Dude you sound stupid and what I do for living isn't relevant. I could care less about your job

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I didn't just link someone to a post claiming it proves my own point and yet it ended up proving the exact opposite. That was you.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

My post was about Demarcus Cousins. You'd known that if you'd simply bothered to look at the view topic link.

I'm fairly certain that an excuse will be forthcoming. How about Irving? I need to know how Butler is better than him. Those are his contemporaries.

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Jimmy Butler is a better NBA player than Demarcus Cousins. Last year, this year and next year.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

LTG hates Butjer,Thibs, loves the 76ers .It's easy but he turns them into War and Peace threads

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

According to who You? That's what I mean by sounding like an idiot. What's the point of discussing it?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I've been right about all of them. You're the same guy running around talking about Ben Simmons being a bust.

Our little bet is looking really good for me. Pray for an Embiid injury. It's your only chance. I also covered it even after the Butler trade because I'm after all a standup guy.

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Yep. That's not every single writer either.

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Yep! Debating him about them at this point is a waste of time. Whenever I see he's made the last post in this thread I assume he's taking a shot at Butler or Thibs. I'm almost always right.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I think fans like LTG are the reason basketball could never become a #1 sport. Honestly. Sports talk for fans of football and basketball is more nuanced and that leads to interest and talking points. But LTG-type basketball fans are all "durr, durr, points"

LTG fantasy teams would win 2 categories every week. You can guess which two that would be.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

The points I've made about both are true. Thibs record since he has been the coach of the Wolves is a rather sterling 47-63.

Jimmy Butler won't be an All Star this year. He also isn't better than Cousins who will be. I actually have moved on because unlike some on here I don't dwell. I keep it pushing. If people aren't noticing I'm sort of right about this. He also isn't a top 10 player.

Each guy that I argued about being better are in fact better. Where have I exactly been wrong. Irving Giannis and Cousins were guys that I argued were better. They are.

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Meanwhile IMU argues that the thing separating Lance and MCW from greatness or even a starting NBA position is a good coach. Somehow thoughts such as these tends to go by the boards.

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No way you believe this is true. You've been trying to convince us that Butler is just a guy for about 4 years and that Thibs is a bottom 10 coach.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

You don't dwell on

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

MCW needs a good coach to become a decent NBA player. Lance is already a good bench player. Lance Stephenson will never be great and I never once said he would be. You might be the worst liar on the board.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

If he doesn't make the All Star team this year then he is sort of a guy. I actually had him as a top 15-20 player at his peak. Others had him top 5 or the rather generous top 10. Which is more correct?


You had Thibs top 2. You still want to belabor that point or are you ready to concede Alas Bobo Brazil at the Amphitheatre?

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From the guy that continuously lets the world know (As if they care) that he "still hasn't watched 1 minute of Bulls basketball all season". Now aint that just Frank Rich

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He has a rebuilding team on the rise in his 2nd year. The core is still learning how to win. I'm satisfied with the direction and this is consistent with my prediction at the beginning of last season. You're free to think he's a bottom 10 guy.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Nah I seem to remember you posting under that other name and touting his greatness. I'm fairly certain of it. You really loved you some Lance when he was a free agent. You also said he'd be a better pickup than surprise Melo. Your idiotic thoughts tended to pile up and thus I stopped keeping track.


You're going to continuously make the case the Butler is better than Cousins even in spite of mounting evidence. It is sort of what you do. When wrong you will never admit it and as far as liars go you're in a class of your own.

Case in point Tyrus and Portis. You first made the point that they were the same player. When it became obvious that they weren't you stated that they'd have the same career. Nothing about Portis and Tyrus actually suggests that yet 3 years later you forge on. Take the L and keep it pushing. You've lied about the original point for 3 years in order to be correct. that is a liar for you.

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I think we are going reach year 5 of this debacle and you will still be claiming that it is a rebuild. He acquired 3 vets for the purpose of winning now. His young guys are in years 3 and 4 and they haven't experienced any injuries. At some point they are what they are. This isn't a team on the rise. This is a team content to make the playoffs after years of futility. They also have a coach miscast as an exec. who lacks the necessary vision to ever win anything of consequence. I've pushed on from this too. Until there is anything to argue about what's the point? I've tended to stay away from the Thibs Butler bashing this year. We will see where they are at the end of the year.

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I just linked you to all of the major publications' rankings of the Top NBA Players. Butler was ahead of Cousins on each one. It isn't my 'case.' It is fact.

NYK and OKC display why you don't want Carmelo on your team. I don't need to make a case there either.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Again another stupid comment. Carmelo Anthony's record as the best player on a team is better than Jimmy Butler's. That includes New York. I expect his record with OKC to be better than Butler's with Minnesota. .

Again he is a no doubt Hall Of Famer and you're arguing that a guy who needs the rather hypothetical "if this" then "that" might possibly be a Hall of Famer. You honestly don't see how foolish you sound making this particular point? If I were to do research I can pretty much guarantee that Anthony's record is better than Butler's regardless of who the Alpha Dog happened to be. That's even while playing in a much tougher conf.

You're arguing that a guy with a .500 record as the best player is more of a winner than a guy that took his team to the playoffs the first 9 years of his career. Again you sound foolish.

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Here is but one link. took all of about 5 seconds. Cousins ranked higher.

https://www.si.com/nba/photo/2016/09/16 ... ayers-2017.

There will be plenty of others.

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That's a God awful list. Chris Paul isn't a top 5 player and Kawhi is no worse than top 3 but they don't even have him as a top 5 guy.

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GO BEARS!!!

You think it is foolish that I want to say that a player that has only played 5 full seasons in the NBA needs more time to become a Hall of Famer? How many Hall of Famers are there that only had 5 full seasons in the NBA?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Is Jimmy Butler currently a better player than Cousins?

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Is Jimmy Butler currently a better player than Cousins?

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Is Jimmy Butler currently a better player than Cousins?

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