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thethe said:
Please name the teams that drafted three top 10 players in three consecutive years in addition to one of the top 5 defensive bigs in the league that can stretch the floor.

Thunder have drafted just fine afterwards. Jackson mailed it in because he wanted to go elsewhere. Adams and McGary are promising young bigs. Even a guy like Roberson has a place in this league once he improves his shooting. Nobody hits every year in the draft.
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Well, to be fair........Harden wasn't top 10 when you had him so that wouldn't make any sense.

GSW drafted Curry / Klay / Barnes / Dray
Hawks have drafted Teague and Horford
Wiz - Wall and Beal
Pistons - Knight / Drum / Monroe
Pacers - Hibbert and George
Cavs - Bron and Irving
Blazers - Trill / Wes / Batum
Magic - Vic and Nikola

Obviously not saying these guys are all top 10 because that makes no sense, my point is....plenty of teams draft well. Not many teams are so bad that they have 3 straight years of top 5 picks, usually once you draft that superstar you aren't drafting in the top 5 again, much-less 2 more times.
 
None of those teams comes close to the group of four players drafted by the thunder. A tough choice had to be made as a result of that.
 
chop2chip said:
You still have to evaluate players effectively. Rudy Gay was available and they could have easily obtained him, but they chose not to.

Conversely, they went all in on Harden because they saw a player that was undervalued who was question mark. Other teams could have traded for Harden, but Houston was the only one with the foresight to understand he was worth betting the house.
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Again, he was only available because OKC was dumb and panicked for no reason. I don't think Houston should get credit because they got extremely lucky because another team was extremely dumb.
 
thethe said:
None of those teams comes close to the group of four players drafted by the thunder. A tough choice had to be made as a result of that.
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I guess you can't read.......ok........anyways.........GS is going to pay Curry / Klay / Dray
 
and the implications of those dollars with the way the cba is designed is huge. It effects how much of the mle you can offer among other things. there is a reason teams aren't jumping into the tax nowadays.
 
thethe said:
and the implications of those dollars with the way the cba is designed is huge. It effects how much of the mle you can offer among other things. there is a reason teams aren't jumping into the tax nowadays.
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You would have only been in the tax in the 2nd or 3rd year of his deal, you had plenty of time to get under the tax and not be a repeat offender or an offender at all. OKC panicked and made a dumb, dumb, trade.
 
BRule said:
You would have only been in the tax in the 2nd or 3rd year of his deal, you had plenty of time to get under the tax and not be a repeat offender or an offender at all. OKC panicked and made a dumb, dumb, trade.
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Knowing the future is a valueable skill I suppose
 
thethe said:
Knowing the future is a valueable skill I suppose
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It's not knowing the future......they knew that before they traded him. The contract wouldn't have put them in jeopardy until the 2nd year, I believe, it might have been the 3rd year but I think it's the 2nd. So they had 2 years to move around a couple mil and get under the cap. How don't you get that?
 
And yet nobody was screaming about that at the time of the trade. Revisionist history is fun.
 
From your boy Mayberry when the trade happened:

The Thunder got close to equal value for Harden, and there were luxury tax concerns involved in the OKC situation, so it's complicated. But the money's too convenient an excuse. They had plenty of time to make other cost-cutting moves, and the absolute worst case scenario was paying the luxury tax and forfeiting profits for a few years (while the team appreciates in value at a rate that probably dwarfs the losses).

WHERE IS HIS CRYSTAL BALL?????????
 
BRule said:
Again, he was only available because OKC was dumb and panicked for no reason. I don't think Houston should get credit because they got extremely lucky because another team was extremely dumb.
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28 other teams could have traded for Harden...
 
BRule said:
From your boy Mayberry when the trade happened:

The Thunder got close to equal value for Harden, and there were luxury tax concerns involved in the OKC situation, so it's complicated. But the money's too convenient an excuse. They had plenty of time to make other cost-cutting moves, and the absolute worst case scenario was paying the luxury tax and forfeiting profits for a few years (while the team appreciates in value at a rate that probably dwarfs the losses).

WHERE IS HIS CRYSTAL BALL?????????
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The crystal ball comment was in reference to the cap skyrocketing. Mayberry doesn't understand the restrictions in place when you are a taxpayers you have no flexibility to build a team.
 
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