After seeing all the scouting reports I thought it was bs how all the scouts thought he would be the best pg since magic. The guy can't shoot to save his life.
They're not young and inexperienced, Pek and Brewer are 27 with several years of professional basketball, Love and Rubio maybe, but Rubio can't shoot and Love played like Larry Bird. Meanwhile the 30 year old Kevin Martin choked it away. Everyone on their starting lineup besides Rubio is more experienced than everyone in our top 7 players except Dwight.
The fans have been clouded by his puppy eyes and pretty passes. They want to give him 12M per. Dafuq?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Kevin Love: 1st with at least 45 points, 19 rebounds, 6 assists in game since Hakeem Olajuwon (46/19/8) for 1996 Rockets vs Timberwolves</p>— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/statuses/414992379171467266">December 23, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
So is many other coaches in the NBA or available. You're actually bagging him too. At least you're saying he is mediocre, which is grounds for an upgrade given we are building a contender and his guaranteed portion of contract is up at season-end.
I hate those random, meaningless stats posted by both ESPNStats / NBAStats. Example - Lebron James is the first player since in NBA history to score at least 28 points, 12 assists, while shooting more than 10 free throws, playing at least 39 minutes and 25 seconds, and drinking at least 3 gatorade bottles! Terrible example, but you get the point.
Yes, your example is pretty terrible. Overall, we could be OK with something like 45/15/5+. At least those numbers make some sense.
you know what, if they threw in brewer just to fill our wing defense gap (since parsons would obviously become their starting sf), i'd do it, but at the same time it would feel like bidding against ourselves
This is so funny that you would even hesitate for a millisecond about Parsons ifit meant getting Love. I guess we fans get too attached, or is it because parsons is such a heartthob? #teenbeat
You know we'd have to give up Howard or Harden, right? Parsons as the centerpiece of the deal wouldn't be enough.
two reasons : because we have less than nothing backing him up right now, and that leads us to 2015 where we could sign Love while keeping Parsons. Would it make us a better team this year? I don't know, but considering that when Parsons was out, Harden had to defend the opponents best wing, yeah that's not winning you anything (hence Brewer, god awful 3 point shooter but can defend and break). The drop off from Parsons to x is so big that even the trade off might make us a worse team this year, yeah we can fill that gap next year, but from 2015 onwards we're not a better team than we could have been (also we'd probably get picked dry of draft picks to make this deal).
Wait, you can sign Harden, Howard, and Love to max contracts and still keep Parsons? Is Parsons playing for the vet min or something? How does this work?
no vet min, rookie minimum, his cap hold in 2015 will be all of about $1.7m (and change), after signing say Love, we can then Bird rights extend him to whatever, Bev too, that's only another 1.2m cap hold (but he's probably only worth about 2-3 anyway)
