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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:01 pm    Post subject:

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MOTHER (bleep) THIS GUY
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:01 am    Post subject:

One potential positive to Muscala is we can use him to match salaries in a trade for AD.
The Pels lost Mirotic and Randle may not re-sign with them... so they might be wanting PFs rather than wanting a KCP.

Ex: Lonzo (8.3m) + Kuz (2m) + Hart (1.9m) + Muscala (9.5m) = $22,128,080.

Isn't that exactly what is needed to match salaries? AD's cap-hold for 2019-20 is 27,093,019.

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LA didn't have a 1st round pick from 2010 to 2013. But since the ....

Drafted, not paid : Russel, Randle, Nance, Zubac, Bryant
Drafted, paid but dealt in a salary dump: Clarkson
Drafted, not yet eligible to be paid: Ingram, Lonzo, Kuzma, Hart, Moe, Bonga

Drafted and Paid: None

I'm guessing there isn't another team in the NBA who hasn't extended or resigned at least one draft pick this decade. I'm not giving them credit for Jordan either because he was quickly salary dumped.

That's bleak.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:24 am    Post subject:

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A stretch 5 who is not a 5 and can't stretch the floor.

I'd rather have Spencer Hawes for South Bay.


Hahaha. Brilliant.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:32 am    Post subject:

This should be a (bleep) Muscala thread.

Useless POS trade
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:56 am    Post subject:

Has he made a three yet?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 4:55 am    Post subject:

Maybe this trade was for the tank
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:31 am    Post subject:

AFireInside619 wrote:
Has he made a three yet?
he has barely played. he was injured too.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:08 am    Post subject:

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Has he made a three yet?
he has barely played. he was injured too.


So no?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:15 am    Post subject:

AFireInside619 wrote:
splashmtn wrote:
AFireInside619 wrote:
Has he made a three yet?
he has barely played. he was injured too.


So no?


He did have a nice block a few games ago. That's about it.

If his NBA career does not pan out he has a promising career in construction because he sure knows how to lay some bricks!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:36 pm    Post subject:

(bleep) THIS MOTHER (bleep). IF HE MANAGES TO GET ANKTHER CONTRACT, ITS PROOF YOU JUST NEED TO BE TALL AND A PRACTICE SHOOTER TO MAKE THE NBA
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:43 pm    Post subject:

Amazing trade, what a great guy. Traded Zu for this guy to ride the bench and throw up bricks when he does get out there.

(bleep) THIS GUY.


MODS PLEASE CHANGE TITLE OF THREAD TO (bleep) MUSCALA
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 11:22 pm    Post subject:

4 minutes for this guy

4 minuteswe could have given to Moe Wagner
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 11:29 pm    Post subject:

Interesting hate for Muscala.

Muscala goes the route of every other big in the Luke Walton system. Misused and benched. Will we find out if Muscala is worth the money? Nope.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:08 am    Post subject:

LOS ANGELES — With each passing game, it’s become more clear: The Clippers’ trade-deadline acquisition of Ivica Zubac from the Los Angeles Lakers was a fleecing.

Zubac has quietly become one of the game’s better rim-protectors at just 22 years old. His 7-foot-1 frame and 7-foot-4 wingspan make him one of the biggest players in the league, and he’s figured out how to leverage that size in close quarters. He’s not a swat machine like, say, Joel Embiid or Rudy Gobert, but more of a positionally sound defender who will alter shots in the mold of Marc Gasol or Steven Adams.

Since Zubac’s debut as the Clippers’ starting center on Feb. 9 in Boston, the Clippers are 9-4 and have posted a 102.4 defensive rating in the 264 minutes he has been on the court, which is better than the Milwaukee Bucks’ league-best defensive rating by over 2.0 points per 100 possessions (104.6) and better than L.A.’s season-long defensive rating by over 7.0 points per 100 possessions (109.9, 19th-best in the NBA).

