People will read into these actions what they want to. What stellar talent are the Bobcats looking to hold onto? Are they a playoff team? Of course Cho's going to wheel and deal when there's (almost literally) nowhere to go but up.
Cho didn't feel the team was as close as PA and Nate do. Notice the first thing out of Buchanan's mouth was 1-2 pieces away. PA won't deal anything to get something, so at the end of the day we will go into battle with what we ended with.
It shows you once again that Cho wants to build through the draft. Paul Allen, at least right now, doesn't.
When was the last time we improved our team through the draft? Three years ago? We've essentially been punting on the draft since Batum. In terms of "proven players": we've added Miller and Camby and Wallace... and we're just not good enough. We need to add more talent, whether it's "proven" or not, IMO. Ed O.
Which is why making the guy who was in charge of college scouting our acting GM right before the draft makes no sense to me. What exactly has Chad Buchanan done lately to deserve this promotion? What gems have we plucked from the college ranks lately? We've passed on Millsap, Durant, and Blair in favor of Freeland, Oden and Pendergraph/Cunningham. I would have also selected Oden (but I hadn't seen his x-rays and medical records), but would have definitely went with Millsap and Blair. So, we have a guy who has failed miserably at his main job, and has never made a trade in his life as our acting GM. This makes me very pessimistic that we will make a significant trade or pluck a hidden gem from this draft. At least Cho is doing something and I would have felt much more comfortable with him running this draft and working the phones fielding trade offers than Chad Buchanan. But then, I'm not Paul Allen and evidently making Paul Allen comfortable is the overridng job responsibility for our GM - not identifying good talent and making trades. BNM
Cho traded his best player (I know he's a knucklehead) and the 19th pick for the Maggette and the 7th pick in a weak draft. If Cho did that here, the media and most of us on this board would be bashing him like crazy.
He's tearing it down and trying to rebuild the team in a shitty draft Color me unimpressed with his strategy
After trading Gerald Wallace last season, the Bobcats are clearly in rebuilding mode. So, adding a high lottery pick is a smart move. Of course he would have been bashed if he'd done the same thing here. Our best player is a loit younger, and at this point, better, than Stephen Jackson, and we're a play-off team, not a lottery team. So, yeah, the same trade here would have been stupid - unlike the Gerald Wallce tradce where we clearly got, by far, the best player in the trade. Different circumstances, different strategies. BNM
The step down from Jackson to Maggette isn't very significant for a rebuilding team, but the step up from 19 to 7 is potentially huge. If I were a Bobcats fan, I wouldn't be upset with this deal at all. Ed O.
