I got the overwhelming impression that Cronin tried like hell to move Nurkic at the trade deadline. But nobody would return his calls. The other GM's were probably drinking margaritas while listening to Joe's voicemails.
Great post… and no one ever talks about salary. Ownership knows they won’t have realistic shot at title, so why pay heavy tax. It’s unfortunate we got to this place, but we were gifted a quick rebuild with the last 2 drafts... time to move forward. The future is bright.
Yeah he did just have the best season of his career. So he'll probably have another season or two or even three at all nba level and will slowly decline from there to just all star level and then a roll player if he wants to be playing like both Kidd and Payton did when he is 40. Kidd won his championship as the starting PG at age 38 and Payton won his getting 24 minutes off of the bench at 37. Dame has the type of game where he could play as a high level starter at 40.
I don't think we'll be paying Jerami but we will likely get some value for him in a sign and trade. Jerami isn't going to want to be on another rebuilding team, that's not what he came here for. It would make no sense for Jerami to stay and it would make less sense for us to keep a guy at the cost Jerami will demand who doesn't have a ton of winning experience to impart on our young guys.
I watched an Iowa game, Murray has the goods. I think his game will surprise some folks. Decision making, court awareness, intangibles. He's not a high jumping, stop and pop, 3 point splat master like some other rookies people wanted. Kris's game reflects half court, grind it out, work on the fundamentals department.
Where do you come up with this type of shit. You actually took time and thought that out and then said to yourself,”Yep I’m going to type that out”. Wow
It does suck no doubt. But at least,imo at least, we have a better base than plenty of other teams around us who are trying to rebuild themselves. Is Dame gone? At this point I would give that about a 95 percent chance especially as the vibe I got from Cronin is that he is at a loss far as how to improve this team to keep Dame(Could be reading him wrong).
Yeah, given his track record of telling Dame he'd do one thing and going the completely different way, Joe could be kind of sad that Dame hasn't spoken with him since the draft and with whatever he has been talking to Goodwin about. Maybe Joe thought Dame would just lie down and take whatever Joe gave him. Or maybe Joe is just an uneasy guy and everything is cool with Dame.
That he is in Europe and enjoying a vacation. Joe said they talked Tuesday. These guys do have lives also outside of Basketball.
Dudes a troll signed up 10 days ago and has done nothing but trashed dame and given weak trade proposals. All with Dame going to Miami.
You actually think if Dame was cool right now that his life would get in the way of him letting Joe know what he thinks? You think Dame doesn't have ten fucking minutes to address his future? Do you think that Aaron Goodwin is in constant contact with Joe but not with Dame?
MY guess is Tuesday when Dame and Joe sat down Joe explained the offers he was getting and that they were not good. My guess is they discussed the fact that this could be the way they were going to go and then would be trading some of the youth that they have acquire over the last couples years for some veteran help. So yeah I think Dame knew what was going to happen and they discussion has been had and he knows what the plan is.
Sorry man, sick of hearing this guy complain when we hit jackpot last couple seasons with Sharpe and Scoot… the future is bright. This is a team, not one player.
