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pjiddy
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | I'm chilling with a nice cigar and whiskey listening to Simmons and Lowe passive aggressively discuss the Lakers - "I can see them striking out and making a panic trade for Westbrook" - and my competitive juices are flowing.
(bleep) Simmons and the Celtics. I want this Lebron/George/Randle off-season, and I want Simmons to choke on his bile on his free agency podcast in two months. I want Magic to take his victory lap on every damn ESPN segment available and I want the league to be put back on notice that the Los Angeles Lakers are coming to (bleep) their (bleep) up. |
I can see a total moron like Bill Simmons saying this...but Zach Lowe, come on. You're better than this. |
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Cutheon
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| ^not when it comes to the Celtics (or the Lakers). Lowe bleeds Green through and through, no matter how often he tries to deny it. |
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Jesusdelonla
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| pjiddy wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | I'm chilling with a nice cigar and whiskey listening to Simmons and Lowe passive aggressively discuss the Lakers - "I can see them striking out and making a panic trade for Westbrook" - and my competitive juices are flowing.
(bleep) Simmons and the Celtics. I want this Lebron/George/Randle off-season, and I want Simmons to choke on his bile on his free agency podcast in two months. I want Magic to take his victory lap on every damn ESPN segment available and I want the league to be put back on notice that the Los Angeles Lakers are coming to (bleep) their (bleep) up. |
I can see a total moron like Bill Simmons saying this...but Zach Lowe, come on. You're better than this. |
Lowe was Celtic fanboy as well. I stopped listening to their 1st podcast from a week back |
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pjiddy
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| Cutheon wrote: | | ^not when it comes to the Celtics (or the Lakers). Lowe bleeds Green through and through, no matter how often he tries to deny it. |
I think Lowe does a pretty good job divesting his inborn fan interests. He's been a big fan of Julius Randle for years. He's spoken well of Josh Hart, something you can only do if you've watched a bunch of Laker games. But thinking the Lakers would just toss half their core away to get Westbrook--when they've surely watched the joyless oncourt product in OKC--and just shrug and consign themselves to purgatory for the next 5 years is baffling. Again, a moron like Simmons can "see that," but Zach Lowe i expect better from. |
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Jesusdelonla
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| pjiddy wrote: | | Cutheon wrote: | | ^not when it comes to the Celtics (or the Lakers). Lowe bleeds Green through and through, no matter how often he tries to deny it. |
I think Lowe does a pretty good job divesting his inborn fan interests. He's been a big fan of Julius Randle for years. He's spoken well of Josh Hart, something you can only do if you've watched a bunch of Laker games. But thinking the Lakers would just toss half their core away to get Westbrook--when they've surely watched the joyless oncourt product in OKC--and just shrug and consign themselves to purgatory for the next 5 years is baffling. Again, a moron like Simmons can "see that," but Zach Lowe i expect better from. |
Randle fan for years? No
He came through since last summer and since then he is Randle fan |
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Cutheon
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| pjiddy wrote: | | Cutheon wrote: | | ^not when it comes to the Celtics (or the Lakers). Lowe bleeds Green through and through, no matter how often he tries to deny it. |
I think Lowe does a pretty good job divesting his inborn fan interests. He's been a big fan of Julius Randle for years. He's spoken well of Josh Hart, something you can only do if you've watched a bunch of Laker games. But thinking the Lakers would just toss half their core away to get Westbrook--when they've surely watched the joyless oncourt product in OKC--and just shrug and consign themselves to purgatory for the next 5 years is baffling. Again, a moron like Simmons can "see that," but Zach Lowe i expect better from. |
He's always been a little snide about the Lakers. maybe his coverage of Kobe made me view his work a bit more askance than you - always seemed to be so tonally different from the rest of his work, far more intentionally pointed. I have noticed his positive coverage of Randle and hart, fair. But, like I said, I've accustomed myself to him having some wonky opinions about the Lakers. |
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| Jesusdelonla wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | Cutheon wrote: | | ^not when it comes to the Celtics (or the Lakers). Lowe bleeds Green through and through, no matter how often he tries to deny it. |
I think Lowe does a pretty good job divesting his inborn fan interests. He's been a big fan of Julius Randle for years. He's spoken well of Josh Hart, something you can only do if you've watched a bunch of Laker games. But thinking the Lakers would just toss half their core away to get Westbrook--when they've surely watched the joyless oncourt product in OKC--and just shrug and consign themselves to purgatory for the next 5 years is baffling. Again, a moron like Simmons can "see that," but Zach Lowe i expect better from. |
Randle fan for years? No
He came through since last summer and since then he is Randle fan |
He's been positive on Randle since we drafted him. Was one of the few national commentators to devote article space to Randle's rookie* campaign and noted his potential, particularly defensively. |
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Jesusdelonla
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| Cutheon wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | Cutheon wrote: | | ^not when it comes to the Celtics (or the Lakers). Lowe bleeds Green through and through, no matter how often he tries to deny it. |
I think Lowe does a pretty good job divesting his inborn fan interests. He's been a big fan of Julius Randle for years. He's spoken well of Josh Hart, something you can only do if you've watched a bunch of Laker games. But thinking the Lakers would just toss half their core away to get Westbrook--when they've surely watched the joyless oncourt product in OKC--and just shrug and consign themselves to purgatory for the next 5 years is baffling. Again, a moron like Simmons can "see that," but Zach Lowe i expect better from. |
He's always been a little snide about the Lakers. maybe his coverage of Kobe made me view his work a bit more askance than you - always seemed to be so tonally different from the rest of his work, far more intentionally pointed. I have noticed his positive coverage of Randle and hart, fair. But, like I said, I've accustomed myself to him having some wonky opinions about the Lakers. |
Ya I agree with this |
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| Alright, y'all have convinced me. I guess I'm okay with trading two late first rounders so we can keep Randle. |
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Warriors are vulnerable. Will be next year and the years after that too. They are mortal. They’re also very good but not 5 more years’ worth of dynasty good.
