Recent content by ovrush

That is of course unless you're agreeing with one point of view (the one held by most of the mods, not necessarily Cpt. who is generally very fair). In which case you can feel free to deride other posters, call them unethical, have a full thread about them being cheaters, or as seen in a post...

Just for the record the Kings have had exactly 1 Top 3 pick since 1991. That Pick was Billy Owens, who we turned into Mitch Richmond who led us to the playoffs... who we then flipped for Chris Webber, who was the key piece to our golden years.

What I've seen is people saying wins don't matter because you can miss on picks or there have been good picks lower which people will debate with mathematical facts and historical numbers. If people are outright saying people are stupid for not agreeing with tanking then they are wrong. I...

I think there's a huge difference between pointing out mathematical facts and historical truths and calling everyone who supports lins cheaters and hypocrites. Also, I agree on the common ground. I've generally stayed away from posting on it, but felt I needed to reply based on what was...

So to sum up the previous 2 posts: - it's ok to have one thread where discourse is illeagal for one side, but not for the other side - Characterizing one side as win at all costs is wrong, but the other side )who continuously say they want the players on the floor to try their best) as tanking...

There's a ton of logical fallacies in that post, primary among them is faulty parallelism. Cheating on an SAT (where you are breaking established and clear rules) is not in any way similar to running a business in the most efficient manner within the framework of clear and established rules...

Might have to consider it. If the pick this year falls outside the top 5 (knowing us we'll fall to 8th) there's no benefit to adding another non star young player to a roster riddled with ok young but not great young talent. Combined with no pick next year, and the all time record for playoff...

which is irrelevant because we root for the absolute dumbest franchise in sports, and we're going to ride our 40 year old vets to a meaningless win tonight and certainly more meaningless wins before the end of the season, cost ourselves a star, miss our lotto pick next year, lose our young...

totally unscientific personal belief! Let's just say if we don't get a top 5 pick this year, and I had to bet every dollar I had to my name on if we would make the playoffs again before 2023, I would bet against it rather than for it. Whereas if we get a top five pick this year I would bet we...

Honestly if we don't get into the top 5 this year it puts the chances of us being a lottery team for another 5 years over 80%.

I can see a scenario where we trade it. That scenario is where we get the top pick and trade back while staying in the top five to pick up a high value 2019 pick. Similar to what Boston did this year. Beyond that, I don't think there's any reason to trade the pick. Thinking about that...

Cuban may have shot the Mavs in the foot with his mouth. Mavs playing the Thunder tough playing their vets down the stretch.

Plus he'll cost a ton compared to other options that will be available this summer. I'd rather take a flyer on Nerlens Noel for cheap who I know when healthy can rebound and defend at a high level (when healthy) than spend money on Gordon who puts up innefficient numbers on a bad team and isn't...

couldn't we simply bring Papa back since it sounds like we're going to be waiving Joe Johnson if we felt like there was anything there at all?

No I agree, it's what you get when you have amateurs running the show. I've accepted we're back to the 80's and are in some bizarro reiteration of Bill (Vlade) Russell will save us because he was good at basketball. I'm just waiting for the next Ralph Sampson trade (Unless Buddy secretly has...