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Lonestar88

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  1. The new CBA introduced a second tax apron that is so punitive that it scared off Steve Ballmer, the richest owner in the league by far, from re-signing Paul George. The era of the super team is effectively over. Unfortunately, teams that draft well are going to be punished by this too. If you happen to draft 3 or more max-type players, your window to win with them is now shorter, you’re going to have to dump somebody before those contracts all inflate and cause you to reach that second tax apron.
  2. If our current DT strategy is the same strategy we had under Bo, then it likely wasn’t all his fault. If you aren’t going to commit a bunch of NIL money to DT then you definitely should be recruiting backup plans better. Our strategy at the position makes no sense. One of the backup guys we didn’t really bother to recruit much, Chace Simms, just committed to aggy.
  3. I wasn’t doubting his ability, just that he seems like a long shot at the moment, long thought to be a silent commit to ND.
  4. Well, this would be silly. Especially if it’s about Faraimo. I think our LB room is healthy, but it’s far from impenetrable. But I guess depth chart could be about more than just his position. Either way, sounds like somebody else’s negative recruiting got to him.
  5. So what exactly happened with Pettijohn? Went from leading most of the recruitment to a distant 4th.
  6. I have no problem with the Kenny Baker hire if you think he can develop talent well. But if you hire a guy with no skins on the wall, then you need to dedicate more resources to DL recruiting to make up for that. And up until recently, CTJ was saying we weren’t doing that. That isn’t just a Kenny Baker problem, that’s a resource management problem from Sark. All this talk about 3 5-star WRs is cool, but it’s literally the lowest thing on the needs list right now.
  7. The Hawks just do stuff man, no cohesive long term plan. 5 actually. 4 of them were unprotected but there was another 1st round pick that was top 4 protected.
  8. There needs to be some re-evaluation of priorities by this coaching staff.
  9. Yep. I wish Gerry would at least specify the sport for his “Hi” comments.
  10. My point is this hardline stuff only works well when it’s for a player that teams don’t really care about. And Rich Paul knows this, it’s why he hasn’t tried the same thing with his clients that are actually lottery picks.
  11. Last year, but it was Rich Paul again, so maybe you don’t want to count it? He did it last year with a different player, Chris Livingston. No one really gave a damn though, because no one cares about Chris Livingston. https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/2023-nba-draft-rich-paul-told-teams-not-to-draft-chris-livingston/#:~:text=Then%2C on Thursday%2C Paul reportedly,spot in the second round.&text=Paul was seen at the,serious while on his phone.
  12. So what? If it’s a player you actually care about, then that’s when you call the bluff, not now. Steph Curry told the Golden State Warriors not to draft him, because he wanted to play for the Knicks. The Warriors drafted him anyways, because they actually valued him as a prospect, and it worked out pretty well. Shit like this happens all the time and when the player is good enough, teams don’t give a damn.
  13. Why? What’s the upside for the team doing it? You’re going to get a bunch of annoying media around for a kid you don’t even want.
  14. It didn’t take much strong arming, no team was genuinely interested in Bronny as a prospect anyway. Another team taking him just would’ve been a ploy to try to get Lebron, but if Bronny’s camp is saying don’t draft him, that’s Lebron telling you that ploy wouldn’t work.
  15. This is a terrible draft, but Knecht is good value at this point.
  16. Not even on his list of schools he’s focusing on though.
  17. DB recruiting is more annoying to me right now than DL recruiting. At least Baker just got here, what’s Gideon’s and Joseph’s excuse? We’re already talking about flipping 3-stars from SMU.
  18. Zero percent chance he wins that if he’s still committed to SMU. Everything else could’ve been the same. That’s how dumb shit like this works.
  19. He just committed to aggy, so I doubt he’s still coming in for his visit next week.
  20. Big dude. Could play multiple spots on the D-line.
  21. I don’t even know what he posted.
  22. This is a super weak draft too. Sliding in this class is embarrassing.
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