OT: Kahn + CWebb = Awkward

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Kahn seems like he's just not a basketball guy. Some of his responses surprised Chris Webber as you'll see.

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Mods, can you correct the spelling from Khan to Kahn?

 

LMAO at when Kahn says Darko is a great passing big man like Vlade.

Chris Webber: "Vlade Divac? Wow..."

Other gems:

"I know we're not talking about me and Darko in the same sentence."

"Good luck."

 

Webber was the awkward one. Khan had a smooth spiel, whether it was right or not. I wish GMs would stop talking about changing the culture in a mostly black league. And you should spell it the same as the Great Khan in the Wizard in Oz, who earlier in that movie was a con man.

 

Kahn is out of his mind. Anybody that talks about his team "improving" because they now serve breakfast and lunch and because they upgraded their practice facility, or calls Darko Milicic "manna from heaven" should not be allowed to run a franchise.

 

I watched that interview live and it was really WTF this guy has no idea what he's doing.

This should be a warning to other franchises, don't hire sportswriters to be your GM.

 

Fixed.

 

Kahn is kookoo for coco puffs, but Weber was a little bit of an ass. Which is to say Weber was funny.

When Kahn said Darko didn't real play in New York 'for whatever reason' I was half expecting Weber to interupt him and say, "Because he sucks?".

How do guys like Kahn or Hugh Weber in New Orleans have these positions of power in the NBA? I find it more than a little disturbing. I'm sure it's a relief to the New Orleans fans that they have breakfast and lunch now though. You've gotta learn to crawl before you learn to walk.

 

Webber started get really testy when Kahn first tried to compare his passing ability to his former teammate Divac (which is fucking ridiculous) and then he tried to imply that Darko's struggles were somehow similar to C-Webb's struggles with injuries early in his career (even more ridiculous). The guy is a fucking hack.

 

most of this just struck me as a GM selling his team to prospective season ticket buyers where he's spinning the expected sunshine, but when he pressed Chris about needing years to get his NBA career going he was off in crazy land. Chris was the ROY with a 21.7 PER leading his team into the playoffs. He posted a +20 PER each of the next 4 seasons. While it was true that his best seasons were in Sacramento, dude had already been to the All Star game and was making the max dollars allowable.

sort of funny to see typical sportswriter's BS narrative smash face first into reality like that

STOMP

 

CWebb's dunk on Barkley his rookie year is still one of my favorite plays ever!!!!

 

[video=youtube;I3qpJTE7vy8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qpJTE7vy8[/video]

 

This is what happens when you hire guys that don't know the game of basketball as your GMs.

 

I posted about this yesterday when it happened in the David Kahn thread. Awkward indeed.

 

David Kahn is now my favorite non-Blazer GM in the league.

I think he is like Andy Kaufman where he is just messing with everyone in the league and he is the only one who is in on the joke.
A comedy genius is what I am saying.

At least I hope that's the case.
Otherwise he may very well be the worst GM in the history of basketball.

The good people of Minnisota deserve better then that.

 

He's treating roster building like it's fantasy basketball. On paper they all seem like pretty decent acquisitions (aside from Darko), but the pieces he's assembled are mostly god-awful fits for the triangle offense they are trying to install (which usually needs a dominant playmaking wing to really make it go).

We'll see what happens, but I predict they're going to end up with a similarly terrible record next year, and after Darko's modest uptick in contract year I predict he returns to his space cadet, couldn't give a shit attitude, that's dogged him throughout his career.

 

Way to vere off the topic. A.D.D. in the house!

I kid I kid

 

Really? I didn't see it that way at all. To me, he was bending over backward to be diplomatic. Kahn invoking him as an example of how you need some years before you become comfortable/effective was fucking off the wall lunacy. Instead of saying that (even more politely) or pointing out that he won the ROY and had great production from the start, he evaded the issue, saying "Ah, I don't know that we should be comparing me and him" and "I don't want to talk about me."

Webber definitely seemed nonplussed by Kahn's comments, but it seemed to me that he strove to be polite.

 

If we're picking sides I'm on Kahn's. Weber is completely useless in an interview situation. He's only mostly useless in his usual roll of being the designated former player that sits at the desk and cracks jokes.

 

I love the kid trying to get on camera

 

I'm sure CWebb was immediately texting anyone after Kahn left and saying did you hear this fool trying to compare me to Darko? I wonder if Wolves fans are actually buying what Kahn is saying because I don't think I would..