Gotta love what Portland and OKC are doing

[The Thriller]

They're strengthening their weaknesses.

 

[Deleted member 95]

wat? I like the Utah Jazz route better.

 

[theonlyone]

They're strengthening their weaknesses.

I think the Jazz are the only team that doesn't even try to strengthen their weaknesses.

 

[Jeff]

Nonsense, anytime you can draft SF that doesn't really do any one thing well, has no upside, and short arms you have to do it.

 

[Jeff]

I almost forgot. He did average over 8 rebounds a game. Too bad it was because he played a significant amount of time at PF for Butler.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Canning their GM one hour before the draft?

 

[Jeff]

Canning their GM one hour before the draft?

lol, I wish. If KOC had gotten canned one hour before the draft maybe we wouldn't have used a lottery pick on a player that will be playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv five years from now.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Portland's present and future still rely on Greg Odgen actually being really good. I just don't see it happening. Oklahoma City, on the other hand, is definitely improving.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Just imagine if they would have taken Tyreke Evans over Harden.

 

[prodigy]

Just imagine if they would have taken Tyreke Evans over Harden.

And in the same draft they traded Rodrigue Beaubois for BJ Mullens.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Just imagine if they would have taken Tyreke Evans over Harden.

Evans would be too ball dominant with Durant and Westbrook there already imo. Too many alpha players is not good.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Evans would be too ball dominant with Durant and Westbrook there already imo. Too many alpha players is not good.

I think they could have figured it out. Evans looks like more of a scorer because the Kings have nobody else who can create their own shot.

 

[carolinajazz]

Canning their GM one hour before the draft?

...obviously, a pay back move for drafting that damaged goods player from Ohio State INSTEAD of Durant, who has been tearing up the league ever since he strapped on a set of Tokyo toughies!

 

[Stifle Tower]

...obviously, a pay back move for drafting that damaged goods player from Ohio State INSTEAD of Durant, who has been tearing up the league ever since he strapped on a set of Tokyo toughies!

It really is a "what have you done for me lately" profession. 99% of GM's would have taken Oden, a potential franchise center over Durant. And Pritchard gets no credit by Allen, I guess, for swinging the Foye for Roy and Thomas for Aldridge deals in the 2006 draft. And for bringing in Camby and Miller. Add Babbitt to an underrated Batum at the SF position. Pritchard has built a very nice team for his ex-boss.

Who is going to want to step into that job. You do a great job like Pritchard and your reward is to get canned? I hope there was some severance pay built into his contract.