Official Off-Season Thread 2017

[Connoisseur]

No hate for the point god, lifted the clippers from the bottom and made them relevant even if it wasn't his first choice to join us.

I and many clippers fans dislike Doc in the organisation but I doubt the whole father son rumours had anything to do with it. I also doubt Blake will leave, he will get paid and there is massive room for more points and assists now obviously.

Weird reason (i.e excuse) to use as the only reason Doc Rivers has hung around the clippers for so long, after displaying his ineptitude for many years, is because the Front Office didn't want to upset CP by getting rid of River's incompetent ass particularly in the General Manager's department.

Now CP is supposedly leaving because of the turd he demanded the Clips hire from Boston and then protected him from being fired? Makes no sense whatsoever, I think the real reason has nothing to do with Rivers and probably more with his desire for keeping his money and having the flexibility to play with Lebron in 2018/19.

 

[Drummer_19]

I think if the Clippers want to get serious about this rebuild, they need to punt Deandre off somewhere and trade for Jahlil Okafor, he's only 19 and rolls out of bed getting 20 and 10 and can lead this franchise from out of the wilderness into the light.

 

[stewie griffen]

I think if the Clippers want to get serious about this rebuild, they need to punt Deandre off somewhere and trade for Jahlil Okafor, he's only 19 and rolls out of bed getting 20 and 10 and can lead this franchise from out of the wilderness into the light.

Glorious... just glorious

 

[stewie griffen]

“What really solidified Paul’s dissatisfaction with Doc was a proposed trade involving Carmelo Anthony last season,” Eaves wrote. “New York offered Carmelo and Sasha Vujacic to the Clippers in exchange for Jamal Crawford, Paul Pierce and Austin Rivers, a deal to which Rivers ultimately said no.

Rightfully so tbh, its a bad trade

 

[DontArgue4]

somehow out of this morey created a $11 million trade exception

 

[Upgrayedd]

Damn.

 

[peternorth]

Also I love that Doc and Pauls relationship declined with addition of coaches son.

Austin reckons that was all BS.

This is fun!

 

[Burningleviathan]

Our bench last year was basically Gordon, Lou and Nene. We have kept Gordon and should be able to get Nene back if we want him. We will need to replace Lou's minutes somehow. Ariza still going to be asked to play 40 mins a game. We really need to find another 3 and D type. Dunno how Morey going to achieve that.

Sad to see Bev go. Great player for his contract and fun to have on the team.

No idea how Dantoni gonna work this but atleast we aren't going to die wondering.

 

[Dez!]

So am I the only one who questions how a Paul/Harden back court is going to be effective?

 

[fidstar]

So am I the only one who questions how a Paul/Harden back court is going to be effective?

You can't win with one guy creating everything. Harden has shown he can play off the ball.

Paul is basically a Steve Nash clone, so he should work fine with the coach.

 

[DontArgue4]

So am I the only one who questions how a Paul/Harden back court is going to be effective?

both good spot up shooters, both amazing p'n'r playmakers

their minutes will be staggered so that one of them is on the court as the playmaker at all times

exciting

 

[I Lost My Keays]

I thought Paul was a FA?

 

[DontArgue4]

Our bench last year was basically Gordon, Lou and Nene. We have kept Gordon and should be able to get Nene back if we want him. We will need to replace Lou's minutes somehow. Ariza still going to be asked to play 40 mins a game. We really need to find another 3 and D type. Dunno how Morey going to achieve that.

Sad to see Bev go. Great player for his contract and fun to have on the team.

No idea how Dantoni gonna work this but atleast we aren't going to die wondering.

$11m trade exception could help us acquire decent depth pretty easily imo

 

[I Lost My Keays]

So am I the only one who questions how a Paul/Harden back court is going to be effective?

Paul would of been so much better at the Spurs

 

[DontArgue4]

I thought Paul was a FA?

He opted into the last year of his deal, means he left about $11m on the table this season but is still able to get the 5 year max deal next year. Gave us much more flexibility as far as FA's go.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Our bench last year was basically Gordon, Lou and Nene. We have kept Gordon and should be able to get Nene back if we want him. We will need to replace Lou's minutes somehow. Ariza still going to be asked to play 40 mins a game. We really need to find another 3 and D type. Dunno how Morey going to achieve that.

Sad to see Bev go. Great player for his contract and fun to have on the team.

No idea how Dantoni gonna work this but atleast we aren't going to die wondering.

Pity Dekker got let go, I really like him coming off the rockets bench

 

[Connoisseur]

Don't think CP3 plans to stay around for more than 1 year at the Rockets tbh. This just seems like a nice way to keep his max money with the added flexibility of being able to sign for whichever team he wants in 2018/19, or at least that's what some claim is the reasoning behind this decision as I'm not well-versed in the intricacies and loopholes of NBA contracts. The Banana Boat crew is a strong possibility perhaps minus washed up Wade and Melo.

 

[Burningleviathan]

$11m trade exception could help us acquire decent depth pretty easily imo

Nene would cost us about 3mil. Leaves to MLE for another player. Depends on what we go for, I still think there will be a hole on our bench.

 

[DontArgue4]

Nene would cost us about 3mil. Leaves to MLE for another player. Depends on what we go for, I still think there will be a hole on our bench.

weve got a full $8.4M MLE plus $3.2 bi-annual exception, ontop of that huge trade exception

the bench wont be amazing but i think it will be decent

 

[hamG]

We don't need Millsap we need PG. Love and Thompson clearly didn't work against the Warriors in the Finals so we need to go smaller. I think it's time LeBron plays the 4 to facilitate PG.

I agree PG is a better player but also quite difficult for you to trade for unless Indiana are happy to downgrade their roster.

 

[Superstar swan]

Very interested to see how harden and cp3 co exist

 

[djrossie16]

Only one source to corroborate this, and sort of Big Baby when he hated on Doc on that KG show but...



CP3 hated Doc and Austin



Doc could have had Melo for Austin, Crawford and Pierce

You'd laugh if Austin Rivers took the Clippers to a conference final one day

 

[djrossie16]

Clippers won. They got a beverley of talent.

 

[stewie griffen]

So am I the only one who questions how a Paul/Harden back court is going to be effective?

Be positive Dez

 

[WWSD]

36 million over three years for a player out of Europe is a lot of money for an unproven talent. He better have one hell of a rookie season!