TheMostInterestingMan

11 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, I'd be pretty happy with him if he was a mid-round pick instead of a top 10 overall pick.

No one is calling him a bust but you're lying to yourself if you think he's truly playing well.

In fairness, the same can be said about Fields and that’s who people that hated the Horn pick wanted us to take. I understand positional value but both have been pretty meh thus far. 

Secondary. And that’s only because we’ve finally invested draft capital into the position. 

58 minutes ago, Ivan The Awesome said:

gotta lay those breadcrumbs of failure early, so Rhule has a scapegoat. 

Like everyone else, I’m ready for Rhule to leave. But the obsession some of you have with this man is unhealthy at best. Literally can’t have a single post without it turning into a Rhule sucks extravaganza 

2 hours ago, Basbear said:

Just Here to pledge my support for @TheMostInterestingMan in this thread WR war.

I just posted as soon as it was reported. So did everyone else though it seems lol

We just traded for him. Not a shabby WR either.

Meh. I’m more of a cardiac cat person. 

3 hours ago, rippadonn said:

The Matt Corral bandwagon as I know it is as follows:

@Catsfan69, @mrcompletely11, @top dawg , @Ricky Spanish and

@rippadonn

All aboard!! If I've left you out jump in!

I’ve been on it since day one. Was my favorite QB in the draft at least a month before the draft went down. Love the guy. 

Tore a tendon in my middle finger in college playing basketball. That was brutally painful but the road to recovery wasn’t so bad. BUT

I snapped my Achilles playing basketball in a YMCA league at 26. That was horrific. The pain was intense and making a full recovery took over nine months. I still have a wicked scar and while I can run around, hike, play sports now etc I will still sometimes get an aching feeling just above my heel if I’ve been working out or running extensively. 
 

ACL injuries are no doubt terrible but snapping your Achilles results in losing pretty much all of the burst and spring you had in that leg. It just doesn’t ever work like it used to after the fact. 

CMC is just probably the best RB in the league when he’s on the field so this doesn’t surprise me. The quest is do we get at least 14 games out of him this season or only 8? 

Anything is possible. Look at the Milwaukee Bucks. All it takes is that one special player and you can win a championship.

The likelihood is low and it’ll have to be through hitting a home run in the draft (probably twice in the span of 2-3 years) but it is possible 

8 minutes ago, YourLastThought said:

I don't know if you have ever noticed but he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed overall and is often times triggered by nothing at all. He is a tinder box mentality guy but spends most of his time here bitching instead of joining the rest of the keyboard mafia on that subforum.

I have noticed. He’s built that hard earned reputation brick by brick lol

5 hours ago, Jared Patterson said:

If Mayfield does well this season (for his level of standards).... That is even worse news for the Panthers future. Means our new coach next year will be put in purgatory at the QB position and likely the Saints/Falcons get the best QBs in the draft.

You are one positive poster, huh? Sheesh. If there’s nothing at all to be even somewhat optimistic about between the Hornets and Panthers then maybe it’s time to take a step back for awhile. 

1 hour ago, Jared Patterson said:

I will be very surprised if he ever gets minutes in the NBA..... lol at the defense is elite comment. Dudes not athletic enough to play in the league. He can only block a few shots in the charge zone in the paint and that's it. Just imagine him guarding a screen and role. We screwed up the trade and the pick was just as bad if not worse.

We’ll see. I think your assessment is pretty damn stupid. You think that mine is. No point in continuing to discuss it with you. 

11 minutes ago, Jared Patterson said:

How did you know . Was more frustrated with not taking Duren/Eason and just how bad the value of the trade was more than anything and taking a lot of that out on Williams, but I truly don't think he will ever be more than a shot blocker/ 8th man off the bench type of guy. 

I was upset about the trade as well. Felt we lost a lot of value there. But that wasn’t Williams fault and I disagree on his potential in the league. He’s got a nice looking free throw. Good form and shot it at a high percentage which indicates he can develop a jump shot in the next few years. And his ability to defend is elite. 

