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2013 vs NO

Boooooo. Why you hate the Warriors?

They are the NBA version of the Seahawks. A franchise with a loyal fanbase that always had a fun underdog edge to it (mostly because of bad luck/management, etc) but then they got good and now people that never watched the NBA before in their lives are huge Warrior fans.

Ironically that underdog image that GS always carried with them in the playoffs now belongs to Memphis.

I'm sick of Steph Curry being front page news here in Charlotte like we don't have our own team. Each headline is just an evil reminder of how irrelevant the home team became this season.

I'm probably the only dude from NC that doesn't like Steph. Fug him and Green lol. I don't hate the Warriors. I'm still salty they swept the Pelicans.

That's like a Sonics fan saying they like the Thunder...

Lol it is possible to accept Steves success while acknowledging his attitude wasn't the greatest, people.

If attitude wasn't an issue, he'd still be a Panther.

Pelicans let coach Monty Williams go. Heard they're going after Bulls coach Thibs when he's eventually let go this offseason.

Just what the nba needs. Another superstar run into the ground by thibs.

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I like how it's STRENGTH IN NUMBERS but only the starting five are pictured.

It's a building process...

What I find funny is how most fans bash MKG and call him a bust and that we aren't going anywhere with him.

SA won the title last year anchored by Leonard.

Mem is the favorite to win this year anchored by Allen.

MKG is a younger version of those guys.

This is true, but:

Parker, Ginobili, Duncan are HOF.

Conley, Randolph, Gasol are All-Stars.

The defensive wing is absolutely a crucial piece, but he needs to be your third or fourth best player when all is said and done. MKG being so important is more of an indictment of the talent around him than anything else.

Hornets a grit n grind team? Every time I saw ya'll it was all about Walker, Williams, and Lance taking them jumpers (lol)

More last year than this year, but there were moments where we made it happen. The peak was the home and home sweep of this Wizards team punctuated by a sequence where we got three or four consecutive offensive rebounds to close the game out, but of course a couple games later MKG gets injured in Philly and everything fell apart after that.

This is the style the Hornets want to play, the difference is Memphis is talented. Charlotte...isn't.

Of COURSE the grit and grind teams do well in the playoffs the year the Hornets have a combined billion games missed for injury and Al Jefferson remembered he was not Hakeem Olajuwon.

Ugh.

The whole "QBs are solely responsible for a football team's success" is probably the greatest myth in sports history.

It's the fear of the uncertainty if you let the QB walk.

Sure, Wilson MIGHT easily be replicated, but if they can't find him, they'll end up with a dominant defense and terrible offense that results in the 7-9 purgatory of the Rams (or pretty much every Panthers team from 2006-2011.)

The Seahawks were one RW draft pick away from starting Matt Flynn. Who knows what they or the NFL landscape in general looks like if RW never shows up?

That guy who wrote the "Niners should go all in on Luke" article is about to pull out ALL the stops for his next one.

True, but a D-League team is not going to make poo off of ticket sales no matter where they put it.

They would make more money in long run growing their market and growing their presence in the Raleigh market than worrying about ticket sales.

We have more competition, but we have more people and more diversity than Asheville and Charleston.

Actually Triad area makes a lot of sense too. So I vote Raleigh or Greensboro

 

Counterpoint: They're not going to grow the market in the Triangle where college basketball is always king and they also have the Hurricanes to deal with.

 

Folks are not going to journey out to Dorton Arena when they could be at PNC or Reynolds for NC State and the Canes. What makes the Checkers/Canes relationship work is the Checkers are the only hockey option in Charlotte. In this arrangement you're looking at basketball vs basketball, and NC State and the rest of the elite basketball programs are always going to win the attention span of the market.

 

The D-League works best in smaller communities where the rest of the low minor league sports are. Asheville and even Fayetteville fit that bill much better.

It should be Asheville or Charleston. Charleston is actually ideal: a growing city with lots of 20-somethings, who, sorry Asheville, like social life that extends beyond breweries and book stores (though I admit I enjoy both). They'd draw well there.