On the season, Zubac’s 102.2 defensive rating ranks 18th among all qualifying players (40-plus games and 15-plus minutes per game) and sixth among centers.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:09 am    Post subject:

https://theathletic.com/865595/2019/03/14/ivica-zubacs-rim-protection-has-transformed-the-clippers-defense/
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:10 am    Post subject:

https://theathletic.com/865595/2019/03/14/ivica-zubacs-rim-protection-has-transformed-the-clippers-defense/
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:27 am    Post subject:

UKUGA wrote:
https://theathletic.com/865595/2019/03/14/ivica-zubacs-rim-protection-has-transformed-the-clippers-defense/


The Athletic appears to be a pay to read articles trashing the Lakers website. I suppose there's plenty of audience for that.

Yeah I agree getting rid of Zubac for Muscala was a mistake. Someone around the Lakers got into the idea that the Lakers had to fix their team with "shooters".

Luke Walton utilizes centers so poorly that at least this year it wouldn't make much of a difference to have kept Zu. For those that think Brook Lopez would've fixed the Lakers spacing, Luke played Brook the fewest minutes in his career. Luke would still be running small ball with Zubac (and Lopez) on the bench.

Zubac was a nice young player that will probably now get a good contract offer this off-season. With the Lakers current obsession with cap space there was a very good chance he wouldn't have been retained by the Lakers even if they had not traded for him.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:27 am    Post subject:

That trade was simply indefensible..Rookie mistake by the front office.
In a nutshell it shows the stark difference between the Clips front office and Maginka.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:31 am    Post subject:

Could’ve just signed the corpse of Robert Sacre for the amount of crap this guy has provided.



Smart move whoever made this trade possible
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:15 am    Post subject:

daytripper wrote:
That trade was simply indefensible..Rookie mistake by the front office.
In a nutshell it shows the stark difference between the Clips front office and Maginka.


This! For me, this trade was the moment when I lost faith in Maginka. Brutal trade. Literally on every level. And as more leaks start coming out about the lack of strategy on the preseason moves of waiving Bryant, letting Jules and Brook walk, it only looks worse. This one stings.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 10:57 am    Post subject:

Staccatos wrote:
UKUGA wrote:
https://theathletic.com/865595/2019/03/14/ivica-zubacs-rim-protection-has-transformed-the-clippers-defense/


The Athletic appears to be a pay to read articles trashing the Lakers website. I suppose there's plenty of audience for that.

Yeah I agree getting rid of Zubac for Muscala was a mistake. Someone around the Lakers got into the idea that the Lakers had to fix their team with "shooters".

Luke Walton utilizes centers so poorly that at least this year it wouldn't make much of a difference to have kept Zu. For those that think Brook Lopez would've fixed the Lakers spacing, Luke played Brook the fewest minutes in his career. Luke would still be running small ball with Zubac (and Lopez) on the bench.

Zubac was a nice young player that will probably now get a good contract offer this off-season. With the Lakers current obsession with cap space there was a very good chance he wouldn't have been retained by the Lakers even if they had not traded for him.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:00 am    Post subject:

tony wrote:
Amazing trade, what a great guy. Traded Zu for this guy to ride the bench and throw up bricks when he does get out there.

(bleep) THIS GUY.


MODS PLEASE CHANGE TITLE OF THREAD TO (bleep) MUSCALA


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:16 pm    Post subject:

Bye Misscala
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 1:40 pm    Post subject:

Will forever be known to me as Mike "regretted not resigning Lopez so let's trade our best center, Zubac" Muscala.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 1:44 pm    Post subject:

Staccatos wrote:
UKUGA wrote:
https://theathletic.com/865595/2019/03/14/ivica-zubacs-rim-protection-has-transformed-the-clippers-defense/


The Athletic appears to be a pay to read articles trashing the Lakers website. I suppose there's plenty of audience for that.

Yeah I agree getting rid of Zubac for Muscala was a mistake. Someone around the Lakers got into the idea that the Lakers had to fix their team with "shooters".

Luke Walton utilizes centers so poorly that at least this year it wouldn't make much of a difference to have kept Zu. For those that think Brook Lopez would've fixed the Lakers spacing, Luke played Brook the fewest minutes in his career. Luke would still be running small ball with Zubac (and Lopez) on the bench.

Zubac was a nice young player that will probably now get a good contract offer this off-season. With the Lakers current obsession with cap space there was a very good chance he wouldn't have been retained by the Lakers even if they had not traded for him.


Which is another mistake, given his cap hold is only $1.93M. Even in a AD trade situation, he could S&T him.
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