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Who are you to bring in some perspective????
Thanked soley for "sig-ass"
That's just fuckin' QUALITY, my friend...
Who are you to bring in some perspective????
Thanked soley for "sig-ass"
That's just fuckin' QUALITY, my friend...
If teams were demanding assets with cash for second rounders, I would agree. But we could've gotten at least one for cash. So what was there to lose? At worst, it's $1-2M down the drain while at least TRYING to improve the team. At best, we could have found a decent back up center. Would it convince LeBron to stay? No, of course not. But was it a way to possibly improve the team? Yes. And now we still have nothing at center.....To be honest, how many young centers drafted outside of the top 20 go on to do shit? Last year, the only two drafted outside of 20 were B.J. Mullens and Goran Suton. The year before? Kosta Koufos, Nikola Pekovic, DeAndre Jordan, Omer Asik, Ante Tomic, DeVon Hardin, Sasha Kaun, and Semih Erden. What have any of those guys done in the league after two years?
And I remember everyone jerking off after DeAndre Jordan dropped in the draft, begging for the Cavaliers to snatch him in the second round (some were even hoping for him to be drafted #19). Don't get me wrong, it's important for the Cavs to find a young center. And they tried that tonight, exploring trades for Cole Aldrich. But teams don't deal lotto picks for straight cash and that's the only place you're likely to find a good, young center, ready to contribute.
Just because fans were high on Alabi and Whiteside doesn't mean management was. And perhaps for good reason. Both players could very easily be the next flash in the pan center prospect.
Chris Grant's performance in this draft was worse then Mark Walberg's performance in The Happening.
If teams were demanding assets with cash for second rounders, I would agree. But we could've gotten at least one for cash. So what was there to lose? At worst, it's $1-2M down the drain while at least TRYING to improve the team. At best, we could have found a decent back up center. Would it convince LeBron to stay? No, of course not. But was it a way to possibly improve the team? Yes. And now we still have nothing at center.....
I am going to say that this years Draft was a good sign that we did not get In It... If we were hard up for new talent that would and could have ment We did not have anything In the works for upgrading our roster and selling our players for picks. The only Odd thing If the Cavs were confident why didn't we offer our first for Bledsoe. My only thought Is It will be used In a trade for a star player. And If that does not work we could have a top 5 pick If worse comes to worse plus that was a Hefty price to pay for that guy. So maybe some people should see all this as a good sign.
No, July 1st is really not a long way away. People have been saying that for weeks while we sit idly....but now it's a week from today (well, yesterday). We still don't have a coach. We didn't address the HUGE hole at center despite numerous options being available in the draft. We didn't address the back court making our current back court players more expendable via trade. Hell, outside of the Bosh article by Ford (I think?), we haven't even been linked to anyone.