LesterDiamond
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We got him for Jared Dudley 
Clippers might have blown it with Bledsoe
- Thread starter daboywonder2002
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Heelmatic
The Carolina Blueprint
Yeah I know they were at UK at the same time....they were also the starting backcourt
Perry J. Perrywinkle III
Back From Job Corpse
Yeah I know they were at UK at the same time....they were also the starting backcourt
i dont remember that. maybe its because im a bit high at the moment.Gil Scott-Heroin
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god shamgod
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bledsoe will get close to a max deal with paul and griffin getting max deals they couldnt pay all 3 and the clippers acquired a sg that can shoot which bledsoe couldnt do consistently last year
USSInsiders
Banned
20-20 hindsight at its finest. Bledsoe always showed talent for LA but he didn't make sense to play on the floor with Paul because he didn't stretch the floor and he committed a lot of dumb ass turnovers and mistakes that were just as bad as turnovers.
For every brilliant game there were plenty more confounding ones.
There always was the possibility he'd be a great player because he was incredibly talented, but he just had no use in LA. They need guys like Dudley and Redikk to be dependable off-ball shooters that don't make mistakes.
Bledsoe is the complete opposite as he's ball dominant, athletic and defensive minded rather than a sharpshooter.
at Redikk being censored
For every brilliant game there were plenty more confounding ones.
There always was the possibility he'd be a great player because he was incredibly talented, but he just had no use in LA. They need guys like Dudley and Redikk to be dependable off-ball shooters that don't make mistakes.
Bledsoe is the complete opposite as he's ball dominant, athletic and defensive minded rather than a sharpshooter.
at Redikk being censored
USSInsiders
Banned
They were but you're comparing two completely different players regardless of their height similarities. Billups was a smart, "true" point guard who was shooting the ball well.
Bledsoe was/is super athletic combo guard and was totally out of control at times. Billups didn't need the ball in his hands n/h all the time, and Paul could still dominate the ball and play a two man game with Billups.
Bledsoe is not meant to be a complement. You either make him a primary or secondary option or trade him for value.
Height is totally irrelevant here, it's their styles of play not working with one another that was the factor.
he will now
your telling me bledsoeplaying like 25 mpg averaging like 12 points would get a max deal?
No..Money..Mo..Problems
it is what it is
It wouldn't have worked CP3 has the ball in his hands 90% of the time he's on the floor. Dragic isn't as ball dominant and he plays the SG role while Bledsoe brings the ball up the floor and runs the plays. Clippers should of gotten more for him though cuz Dudley is a bum. Reddikk and one of the Morris twins or a decent SF from another team would of been better.
god shamgod
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he will now
your telling me bledsoeplaying like 25 mpg averaging like 12 points would get a max deal?
No restricted free agent eric bledsoe would of Still got offered a contract the clippers couldn't of matched so instead of losing him for nothing they got JJ redikk and jared dudley out the deal(2 shooters the clippers needed).A lot of you dudes are looking at this in hindsight instead of realistically.Next year griffin,jordan,crawford and pauls salaries alone take up 54.5 mil of the clippers cap.
GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
Actually it was money that was the biggest factor.
"Might have"
-its a known fact we lost off the Bledsoe trade..
-its a known fact we lost off the Bledsoe trade..