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Man, what the hell are you talkin about? Stop twist my words to fit your wack ***, novel-sized arguements. And I don't give a if you have an issue with people like me. What because I think the Clippers can be a very good team if they keep Brand and try to bring in someone else to play with him either through the draft, FA or trade?
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Tell me what words have I twisted? If youre going to accuse me of twisting your words have the decency to specify. Now you are back tracking and saying they will be just a "very good" team? Have you backed off the claim that paying brand max money gives them a shot at a championship? And also, are you saying that we only need to get better through the draft or trade? We lose Maggette and Cassell this offseason. Thomas and mobley will be even older. Lets say we luck out and get top 5 pick, perhaps oj mayo. In his rookie year, oj mayo probably isnt close to the impact guy that cassell was in 05.06. yet without maggette, without cassell, and with everyone else on the decline except kaman and thornton, you expect us to challenge for a championship or even be a "very good" team?
How about this. Can you at least admit this... You said that we have a chance to dip into free agency if we can somehow dump thomas and mobleys contracts...hey, I think its 2% chance, but of COURSE id like to dump one or both of those contracts. BUT, the realistic side of me says theres a snow ball's chance in a hot wind of that happening. So, if before this deadline, we cannot trade those two guys, will you at least admit that we are borderline playoff team at best the next two years if we keep brand, and stay capped out?
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And it DOESN'T matter if we almost signed someone.
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Again, yes it does. Why can't you face the facts? Its a different clipper team. You before were using the reasoning that no one would even consider us, so we have no shot at a decent free agent. (yet somehow maintain that we can dump mobley, thomas, and still sign a free agent, so not sure why youre playing both sides). I say this is not the clippers of the 90's. Almost getting top players does count because it means that players are considering us as a potential team to go to. Almost getting kobe is 1000X as good as kobe not even thinking about signing with memphis. We almost got kobe/arenas, etc. and ended up doing another first, signing a mid level guy in mobley. Its taking steps. When you almost sign a couple of the best players in the league, it means that best players in the league no longer consider us a joke, and were a coin flip away perhaps from someone coming here in the future.
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Basically, the point I'm trying to get through to you is that without Brand, the Clippers aren't that desirable of a destination for a player like Arenas who says he wants to play for a contender.
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What "contender" will have the cap space or sign and tradeability to get an arenas?