Shaq on Charlotte: "Coach Needs to be Fired"

[Shocker]

On 4/10/2018 at 4:00 PM, Chaos said:

The problem is we’ve relied on Marvin Williams, MKG, Cody Zeller, and Nic Batum to be the starting firepower for this team.  Monk ain’t gonna save that.  Drafting and FA work has been poo here forever, but let’s just clean house and let Mitch rebuild it.  Clifford is a stubborn mule.  

Well if anything we rely on Kemba for firepower but I see your point to some extent. Agree on Clifford, we just need a new perpective and a good pick in this draft.

[DeSim]

I want Batum gone from this team ASAP. 

Say a team in the 20s, for example like the Pacers (20th pick) wanted to move up in the draft, and they offered us only their 20th pick for our 11th pick and they’d take on the Batum contract, would y’all do it?

That question also in the scenario if we were to somehow get lucky in the lottery, landing a top 3 pick.  Of course it’d be hard for one to trade away their top 3 pick when having it, due to its high value. So i’m not sure if i’d be able to move out of the top 3 in order to just get rid of a crazy bad contract.  But if any of you were willing to trade the top 3 pick and Batum, how far back of a pick would you take back in order to get rid of that contract? 

 

[chknwing]

4 hours ago, DeSim said:

I want Batum gone from this team ASAP. 

Say a team in the 20s, for example like the Pacers (20th pick) wanted to move up in the draft, and they offered us only their 20th pick for our 11th pick and they’d take on the Batum contract, would y’all do it?

That question also in the scenario if we were to somehow get lucky in the lottery, landing a top 3 pick.  Of course it’d be hard for one to trade away their top 3 pick when having it, due to its high value. So i’m not sure if i’d be able to move out of the top 3 in order to just get rid of a crazy bad contract.  But if any of you were willing to trade the top 3 pick and Batum, how far back of a pick would you take back in order to get rid of that contract? 

 

the talent drops off quickly the further you go down in the draft.  There are other ways of dumping Batum than sacrificing talent on our draft pick.

[Shocker]

7 hours ago, DeSim said:

I want Batum gone from this team ASAP. 

Say a team in the 20s, for example like the Pacers (20th pick) wanted to move up in the draft, and they offered us only their 20th pick for our 11th pick and they’d take on the Batum contract, would y’all do it?

That question also in the scenario if we were to somehow get lucky in the lottery, landing a top 3 pick.  Of course it’d be hard for one to trade away their top 3 pick when having it, due to its high value. So i’m not sure if i’d be able to move out of the top 3 in order to just get rid of a crazy bad contract.  But if any of you were willing to trade the top 3 pick and Batum, how far back of a pick would you take back in order to get rid of that contract? 

 

Not sure it works like that we still have to take back similar salary.  Draft pick or no...again we cant get rid of Batum...no real options to be honest.

[DeSim]

28 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Not sure it works like that we still have to take back similar salary.  Draft pick or no...again we cant get rid of Batum...no real options to be honest.

Yeah, options are very limited, and what I mentioned is almost impossible. But I was just asking everyone to see what they would do in that scenario. 

But anyways, if Kupchak is somehow able to get rid of Batum without taking back a similar salary...oml, I would be speechless. 

[Shocker]

3 minutes ago, DeSim said:

Yeah, options are very limited, and what I mentioned is almost impossible. But I was just asking everyone to see what they would do in that scenario. 

But anyways, if Kupchak is somehow able to get rid of Batum without taking back a similar salary...oml, I would be speechless. 

Hard to believe we probably have him and his escalating cap number for 3 more full seasons.  Yuck.

[PantherKing1983]

2 minutes ago, DeSim said:

Yeah, options are very limited, and what I mentioned is almost impossible. But I was just asking everyone to see what they would do in that scenario. 

But anyways, if Kupchak is somehow able to get rid of Batum without taking back a similar salary...oml, I would be speechless. 

well there is no way of not taking back similar salary because thats not how the nba works 

what i think the best option is going to be attach mkg or batum along with a first to go after a guy who also needs a change of scenery 

if we had too even add a guy like monk in to have a shot to do so i think its something the team will explore