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Upshaw moving to LA (undrafted to Lakers)

bananasnblondesbananasnblondes Member Posts: 15,280
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That man will be dead in 6 months
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  • RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123
    Possibly. If he stays somewhat clean though, he's easily better than Sacre and some other bums on their team.
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  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 105,998 Founders Club
    That's a good move. The Laker honks on the radio last night wanted them to take him at 34. If he stays cool they got a big man for nothing
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  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,882
    No risk high reward ...

    Odds are far greater than 81% that he washes himself out of the league
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  • GladstoneGladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    edited June 2015
    No risk high reward?

    edit: yeah i guess that makes sense from a $$$ standpoint
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  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,882
    No risk = no draft pick ... easy to take a flier on
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  • DooglesDoogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,592 Founders Club
    He looked good in SB training. He's probably not far enough from his checkered past to stay on the right track. I wish him well, but cheaters cheat, drinkers drink, and losers lose. I hope I'm wrong, but you are who you are at some point.
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  • haiehaie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,900 Swaye's Wigwam
    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.
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  • NeGgaPlEaSeNeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,729
    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    Like it mattered.

    Dude was too busy slanging crack rock to even warm up.
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  • dncdnc Member Posts: 56,746
    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


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  • NeGgaPlEaSeNeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,729
    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
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  • dncdnc Member Posts: 56,746
    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
    agree

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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,237 Standard Supporter
    The Lakers need to trade for Wes Matthews, Jr.

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  • FreeChavezFreeChavez Member Posts: 3,223
    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
    The debate on starting vs not starting is pretty ridiculous. The guy needed to play around 25-30 minutes a game(which he did sans foul trouble). I thought romar did well using him in the game at most times. Who cares if he starts the first couple minutes if he's in for 14 minutes of the 1st half?

    After some of the rumors of upshaw, I kept thinking of that documentary of Chris herron standing on the corner waiting for pills. Always thought it would be funny to see a 7'2" guy in the parking lot making a few transactions and trying to blend in.
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  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,882
    FreeChavez said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
    The debate on starting vs not starting is pretty ridiculous. The guy needed to play around 25-30 minutes a game(which he did sans foul trouble). I thought romar did well using him in the game at most times. Who cares if he starts the first couple minutes if he's in for 14 minutes of the 1st half?

    After some of the rumors of upshaw, I kept thinking of that documentary of Chris herron standing on the corner waiting for pills. Always thought it would be funny to see a 7'2" guy in the parking lot making a few transactions and trying to blend in.
    I need to thumbs to give the first paragraph a thumbs down and the second paragraph a thumbs up.
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  • dncdnc Member Posts: 56,746
    Tequilla said:

    FreeChavez said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
    The debate on starting vs not starting is pretty ridiculous. The guy needed to play around 25-30 minutes a game(which he did sans foul trouble). I thought romar did well using him in the game at most times. Who cares if he starts the first couple minutes if he's in for 14 minutes of the 1st half?

    After some of the rumors of upshaw, I kept thinking of that documentary of Chris herron standing on the corner waiting for pills. Always thought it would be funny to see a 7'2" guy in the parking lot making a few transactions and trying to blend in.
    I need to thumbs to give the first paragraph a thumbs down and the second paragraph a thumbs up.
    *too
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  • NeGgaPlEaSeNeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,729
    edited June 2015
    FreeChavez said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
    The debate on starting vs not starting is pretty ridiculous. The guy needed to play around 25-30 minutes a game(which he did sans foul trouble). I thought romar did well using him in the game at most times. Who cares if he starts the first couple minutes if he's in for 14 minutes of the 1st half?

    After some of the rumors of upshaw, I kept thinking of that documentary of Chris herron standing on the corner waiting for pills. Always thought it would be funny to see a 7'2" guy in the parking lot making a few transactions and trying to blend in.

    Fuck that, this is clearly another example of why Romar can't recruit bigs, can't coach bigs and can't win with bigs. Guys this fucking talented don't need to warm up and sit for 15 minutes watching the likes of Kemp and Baby Durrant fuck up the game. I go back to this. Had he picked Oregon instead of Romar, the guy is a top 6 pick and Oregon is a sweet 16 team at worse.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ee3-rkzEJo
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  • FreeChavezFreeChavez Member Posts: 3,223
    Tequilla said:

    FreeChavez said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
    The debate on starting vs not starting is pretty ridiculous. The guy needed to play around 25-30 minutes a game(which he did sans foul trouble). I thought romar did well using him in the game at most times. Who cares if he starts the first couple minutes if he's in for 14 minutes of the 1st half?

    After some of the rumors of upshaw, I kept thinking of that documentary of Chris herron standing on the corner waiting for pills. Always thought it would be funny to see a 7'2" guy in the parking lot making a few transactions and trying to blend in.
    I need to thumbs to give the first paragraph a thumbs down and the second paragraph a thumbs up.
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  • RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123
    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    FreeChavez said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    dnc said:

    NeGgaPlEaSe said:

    haie said:

    Upshaw was a good player despite Romar. That has to be worth something to an NBA team. Fuck, the Blazers should have got in on that. Fucking worthless franchise.

    This! I argued this with DNC multiple times. Upshaw with that athletic 7 foot body needed to start, not sit for 10 minutes after warming up. It was RomarFS to have him sitting at the start of games when he was clearly the top player on the team
    They were 14-5 with Upshaw and won 2 games without him. Romar's problem this year wasn't how he coached the team when Upshaw was playing, it was how he coached them without Upshaw.


    Upshaw should have been starting day one. I have no confidence in Romar as a coach
    The debate on starting vs not starting is pretty ridiculous. The guy needed to play around 25-30 minutes a game(which he did sans foul trouble). I thought romar did well using him in the game at most times. Who cares if he starts the first couple minutes if he's in for 14 minutes of the 1st half?

    After some of the rumors of upshaw, I kept thinking of that documentary of Chris herron standing on the corner waiting for pills. Always thought it would be funny to see a 7'2" guy in the parking lot making a few transactions and trying to blend in.

    Fuck that, this is clearly another example of why Romar can't recruit bigs, can't coach bigs and can't win with bigs. Guys this fucking talented don't need to warm up and sit for 15 minutes watching the likes of Kemp and Baby Durrant fuck up the game. I go back to this. Had he picked Oregon instead of Romar, the guy is a top 6 pick and Oregon is a sweet 16 team at worse.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ee3-rkzEJo
    I'm on board with you regarding Upshaw's talent, but he has too many issues to ever be a top 6 pick. The fact that he wasn't picked speaks volumes. However, I've seen Cauley-Stein (the #6 pick) play many times and Upshaw was better. Cauley-Stein sucks. Upshaw was better on offense, especially around the basket, a better rebounder, and a better shot blocker. Cauley-Stein is a more versatile defender.

    It's FS that Upshaw wasn't drafted because even if he does have tons of red flags, most of the guys picked are going to be bums. Nobody will ever convince me he doesn't have lottery talent. It also speaks volumes abut how deep the issues must be for nobody to take a chance. Upshaw must be really, really fucked up because you had to think Ainge, Cuban, Bird, or another strong willed owner/GM would have picked him, especially in the 2nd round.
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