David Aldridge article on Millsap situation

Come on...the billionaire owner and buying picks comment is pure trash....

Rudy and Batum were late 1st round picks, that means a lot of these same GM's passed on these guys to select stiffs like Joe Alexander, Jared Dudley, Acie Law & Julian Wright....

Maybe they should look in the mirror first and ask themselves why they passed on those players with thier picks, before they blast KP for picking them....

That is just an idiotic statement by whatever GM said that....

 

They were still late first round picks that Paul Allen bought.

 

THIS

Just spent the past 3 years building him up, now it's time to tear him down.

 

So? Is it against the rules?

 

No, not at all.

But most other GM's don't have the ability to take gambles on guys because they only get one shot. I can see where other GM's would get ticked off. They all have big egos, and KP has been praised for his work during the draft, probably angering other GM's. While KP has been great, other GM's simply don't have the resources KP does.

 

Too bad for them.

Every person in every walk of life has advantages and disadvantages in their position over others. John Nash and Steve Patterson had the same financial backing and they drove this ship into the ground at 500 mph.

 

That is not true at all.

Nash did not have any financial backing. He was brought in during the post spend at will era.

Patterson got us to the WCF, and only because his players were worthless pieces of shit outside of basketball did he fail. With that money, he was able to assemble a ton of talent though. Without that money I doubt we would have been anle to make some of the moves we made at the time.

 

I assume you mean Whitsitt.

 

They were STILL passed over 23-24 TIMES by other teams.....

Yeah, lets blame the guy that bought the pick AFTER you made a poor pick....


You can do better than that MM

 

I don't think general managers "blame" Pritchard for using purchased draft picks or resent him for it. They all know that if they had a lot of money to use, they'd do similar things.

That said, it is definitely an advantage, even if they are late first round picks. Sure, almost everyone had a shot at the players they get used on but when you have multiple first round picks to play with, you have more chances to hit on a good player.

 

I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying.


It's not KP's fault that Rudy and Batum were there at all. I think what GM's resent is the fact that he is able to obtain multiple picks to get them.

For example: KP took Bayless last year earlier than Batum. Most GM's don't have the financial ability to take a lootery pick and then take a flier on a euro.

 

To give a different slant to the "girl at the dance" analogy (which was right on, BTW). It reminds me of High School where you had the guys that would say or do anything to get the pretty girl. It might make all of the other guys mad, watching the girls fall for it, but it didn't matter to him. The NBA is all about the "dating scene", it helps to be good looking, but when you got money to go along with it... well, there is bound to be jealousy.

There are some teams that can compete with our looks (i.e. better cities, comparable talent on the roster), and there are some teams that can compete with our money (NY for one, and probably LA), but there are only a few that can do both. We may lose out on the Hedo's of the NBA, but as long as there are teams that are in financial trouble and need to sell picks, we are probably always going to be there with the 3mil to take it off their hands.

BTW - It is complete idiocy to blame KP for the Hedo debacle. We had him completely sold on coming here. If he had a different wife, who knows. I don't see how it is KP's problem. To insult him over this perceived failure shows the comprehension level of those who throw those opinions out there. Just my opinion.

 

And here I thought it was Nash who was around when those contracts (that I HATED) were given to Miles, Zach and Theo. You had to have "financial backing" to comit to spending that large chunk of change. Man that was a lot of money.

My mistake. Who was the GM for those deals?

 

Ouch! Scoreboard.

 

QFT

Though in all fairness I read that PA was the main force behind signing Miles to that absurd contract.

 

That is ridiculous....

Take a flier? Yeah b\c CHA took Jared Dudley, Philly took Daequan Cook, Miami took Jason Smith, Lakers took Crittenton, NO took Julian Wright and ATL took Acie Law....but let's not blame them for making those picks instead of drafting Rudy Fernandez...no..no..no...Let's resent Pritchard b\c he had a "rich" owner with the money necessary to buy that pick AFTER those teams made their "stellar" choices and scooped Rudy up....give me a break...

EVERY ONE OF THOSE TEAMS PASSED ON HIM...that has ZERO to do with POR buying the pick and EVERYTHING to do with those teams GM's making POOR draft decisions....any one of those teams (and several more) could have drafted him, but they didn't...

This is nothing more than petty jealousy...and it has less to do with Allen's pocket books and more to do with being outworked and out scouted by Pritchard and his management team....not just with Rudy, but with Batum, with Aldridge and with Roy....

Maybe it isn't Pritchard's ego that is the problem here...maybe it is these other GM's egos that don't like being upstaged....