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What does renouncing arenas in 2015 mean?
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I'm not going off of 5 games, i'm going back to when they burst onto the scene as a contender several years ago and refused to have a decent backup behind Conley. I just always felt that they were a backup point guard away, even though perimeter scoring was lacking. They would look good and then you had Gilbert Arenas, Bayless, Calathes, Udrich and whoever else coming off the bench and the entire dyanamic of the team would change. Heck in the game Conley got injured in the playoffs last year, Gasol and Z-bo were bringing the ball up the court while Beno and Calathes were on the bench.
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I guess I misunderstood what you were trying to convey: but even with clarification I can't agree the window for adding a backup Guard has closed
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This would've been correct prior to the 2013-14 season. Beno and Calathes were serviceable backups for the team. It wasn't their fault the team lost in the playoffs, but more so of the fact we lacked another scorer. A backup PG was not the difference between us beating the Warriors last year or even beating OKC the year before that. A healthy group and Zbo not being suspended in Game 7 would have at least made things a lot more interesting.
Backup PG's are not going to be the savior of a team. Beno was serviceable, but he sucked defensively. Beno was one of the reasons we beat Portland in that series before he got hurt. Calathes was also serviceable, but he couldn't shoot. Not to mention Lee played some backup as well. We were fine over the last two years at backup PG, but we still lacked a true perimeter scorer outside of Conley. Now, when we was out there playing Gilbert Arenas and OJ Mayo at backup PG, you had a legit arrgument.
At the end of the day, Chalmers is no more of a "true backup PG" than Beno was. He's just better defensively and I still don't trust him to run the offense in the 2nd unit. I guarantee you Jeff Green will still play the point forward role as he's been doing this year. This is another reason why I didn't understand the trade.
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Even in 2010-11, we had Vasquez but moved him for Pondexter. The only two years we truly struggled at backup PG was 2011-12 (Jeremy Pargo / Gilbert Arenas) and 2012-13 (Bayless).
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Freeze wilding again
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repped for putting all those gifs in spoilers
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Freeze wilding again
Kobe being washed really seems to be getting to my man.
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Freeze wilding again
Kobe being washed really seems to be getting to my man.
Stay safe, Freeze. Its ok to get help if you need it.
loll. i'm thankful for my NT support system.
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no clue how he continues to get work.. like what did this dude do with the 76ers that made another team think "hey, you know who would be a good hire.. billy!"
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Here's the simplest explanation for renouncing rights:
Basically, renouncing a player gets rid of a cap hold. Teams only renounce rights when they're under the cap so they can free up space to sign players. The Celtics recently renounced a bunch of random players from a long time ago, like Shaq, Marbury, Dana Barros, Scott Pollard, Michael Olowokandi (yes lol), etc. They were a luxury tax team for years (with the Big 3 and others), so it didn't matter, as if they ever wanted to re-sign one of those players they could go over the cap (thanks to Bird Rights). This year, they wanted to sign Amir Johnson and Jonas Jerebko, and they were under the salary cap, so they renounced a bunch of players to get rid of those cap holds.
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Just watched Kawhi's highlights. They are 
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This is the first time in his whole career that Duncan wasn't arguably considered the best player on the Spurs. Torch has been passed. Worthy successor
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Never seen all those gifs of Bron screaming at Chalmers
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Nene flexes on young Butler and raised his hand like he was gonna swing. Teague hits a man in the face and I've heard nothing yet. Suspend that man. Nene missed a playoff game.
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