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    yellow
    • Sep 2002
    • 66469

    #2011
    Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

    Originally posted by CMH
    Ha so the Warriors are supposed to just let everyone else catch up? People make no sense.

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    Yes

    The Nba is not fun anymore

    Now you already know the outcome

    The warriors took that away from us

    We should boycott

    In fact I'm not watching next season




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    • jfsolo
      Live Action, please?
      • May 2003
      • 12965

      #2012
      Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

      I know that a lot of people feel like the non elite teams should have taken a chance on Cousins, but many teams, even if it keeps them mired in mediocrity or worse, simply aren't going to take a chance on players who are both injured and have been divisive forces in organizations. They'd rather piss off(not on purpose) their fan bases by overpaying for lesser talents who are model citizens.
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      Do this today: Instead of $%*#!@& on a game you're not going to play or movie you're not going to watch, say something good about a piece of media you're excited about.

      Do the same thing tomorrow. And the next. Now do it forever.

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        yellow
        • Sep 2002
        • 66469

        #2013
        Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

        As someone was alluding to earlier, we need to be careful about asking about changing the CBA off of an irrational moment.

        Lest we forget how the owners were charging high prices for tickets and claiming bankruptcy every summer afterward.

        They lowball players whenever they feel like it play their fanbase telling them to be patient knowing good and well they're never going to really take chances to be winners.

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        • cam21224
          MVP
          • Jun 2008
          • 2033

          #2014
          Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

          Originally posted by J_Posse

          LOL @ the Fakers finally valuing their own assets.

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          Why should we make a SPUR of the moment decision when we can keep our pieces and wait until next off season 🤷🏾*♂️

          Anywho my sauces are telling me this is a infiltration mission by Boogie set up by my new homie Bron, it's just a pit stop before coming to LA next year with another big name player and a couple playbooks. Y'all better keep that same energy next year [emoji41]



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          • King_B_Mack
            All Star
            • Jan 2009
            • 24450

            #2015
            Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

            Yeah talking about changing the CBA and calling for a hard cap is awful. A hard cap wouldn’t have stopped Boogie from taking a minimum salary.

            The NHL has a hard cap and it’s awful and nobody gives a **** about the NHL outside of hardcore hockey fans. You think people are pissed with the NBA cause of the Warriors let them put in a hard cap and watch as their team wins a championship and is forced to be broken up within the next year and a half of that title because of that garbage *** cap and see how much they like that **** then. Worse yet, when the Warriors still stack their team by everybody taking small deals to fit under the cap or flocking to States with no state taxes so they can recoup money they’d give up to play together. Hard cap is a nightmare scenario to me.


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              yellow
              • Sep 2002
              • 66469

              #2016
              Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

              Originally posted by King_B_Mack
              Yeah talking about changing the CBA and calling for a hard cap is awful. A hard cap wouldn’t have stopped Boogie from taking a minimum salary.

              The NHL has a hard cap and it’s awful and nobody gives a **** about the NHL outside of hardcore hockey fans. You think people are pissed with the NBA cause of the Warriors let them put in a hard cap and watch as their team wins a championship and is forced to be broken up within the next year and a half of that title because of that garbage *** cap and see how much they like that **** then. Worse yet, when the Warriors still stack their team by everybody taking small deals to fit under the cap or flocking to States with no state taxes so they can recoup money they’d give up to play together. Hard cap is a nightmare scenario to me.


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              In a way this happened to the Mavs and we saw how that ended up.

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              • z Revis
                Hall Of Fame
                • Oct 2008
                • 13639

                #2017
                Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                Just woke up.. still surreal they really got Cousins. Out there running an Olympics quality starting 5 lol. But we’ll see how he is after that injury, it may not matter as much.. but just to be safe ima need some team to pull some **** off to compete with that.


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                • NDAlum
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                  • Jun 2010
                  • 11453

                  #2018
                  Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                  If I ran a 2K league and the Warriors user tried to pull this he'd be looking for a new league lol

                  If some kid came on the 2K boards saying how he stacked his team like this I'd probably ridicule him

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                  • The 24th Letter
                    ERA
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 39373

                    #2019
                    Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                    Originally posted by CMH
                    Ha so the Warriors are supposed to just let everyone else catch up? People make no sense.

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                    Being proactive in looking for players that can help your team, regardless of the state your team is currently in? Sounds smart to me. Why would we ever have a problem with that?

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                    Last edited by The 24th Letter; 07-03-2018, 05:52 AM.

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                    • 3304Life
                      MVP
                      • Sep 2016
                      • 3002

                      #2020
                      Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                      I don’t think anybody can put any blame on the Warriors. At all. If they have a decision between signing guys like McGee, Noel or multiple time All Star and former franchise player DeMarcus Cousins. They’re gonna go with the obvious one. Not to mention it gives them a 5 who can stretch the floor. If Cousins plays this season, I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see him put up a points and rebounds double double with 6 or 7 assists for the season, giving him huge offers in the next off season.

