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  1. showtime24

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    He's another defensive/non-shooting 4 like Vando.
     
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    I’d waive Maxi in a heartbeat. DK is still on the books for another year.
     
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    no. the spurs tried pretty hard to make him useful. popovich even spent the better part of a year trying to turn him into a pg. he's had way more opportunities than bufkin during a similar period of time.

    that said, i thought about him as a buy-low project this summer. but as sk said, we already have vando. you can't have two vandos. you can barely have one (and i'm a vando fan).
     
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    We could have two Vandos..if we had a coach that knew what he was doing. That's the guy that Vando had his little post game face mush with tho, I wonder what that was about?
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    On another note, I'm really surprised that Stewart only got suspended for 7 games, for leaving the bench and throwing punches, he's an officially stamped bad boy now. Lol...after LT made all that fuss, about how Lebron smacked this good kid, and should have paid his fine! FOH ...Isiah is a certified goon. We could use him too tho!

    :LLLLLebronlaughing:
     
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    TBH..I think JJ would have given Cam some run if he was still here. The league is changing a bit, we could use a couple of long 6'7- 6'9 guys that can get out there, and get a little handsy, and physical on the perimeter, that can get under guys skin. You hope they could hit a shot or two, along the way to go with the rough stuff. I think Luka and Austin are going to need a couple, of Bully type perimeter mates after Lebron, Smart is a bit too small, but he's potentially a good guy, for the grooming of these type of guys. Thiero has some potential in this regard, and I'll go against the grain here as usual, and say that I'd trade Rui for Dort, he's a bit short like Marcus, but he's still in his physical prime.
     

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