully. Memphisx wasn't the poster that put this thread in the gutter, though he didn't have to take the bait I suppose. And consider they got Posey and we didn't match, and they got Rudy Gay for an excellent but still roll player, one cannot say they havn't done well with us/our players. I havn't liked what Memphis has done as an organization the last 6 months or so (Gasol trade, draft trade), but it is a matter of opinion whether they are in a decent direction for the long term. That should be no offense to Rocket fans (again he wasn't the one who started the gutter tripe). And finally, yes I don't think Memphis made really any kind of aggressive play for Smith. I even think it may have bern gentelmens agreement among both sides (discussed reasons before). Overall it was a nobrainer contract to match. But if there is any confused org who might not have--Atl is it--that could have been the other thing Memphis was trying. But clearly a non-aggressive play based on lesser players/prospects getting more $ this year.
this might be a stupid question but im still curious. So what if josh smith didnt like the offer memphis made ? can he or his agent say thats too low and we dont want hawks to match that, we want more money? Im not sure how an offer sheet works or if the other team talks to the agent first then offers or what? thanks
I'm sure he was. If he really wanted to get out of Atlanta, he could have just played for them one more year. But he made the safe play and took the sure money.
Correct, but it came down to the only two teams that could sign him for any money at all and the Grizzlies offered Smith $13MM more than the Hawks did. He had no choice but to sign the offer sheet because it force the Hawks to at least pay $58MM instead of the $45MM they had on the table. Smith could have taken the qualifying offer from the Hawks and been unrestricted next summer but he took the "bird in the hand" instead.
