Cronin mentioned seeds planted for deals that don't include the picks. Nas Little for Cedi Osman lets gooooooo
When pressed again about Scoot being 19 and ready to win and previous comments about being ready to win now. "Scoot is going to have his up-and-downs... adjusting to talent and how to guard players and plays and get through 82 games... a lot of obstacles Paths (to NBA) between Scoot and Sheadon were very different. Curve and growth from start of end of season for Sheadon was incredible. Guys have to grow into their bodies. Scoot and Sheadon are more physically ready, it's about mentally catching up."
How to distrubte 96 minutes between 4 quality guards? "Sheadon swing a little, which helps. 12 minutes behind Dame Important thing in a draft: "Draft for talent, not need" and wasn't going to be moved by need drafting that high, then we'll figure it out."
You can just tell that Joe really doesn't want to be in this press conference. Sucks. A post-draft presser should be fun.
A lot of fans were hoping for a trade, what do you say? "We made the biggest move possible by drafting Scoot Henderson, he'll be better than any player we could've traded for... him being on a rookie scale allows us to build a lot more depth than we could've otherwise."
"There's other stuff to do here... we've put ourselves in a good position to push our chips in. We've got good picks, players, and talent, and we need to fine tune it and get in balanced." "Thanks everyone"
Watch us re-sign Grant, pick up some bench player with the MLE and go into next season with basically the same team. Dame/Scoot Ant/Thybulle Sharpe/Murray/Rupert/Knox Grant/Watford Nurk/Eubanks. Helloooooooooooo playin.
Sharpe is one player OKC couldn't make the playoffs with SGA being a top-15 player and him having a nice young supporting cast. Dallas couldn't make the playoffs with Doncic. New Orleans couldn't make the playoffs with Ingram, CJ, Murphy, Jones, and Valiunciunas. Markkanen averaged 26 & 9 for Utah and they were 4 games out of even qualifying for the play-in. Toronto had Siakam, OG, FVV, and Barnes and didn't make the playoffs. Chicago had DaVine, DeRozan, Caruso, and Vucevic and couldn't make the playoffs the Clippers, with all their talent were a 1st round exit only winning 1 game. Memphis was a 1st round exit; so was Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Cleveland Portland will have a difficult time making the kind of turnaround you imagine. I'm sure Sacramento thought their turnaround was going to be faster than the 15 years it took. Or Minny was expecting better than 16 lottery appearances in 17 years. Golden State spent 17 of 18 years in the lottery. Phoenix spent 10 straight years in the lottery. so excuse me if I'm very skeptical the Blazers could make the playoffs 3 years after trading Dame
He didn't answer questions. He just said what he wanted to say and moved on. Neil would have been combative. Joe just pretended like nobody else was in the room.
play in? nah bro. that team will be <.500 at the deadline and cronin will employ the one strategy he seems to know how to competently do: tank.
