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Lol how is IT, Butler, George stats black hole on their teams, they all led their teams to success being the number option on their teams, something Kyrie never did. Never been to the playoffs withou Lebron, last IIRC correctly the cavs record without Lebron was like 4-13.
I already told you that i like Kyrie, but we can only judge him from what we've seen till now, he may be the best one on one player in the NBA, but to be a franchise player he needs to make players around him better, play defense and play winning basketball.
And you cant be serious saying that Kyrie can be very good at defense, he's a blackhole on defense, only thing you can hope for is for him to be average and not net negative on that side of the ball.
I know that the Celts traded for Kyrie hoping that he will turn out to the player he can be, only things i said that Butler and George are much better players right now because they are elite defensively and very good on O. Second thing is that they overpayed, that Nets picks could get you a very good player at the trade deadline ( Cousins ? ) or a star in next year draft seeing is top heavy.
And the most important thing is that the Cavs had no other offers, if the Celts waited a little bit they could had him at a much better price than this, The Cavs didn't want Kyrie at the camp start so they would've traded him anyway before the season.
I already told you that i like Kyrie, but we can only judge him from what we've seen till now, he may be the best one on one player in the NBA, but to be a franchise player he needs to make players around him better, play defense and play winning basketball.
And you cant be serious saying that Kyrie can be very good at defense, he's a blackhole on defense, only thing you can hope for is for him to be average and not net negative on that side of the ball.
I know that the Celts traded for Kyrie hoping that he will turn out to the player he can be, only things i said that Butler and George are much better players right now because they are elite defensively and very good on O. Second thing is that they overpayed, that Nets picks could get you a very good player at the trade deadline ( Cousins ? ) or a star in next year draft seeing is top heavy.
And the most important thing is that the Cavs had no other offers, if the Celts waited a little bit they could had him at a much better price than this, The Cavs didn't want Kyrie at the camp start so they would've traded him anyway before the season.
I would be doing that above if I was Russ right now
Imagine playing with Melo suddenly instead of fucking Enes Kanter 
Even if its harder with the no trade clause that Melo gets to keep in the deal, I would be FUMING if I was NY fan (Dolan needs to hide), if I give up an elite scorer, regardless of the black hole drama, for fucking Enes Kanter, McDermott and 2018 2nd round pick lol, its litterally better to fish in free agent then this...
RW finally has someone that can score the damn ball, will be interesting to follow if they can find the chemistry and function together for sure. Another thing I'm interested in, who's gonna play out of position? PG at the two or Melo at the 4? I'd go with the 2nd as I'd keep PG on the perimeter for defense and because the other 2 starters should probably be Robertson and Adams
Melo is quite strong, and tall enough to be a 4, also he can switch on smaller players on pnrs. Only problem will be guarding tall players like Davis, Porzingis etc but that goes both ways - how will they guard him? And Robertson-George will probably be the strongest perimeter pair in the league defensively
in his defense, he did play on a bad team last few years and if you add the Phil Jackson incidents on that, you can somewhat justify him playing the way he did. but if he has his mind set onto fitting into the team with RW and PG, and going for a championship with the Thunder (i assume it was his choice to join them), i think you will see a different Melo than you did the last couple of years. i simply dont see him going to a team looking to trouble the Warriors to jack up tough shot after tough shot, neither would he be allowed to do that. so his motive must be clear, go for the championship and do everything thats needed to be done to give his team the best possible shot
oh I agree, I've been following Porzingis a lot and he basically said that NY Knicks have no attack plan whatsoever, they just take turns on making solo efforts, that's one fucked up team with basically two coaches and no plan.
my problem with Melo is that his ego can't stomach the fact that he might be having an off night, even if he's cold and Porzingis, Rose or whoever are on fire, he'll still try to be the savior in attack. maybe he will be able to live with the fact that RW or PG are now the first and second violin, but I somehow doubt that
talking about Knicks, Noah with 18m per season must be the most expensive third center in the league, surely they'll try to trade Kanter further, otherwise it makes little sense
my problem with Melo is that his ego can't stomach the fact that he might be having an off night, even if he's cold and Porzingis, Rose or whoever are on fire, he'll still try to be the savior in attack. maybe he will be able to live with the fact that RW or PG are now the first and second violin, but I somehow doubt that
talking about Knicks, Noah with 18m per season must be the most expensive third center in the league, surely they'll try to trade Kanter further, otherwise it makes little sense
impressive
@King of Kings, did you see Wolves v Lakers pre season opener? Just watching 2nd half of it right now.
Did not know you signed Bogut, dope pickup if he stays healthy. Missed us getting Aaron Brooks too.
So far of all the new players im liking Teague the most, he makes such a difference over Rubio, he is so smooth attacking the lanes at will.
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Did not know you signed Bogut, dope pickup if he stays healthy. Missed us getting Aaron Brooks too.
So far of all the new players im liking Teague the most, he makes such a difference over Rubio, he is so smooth attacking the lanes at will.
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