I think you're giving David Kahn a little too much credit. I understand you're trying to be rational and playing devil's advocate here, but it's perfectly okay to acknowledge incompetence when you see it. We saw and heard it from him tonight. He "obviously" wasn't trying to raise him up to Vlade's level? So what do the words "best passing big man I've ever seen, like Vlade" mean? You're reading too much into the stupidity.
Just take the man at face value. We tried to read into it last year, giving him the benefit of the doubt, but he really just confirmed everyone's suspicions this offseason with whiff (passing on Cousins) after whiff (taking multiple SFs and trading for even more) after whiff (signing Darko to a multi-year contract) after whiff (trading Al Jefferson for peanuts after killing his value in the press by announcing his intentions to trade him to the world). Kahn is an idiot. Just feel bad for the good people of Minnesota and let it be.
Webber isn't the only one on NBATV to take Kahn to task publicly. Rick Kamla, host of several shows on the network and a self-admitted Wolves fan, called him out after this year's draft, and it was just as funny to watch that interview as the one we were treated to today. It's not an anomaly, and it's not something that only a select few are able to see. It's apparent that people in this man's industry (Kenny Smith also calling him out on occasion) see the awful job he's doing up there.
I guess I didn't remember his exact words, but I totally agree that the guy is a moron, and I tried to give him as much benefit of the doubt as possible. I mean, it took me awhile before I believed he'd take Johnson over Cousins. The Vlade comment was obvious hyperbole, but it still seemed to me (at least as I remembered it) to be within typical gushing for a loudmouth like him.
It seems like every one of his moves contradict each other, I don't think the guy has any consistent plan whatsoever. He takes Rubio, but then instead of drafting Curry who can play both the 1 and 2, he drafts Flynn instead. He sounds like he's trying to build around Rubio, but even if he trades Sesssions, he still has Flynn and Ridnour. He wants to be able to run more for Rubio, but has Pekovic and Darko locked up at the 5 spot? They're really not any better fits than Jefferson is. And he says he also wants to run some triangle/princeton type sets, but he doesn't realize that a post up big that can pass like Cousins is fairly crucial in order to do that? Love is a good passer, high post guy, but he's more of a Horace Grant glue guy type. Also, if you're going to build around Rubio you better have an offense set up for pick and rolls and up tempo offense, because otherwise he's not a guy you make dramatic changes to your roster for. He pretty much blew all the picks they had in the draft. They had so many assets and he got pretty much nothing out of them. Now, he can't even get an actual player back for Jefferson? He's possibly set back that franchise for years and if he can't convince Rubio that Minnesota is a good team for him, then he's done it all for nothing.
I don't think Kamla has ever really hit Kahn that hard in interviews, but yes, he has hit him pretty hard in regular studio talk.
