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good moves by mavs today for sure but summer grade appears to hinge on brand. you get brand and things look pretty nice after that abysmal whiff on deron.
dirk/brand/kaman is an absolutely sick big man tandem and wright as the 4th big is a young developing athlete.
collison is a young pg with a bright future. he already has playoff experience and has the goods athletically. he is a bit like tony parker at the same age. i.e. super quick and solid defensively with a developing shot.
dahntay jones is a weird stevenson type player. hated everywhere but his home city. annoying defender.
kaman is a quality post player; especially offensively. by far best offensive center dirk has played with... unless the mavs get brand.
Get Brand and this is a B+ off-season. That's a top 4 seed team with only 17m committed next year. You could easily be in the bidding for any star traded at the deadline. Lots of expirings to dangle and lots of cheap, young players whose value sky rockets under this CBA starting 2013.
teams of preference: anyone with fave teams list like cowboys, yankees, lakers is gonna be laughed at. it just is what it is. no one with that line up of teams has paid any dues as a fan but instead picked traditional winners. like whomever you want but its pointless being sensitive about being called a front runner while following those teams without real affiliation. accept it and move on.
idle time: look when i was 18 i was graduating high school then a freshman at texas tech. i couldn't be bothered to use the phone to call my parents, wouldn't log on a computer pt even do homework much less follow any message board.... at 18 chasing girls was a full-time gig. i played football, video games and ate and that was about it for hobbies other than girl chasing. all that said this is a different era. i'd prolly be using twitter/facebook/instagram to meet chicks nowadays. so it is what it is. i will say this. i regret zero of that chick chasing time. one can spend plenty of time on message boards when they are old and half-dead
my advice is get to chasing. havent met an old codger yet who regrest time he wasted chasing girls.