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For those that are talking crap about Brand, I got no remaining respect for you guys. After what this guy has done to this franchise, 20/10/2/2 with 50% shooting, he gets hurt, and we flame him?
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In all 4 pages of this thread, I havent seen one person flame brand or talk crap about him.
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Brand got to the playoffs once, and was one coaching mistake away from making the WCF. Gasol led the Grizzlies to the playoffs twice, and got swept both times.
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Yes. We have all said that. But the difference is it was cassell who was the engineer of our playoff run. Brand didnt put the team on his back and carry us down the stretch of games. It was Cassell. Brand turned into a superstar for a year thanks to Cassell. Unfortunately, UNLIKE brand (until this year of course), cassell cant stay injury free for much, the following year his play goes to the toilet, and brand was back to himself. But Gasol, with piss poor talent put his team on his back and got them into the playoffs with some REALLY terrible teams, and won games down the stretch for his team.
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Sure, Gasol might hit the clutch shots, but have you MAYBE thought that the coach DRAWS up plays for him, while we don't run any for EB?
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We dont know whats been drawn up and not drawn up. Even if what you say is true, we have the same coach as before, so if thats true, why should we expect plays to be drawn for brand if they havent before. However, what does that say about the clutch confidence our coach has in our best player if he never draws up plays for him? But again, this is something we dont really know as we dont know what goes on in timeouts.
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That game we had @ New Orleans last year with Elton making a 18 foot jumper to send it to Over-Time, that was pretty damn clutch. To say you'd prefer Pau over Elton is really stupid. Even ask the Laker fans, they'd take Elton over Pau as well because Elton is a BEAST on the defensive end and can score 20 points per outing on 50% shooting.
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Its not stupid at all, its just a reality based on team needs. Could care less what Laker fans have to think. You just look at what we need with our team makeup. We need someone who can make a game winning shot. Something Brand has never done in his entire career with the CLippers. seriously. Even by accident youd think that he would have done. But thats not a diss. Thats just not the kind of player brand is. Hes a workhorse as cassell says. However, this team obviously needs something different than a workhorse. We need someone who can do things for us down the stretch and take that winning shot. Our record the last 4 years in close games shows that. We already signed kaman, no point in lamenting that decision, so we need someone that will help us get the most out of Kaman too. Brand takes away half if not more of kamans low post looks. With any decent PF, kaman is not going to be an 18 and 14 player. Howver, with brand, at his peak were talking 13 and 10 or 11. With Gasol who plays farther away than brand to the basket, it opens things up more for kaman.
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And we have Sammy this year, but no Elton, and look at where were at.
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We have a sam cassell who is 2 years older than before, still injured much of this year, and is the oldest starting PG in the league. You really didnt expect anything did you? We also dont have brand and livingston while not adding anyone significant. With a completely healthy cassell of 05/06 plus if we had a healthy brand, perhaps a healthy livingston i think we might have made it close again this year to the playoffs.
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ELTON BY HIMSELF CAN NOT LEAD THIS TEAM ANYWHERE. LOOK AT GARNETT IN MINNESOTA, IS HE A LOSER BECAUSE HE COULDN'T LEAD THAT TEAM ANYWHERE? GOD DAMN, GARNETT MUST SUCK THEN AND BE AN OVERRATED PIECE OF CRAP WHO DOESN'T DESERVE THE MAX
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You must not have read this whole thread. We went over this topic on page 1 or 2. Long story short, theres no doubt garnett is a superstar one of the best to ever play the game. Look at his talent that he has had over the years. And yes, it got to a point where minny was like hey, this guys making like 20+ million now, were capped out, were not going to win a championship with this forumla, lets trade him for something else and see what we can do. Thats all im saying for now. Brand is now at a salary where were capped out, and its obvious were not getting a championship so lets try something that works. Its NOTHING against brand as a player...its just a statement of the current situation.