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  1. abeer3

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    flagg's a superstar. love his game. only a crazy franchise would trade someone like tha...

    anyway, why suggs? big two-way ballhandling guard. he's shot 40% from three for a full season, and i think he can get back to that playing off reaves and luka and lebron. elite POA defender that can take whatever the toughest assignment is on the other side. even if he doesn't recover his shot, then you basically have two marcus smarts on the roster. i think of him as similar to jrue holiday (could argue he's maybe a little better at the same age). only concern is injuries (holiday also had this issue at the same age, interestingly).

    does he help against okc? i mean, not without luka. but with him, now you've got two bulldogs to throw at sga (and jwill if he's available) instead of one.
     
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    Maybe..he's just been terrible from the field in both of his playoffs appearances.
     
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    yeah, it's a risk. i consider it a buy-low opportunity for a player at a level that you can't easily acquire otherwise.

    compare the beginning of his career to derrick white's (keep in mind he's basically the same age white was as a rookie, too).
     
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    I look at San Antonio and there’s no way around it. If you took me back to 1995 we would be the Phoenix suns or Utah Jazz or Seattle Sonics.

    Star player but we can’t beat the snake Orlando Magic Shaq Penny the bulls Jordan The Rockets Hakeem

    We don’t have the Jordan Shai or the Pippen Williams or Wemby the Shaq we have Luka who’s John Stockton Charles Barkley

    an MVP talent with a nice supporting cast. And a hall of famer on his way out the door. You can call LeBron Malone at this point.

    But how you beating Shaq Wemby????? You gotta hope you get a shot to Bring Wemby to L.A. maybe politics comes into it and he wants to get out of Texas or his parents want him in L.A. I don’t know. But I don’t see no one beating that team.

    We gotta make sure our star player can stay on the court. That is a concern to me. And he’s had quite a few injuries. But hopefully he can be available for us.

    We’ve been snake bitin AD with his groin in a championship window. And now this hamstring. I guess it’s a league thing.

    What I’d like to see is Luka take this team over and put them on his back in the playoffs.

    For this team to win anything we are going to have to have Luka playing at a high level simple as that.

    we can have all the Jalen Suggs in the world. But Luka has to be available.

    Wemby is Ohtani. The unicorn. The Dodgers got Ohtani and won two World Series. The Lakers get Wemby they’ll win 2 championships simple as that.
     

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