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He had the microfracture surgery didn't he? I gotta say no, I don't trust those guys. They're usually never the same again. Half a season of reports that he looks "explosive" isn't convincing me...who did I read that about before... And then even if I get past that, there's the whole...

We're only like what, 5-6 losses behind philly, there's still plenty of time to gel and make up that difference and get the #1 pick. Hey it could happen, why not us! Besides, I heard there's some other good players in this draft, its not all about Oden.

Book, but when he's excited "book" and "and" sort of run together.

I was positive he'd finally crash into the basket support and break in half in his first game for the Kings. So no. :) Also for our market and the way the team is now it would have been throwing gas on a fire. Another short-term attempted fix that turns into a mess to clean up later...

The NBA has set itself up to promote its superstars much differently than other leagues. It all goes back to Jordan and his enormous commercial success worldwide. Its not all about basketball, its about image and stuff like that, getting the kids to buy your shoes and jerseys. A popular...

Totally agree, all those were quick-fix moves trying to keep us competitive short-term. Not horrible trades, but in the long-term teams shoot themselves in the foot trying to do that, more often than not. And so we have.

So, regarding the competition in NBDL, that's got to be a lower-level league than college ball right? I'm sure there's some good players in there (that I've never heard of) but for the most part the real talents are elsewhere. No? Do people really think Kenny Thomas (for example) couldn't...

I'm waving my autographed mateen towel at the screen RIGHT NOW. :D Kids these days with their viddymagame machines with the reset button on it. So yeah, I saw a mock draft today that had us taking Josh McRoberts at #10...I'm not real up on all the prospects yet but I thought the #10 was a...

I like to look on the bright side, like at least the team still has a better attitude and chemistry than the fans. :confused:

Okay good comparison, thats 1/16 of a season I guess. I can't seem to find any football suspensions for a smallish scuffle, there pretty much has to be teeth on the ground. Here's the guy that stomped face for 30 stitches though, he got 5/16 of a season...

I'm trying to objectively rate his overall draft performance, not start a fan club. Rather than "genuflection", I was suggesting that like recognizes like. I do consider someone with that kind of high-level experience to be more of an expert than myself (or some internet writer) in what it...

In light of the recent MSG hoopla, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any recent fights in other sports so that we could compare how much they're punished for a similar incident. It seems like a comparable scuffle in football would be a 15 yard penalty and in baseball maybe a game...

Why 17 or later? I was thinking it was more fair to judge* based on who he actually took and who he left on the table. * If I was going to judge in the first place and assume that I myself, or drafthype.com, know more about what it takes to make an NBA player than Petrie. Who was an 8 pick...

Yep thats what I figured, that he goes after guys who can make it in the NBA rather than drafting for position. Every single year people read the draft hype and decide we should have some guy because they like his height and weight. If they were right, I figured some of those guys would be...

Okay, I got interested in looking at our past drafts. I went through all the Petrie years and looked at all the players drafted after whoever we drafted. The idea is, you can look at what level of talent we got out of each draft, and what we _could_ have had. I'm not real big on...

I believe Petrie got here _after_ Grant and Smith were drafted, but I'll check. People talk about drafting to fit the system like its some sort of fact, but I've never seen any evidence that we aren't just trying to get the most talented player available. Which, in the late rounds, is almost...

Normally I hate Rosen's stab-stab-stab style articles but one thing in there that I thought was good was this: Makes perfect sense to me. I don't think (actually I have no idea) they have a fundamental problem with each other, but its easy to imagine as the team is losing there's a sort of...

Sucks to lose but they didn't look so bad out there, good effort especially early on, lost it a bit when the suns came back but came back to at least challenge them for it. The ball movement seemed improved but not perfect. I'm a little encouraged by the effort and game plan, but the suns just...

Well yeah, but that means we're DUE. :D I formatted out the second rounders actually, thats where the project big man seems to get taken. I don't think he dislikes tall men, I just think late in the first round you first try to find a guy who seems like a sure bet to even _have_ a career...

Couldn't agree more. I'd rather go 82-0 but we are on a downswing in the NBA team life cycle so I have to settle for being excited to see who GP might pick up with a top 10 pick. Despite the fact that he strikes out sometimes I still believe in his eye for talent. We've been drafting mostly...