shakespeare

On the contrare sir, Francis is much better than those scrubbish midget chuckers that Memphis has roaming around the bench area.

You trust to be choicy after losing a lottery in which you had more than a 75% chance of landing picks 1 or 2? I tell you what, deal with it.

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Chef

Hey Rawse:

2006 Calderon, Garbo => Bargnani
2007 Sergio Rodriguez => Oden
2008 Gasol =>??

See the logic?

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SheedSoNasty

Terrence Kinsey and Rudy Gay... Keep your head up.

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piri

And what about trading #4 and Gasol for #2 and Lewis (S&T)?

Memphis can get Durant and Seattle with Allen, Gasol and the 4# could do something good next year.

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Nice try. But the only teams I can see Seattle and Portland trading with are each other.

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hogey11

I like trying to ship Miller to Portland for Webster and change (Przybilla?)... give Gay more playing time while adding a promising young SG who not a lot of people are hot on right now in Portland.

Miller gives them a veteran SF who can play 30+ mins a game, which is what they need around Roy/Aldridge/Oden as they progress.

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kingofkings

You gotta look at the positives here - if ya can find them! What it means is that now everything in the organisaion needs to be done 10-20% better than it would have, had they got the picks they wanted. Drafting needs to be better now, recruiting and free agency needs to be better, coaching needs to be better, etc.

Its not the end of the world. Number 4 pick, pick up a starter, mixed with the development of the Gay/Gasol tandem and you can see some positives.

The key now, is the organisation has to realise the gem ain't gonna walk through that front door, so as a whole the franchise needs to get down and dirty and work harder at every aspect of basketball. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Got to put some positive spin on it right?

I always say you work with the cards you have been dealt. Never complain and just work harder and harder until you get to that place where you want to get to.

Chan

Why would you think Webster will be hot in Memphis?

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Zuca

Nice idea (Gasol to Boston), but I would rather take on Perkins and Tony Allen than Gerald Green, since we already have Mike Miller, Rudy Gay and Tarence Kinsey at SG/SF. Allen is a SG/PG that can help our backcourt while Perkins is a young big that Boston won't need MUCH with Al Jefferson there. Send Alexander Johnson to Boston if needed (salary wise).

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hogey11

Don't know if he will, but Memphis needs to continue to rebuild. They have a great SF in waiting with Gay, but lack any sort of help at the SG position. Tarrence Kinsey is not somebody you would want to rely on in terms of playing starters minutes, and Webster gives them another young guy who can develop. Miller is a vet who can help out Portland far more than Webster can, and at this point, Portland has too much talent to develop anyways. With Roy/Aldridge/#1, they'll have their hands full in terms of developing players, and would much rather surround them with veterans for learning purposes. Therefore, he's available, and for miller, its a low-risk venture considering his age and the Grizz's current position.

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ehmunro

If you had watched the Celtics after Pierce's return you'd know this was nonsense. Pierce had no push off, and couldn't get to the hole at all. He was basically shooting jumpers after his return because that was all he could do offensively. In other words, he was really injured, not the way that the Bucks and Supersonics were injured. Seattle, Atnalta, and Milwaukee were the three worst offenders. And, yes, the rest of the team really is that bad.

So BBF is now "the media"? In that case we heard the Blazer fans "whining to the media".

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