Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Young fella woulda owned the city. Typical cursed franchise
Imagine if the Clippers left Mute alone or at the least didn't let him talk them into trading for George Paul
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Hindsight is 20/20 in that case. PG was an all star and was legit balling that last season in OKC. Even that last shot Dame hit over him was well contested, he played defense well all season that’s why he was tasked to defend Dame on that possession. I don’t mind them signing him in 2019 but they shouldn’t had extended him in 2020-2021.
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
He's always been overrated imo. Hated him on the pacers before before he shattered his leg
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SGA averaged 10.8/2.8/3.3 with the Clippers. PG averaged 28/8.2/4.1 his last season with OKC. Kawhi isn't an oracle, he wanted to win ASAP.
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They’d be in the same place they’re at now. You guys are talking like it’s not the Clippers.
NO one thought Shai would become THIS good though which is why the trade was made. In this day and age it could possibly be different with teams seeming to value their younger players more. But this was for sure seen as a no brainer trade back then.
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People forget they actually had two max slots and they were coming off a near 50 win season. The real what if is what if Jimmy or KD or shyt even Kyrie goes there AND you still have SGA. Or what if Kawhi goes there and they fill that slot with quality role guys. Just goes to show how incompetent and totally dependent on stars some of these FOs are. Sure us fans make that move but you are being paid millions to be better than us fans yet they constantly give us proof to the contrary.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Imagine if the Thunder listened to y'all and traded SGA 2-3 years ago when everyone wanted him on a contender and HATED the process OKC took to get here
For starters, who woulda got in his way...Kawhi in his 40 games per season?
Secondly, when have we ever seen a legit star not grow when surrounded by vet talent? From Magic to Duncan to Kobe to Kyrie. You put a dude that is actually about that around quality vets and not only will he grow, he will do so faster.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
For starters, who woulda got in his way...Kawhi in his 40 games per season?
Secondly, when have we ever seen a legit star not grow when surrounded by vet talent? From Magic to Duncan to Kobe to Kyrie. You put a dude that is actually about that around quality vets and not only will he grow, he will do so faster.
If legit star was written all over SGA, he's not falling to 11. It's a situation where someone traded a prospect and it finally burned a team even when the other team initially got the best player available.
The trade even without Shai would still look horrible given that one of those picks became Jalen Williams.
Only reason why I'm not addressing Kawhi is because Ballmer and Frank clearly don't mind him not playing that much because they keep re-upping him.