Does anyone remember that Dal-NJ-Por trade that could have happened but didn't because Pritchard didn't want to give up Outlaw? It could have landed us Devin Harris. It was on the table. Last summer Memphis offered Mike Conley to Portland for Travis Outlaw, it didn't happen because KP wasn't about to give up Travis. I understand he's trying to create a family type of atmosphere but his buddy-buddy relationship with the players have cost the team some great deals.
I really, REALLY doubt either of those deals were actually on the table. But I'm going to just say that, deals arn't happening because he loves the team and players. Deals aren't happening because he is struggling to close them. IMO.
Jason Quick talked about it on a pre-game show last year at the deadline about KP's unwillingness to give up Outlaw. That three-way was on the table.
Somehow the fact that Jason Quick talked about it doesn't convince me that it actually happened that way. barfo
I remember that rumour. It was never believable, since there was really nothing in it for New Jersey. New Jersey was giving up Kidd because they were attempting to net a younger point guard with star potential. Not spare parts.
Whether or not those players were really on the table, I do agree that KP seems to have formed too close of an attachment to some of his players ... I knew as soon as he talked about "Blakey" and "Trav" after the team got bounced out of the playoffs by Houston last year that there was no way he was going to trade them or decline the team options on either to recoup the cap space they could have represented. For chrissakes, I actually heard KP talk about how players like Brandon, LMA, Greg and Blake would be the kind of players that free agents would want to come play with ... Blake! WTF?! If we go through this entire season without making a consolidation trade I'm going to just assume this will perpetually be a "nice" team that never does a goddamn thing, mostly because I think KP is overly optimistic about some of the talent he's drafted/signed and also I think it will demonstrate that KP is unwilling to add the kind of complimentary pieces that will push this team beyond a random collection of talent and nice guys and into a championship contender.
No use fretting over the past. The Blazers have to deal with the hand they have now, not the hand that could have been.
I don't see this thread as "fretting over the past" as much as acknowledging a management limitation which will impact the team's future.
I don't dispute that some trades should have been made. But I also acknowledge that sometimes GM's make mistakes, and you know when you have a good GM when they recognize they have made a mistake and they move to rectify it later. If down the line KP doesn't fix it, then yep, we have a problem.
you mean the satyric statement that the media picked up, but nobody here has ever actually used, except in asking what happened to it?
As if that was ever a univerally held belief. My take has been he's great at assembling young talent and collecting players, I've been waiting to see if he could take the next step and show that he knows how to mold a roster around his cornerstone players ... I'm still waiting.
