Dude you are like the grandmaster of straw man arguments...
The irony
Keep telling us how Ginobili has been the #2 option for SA all these years.
You bring up the spurs "not paying 3 perimeter players max money"...but the spurs don't pay anybody outside of Tim Duncan max money...
and they paid him the max what...once? If you are going to bring up teams not paying 3 players...bring up GS who might have to pay 3 players max or near max (curry next contract, klay, draymond)...Bring up the wizards paying 3 players the max or near max (Beal, Wall, KD...Beal, Wall, Gortat/Nene...Wall, KD, Goratat/Nene)...Bring up the cavs paying 3 guys the max or close to it (James, Kyrie, Love)...
but instead you bring up the one team that only plays transcendent once in a generation players the max...why?
This is what you initially said -
"IF Pop...or Carlisle...or even Doc Rivers had 3 of the top 15 scorers in basketball would anyone be saying "nah it's to hard it won't work"
You brought up how Pop (ya'know the Spurs coach?) could handle juggling the offensive loads of three of the top 15 scorers in basketball. I then replied with "The Spurs wouldn't pay three perimeter players max money". So you brought up the Spurs, and I replied with a Spurs statement. Spurs=Spurs, yes? How did you not see what I was replying to when I actually broke your post down into different parts and specifically addressed each point. If you're gonna have a hard time following YOUR OWN posts, than I guess you should hover over your screen name on the right hand side and go all the way down to 'Log Out'.
You say "Harden is going to always be the third option? Really? So when KD and Harden are on the floor together and Westbrook is on the bench, Harden is the 3rd option? When Westbrook and Harden are on the floor and KD is on the becnh Harden is the third option? When both are on the bench Harden is the 3rd option? How about when Westbrook got hurt Harden would be the 3rd option? When KD got hurt Harden would be the 3rd option? Or are you telling me that Harden can only play when KD and Durant are in the game?
By saying that he's always going to be the third option - I mean he's always going to be behind Westbrook and Durant when it comes to TOTAL offensive workloads. Of course if one of Westbrook or Durant (or both) are not on the court and he is, he'll be the second or first option on the floor. This doesn't even need explaining - nikka what is you in the fifth grade?
When you say a player is the third option for a team, it generally means they have the third highest offensive workload or they're the third most important offensive player - no one takes it as if every minute on the court they're the third option.
This shyt is rudimentary. I'm beginning to think you're just trolling at this point.
You say "they won't reach their full potential". Uh...so fukking what?
It matters because they'll all be on max money. What you see now where Harden is, he wouldn't be the same player if he was still in OKC.
Miami didn't "reach it's full potential"with Bosh rebounding and PIP numbers dipping year to year...but they still got 4 finals appearances and 2 rings out of it?
You bird-brain muhfukka, the Heat had two wing players and one front court player all making max money. There's a balance there, you think if they all had three wing players on max money they would have had the success they had? Of course not. Same reason the Boston big three worked - two wing players and one frontcourt player.
Three wing players on max money is a recipe for disaster.
And what is their "potential" anyway? I
t seems like the closes they came to "reaching their potential" is when they last played together in the finals...cause none have been back since...Harden hasn't even been out of the 1st round yet
Reaching their potential as players. They're all better than they were in 2011/2012. Why can't you comprehend the most basic of things?
How is Carlisle comparison relevant?
Do you not watch the Mavericks play...of course not you to busy in here telling me obvious stuff like San Antonio wouldn't pay 3 perimeter players the max.
You're pretty stupid breh. Seriously. I've seen 70-80% of Mavs games this season.
The point is that Carlisle has come up with an offense system that allows him to have 2 guys in that are only effective with the ball in their hands...so how on earth could OKC not do it and just have one guy come off the bench...oh wait right this is where you tell me "Harden wouldn't come off the bench" and "Harden wanted his own team."
Breh. Your English teacher lost. I've already said 1000 times that the issue wasn't them not being able to play together (no one said this shyt in the first place). Of course they could play together (yeah they wouldn't all reached their full potentials AS INDIVIDUALS), but they could still fit together. And again, they never traded Harden because he didn't fit - it was purely financial, not what was happening on court. Why have you brought this up again when NOBODY in here is arguing that them playing together wouldn't have worked?
You say money was the issue. An issue for who? OKC? How? They sell out damn near every home game. They turn a profit EVERY fukkING YEAR. The owner bought the team for around 350 million...and how much are the Thunder worth now? Not wanting to go over the tax isn't a money issue, it's a cheapness issue.
There's this thing called the salary cap, I don't know if you've heard of it or not?
If you are the Pacers or Bobcats who routinely lose money every year, then the cap matters...but a team who's franchise worth has at least doubled in the last 7 years and turns a profit every year on top of that? And they won't pay the tax for 1 more year? Even funnier, with the way the salary cap rose, they could have just done a few things differently with their roster (Perkins) and maybe kept all 3 without paying the tax at all.
And if money is an issue how are they functioning now with Waiters pushing them at the cap? And weren't they kicking tires on trading for Brook Lopez...
What the fukk do you mean how are they functioning with Waiters pushing them at the cap?
They need an established 5 to provide front court scoring, they could do a lot worse than Lopez.
I didn't reply to your thread about manu because after sifting through all the trash you typed the first go round I had better things to do than sift through it again. I am sure this thread is going to go the exact same way.
You blatantly LIED in that thread, and I provided facts and figures to prove what you said was wrong. Dudes was laughing at you for bullshyttin and then you go ghost.
Frankly, they deserve to lose Russ and KD if you ask me. They did them dirty.
at "coaching not going their way" when they are the ones keeping the coach.
at Harden not being that important. He wasn't their MVP but having a 3rd option that could do all that he could was certainly a key component to them getting to the Finals. His subpar play in said Finals was a key reason they lost.