I think Pritchard got fired because he passed on Durant.

In most of our defenses, it's hard to jerk off knowing you have that avatar.

 

Ding ding ding!

We have a winner.


Seattle was almost in a better position then Portland as far as risky choices that year.
They just couldn't lose.
They could take whichever awesome prospect Portland didn't take and come out of it better regardless.
And, if the guy didn't really work out, they couldn't be blamed since they didn't actually have a choice.

There is not one doubt in my mind that Seattle would have taken Oden had they had the number one pick.
There is not one doubt in my mind that Oden was the correct pick for this Portland team.

There is a whole lot of doubt in my mind as to whether or not Oden will ever have the impact he could have.

 

Oden was NOT consensus #1. There were red-flags regarding his health and future, even back then. I specifically recall several GM's stating they would take Durant.

 

Who cares. It's history.

 

Which GMs, specifically?

 

I don't recall any GM's coming out and saying they would take Durant. I remember some media people saying certain teams probably wouldn't, like Orlando.

 

Link please? Good luck finding that. Heck, I'd love to even find a link to red-flags regarding health pre-draft. I think he had all of one injury in his 12 years since playing organized ball up until late his high-school season, and that was his only documented injury up until draft day (unless I'm missing some other flu or sprained toe or dust in his eye or some other irrelevant injury). Must be some fortune-tellers if someone was making red-flags out of that.

 

It is and will forever be KP's legacy. You live and ya learn. It's the only defense I can come up with.

 

When I first read the title, I thought it said that kpee pissed on Durant.

 

We agree? Holy jumping up and down Martha!

 

I've said this for a long time, no GM could survive the Oden fiasco unless the team went deep into the playoffs despite his injuries. They didn't and he paid the price.

Dumars only survived in Detroit so long since since they won a title making fans forget all about Darko.

 

While this may be the literal truth, it is rather misleading.

First, his hip condition may not have been a basketball related injury - but it was still a red flag.

Second, no one knows when he suffered the knee damage that lead to the MF surgery. For all you or I know, it was a pre-draft condition.

For the record, I don't believe that picking Oden was the reason KP was fired, and I disagree with the premise of the thread. Durant was the "safe" pick, but *at the time*, Oden seemed to have a higher ceiling.

 

Lemme have another shot at this.

kpee passed gas on Durant? No?

 

You're having a nightmare fella.

Absurd stuff.