Exactly. People acting like having Griffin and Bledsoe here is going to eliminate our chance to sign anyone else. We will still have about 30-35 mil in cap room plus two young players to put around a superstar.CP really thinks we're going to build a championship team in 2014
***** hilarious.
LeBron is gonna come to a team that has 0 players on its roster when he's clearly chasing a championship.
"Lakers got cap space? Cool I'm there."
That easy
We ain't signing LeBron bro, I don't care if we have 300 million in cap space. He ain't comin to the Lakers
lol) and Durant is three years away from free agency (maybe a year and a half if he forces himself out?).
And who says you can't build it piece by piece? On that list Durant, Rose, Westbrook probably aren't leaving leaving you with Love, Davis, Wall. I doubt Kyrie is going to leave with the team they are putting around him right now. Should it come to that point we could still trade Griffin and/or Bledsoe for Cap space/picks. You can't do that if you don't have any assets to speak of.WHY DO YOU PEOPLE ONLYYYYYYYYY SEE 2014?????????????????????
There are a lot of seasons that come after 2014 folks.
Love
Durant
Rose
Russ
Uni-Brow
Wall
Kyrie
All come up at some point. You get under the cap and wait til the situation you want presents itself.
Be it 2014, 2015, 2016 etc.
We waited 5 years Magic to Shaq. Wake up and stop looking at one offseason only.
No one is saying that. You are basically saying the exact same thing I am saying, but you are saying you have to do it via free agency where I think we should trade Dwight and get good young players for him and then look to free agency. I don't see how people can be so against trading a player who we will get nothing out of if we let walk for a 24 year old all star and a budding point guard. You will have productive, attractive young players AND cap space to get free agents here, and then if you strike out in free agency its not such a loss.Just so you all are getting this, Jerry West had a backup plan IF Shaq said no.
He had Eddie Jones, he had Nick Van Exel, he had Ceballos, Fox, (Horry would come eventually) he had Elden Campbell, and he was working out a deal for some kid named Kobe Bryant.
IF
Shaq said no, he was ready to turn right around and sign Dikembe Mutumbo AND ( I get them mixed up) either Dale Davis, or Antonio Davis. A Davis basically, I always screw up which one.
Now, certainly Shaq is better than Mutumbo/Davis, but he HAD backup plans in place. Had it been Mutumbo and Davis, then we would have seen Kobe take over the team at a much sooner clip, and we would have been a more defensive oriented team, obviously with that frontcourt. But there woulda been NO rebounds for anybody but Lakers.
Point is, even if one player falls thru, you have flexibility to get ____
Kobe, LO, and then a WHOLE BUNCH OF KIDS, Farmar, Bynum, Ariza, Sasha, Crittenton, etc etc etc and boom, trade for Pau. 2005 trade Shaq, build young pieces around 1 player, swing a deal and land Pau. TEAM.
How, HOW, are people not understanding how a team can be built in 3-4-5 years, without "crash and burning for five years"?
My bad then, I just started reply like 2 pages ago. So apparently we wont be getting much in terms of prospects in the draft either.I said 5 pages ago if we can't sign Dwight, BG and Bledsoe is the best deal we'll see.
No pick in 2013, 2015, 2017.
so defensive
Remember this is the new NBA where people want title contenders born in 1 summer.Just so you all are getting this, Jerry West had a backup plan IF Shaq said no.
He had Eddie Jones, he had Nick Van Exel, he had Ceballos, Fox, (Horry would come eventually) he had Elden Campbell, and he was working out a deal for some kid named Kobe Bryant.
IF
Shaq said no, he was ready to turn right around and sign Dikembe Mutumbo AND ( I get them mixed up) either Dale Davis, or Antonio Davis. A Davis basically, I always screw up which one.
Now, certainly Shaq is better than Mutumbo/Davis, but he HAD backup plans in place. Had it been Mutumbo and Davis, then we would have seen Kobe take over the team at a much sooner clip, and we would have been a more defensive oriented team, obviously with that frontcourt. But there woulda been NO rebounds for anybody but Lakers.
Point is, even if one player falls thru, you have flexibility to get ____
Kobe, LO, and then a WHOLE BUNCH OF KIDS, Farmar, Bynum, Ariza, Sasha, Crittenton, etc etc etc and boom, trade for Pau. 2005 trade Shaq, build young pieces around 1 player, swing a deal and land Pau. TEAM.
How, HOW, are people not understanding how a team can be built in 3-4-5 years, without "crash and burning for five years"?
But Stern bent us over, and that dream was stolen. So be it, a new plan was hatched. CP mad as hell cuz the Spurs are about to win another ring.
Me too.
I need LeBron to have a monster game while Wade, Bosh and the rest of the team no show. Thus, giving him more incentive to leave next summer.CP mad as hell cuz the Spurs are about to win another ring.
Me too.
Spurs win, we can knock LeBron/Wade/Bosh like a pinata.
JD.
