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07-02-2009, 06:35 PM #11
Rubio just got scared he's an 18year old little boy. His daddy made him stay home so he could make more money off him. Im sorry but Spanish basketball players are so stupid! Remeber the slanted eye thing during the Olympics. That goes to show how wise they are! LOL
Sucks for the T-Wolves because they could have used that pick to get Stephen Curry, Jordan Hill, or Demar Derozen. Those guys could have helped them right away.
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07-02-2009, 06:43 PM #12
Dude there is no need to take shots at them. That's uncalled for
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07-02-2009, 08:01 PM #13
I know. I just think Ricky Rubio is making a bad decision. I was just using a funny example of how him and other Spanish basketball players made a bad decision during the olympics.
Honestly though, whats wrong with going to the T-Wolves? Rubio could have been running with J Flynn, Kevin Love, Big Al, Gomes & Wayne Ellington. That would have been a good team.
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07-02-2009, 08:07 PM #14
Honestly though, whats wrong with going to the T-Wolves? Rubio could have been running with J Flynn, Kevin Love, Big Al, Gomes & Wayne Ellington. That would have been a good team.
Who says the Wolves won't be a good team without Rubio? The rest of those names aren't exactly scrubs...plus, Rubio would need to have time to develop to the style of play in the NBA....
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07-02-2009, 08:17 PM #15
Not saying they wont be a great team, but having the best young passer since Steve Nash would have only made an already good team stronger. If Rubio would have been drafted by New York he wouldnt have needed anytime to develop, D'antoni has a Euro-styled system. Maybe thats why he wanted to go there so bad?
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07-02-2009, 08:19 PM #16
Good. Now lets let Flynn bloom into a stud.
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07-02-2009, 09:15 PM #17
Not saying they wont be a great team, but having the best young passer since Steve Nash would have only made an already good team stronger. If Rubio would have been drafted by New York he wouldnt have needed anytime to develop, D'antoni has a Euro-styled system. Maybe thats why he wanted to go there so bad?
I think he wants to be in the spotlight...he's said stuff like that before, and I guess said that he didn't want to play on a small market team...that's probably why he wanted to go to New York...and maybe he could go to New York and play well right away, but he wouldn't be able to do that in Minny - young team with basically no veterans (at least legit veterans, and no, Big Al doesn't count as a vet), a new GM, and a (presumably) brand new head coach, so he wouldn't have the same leadership to learn from.
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07-02-2009, 09:23 PM #18
Imagine if you were going to a foreign country - wouldn't you prefer playing in a city you had heard of?
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07-02-2009, 09:29 PM #19
Not suprising at all
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07-02-2009, 09:33 PM #20
Not that surprising to be honest..... this isn't about daddy's decision making or going to the wrong city, he is OWNED by his Spanish team for two more years and he would have had to pay a $6 million range buyout to leave. The NBA team can't contribute more than $500K towards it, and with a smallish salary in Spain and a $3 mil rookie year base contract, I can't see how anyone thought he was going to be able to afford to leave.
Think about Minnesota's decision- you draft him and he won't be there for two years, so you let these other young players grow, while continuing to be bad and add another lottery pick or two, then as those players get better Rubio gets to come over with that small rookie level salary. I don't see a huge flaw in it.
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