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Warriors are vulnerable. Will be next year and the years after that too. They are mortal. They’re also very good but not 5 more years’ worth of dynasty good. |
That tough, active, switching small ball defense last night really got to them.
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Baron Von Humongous
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| pjiddy wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | I'm chilling with a nice cigar and whiskey listening to Simmons and Lowe passive aggressively discuss the Lakers - "I can see them striking out and making a panic trade for Westbrook" - and my competitive juices are flowing.
(bleep) Simmons and the Celtics. I want this Lebron/George/Randle off-season, and I want Simmons to choke on his bile on his free agency podcast in two months. I want Magic to take his victory lap on every damn ESPN segment available and I want the league to be put back on notice that the Los Angeles Lakers are coming to (bleep) their (bleep) up. |
I can see a total moron like Bill Simmons saying this...but Zach Lowe, come on. You're better than this. |
Lowe is really deferential to Simmons on Simmons' podcast. |
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | I'm chilling with a nice cigar and whiskey listening to Simmons and Lowe passive aggressively discuss the Lakers - "I can see them striking out and making a panic trade for Westbrook" - and my competitive juices are flowing.
(bleep) Simmons and the Celtics. I want this Lebron/George/Randle off-season, and I want Simmons to choke on his bile on his free agency podcast in two months. I want Magic to take his victory lap on every damn ESPN segment available and I want the league to be put back on notice that the Los Angeles Lakers are coming to (bleep) their (bleep) up. |
I can see a total moron like Bill Simmons saying this...but Zach Lowe, come on. You're better than this. |
Lowe is really deferential to Simmons on Simmons' podcast. |
Nothing made me more happy as I watched Simmons typing out a story as confetti rained down on his keyboard during game 7... |
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Jesusdelonla
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Warriors are vulnerable. Will be next year and the years after that too. They are mortal. They’re also very good but not 5 more years’ worth of dynasty good. |
They are v beatable next year and after that.
No team can to championship year after year. Takes a lot of toll physical and mentally |
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Dang. Warriors now down 3-2. Whoa.
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| defense wrote: | | UKUGA wrote: | | babyskyhook wrote: | If the goal is keeping Randle after adding Lebron and PG, it makes no sense to trade #25 and Hart to do so.
Much better to trade 2019 and 2021 1sts to dump Deng, and keep Hart and #25 as part of the core. The addition of Lebron and PG puts us in win now mode. You want as much young talent around those guys now.
Hart is already a proven NBA contributor. You don’t throw him away to replace him with a guy who may or may not work out in 2021.
And it’s better to bring #25 into the program now. You want that player to start developing as soon as possible. If things go well, he could be a contributor in year 1. You want to maximize the amount of young talent on the team now, as opposed to bringing in rookies next year and in 2021. |
Ya, as much as I'd like to keep Randle, I'm not giving up on Hart this quickly.
In fact, it's not even "giving up", it's more like "giving away". The guy can play. We need more guys like him, not one less. |
I agree
Don't trade away young 2 way players |
Like Randle who the OP is discarding?
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How do you guys think our FO values our core? Here is my guess (From most valued to not that most valued):
Lonzo
Ingram
Kuzma or Randle
Randle or Kuzma
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Dang. Warriors now down 3-2. Whoa. |
They've been here before. |
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Dang. Warriors now down 3-2. Whoa. |
But CP3 looks like he pulled his hamstring. |
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Warriors are vulnerable. Will be next year and the years after that too. They are mortal. They’re also very good but not 5 more years’ worth of dynasty good. |
It depends on the moves they make.
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| Travis Bickle wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | I'm chilling with a nice cigar and whiskey listening to Simmons and Lowe passive aggressively discuss the Lakers - "I can see them striking out and making a panic trade for Westbrook" - and my competitive juices are flowing.
(bleep) Simmons and the Celtics. I want this Lebron/George/Randle off-season, and I want Simmons to choke on his bile on his free agency podcast in two months. I want Magic to take his victory lap on every damn ESPN segment available and I want the league to be put back on notice that the Los Angeles Lakers are coming to (bleep) their (bleep) up. |
I can see a total moron like Bill Simmons saying this...but Zach Lowe, come on. You're better than this. |
Lowe is really deferential to Simmons on Simmons' podcast. |
Nothing made me more happy as I watched Simmons typing out a story as confetti rained down on his keyboard during game 7... |
We desperately need GT to develop a multimedia empire to flush out the Simmons Celtics homerism from mainstream media. |
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | Dang. Warriors now down 3-2. Whoa. |
They've been here before. |
Yes, possibly with Iggy back and Paul out.
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Dang. Warriors now down 3-2. Whoa. |
Better for us if Rockets go to the finals, takes them out of the LeBron sweepstakes I think. |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | Dang. Warriors now down 3-2. Whoa. |
They've been here before. |
Yes, possibly with Iggy back and Paul out. |
Most likely 2 game 7s for the conf finals. |
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | Dang. Warriors now down 3-2. Whoa. |
Better for us if Rockets go to the finals, takes them out of the LeBron sweepstakes I think. |
How so? |
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