Tim Thomas Leaves Suns For Clippers

by **The X** on Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:22 pm

Yohance Bailey wrote:Good aquisition for the clippers. I'm looking forward to the clippers being a proper team next year.

so they weren't a proper team last year? can you please elaborate

by **Laker Socks** on Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:22 pm

I know guys. And as soon as Sam agreed with the clips, this one comes out of nowhere:

"They hope to use their bi-annual exception of $1.7 million on point guard Shammond Williams, who last played in the NBA in the 2003-04 season, with New Orleans, and played in Spain last year. "

Press Enterprise

Oh noes!

EDIT: Im talking about the lakers backup plan afetr ET resigned with the clips. :cry:

by **scrub** on Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:51 am

Lakers must sign Cassell imo and use Smush off the bench like Flip Murray did for the Cavs towards the end of last season. I'm confused with the Lakers and the Clippers signings recently. Thomas will suck bad this year at Clippers without a point guard in the form of Nash or Kidd. Also why did the Lakers sign Radmanoivc when the have a point forward in Lamar Odom. I expected a true post player, good tough defense PF guy in their team like Kurt Thomas or somebody.

by **TheBigEasy** on Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:31 am

Laker Socks wrote:I know guys. And as soon as Sam agreed with the clips, this one comes out of nowhere:
"They hope to use their bi-annual exception of $1.7 million on point guard Shammond Williams, who last played in the NBA in the 2003-04 season, with New Orleans, and played in Spain last year. "

Press Enterprise

Oh noes!

EDIT: Im talking about the lakers backup plan afetr ET resigned with the clips.

When he played for the Hornets two years ago, he wasn't bad ... not one you'd trust to start and play major minutes all year long, but for a backup he's not bad ...

by **Laker Socks** on Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:29 pm

But he's not worth the BAE.

The only upside is he is KG's cousin. We now have one of KG's bestfriends in Evans and possibly his cousin in shammond.

GASP could it be?
I've been smoking the KG pipe ever since Shaq was trade. I have no intention of putting this pipe down. :mrgreen:

by **Its_asdf** on Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:06 am

I'm not a fan of giving Thomas this much money, especially since for 4 years. He's just an even softer but more athletic Radmanovic.

by **[C][B]#4** on Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:26 am

Phoenix would have been a much better fit for Tim Thomas. D'Antoni's system is perfect for him. He may go back to being the Tim Thomas of the Knicks.

by **John WB** on Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:50 pm

[C][B]#4 wrote:Phoenix would have been a much better fit for Tim Thomas. D'Antoni's system is perfect for him. He may go back to being the Tim Thomas of the Knicks.

Yup.

It's been said to death already, but I think he should have stayed in PHX too and was just a product of Steve Nash and PHX's playing style.

by **Stevesanity** on Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:44 pm

Holy shit no, last thing we need is bum Tim Thomas in our team. He's going to play like crap and be a waste of time.

As for Sam staying, really great news. I'm glad to see him back with us and not leaving to the Bryants, that's a significant boost to our repeat playoff campaign but Tim Thomas. :evil:

by **Silas** on Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:16 am

Maybe he'll tie his record for 8 threes in a half again.... Or go for 9 then he wont be tied with Ray Allen.

by **kinokong** on Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:24 am

radmanovic is pretty athletic... he just sits his ass down on the 3 point line and jacks up threes becuz he's lazy

by **Jeffx** on Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:08 am

[C][B]#4 wrote:Phoenix would have been a much better fit for Tim Thomas. D'Antoni's system is perfect for him. He may go back to being the Tim Thomas of the Knicks.

He WILL go back to being the old Tim Thomas, believe me.

by **fgrep15** on Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:59 pm

I really wasn't happy about this as I'm not a fan of Tim Thomas at all. It's not a money thing, he's good enough to get that money, but he's always been a dissapointing guy wherever he's been.

On the bright side, he does give outside shooting, he'll backup SF/PF, and he can post up a little too. Decent signing, but Thomas isn't really better than Radman, and he's older.

by **Silas** on Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:18 pm

It could be that the less money he makes the better he plays.

by **Stevesanity** on Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:23 pm

Silas wrote:It could be that the less money he makes the better he plays.

I think it was more a 'if I don't play this year I'll be in Europe' type of thing, whilst Nash may have had something to do with Thomas' new found fame I really doubt he would play that well if he wasn't worried about having no NBA contract this year. I hope Thomas can prove me wrong, but the chances of that are very minute, the only way he would start playing is if he was told he'll have to watch an hour of Sam Cassell porno if he didn't play ball.

by **Silas** on Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:19 am

It really makes you wonder how good some players would be if they really all tried as hard as they could.

Tim Thomas Leaves Suns For Clippers

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