                      I’m just not a fan of the decision from Boogie himself. I’d probably do the same just for the ring but staying in New Orleans just seemed like the thing to do. Is he expecting to go back next year and for their organization to be fine with what he did?

                      It could be a positive for NO anyway. I think they were much better when he got hurt and they relied more on Jrue and AD.


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                      • ProfessaPackMan
                        Bamma
                        • Mar 2008
                        • 63852

                        #2021
                        Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                        Fans need to have a talk with themselves about their expectations of Pro Athletes, especially NBA players.
                        #RespectTheCulture

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                        • Yeah...THAT Guy
                          Once in a Lifetime Memory
                          • Dec 2006
                          • 17294

                          #2022
                          Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                          Originally posted by JazzMan
                          I know we joked about this before. But why watch at this point? There's no possible way anyone is beating GSW in the Playoffs next year now if Boogie comes back even at 75% of what he was.
                          For the record, I can't remember if it's Pelton or 538, but someone wrote an article about the signing saying that past Achilles tears have resulted in players performing 8% worse than expected, so they're likely getting Cousins at 92% of his normal self AKA **** the NBA.

                          Originally posted by Boltman
                          He wants that ring, I'm not mad at him. Injured still, it doesn't matter. Smart move for both parties.

                          I guess no Duhwight to GSW now eh.
                          That's what the veteran minimum is for. Not sure if I'm joking or not.

                          Originally posted by JazzMan
                          Someone get Marc Spears off SC

                          Dude is saying Boogie had zero offers until this, and that Cousins himself is expecting to be healed and ready to go by training camp.

                          If all that is true..
                          I'm pretty sure this is the same timeline that Rudy Gay was on. Rudy tore his Achilles basically the same day as Cousins the year prior and he was cleared to play in like August or September.

                          Originally posted by Gilley
                          I don't understand how so many GMs in this league are so awful at their jobs.
                          The Bucks GM was literally a guy that they discovered boxing up packages at FedEx.

                          Originally posted by The 24th Letter
                          I'm sure DMC will confirm it here soon enough but I have a hard time believing it was NO offers....more like him not hearing what he wanted to hear and subsequently giving the league the finger.....which I dont blame him for...

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                          My guess is that nobody actually put papers in front of him, but I highly doubt Cousins took meetings with other teams and came away with no verbal offer at all. He might be right in saying nobody made a formal offer but I imagine at minimum, the Lakers and Celtics gave him a ballpark of what they could offer.

                          Originally posted by ojandpizza
                          So what exactly was the Lakers point in losing Randle for nothing again? To get Rondo? lol

                          These dudes better be making a run at AD next offseason.


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                          Yes, the Lakers couldn't sign Rondo for $9 mil without renouncing Randle. Renouncing Randle never had anything to do with Cousins.
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                          • Fresh Tendrils
                            Strike Hard and Fade Away
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 36131

                            #2023
                            Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                            Mike Scott signs a one-year deal with The Clippers.

                            Another good one Ernie.

                            Instead of fans getting pissy about the players making decisions for themselves maybe they should direct some of their ire to their team's GM.



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                            • Ragnar53
                              Pro
                              • Mar 2014
                              • 538

                              #2024
                              Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                              Originally posted by jfsolo
                              I know that a lot of people feel like the non elite teams should have taken a chance on Cousins, but many teams, even if it keeps them mired in mediocrity or worse, simply aren't going to take a chance on players who are both injured and have been divisive forces in organizations. They'd rather piss off(not on purpose) their fan bases by overpaying for lesser talents who are model citizens.

                              Are you talking about politically correct yes men?



                              Because I sincerely hope you aren't talking about off the court issues that have nothing to do with basketball. There's a reason he's still loved in Sacramento (oh he'll get booed NOW just off principle for going to the Warriors. But it won't be malicious) and it had everything to do with him being a model citizen, giving back to the community/charity work/visiting hospitals, and actually caring about his fans and Kings fans off the court.



                              Also, let's not act like this ain't the first time NBA franchises and locker rooms have dealt with abrasive and divisive personalities because the players in question were supremely talented.

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                              • Ragnar53
                                Pro
                                • Mar 2014
                                • 538

                                #2025
                                Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

                                Having said all that previously, I could understand why teams wouldn't want him. but then you end up with this situation and you have no one but yourselves to blame honestly.


                                This article sheds more light.





                                So yeah, Pelicans lowballed him. They weren't even willing to pay him Julius Randle money it's looking like. Hell, no one even wanted him at TREVOR ARIZA MONEY.



                                Bruh. they didn't even give him a counter offer, nothing.



                                Good on Cousins.

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