Brian – Can we boot up a new thread? This one is getting looooong…….

I started a new thread!

can KP be this effin stupid?

He was probably poisoned on the Fizdale relationship before it began. Fizdale famously degraded European basketball in his feud with Marc Gasol. So KP probably viewed it through a prism impacted by that.

I think Fiz handled Kanter properly. But I can see how KP, if he was predisposed to thinking Fiz was anti-Euro, could see Fiz’ behavior as supporting his bias. Fairly or unfairly, Kanter, Hezonja, and Frank have been jerked around a lot this season while equally shitty players like Mudiay and Hardaway have had the constant, unwavering support of the coach.

I realize this is Berman, but can KP be this effin stupid?

I sincerely doubt it. Would you seriously trust Kanter’s secondhand take on what someone else did?

You ever break up with a girl who’s a 7 because you think there’s this 9 out that might be interested in you? Then you go after the 9, she turns you down, and you go slinking back to the 7. Did she take you back?

Bad management. You have to have that 9 locked down through back channels before you blow it all up and go for cap space.

Funny there’s no mention of Mitch. Even funnier is that he likes Knox’ floater.

Knox, DSJ, and Frank are not getting a trade done.

one of them is legitimately bad on both sides of the ball right now.
one of them is a negative on both side of the ball right now
one of them seems to have a top as a 3&D+playmaker if he ever learns to shoot.

If Robinson looks great going forward, with his contract, if you also throw him in and the 1st rounder that might get it done. But I’m wondering if Durant + Davis + a totally gutted team is a good formula when Durant will be 31 at the start of the next season.

Kanter became the fourth-string center after the Porzingis trade brought in DeAndre Jordan. But Fizdale had toyed with his role from the beginning of the season. After five games, Fizdale promoted rookie project Robinson to starting center — a slap in the veteran’s face. Kanter claimed Porzingis was irritated by Fizdale’s treatment of his fellow European.

That only affects whether the team that traded for him would want to keep him.The specific point being refuted was that a player would not want to return to a team that traded him (” You made him move. You got rid of him.”) and it seems clear that players generally don’t actually care about that (I’m sure that there are exceptions, of course).

we pointed out two times that teams traded a player and then re-signed him in the offseason in just the last three seasons (Devin Harris last year and one of the guys that the Hornets traded for Courtney Lee three years ago)

That could be but I would guess that the re-signed players were part of a bigger trade where they were included for salary matching purposes, and the receiving team wasn’t really interested in keeping them. That’s very different from trading Vonleh to a team that wants him and he is the only component of the trade.