BallHawk

I'm holding out hope that Todd Graves is buying the team once that expansion check clears

The original model wasn't broken regarding eligibility...it was broken regarding how players earned money.

I think the pendulum got swung too far the other way and now it's a worse system than before.

What happened with Terrelle Pryor, for example, for getting paid to sign autographs, that should have been allowed.

18-year olds getting $2-3m, absolutely not.

You should have 5 years to play 5. You should only be able to transfer once without redshirting.

Should maybe some things like LSU selling Honey Badger type of gear be profitable Tyrann Mathieu when he played...sure.

Shoudl players be able to earn money on their own outside of playing...fine with a limit.


In no way should professional athletes, whether in Europe, G-League, or NBA SL be allowed to return to college. A pro contract whether multiple millions of dollars or a few thousand is a pro contract. Hell, Chieck Diallo just signed with St. Bonaventure. He played a year at Kansas and multiplle years in the NBA and has played for years in Europe.

BROKEN

Jordan Hawkins has to be dealt soon, right? Karlo too maybe?

I think they're going to want to make room for Bufkin or Houstan.

Who would be the LBs?

Elliss, Werner, Stutsman, Ford, Stalbird?

I could see the last two not making it...maybe they wanted some more veteran leadership there?

I definitely agree it would have been better as a series but I loved it nonetheless.

I do wish we got more of their relationships and things too...a lot of story to flesh out...I'm all for an adult series with this animation style and would love for them to remaster the original with it.

For a team that has little room for error it does. Every move, deservingly or not, must be in the right direction or else it sets you back.

Drafting Hawk in the first place wasn't the best move but that's obviously 20/20 in hindsight.

I follow you're logic if another move had been planned and executed not long after the option was exercised. Here we are a year later with little to no options of improving the roster.

Again, each move in a vacuum is whatever, but in totality? Team has regressed and given itself little room for error.

Flip it...

Would you want to give up picks to obtain Jordan Hawkins?

If the answer is no, then why would any NBA team?

This is what I always mean when it comes to further consequences down the road, no matter how small the move is...

That extra $7m would allow us to use MLE right now or maybe we already would have at this point in the offseason. Picking up his option was never the right move.

It’s really Olynyk or Drew Eubanks at this point unless a trade gets made soon after the LeBron drama ends

I don't think that's true. Never struck me as a guy that disliked it here.

I just think he's been wanting to go back to Europe for awhile. I know he wanted to go last year but the Nuggets blocked him from doing that.

I can see Olave, Delp, Brown, Johnson

Don't see Lance, Tyson

Can't make out the others