I'm sure you're right. I've also heard presidents, and CEOs, and professional athletes lie and "spin" and distort the facts, and it still sticks in my craw. Huh? You've lost me, ABM. I'm not sure what the players are "buying into," or even what you mean by that remark. As for Aldridge's comment, if he means he's glad he wasn't traded, then I'm glad for him. I didn't want him to be traded, either.
Chicago never had anyone overachieve that I know of in recent years. They were merely overrated. When people (particularly young people) exceed your expectations, it may just mean you underrated them in the first place and therefore have stumbled into unbelievable fortune. I don't expect to win millions when I buy a lottery ticket but if I did, I wouldn't sell the ticket for $400.
Meaning, they're buying into the "love", baby! That all said, the old adage remains that "it's a business" and KP, I'm sure wants to please everybody (press, players, fans, etc.), which, obviously, he'll never be able to do. So, he places a bit of "spin" on some of his statements? OK, so what, I say. Big deal. What I currently, see, though, is a team in 4th place in the WC that is going to the playoffs. That's well and plenty good for yours truly. At least for now.
You can do your due diligence and always be looking at ways to improve AND love the current team enough that you decide you'd rather keep them intact as opposed to what you were offered. Is that really that difficult to understand?
What you consider its "worth" can be related to how much you loved it. If you love that car dearly, to the point that you won't even sell it for 10x its Blue Book value, it's fair to say you didn't sell it because you love it, even if it's conceivable you'd have sold it for some offer (like a million dollars).
Nope. In fact, that's exactly what Pritchard did, and what he SHOULD do. I have no problem with his strategy at all. What I have a problem with is him telling the media that he doesn't want to trade any of our young guys, when in fact that's exactly what he's been discussing with other GMs around the league. If he didn't have some interest in trading our kids, he wouldn't have been part of so many discussions about them. It's just a patently false statement, and unnecessary, to boot.
He didn't say that though. He said it came down to A PLAYER he didn't want to let go of one deal that made sense. Get your facts straight.
Ha. If Pritchard had somehow managed to pry Vince Carter away from the Nets for only Sergio Rodriquez and Raef LaFrentz, do you think Sergio would be "buying into the love" right now??
My facts are straight, thank you very much. Pritchard said more than once that he loves this young team and he wants to keep it intact. It was very clear that he wasn't talking about just one player--he was talking about his entire collection of young players.
You're seeing things a weee bit to black & white for some reason and appear unable to grasp the simplest of concepts. KP has never claimed he wasn't in serious trade discussions, he has said quite the opposite. He simply said that at the end of the day he loved what they have more than what they were offered... Before you respond, read it a few more times, slowly. I really think you can do it this time.
Not bringing in an expensive contract can be justified. Not bringing in some kind of depth at the C and SF position cannot be justified. We know Webster and Oden are hobbling around. We know we are one deep at C right now, and Joel is playing with a broken bone as it is. We're only one-and-a-half deep at SF. We could have brought some depth that's a little bit higher quality than the type of guys who can be brought in on minimum contracts. This was a real failure in one of the most basic tasks a GM has to do. Pritchard got all distracted by waving around his "RLEC" to the media and telling the media he had 15 players being offered to him. He pushed all the superstar trade discussions to the last nanosecond, and he completely spaced the fact left the Blazers without a healthy center on the depth chart. Pritchard had my complete trust in his decisions before today. Pritchard took his eye off the ball, and he lost that complete trust today.
Yeah, I think this was a mistake. In order to have cap room, we have to get rid of outlaw, frye and Blake- thus all were expendable in a trade. Teams had a great financial advantage to picking up Raef's contract. KP should have been willing to give up Batum to get us a stud small forward and he didn't. If Batum doesn't end up being as good as Wallace, etc, it's a huge mistake- because it sacrifices not only the future talent of our team, but our shot this season. KP sucked an egg today. I'm very disappointed. Our future is still bright, but we gave up the chance to have a fourth stud player because of dreams of potential... Mixum- you called it. Take a bow.
didn't you reveal that your career is in advertising??? and could you show me where KP said the quote you relayed... "We decided we just love this young team too much to part with any of our players."... or were you just spinning? STOMP
Do you think that Gerald Wallace would put us over the top this season? Or any player thats out there for that matter?
If, in fact, it were Nate that blocked one or more so-called trades, what would you have to say about KP's quotes then? I have a feeling these types of situations are far more complicated and dynamic than you, I, or anyone else could realize or ever imagine.
No, it means the team is ahead of the curve. They were expected to fight for a 7-8 seed; instead they are fighting for a 4-5.
