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Golden State Warriors 2017-2018

Bob Myers with the heat check chess move.
 

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Cousins taking easily $15mil discount for a 1 year deal, show league he can play then sign a big deal next year. Good move on his part.

He and Draymond will be amazing vets to teach Bell and Jones.
 
Yea, it was a great move on his part for all the reasons you pointed out.

This super team stuff though... Geez.
 
Holy shit

Rebuilding year for everybody else. Celtics or 76ers come out of the East to get curb stomped in four. Cousins v. Embiid in the Finals? Hell yeah.
 
I'm pretty ambivalent that Cousins will bring anything to the actual game and team but I guess its kind of a bluff tactic that cost 5.5 mil. Must be nice to be able to play with money that way and divert attention away from the Lakers. It sounds great on paper but.....

I don't like the way the guy plays, including injuring other NBA players, don't like his constant foul trouble and don't have a great feeling about him on the team. And a big guy with that injury? I dunno if he'll even end up playing but I guess it takes the pressure off Damien Jones, who will simultaneously get to play a lot more but not be relied upon as the official starting center because Cousins will be in the mix.

Honestly, I would have preferred JaVale for the money, assuming he would cost that or less. Nobody even wanted Cousins, apparently, which is why he took the deal.

We'll see if the vaunted Warriors coaching and mentality rubs off on him. I'm skeptical.
 
Better option than Dwight Howard.

Jones and Bell get the majority of minutes, Cousins has no pressure to hurry back to playing.

If he fucks up or is a crappy teammate/player, they can just cut him.
 
I don’t think this has to do with the Lakers as much as a fantastic player at a pennies on the dollar price. Brilliant score for GSW. LeBron in LA looks a bit ridiculous right now.
 
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I thought Julius Randle was a pretty good player. Surprised they renounced his rights and let him go.
 
Kestrel said:
I don’t think this has to do with the Lakers as much as a fantastic player at a pennies on the dollar price. Brilliant score for GSW. LeBron in LA looks a bit ridiculous right now.
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Yeh, I guess it had the effect, though. I thought Damon Bruce was gonna have another heart attack yesterday on the radio when he got the news. I happened to be driving home rather than riding. He was hysterical. I'm kinda more harumph than hooraw. All this "greatest lineup in NBA history" was way over the top.
 
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Lakers bailed on him to free up cap space and ..... pay for .... Lance Stephenson?......?????

I'm still in shock.
 
Everybody on ESPN is ga-ga over the Lakers now...I don't know. I see them as the 4th or 5th seed in the West. I guess we shall see. Rondo no-showed the last two games in the playoffs. Lance is, well, Lance. They still don't have shooters but their defense improved.
 
Lakers: We're gonna build the Warriors technical foul baiting team with LeBron, Stephenson, and Rondo.

Warriors: Hold my beer as we sign Cousins (#2 in the league for Ts). Green (#4) and Durant (#13) just didn't get enough.


I've been daydreaming about 2019, thinking about a Warrior posting up and dominating. (When is the last time that has happened? Webber?) And what that's going to do to defenses with Curry, Durant, and Thompson hanging around the perimeter.

No wonder NBA players are getting on twitter with posts like this from Sam Dekker:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1013951659217768449
 
:laughing

basically.

WE PLAYIN CHESS. THE WHOL LEAGU IS PLAYIN CHECKERS. WE PLAYIN CHESS.
 
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They showed that Bill Simmons documentary again about the Finals this year. Something about film gives a slightly different perspective, plus all the locker room and hallways stuff we never get to see.
 
Bowling4Bikes said:
:laughing

basically.

WE PLAYIN CHESS. THE WHOL LEAGU IS PLAYIN CHECKERS. WE PLAYIN CHESS.
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That Cleveland fan tho! :rofl (Hi kestrel! :wave)

It really wasn't a chess move. Their opponent just put themself one move from checkmake and the Warriors had to make the obvious move. Maybe he comes back at 50% and barely plays. Maybe he comes back at 80% and that's enough to dominate.

Speaking of chess, I'm kind of interested in 2020 with some of the big names possibly leaving GSW. Durant, Green, Thompson. They can't keep this core together forever. Mark my words, when one of the big names leaves, he will be replaced by another big name and that name will be... Anthony Davis.

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That Cleveland fan tho! :rofl (Hi kestrel! :wave)
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Hey, I laughed at that video too :laughing Dude killed it.

If GSW wins 2 ships in the next 2 years... Does Durant WANT to stay? I don't know. If you win so many times by a landslide, at what point do you have enough and want to try to win somewhere else to keep things fresh? That's a thing, for sure.
 
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