re: Zach Lowe Article on Asik Trade

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Yes, R. Evans led the league in rate in 12-13

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Cool story. You know who rebounded better than him last season? Stop acting like a retard. Whether you close your eyes and ignore last season or not his career rebounding is elite and clearly better than Okafor.

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He does a lot of little things.

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Glad you shared that info.

Your personal observations mirror, almost word for word, what 95% of the analysis say. Asik is a "grab the ball" sort of player. We don't need a scoring Center...we have $56M tied up on guys who get paid to do that.

Right. He'll get 10-12 points a game on put-back dunks and lay-ups off of rebounds and dump offs, free throws, and lay-ups from trailing on the fast break. Basically just clean-up duty.

But all that is gravy. He makes his money doing the dirty work of being a big physical inside presence on the defensive end and owning the glass.

correct
in a vacuum asik for a 1st rnd pick is a no brainer

This is about Gordon
unless they can move him (or if he morphs into Manu ginobili) this team is stuck like chuck and now are without an asset to help make that happen

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If he could have held on to picks the past few seasons, they would have a lot of flexibility and could have built a seriously talented roster.

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like with whom?

we take noel last year and pick at 6-10 this year and get...who? marcus smart maybe? elfrid payton? saric?

once we knew how good those guys are, we'd have to max out davis and lose basically all of our cap anyway

I think its the unknown factor that makes fans
over-hype draft picks. Fans see draft picks and imagine Lebron not Austin Rivers.