<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ Jan 1 2008, 10:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Kiki's not the GM, he's a "Special Assistant" to Thorn. Thorn is old and doesn't want to do the drudge work. My guess is that Kiki is smarter than Stefanski, so I'm sure he can fill this role. Thorn still has the finall say on what happens, and that means they won't be trading Jason Kidd since they can't get value for him. Maybe Kiki can get in his ear about RJ and possibly Sean Williams, though. Those are the Nets' two biggest assets if they think they can pull of a major deal.</div> If he trades Sean Williams im officially done as a Nets fan. I mean, he was one of the few reasons i watched any of their first 12 games or so.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Boomdog @ Jan 1 2008, 12:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ Jan 1 2008, 10:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Kiki's not the GM, he's a "Special Assistant" to Thorn. Thorn is old and doesn't want to do the drudge work. My guess is that Kiki is smarter than Stefanski, so I'm sure he can fill this role. Thorn still has the finall say on what happens, and that means they won't be trading Jason Kidd since they can't get value for him. Maybe Kiki can get in his ear about RJ and possibly Sean Williams, though. Those are the Nets' two biggest assets if they think they can pull of a major deal.</div> If he trades Sean Williams im officially done as a Nets fan. I mean, he was one of the few reasons i watched any of their first 12 games or so. </div> You wouldn't trade Sean Williams for someone like Pau Gasol.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GM3 @ Jan 1 2008, 12:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Boomdog @ Jan 1 2008, 12:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ Jan 1 2008, 10:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Kiki's not the GM, he's a "Special Assistant" to Thorn. Thorn is old and doesn't want to do the drudge work. My guess is that Kiki is smarter than Stefanski, so I'm sure he can fill this role. Thorn still has the finall say on what happens, and that means they won't be trading Jason Kidd since they can't get value for him. Maybe Kiki can get in his ear about RJ and possibly Sean Williams, though. Those are the Nets' two biggest assets if they think they can pull of a major deal.</div> If he trades Sean Williams im officially done as a Nets fan. I mean, he was one of the few reasons i watched any of their first 12 games or so. </div> You wouldn't trade Sean Williams for someone like Pau Gasol. </div> If he'd either A) bring more wins or bring more entertaining games, then yes. But if not, I'd be pretty pissed.
you would have to trade sean + a main players with a contract to get pau. like rj+sean for pau. i'm really not in favor of trading sean in that scenario unless it brings a guy who can dominate and take us to that championship level. im not sure if pau does that. as for Kiki. every GM has his good and bad moves. the bottom line though is that denver got turned around while he was in the office. yeah melo fell into his lap, but that franchise was just crap for a while. look at denver now and how exciting they are and how much their franchise turned around. yeah it was because of melo, but kiki made positive moves to get talent in that franchise. same can be said for thorn, he made plenty of positive moves by turning this franchise around, but he also made stupid moves. im not going to judge kiki until he makes his first Net move. if we are going to go in the rebuilding direction, i would hope he can make some solid moves in getting rid of contracts like vince. who knows maybe he can work magic and get something for twin and magloire. maybe he can get some athletic players to come in to allow us to run more. like i said, ill give kiki the benefit of the doubt until he does something i dont like. which could be his first move or 4th move. hopefully he does some positive things before negative things. at least you think he would learn that you dont give a non-max players max money just because he played like a max player for another franchise. at least he made that mistake with the nuggets, so i doubt he would ever do that again.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jan 1 2008, 10:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The Nets are mediocre and Kiki has one specialty, blowing teams up.</div>
We have yet to see how all the players will pan out, but I've admired what the team of Thorn/Kiki have done so far. Make the team more atheletic and younger (Harris, Swift, Ager), clear cap space for the future AND get draft picks.
