Just watch when both the Cavs and OKC get stomped by the Warriors in the playoffs and then Morey pitches to them: only way you're getting passed the Warriors is teaming up together with Harden. It's all part of the plan.
Money well spent. Every team on that list was a contender for the championship last season. All those teams are still in contention in 2016, except for the Rockets. Interesting.
Here's what I've learned. The only reason to watch the NBA in the second half is to root for the Pistons to lose and for OKC to be a first round exit.
It's time to tank ala SA Spurs for Duncan. Shut Howard and Harden down with strained whatever. Run the RGV team out there and lose every game. That should net a top 5 pick and if the balls bounce right hello Simmons or Ingram. Add one of those guys to Howard, Harden and Durant/Conley/Horford and maybe you get close to the Warriors talent wise. How pragmatic are Morey and Les?
Morey has been drafting since 2007, can you provide a list of the players that the Spurs have drafted during that same period and kept beyond their rookie contract? BTW the Spurs didn't draft Leonard.
Meh, for all intents and purposes they traded George hill for the pick and drafted Leonard. "sometime around the no. 11 pick, they decided it was time to just get on the phone. The Spurs had already agreed to send George Hill to the Pacers for Indiana’s no. 15 pick, but only if a particular player or players were still on the board. Both teams were worried the deal would not happen by the time Utah was on the clock at no. 12. The Pacers didn’t even know which player the Spurs wanted, Morway says." http://grantland.com/features/analyzing-kawhi-leonard-george-hill-trade-2013-conference-finals/
So when he said "see the difference", he meant 1 player ? Yeah, huge difference. Very compelling argument.
And yet the Raptors are dumber? Could it be DMO actually have some value and he was the only piece that we were able to trade to get something back. We also learned TJones has no trade value. Sigh. We learned too much.
That saying "never change, bro" to DaDakota is like doing a seminar for a zoo panda on the virtues of bamboo and celibacy. Some stuff just be redundant.
So are we going to stay "flexible" until Harden leaves us in free agency? We're wasting his prime with each season we do this.
Probably have learned that there is a probability of 90% that Morey won't do what majority of posters or analysts say they will do. Morey's hit or miss strategy has been on a decline lately. He looks like Dork Elvis.
