KP Worst GM in Blazer history?

Now you are trolling actually, because there are facts that point to KP potentially being the worst GM in Blazer history. At a critical point in putting a championship team together he was faced with the most important decision. As a result we are stuck with a busted big man that can't play and Durant is an NBA first team superstar on a division rival. By the way where did I say I was being objective or why does that matter? It is a question by the way that started the thread, and it is a legit one. The question is pretty simple, is KP the worst GM in Blazer history?

 

Off the top of my head Stu Inman and John Nash were worse.

I some times think about what kind of team we'd have put together with the gift of hind site.
2004: Al Jefferson instead of Telfair
2005: Paul (or Deron if you prefer) instead of Webster
2006: Hard to try and revise that. We owned that draft.
2007: KD instead of Oden.
2008: Roy Hibbert over Jerryd Bayless
2009: Taj Gibson over Victor Claver

Fancy team:
c- Camby, Al Jefferson, Hibbert
pf- Aldridge, Gibson
sf- KD, Batum
sg- Roy, Rudy
pg- Paul, Johnson

 

Now you're catching on!

 

Call it hindsight I don't care, people are judged on outcomes of decisions. This outcome clearly indicated a poor decision.

 

One different draft pick would have changed the situations of every year. That makes no sense.

 

Oh, you mean like drafting Paul would have knocked off our chances of getting Oden OR Durant?

 

Slow down and make sense next time.

 

So if Pritchard had selected Durant and Durant had been hit by a car, handicapping him for life, the outcome would clearly indicate a poor decision?

Your reasoning is extremely flawed. You can't judge outcomes on an individual decision basis, because there's a huge amount of luck that determines whether any single decision works out or not. You may make the "right" call based on the information at the time and then have events outside your control and outside anyone's ability to predict kill the outcome. I'm not arguing, here, whether the Oden decision qualifies as such, just that that principle is what makes judging single decisions by results a bad idea.

To judge by results, you have to take an entire body of work, because it's much more reasonable to assume "luck" evens out over a bunch of decisions and you're left with skill/ability as the determining factor. Looking at Pritchard's body of work, he took what was arguably the worst roster in the league and turned it into one of the best, talented enough to win 50 games despite myriad injuries.

So, therefore, I'd say that in a results-oriented business, Pritchard got results. Not only was he not the worst GM in Blazers history, he was among the best in franchise history. You're free, of course, to decide that selecting Oden over Durant is the only thing to consider, that Oden is a bust and Durant is a superstar and that that makes Pritchard the worst GM in franchise history. It just seemed poorly reasoned.

 

I am greatly honored, sensei.

 

Pros use youtube to get their point across. 80's music videos are my weapon of choice.

 

Back when I was young, we used Boxxy images. Like so:



(Demotivator styled images were also popular in that generation. Man, I'm really dating myself.)

 

Trading zbo has proven to be a horrible mistake

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Back when you were young they wrote songs like "Over there" to try to troll the opposition...

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I am very old.

When I was young, "trolling" meant throwing tea into a harbor to make the British nerd rage.

 

When you were young, trolling actually meant getting into a fishing boat.

 

No, that came later.

 

"Young" is a relative term.