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i don't think he's plan A at all--luka wants a lob threat, and we need mobility on the back line to play how jj wants. i think rob was bracing everyone for the possibility we can't land that, though. or maybe posturing a bit for negotiations.

 

looking back, It really strange that they Lakers didn't move to get Sharpe in the DFS trade as well.
That would have been killing two birds with one stone and Sharpe isn't that tall and springy lob threat, but the dude is physical and will go up strong. He's basically a super charged Jemison. his advanced metrics all check out

 

The night we got eliminated - my gawd, I was thinking this team was good enough to make it into June, and they didn't even hit May! - I'ze a predictably despondent Laker fan.

Three days later, and I find Lebron suffered a Grade 2 MCL strain (4-5 weeks) and AR wouldn't even walk on days off, so painful was his sprained big toe.

I'm not glad they're injured, but from the goofy area of Fan's Logic, I feel a lot better: even if we win Game 1, and somehow knock out MIN in the 1s round, Lebron wouldn't have been able to play the next round or two or three. And AR would've been aggravating an already stifling injury, given his type of game.

So: oddly, even idiotically, I'm a lot better today about us getting whacked early. Go figure.

Rabid sports fandom seems irrational to me on just about every level. And yet: here I am. Here we are. All I have to say is that: a lot of the best spices of life aren't "rational." Music as some sort of evolutionary stable strategy seems dubious at best. But where would we be without it?

Let us pick our irrationalities wisely though.

 

I’m out on Lopez- I want guys much closer to Luka’s age, or can at least rebound the ball- like Aquaman.

 

GSW and Houston will play game 7 at Houston ,another traditional center Adams helped today and Kerr could lose series after being 3-1 for second time

 

If you look at and watch the first clip Weezy put up: it's the GSW broadcaster Bob Fitzgerald, the most homer announcer in the universe: somehow, if the refs just saw that little maybe foul on Van Vleet, then the Draymond thing would mean nothing. They think Draymond is perfectly clean. Maybe misunderstood.

It's just one of the reasons why - I live in the Bay Area - I can't stand the effing Warriors: their fans (a lot of them) think this POS is "great".

Fitzgerald and Azubuike as the most homerish announcers. Just nauseating. I've told friends who are longtime GSW fans that I'd not hate their team quite as much if they just fired this a-hole and re-hire an actual adult.

 

you’re losing money?

 

From the above mentioned Buha/Amick piece

 

If we end up with BroLo, im gonna puke.

 

I'd be ok with Lopez as a consolation prize if we can't get Adams, but that's as the backup/pitch change.

Target for starting role: Claxton
Plan B: Capela

Target for backup: Adams
Plan B: Lopez

But you have to have one of those two (or similar skill set) from each group.


This is your mission Etha... Rob

 

At this stage of his career it would need to be Lopez + another viable guy. Also, the way Adams is playing in this Warriors series there is no way he’s available for the TPMLE.

 

With his recent play, he priced himself out of our reach. I always liked him too

 

i've been interested in claxton, but i'm starting to see it like turner--why would his team trade him for what we have to offer? seems like they'd want reaves and more, and i'm not even sure they do that. they have a ton of money to spend in FA, and i just feel like you'd have to make them a godfather offer that we don't even have the assets to make.

i think capela is very realistic, though. question is whether you can get him down to the tpmle. not sure there will be a huge market for him, nor if there will be teams that could offer him a starting role on a playoff team. i feel like if we prioritized him, we could maybe make it happen. we'd then have all of our other assets to try and get a POA defender and maybe another useful piece.

 

37 year old brook lopez is not the answer

 

it's not; which is why it was troubling to see that name and hear rob mention him without using his name.

i feel like they're somewhat pessimistic about getting a really good player in that role, just based on what's being put out there, right now.

this makes sense, of course, as they were supposedly hunting for a center for all of last year.

 

I think a Sharpe/Kornet pool at C would be good enough instead of going for a big fish whose just not that good and costs a lot. Get you depth and matchup flexibility

Feel like Lopez is like a Len signing appeasing fans rather than try to get a less known player who can play even in specific scenarios