Leroy loves Afflalo for some reason.

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/233871/Dario-Saric-Signs-Three-Year-Deal-With-Anadolu-Efes

Seems like a soft move. I'm not totally hating on him but it smells cowardly. If you're really that good, prove it. Don't hide in Europe. If you're decent at all you'll get rewarded on your next contract. Just ask Enes Kanter.

^ I blame people/society. He would go from superstar in Europe to scrub off the bench in the US. He's getting his ass kissed over there, and he'd come here to hear people question whether he should really even be playing basketball or not

^ A very fair point. Borderline genius thought process tbh

Just seems odd to me that if you're a great basketball player you wouldn't want to play in the greatest basketball league in the world. Whatever makes the guy happy I suppose.

I think it's just a mental thing at this point. I mean look at how many euro PG/SG/SF's there are in the NBA. Even the few successful ones like Rubio & Dragic took their sweet ass time getting themselves ready for the competition.

They just need time to feel out the scrutiny they'll recieve imo. It took Rubio like 3 years to finally come over lol.

Euro bigs can come whenever the hell they want cause the media/public doesn't care about bigs anyways. But when a guy comes for the throne of the holy Jesus Derrick Rose, there's a problem.

Even Petrovic didn't want to come over to get treated like shit

Jesus Swagglesworth wrote:

^ I blame people/society. He would go from superstar in Europe to scrub off the bench in the US. He's getting his ass kissed over there, and he'd come here to hear people question whether he should really even be playing basketball or not

First of all I'm in Croatia and I know the whole situation...

He wants to get 1 or 2 years of Euroleague experience so he can prepare for the NBA...

He didn't play in the Euroleague yet, he won the ABA league which is the 3rd best league in the Europe so this makes a lot of sense...

He's better than 50% of the NBA atj...

But yeah, I agree Leroy, he doesn't want to get treated like shit...

Bryan wrote:

Leroy loves Afflalo for some reason.

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/233871/Dario-Saric-Signs-Three-Year-Deal-With-Anadolu-Efes

Seems like a soft move. I'm not totally hating on him but it smells cowardly. If you're really that good, prove it. Don't hide in Europe. If you're decent at all you'll get rewarded on your next contract. Just ask Enes Kanter.

You think playing in the Euroleauge or ABA leauge is easy?

You think that Europe is some kind of a joke?

Some nba players struggled mightly in europe...

Jesus Swagglesworth wrote:

I think it's just a mental thing at this point. I mean look at how many euro PG/SG/SF's there are in the NBA. Even the few successful ones like Rubio & Dragic took their sweet ass time getting themselves ready for the competition.

They just need time to feel out the scrutiny they'll recieve imo. It took Rubio like 3 years to finally come over lol.

Euro bigs can come whenever the hell they want cause the media/public doesn't care about bigs anyways. But when a guy comes for the throne of the holy Jesus Derrick Rose, there's a problem.

Even Petrovic didn't want to come over to get treated like shit

Saric is a PF brah, maybe SF, but PF like Diaw...

Petrovic came and got treated like shit in Portland...

^ undersized PF doesn't count as big

He's a PF by default cause chances are, he can't guard NBA SF's. If he could, he would be SF. If this was the mid 2000's, he'd be in that big SF Peja role

Small ball ftl

Even uber athletic 6'7 Trevor Booker is forced to play PF. He's faster than John Wall ffs


Random: Mexicans in LA rioting over Mexico beating Cro...

docriversstare.gif

lmao

Mexicans played with guts and character, we're just pussy ass niggaz...

It doesn't but he plays big in the halfcourt brah...

Leave the open court stuff alone

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/story/_/id/11127329/lebron-james-opt-contract-miami-heat&ex_cid=sportscenterfb

Damn...

all these obvious opt outs aren't news lol

Now it's time for bosh & wade to opt out and realize that they shouldn't be in the league atj... That won't happen of course, but at least take a huge paycut

Ante wrote:

Bryan wrote:

Leroy loves Afflalo for some reason.

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/233871/Dario-Saric-Signs-Three-Year-Deal-With-Anadolu-Efes

Seems like a soft move. I'm not totally hating on him but it smells cowardly. If you're really that good, prove it. Don't hide in Europe. If you're decent at all you'll get rewarded on your next contract. Just ask Enes Kanter.

