Last night on Talkin Ball Dwight Jaynes called DMC a bad teammate

[SlyPokerDog]

Do you guys think any team journalist wants to interview Boogie in Portland?...he'd mop the floor with Daddy Warbucks around here!

Casey would.

 

[riverman]

Casey would.

I like Casey and Joe...Boogie would love them...but Jaynes looks like breakfast for Boogie to me

 

[Pinwheel1]

but I've always held the belief that if you're not competing for titles, then it doesn't matter to me if you are watching a .500 team or a .200 team; either record leaves you equally "screwed," on the outside looking in.

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I know you have and that is fine. But to me the main difference between a .500 team and a .200 is that you are closer to .700 by being .500 tham you are by being .200 if your best players are still young, and right now no one is in their prime since most are 26 and under. I am not saying we should "bake the cake" because we need to make a trade. I am just saying be smart about it and giving up "anything but Dame" in order to get Boogie like some suggest does not get us closer to the goal.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Keep in mind that defensively we have struggled just as much against SF's and stretch 4's (and stretch 5') than we have against guards. Players like Gasol, Durant, Griffin, George, Love, Davis, Gallanari.......all these guys have been lighting it up from deep and guess who is often covering those guys? The one guy most people want to keep. Harkless.

Everyone is on Dame and CJ ( and our rim protectors) when the bigger issue are the forwards and centers who are wide open from mid range and beyond.

The reason is Harekless to me shows a very high ceiling. He has taken a big leap this year from last and I think he has taken another leap fom the beginning of this season to now. He seems to catch on quick and when he is our sole switchable defender with Aminu out, yes MVP caliber players will work him. But look at the ages of every player you listed compared to Hark.

Hark may not be a supreme defender, but as of now, he is the least of my worries on the team when it comes to F/C.