No, Cunningham projects out to being mostly a ninth man who plays smart and hustles but probably won't wow anybody with his upside and potential. Frankly I think it's most likely to continue to be Jerryd and maybe even Travis or Rudy. I'd trade any three of those guys for a legitimate upgrade at a position of need, I'm doubtful KP would ... especially after hearing comments from him in the past couple of weeks where he's bristled when probed about Rudy playing behind Brandon Roy, or Travis being in his first playoff series, or calling Steve "Blakey." I'm still waiting to see if KP is actually a deal maker when it comes to guys he drafted and not just to turn over a(n) (admittedly bad) roster ... I guess we'll see what happens.
Just curious - do you do this on the OKC board? Or would that be like a tree falling in an empty forest? It's a shame the Bulls have snapped up all the choice FAs. Jannero Pargo is JUST as good as Ben Gordon, and much cheaper too!
But he didn't draft Travis.... or Joel..... Blake was his guy though. We might as well come to terms with Blake as a blazers for a long time. If I remember correctly, KP was upset when Blake was part of the Jamaal Magloire trade because Blake was "his guy."
Yeah, there was that LeBron deal that he turned down. Or we could have had Chris Paul. Oh no, wait a minute - it was giving up Batum to get Vince Frigging Carter. And KP fucked up how exactly?
Travis may have been a Whitsitt pick, but for whatever reason he's certainly become a KP guy (or maybe he's a Monty Williams guy, or a Brandon's guy?). The Blake thing just makes me cringe, I heard him say on the radio (Wheel's show I think?) the other day that Blake might be one of the best point guards in the league when it comes to playing off of Brandon. That's certainly loaded with a qualifier, but it's also pretty telling where he sees him on this team.
Blake was signed under Nash, just like Joel. KP re-acquired him, but that might have been at Nate's request. And KP did draft Sergio (and indeed bought a pick specially to do so) and trade for Channing Frye. And I seem to recall Jarrett Jack being "his guy" as well. I don't think Pritchard is as sentimental as people make out. Do you think that it's because of Pritchard that Nate plays Steve Blake huge minutes at the expense of Bayless, Rudy and Sergio? Because I don't.
You're right, Nash signed Blake, but that's not what my post was about. I remember reading, in the Oregonian I believe, that KP was instrumental in Blake coming here originally. Supposedly he was upset that Blake was dealt. How did minutes or playing time come into this debate? I never mentioned anything about Nate or his rotation.
That's straight horrifying. At least he doesn't seem to back Outlaw much. Blake can stay around if we bring in a young starting PG. If we bring in someone like Hinrich I want Blake to go and keep Bayless for sure.
You seemed opposed to this earlier when I said that if we got Sessions, I would rather package Bayless and Outlaw seeing what we could get. What made you come around?
I was thinking pints at the pub, didn't know they came in 12 packs. When you makin your next trip up north, punk?
If we sign Sean May with RLEC and thats it for this summer, then I think KP needs to pritchslap himself. Or I'l do it for him with a towel of Sean May's excessive post game moisture.
I think it's pretty obvious.... we tried to get Utah to help us make a deal to acquire Hinrich. The Jazz balked, so we signed Millsap to a deal that would punish the Jazz. It was clearly done out of spite. We never had any intention of signing Millsap, and we only did it to get back at Utah. Millsap went along with it because he was going to get a ton of money up front. No other team would have made that offer to him. The series of events are pretty clear: 1) Utah tries to move Boozer to free up space to sign Millsap. Blazers try to work three way deal to accommodate this. 2) Report that Bulls either want Bayless included, or won't include Ty Thomas. 3) Utah won't do the deal unless Ty Thomas is included. 4) Deal falls apart. 5) Blazers sign Millsap. At no point had there been any indication of interest from the Blazers towards Millsap until after the trade fell apart. We did it to spite them.
Basically, it's business, and Utah has done similar things to other teams in the past. I hope this move bankrupts their franchise.
