I don't like Quick and I rolled my eyes when he teased this story a day before writing it, but in a follow-up interview he mentioned that Rich Cho was able to placate Rudy's camp by actually taking their trade request/demand seriously instead of "blowing them off" (which was supposedly what KP and Penn had done in the past). I'm not sure what Rudy and his agents could have done except to go even more public with his demands and his unhappiness, but there's a chance that the supposed "drama" was averted or at least blunted. Yeah, OK. I'm not buying that either. Quick caught a lot of heat for hyping this up and probably took the easy way out.
I actually do buy the first paragraph. Maybe he shouldn't have hyped it the way he did, but I do remember him stating a few times that it was something any Blazer fan wouldn't be surprised about. So many were able to assume it was Rudy. Yet even with that, the desire for news, scoops and drama became so much that people were speculating all over the place. And they allowed their desire for it to be something much bigger to overtake the actual story. There could have been mroe drama, as you stated. Who knows what would have happened, but to this point, all we'd gotten was snippets out of Spanish newspapers that veryone was discounting. Now we got it straight from our beat writer, with a mention of a sit down his agent had in December with KP and Penn. And how being essentially blwon off then could have easily led to something worse if it happened again.
To sum up this article attempting to change the subject, Quick is a bosom buddy of Dave of Blazers Edge. They link to each other and defend each other.