39 minutes ago, Jared Patterson said:

LOL he has played against Shareef Oneal and Amar Sylla and cant beat out Nick Richards....

Show me on this doll where Mark Williams touched you

22 hours ago, 4Corners said:

Grow up doofus 

Holy poo dude it’s a joke. It’s not like he’s making an actual political statement. Learn how to laugh some. Sheesh.

3 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said:

Of Course, Star was underrated in his time with us. Did the dirty work and kept Luke/TD clean. Our Rush defense started to tank after he left. 

I maintained throughout his entire time here that he was more important to us than KK and that if we could only keep one it should be Star. He didn’t get the credit cause he didn’t fill the stat sheet. But he made everyone around him better.

I’ve been feeling pretty bad about both Baker and the Panthers situation overall but if Skip thinks it’s bad then maybe this is all gonna work out alright. 

8 hours ago, rippadonn said:

He really got better in the GLeague. So much so because of his height, defense, his put back ability, blocking, ability to run the floor, his scoring ability he should be in the running for starting PF this season.

I'd move PJ to the 3 to let him dominate smaller forwards. PJ can guard those guys and he does have the feet to keep up and enough length to make it difficult for a 3 and he doesn't have to guard bigger guys night in night out.

I'd put Bouknight at the 2 and just let him play, you've gotta let him get some run. Terry could back up the 1&2. 

Melo 6'7"

Bouk 6'5"

PJ   6'9"

Kai 6'11"

Williams 7'2"

 

I love the potential size and athleticism. My only disagreement (which isn’t really a disagreement because I want Bouk to play way more) is I can’t see us sorting Rozier on the bench. He’s too good to do that to him. But Bouk needs more minutes. I could accept trading Rozier because I think it could make sense. But I have a hard time wrapping my mind around not starting him if he’s on the roster. 
 

Everything else I’m with you on entirely 

34 minutes ago, Wanderlai said:

If the Hornets are part of any trade the best they can hope for in return is a can of Vienna sausages, out of date crackers, and 23 second rd draft picks. 

That’s what it felt like we got on draft night to me haha 

40 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

All that and he barely has a winning record while playing with elite talent? He’s Westbrook… essentially a stat stuffer that can’t win.

We don’t need his defense, we need our players who already good offensively to buy in. Hopefully Clifford can accomplish that. We also don’t need his play making, our offense wasn’t the problem last year and Melo needs to be surrounded by shooters, not guys who can’t make a a five foot jump shot.

Anywho, it’s a moot point anyway as this hypothetical would never happen.

I would add to what you’ve said but you’ve already said it best in this thread. 

12 minutes ago, BIGH2001 said:

Which means it’s not the first time he’s done it. Strangling your partner is basically a precursor to murder. This asshole should go drink codeine until he goes to sleep. 

 

 

Slip something in his lean. He drinks plenty of that apparently 

If the logic behind trading pick #13 was to have enough cap to sign match competitive offers then that trade really looks like we poo the bed now. Wow. And it’s too bad cause he’s been my favorite player on the team. Disappointing.

6 minutes ago, Proudiddy said:

Yeah, sorry...  wasn't intending that towards you, just as a general statement to the people who yammered on about why would we hire D'Antoni when our issue was defense...  so we passed on a likely HOF coach with a proven system who has come closer to an NBA finals multiple times than we ever have...  and not passed on him once, BUT TWICE!  Only to hire a retread we already fired who is stuck in his ways, and his ways, at their best, has a ceiling of getting blown out and/or swept from the playoffs as a 7th or 8th seed.  

Fantastic management, I tell ya!

I was in the D’Antoni camp before it was even reported we had any interest in him. Sadly it didn’t work out but I do wonder if he turned us down the second time after we dissed him for Atkinson. Are we sure we hired Cliff over D’Antoni or did D’Antoni say “nah, you guys didn’t want me the first time so I don’t want you now” because I’ve sorta assumed that’s what happened and we basically cornered ourselves into having to get Cliff