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Because you can't be obvious about it. Plus Towns has a nice personality but Simmons has that marketable quality to him...Why didn't the NBA go all 1985 and give the Lakers the top pick last year? You know, to keep Towns out of Minnesota? I don't buy that crap even a little.
nodding. You need a "creative" point guard when your SGs and SFs are all bums.Ish is more than just "more creative" than McConnell.
nodding. You need a "creative" point guard when your SGs and SFs are all bums.
okafor makes the effort defensively. i think he's learned enough to be embarrassed by his father and the boston incidents by now. but he's still too slow to ever be above average defensively at a position where defense is more important than offense. look at how long it takes him to get off the floor a second time compared to towns (who actually plays basketball beyond a handful of possessions wherein he was asked to stop the and1 mixtape center 1 on 1; there are people who legitimately seem to struggle with this)
i thought hinkie offered smith the kind of insulting, player-unfriendly multi-year contract he's known for last offseason. pelicans gave him one year
if they get simmons (they won't but for example), then right away smith is pretty much useless, and right away you don't need much more than a homeless leper's chauncey billups as a starter to stay in front & walk the ball up & make open 3s and then a cheap-ass backup like mcconnell behind, because of how good simmons is with the ball in his hands
smith serves his purpose now, even though i wouldn't have traded actual second picks (rather than the ludicrously protected & essentially made-up second round picks hinkie gives up) to fulfill that purpose. getting rid of okafor would be better than the best of all possible ish smith worlds for noel
JG, you have more insight on old man Okafor? What's that guy's deal? I've noticed the cameras haven't shown him in stands over last month.
Ultimately, I think some team is going to fall in love with his offensive skills and offer something sweet. Just my gut.
Noel is soooooo much better at center. Even when Okafor's out there he looks as good as he did over last 40 games last year.
If Lakers said, ok we've changed our minds, we'll give you Russell for Okafor, would you?
I'll offer Okafor to Minn for Lavine, Dieng, and their first this year.
Don't you just hate it when "they" don't fall in line?chukky okafor was wearing a t shirt emblazoned with a cartoon image of his son palming a basketball in a duke uniform every time the broadcast showed him in the stands last year, and he was usually acting like a kid. his twitter handle is still "daddyofapro" as far as i know. he talks shit every time he gives an interview and was heckling brown at the staples center like a little league parent. piece of dogshit
i never liked russell all that much, but that was compared to porzingis. i like him a hell of a lot better than dunn or murray
how dieng lasted so long in a draft that saw sleep apnea and cody zeller went in the top 3 is beyond me
4 2nd rounders?
I'd say 7 quarters tops.Dumber
Collectively, you have probably watched a total of 3 Sixers games this year.
I'd say 7 quarters tops.
Serious question: Why would anyone watch the Sixers? The guys currently on the team won't even be here when they become relevant again. And watching Okafor just pisses me off.
Because he sucks and each time I see him play it re-enforces how much I didn't want the Sixers to draft him.
Anyone but Okafor. With the benefit of hindsight, Porzingis is the obvious pick. Thing is, the Sixers didn't even want Okafor. I still don't understand why they took him.
Sucks is way overboard. He doesn't defend but we knew that. The guy is still a very good offensive player.Because he sucks and each time I see him play it re-enforces how much I didn't want the Sixers to draft him.
Thing is Hinkie had done a really good job up to that point with drafting, identifying talent. I don't understand how they blew this pick this badly. If he saw Porzingis play how did they miss him? The guy's game jumps out at you.
CW, the guy stinks. He gets 20 and gives up 25. Empty numbers.
Sixers damn near knocked off Golden State with a huge 4th qtr. Harrison Barnes with a buzzer beating 3 to win it.
All I see in three years of drafting is one above-average defender?Thing is Hinkie had done a really good job up to that point with drafting, identifying talent.
Are any of them better than Vucevic?All I see in three years of drafting is one above-average defender?