Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread

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Let's just be thankful that Chandler trade never went through. The Thunder would have Russell, Harden, KD, Ibaka, and Chandler right now. :x :x :x :x :x League would've been on lock down regardless of what Miami did.
 
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Vucevic is a very nice young big.
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Yup. Like stated. Perkin was picked up to defend the bigs in the west(Nene, Bynum, Duncan) but those days are gone. These days he is useless. Can't shoot, doesn't rebound effectively, barely finishes and is slow. All that money gone to waste. Now the league is playing small ball and Jeff green would have been PERFECT. It sucks we didn't get to see that group like how they are now. They would have ran this league.
 
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Let's just be thankful that Chandler trade never went through. The Thunder would have Russell, Harden, KD, Ibaka, and Chandler right now. :x :x :x :x :x League would've been on lock down regardless of what Miami did.
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My counter to that is exactly why James Harden is in Houston: OKC wouldn’t have been able to afford Chandler in the long run. Also, it’s one thing to stick a guy in the middle, it’s another thing entirely when the coach he ended up playing for (Rick Carlisle) is 1,000 times the coach Scott Brooks is. Who’s to say Chandler becomes 2011 Tyson Chandler under Scott Brooks?

That being said, he’d have definitely been on the Thunder through the 2011 season, and that trade not going through swung at least one title. That can’t be overlooked. But there's no way OKC could still have the five players you just mentioned. Hell, they don't even have four of them right now lol.
 
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Buc Em: How you feel about these reports about Drew partying in Madrid?

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I don't even know what to say about Bynum. There's no way anybody gives him really any type of big money this summer, so I guess we'll hope he wants to be nice and sign his one year prove it deal with us. Then if he comes out and actually plays like he should, we'll have a better idea of what to do with him.
 
Bynum is a huge mystery. Anything could happen with him. Someone could get him for cheap and either get a huge steal or he has another injury plagued season. Or someone could pay huge off of his potential hoping that he produces and either be rewarded. Or end up like the Sixers this year.

If I was in a FO I would find it real hard to pay the guy tho. Potential be damned
 
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My counter to that is exactly why James Harden is in Houston: OKC wouldn’t have been able to afford Chandler in the long run. Also, it’s one thing to stick a guy in the middle, it’s another thing entirely when the coach he ended up playing for (Rick Carlisle) is 1,000 times the coach Scott Brooks is. Who’s to say Chandler becomes 2011 Tyson Chandler under Scott Brooks?

That being said, he’d have definitely been on the Thunder through the 2011 season, and that trade not going through swung at least one title. That can’t be overlooked. But there's no way OKC could still have the five players you just mentioned. Hell, they don't even have four of them right now lol.
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Yeah money is definitely a factor but Chandler was a monster before that 2011 year. He did the same thing with New Orleans - hell, with the Bobcats too. His teams dating back to the Bulls were always overachievers. 2011 was definitely his prime but his only issues before that year were injuries. Just thinking of how perfectly that team fits together though lol :smh:
 
Only reason Celtics wanted Perk was to deal with Shaq and Bynum, two big boys.

He's not very good, just a fat body.
 
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Dade B0Y said:
Ya, why the hell is a coach who led a team to 66 victories, and the longest winning streak in NBA history post NBA/ABA merger finishing second in Coach the Year? The audacity! :rolleyes
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Anyone on NT can coach that team to 60 wins.
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Also I forgot Spo has Pat Riley to lean on to.

You're a fool if you don't think Riley and Spo have frequent meetings to discuss strategies, player rotations and motivation techniques. Also Riley has the ear of Lebron,Wade and Bosh. If aren't performing Riley is quick to tell them how to go about things.
 
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Again though, at the time we were playing Jeff Green at the 4, and there was teams with bigs and tandems like Nene in the West, Bynum and Gasol, Tim Duncan and Splitter, Gasol and Randolph, and having Green starting at the 4 and Nenad's soft as wet charmin non defensive *** wasn't going to get it done. So yes, it made us better, balanced our lineup as it moved Serge into the starting 4 and James Harden got more minutes off the bench and we see what he became.
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I don't see why they didn't just use Serge at the 5. I mean they were already using Nenad ******g Kristic there, so it's not like they would've been going undersized all of a sudden. Then you wouldn't have to do the whole "addition by subtraction" trade with Green. I guess part of it was pre-emptive on the financial side (before they had to give Green money or let him walk), but still.

But that Chandler trade would've been crazy. A legit defensive big body (sort of) center, without giving up Green or Harden.

Anyways with all this talk, I'm starting to realize Perk is just Kwame Brown with an attitude.
 
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Also I forgot Spo has Pat Riley to lean on to.

You're a fool if you don't think Riley and Spo have frequent meetings to discuss strategies, player rotations and motivation techniques. Also Riley has the ear of Lebron,Wade and Bosh. If aren't performing Riley is quick to tell them how to go about things.
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No credit for adjustments after 2011? Riley watched that train derail in the finals just as everyone else did, so why didn't he intervene then?

Spoelstra has commanded the respect of the big 3 and for good reason.
 
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