Raleigh would be bad because it'd compete with State and the Hurricanes. Fayetteville, Greenville and others? Thanks for playing, but an emphatic no.

TWC Arena to US Cellular Center (Asheville ): 2 hours 13 minutes

TWC Arena to North Charleston Coliseum (Charleston): 3 hours 7 minutes

I would like for us to sign Collins, but will not be heartbroken if we don't,it's not like he would be the LT of our future.

Plus 2016 has arguably a better class of tackles than this one, headlined by Tunsil and Stanley.

Could you imagine if the Taints had both Collins and Peat?

Look out 6-10!

Gettleman seems like he does not want to be anywhere near his situation.

He was asked directly about it on Monday on WFNZ and pretty much said " i just cant talk about hypotheticals or make any comment on this situation this kid is going through"

He answered it in a way that was in a hell no sorta way.

Well in print it seems like he would like to pursue Collins but he has no concrete proof of innocence and until then he will stay as far away as possible.

Like JJ said, "No, we are not interested in La'El Collins" is sitting right there as a perfectly succinct and concrete answer. But that's not what he said.

Hopefully Asheville gets it. We have familiarity with the area after using them as training camp, they recently renovated the Civic Center which is the ideal size, and it's far enough away and in a small enough community to be appreciated by the market yet close enough to be convenient for the team.

Also Asheville is the only city to win back to back d-league titles. Unfortunately the team relocated after the second one, but this was before the d league was really taken seriously by the nba as a minor league system.

Obligatory "They're already a d-league team!" joke...

His innocence still needs to be proven before I think we should even discuss him as a Panther.

Sad that this is the complete opposite of how the system is supposed to work but is the reality of the situation.

Atlanta. Still some formidable talent on that squad and improved in the areas they needed.

Just a matter of whether Quinn is a good coach or if he's a product of that sheer talent on the Seattle defense. Also, that offensive line still needs an overhaul and that wasn't addressed in the draft.

Armani Edwards

Trade up

High draft pick

Project

3 year garbage muffler

Ultimate NFL failure

Blitch: UDFA invited to practice

Go suck a dick, GO NINERS

Well tell us how you really feel...

What the heck is a "Three year garbage muffler?"

He was taken after a junior punter and a long snapper from Navy.

This draft class as a whole just isn't very good, especially in later rounds.

I hate giving up picks. I like Funchess, but it's hard for me to know that we could have kept our 3rd, taken Jaelen Strong in the 2nd, and taken Carl Davis with our 3rd. That would have really given us strong depth at DT. Our backup DTs are getting OLD.

The intent was never to use all nine picks. By acquiring two comps that were untradeable it gave us an opportunity to trade picks if we wanted to.

At some point last year we started nine or so rookies. Folks forget how young this team is, and with all that youth making impacts on the roster, the less we need a glutton of picks. Just no room on the roster.

As was mentioned earlier in the thread, this draft seems to be about acquiring that which we need going forward to compete on a higher level. Needs that we had pointed out on this board all season. A second receiver across from Kelvin, and a Chancellor-esque rover in the defense, among other things. At the end of day, there are still four picks to play with in the rounds that have proven to be in the Panthers wheelhouse recently.

I am less than thrilled with the pick, but I trust Gettleman and as long as it was not a RB I am fine

Well, technically...

I don't think anyone is saying he's not a good player. Given the circumstances we shouldn't have picked him

What would we get out of Phillip Dorsett that we don't already have in Philly and Ted Ginn?

Under the circumstances, no more first round tackles were available. We were prepared to take DJ. Things just didn't fall our way.

We can wait on the big bodied receivers (Strong, Funchess) or deep threat (Smith) that Cam needs later in the draft.

It was a reach. Gettleman got away from his BPA that he's been screaming to draft a guy he fell in love with for some reason.

Gettleman got away from the MEDIA bpa, not his own. Big difference.

Remember, Kelvin was a mid 2nd rounder according to the experts, too.