You think playing in the Euroleauge or ABA leauge is easy?

You think that Europe is some kind of a joke?

Some nba players struggled mightly in europe...

I never said playing in Europe was easy. All I said was the NBA is the best basketball league on this planet, which without argument is the truth. I'm fully aware that some NBA players would struggle in Europe. I watched the 2004 Olympic basketball games.   

These opt outs are lovely news tid bits. Once free agency actually begins things should be delightful. I'd love to see Melo and LeBron team up in some weird place like Atlanta or Philly. Draft is in 2 days and nobody has any clue who will go top 5. I can't wait tbh.

Croatia has shamed themselves in the World Cup.

^^ Agreed, NBA is the best, I'm just saying, staying 2 years in Europe and playing at the 2nd highest possible basketball level will only benefit him...

Yep, I want the offseason frenzy, can't wait for the draft etc...

We gonna do the mock draft?

Our football team is full of stars who just aren't organised...

No team concept whatsoever etc...

I think Luka won the mock draft contest last year. God rest his soul, where ever he is. I see him on PSN once in awhile.

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/233895/Kings-Pistons-Discuss-Josh-Smith-Trade

  

Kings get an "A" for effort. I give them that. Too bad all the moves they make suck.

I noticed Luka's birthday notification is still on lol. Almost forgot to turn mine off

Josh would cover Boogies defensive negatives. Good man to man defender but they need an athletic dude roaming around like a douche. Smith is that guy. Just don't let him chuck

If they get him, dream team is almost done. Just sign lance, and we got ourselves a real team

I saw your birthday notification buddy. Happy 19th etc

Rudy Gay exercised his 19 mil player option for next year...SHOCKING

If the draft/free agency turns out to be boring I might kill myself. I'm so bored with PSN at this juncture I can't take anymore boringness. It's getting to the point where I'm looking forward to TLOU coming out on PS4 at the end of July. A recycled game basically. FML

Eh I'm not 19 yet, you jinxed it, I'm not gonna make it etc

You could always try gta 5 lol. Just play the story if you hate social degent stuff so much

I find the story mode to be more social degent style than the online portion. I just find the online mode boring. I find playing offline (or online) "missions" pointless and for social degents. I'm between a rock and a hard place with that game breh. I was just thinking today how much I liked the previous GTA and how much I don't like the new one. Very odd to me. I got the previous one when it first came out in like 2006 and played that up until last August or so. That being said, GTA is still tempting to me.

lol @ Dan Gilbert replying to a tweet from Elpresador.

GIFSoup

Just saw the tweet, lol'd hard

I think something got into your head. I thoroughly enjoyed gta 4 and same situation with gta 5. Online does get repetitive, but it's a nice change of pace. I only play the online missions in solo sessions. Screw dealing with other social degents.

Single player >

Single player with online character >

SP on gta V>

GTA V > GTA IV no doubt...

Kings trying to get Rondo and Smith...

http://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2014/06/corrections-to-1994-pacers/

This is funny as shit...

^ what the hell lol. Antonio Beast Davis moving up in the world

I don't understand trying to get Rondo... He's not exactly gonna have the best guys to dish it out to... Unless they all just attack and cut to the paint the ENTIRE game

Kings got 0 shooters. McLemore is ass. RIP him

I agree, no shooters = RR has like 6 apg next season...

Have you guys watched Fargo, True Detective?

Invite me to a mission whenever you're online Leroy, I'm so bored I play gta online as well.

I'm sure Bryan watches true detective at least lol


Crax how much money you got on your gta character? I got like 500k so I'm forced to play missions only lol. I can't really have a typical rampage cause everything is overpriced. A silencer on a pistol for $12,000 jfc gtfo

I've got like 700k atm, if you get invited to Rooftop Rumble mission ACCEPT, you get 18k and 4k RP. There's really nothing to spend money on once you buy an apartment and couple of vehicles that you want.

I've watched True Detective, awesome show. Waited for Fargo to end and now got 10 eps of this to binge on. Fan of the original movie, I hear series is good too.

^^ Yes, Dexy, True Detective is the greatest shit I've watched, but...

Fargo is better...Sligthly...

TD has more personality IMO...

Fargo is just cold...