Bring Leon Powe home!

cdubbz · Post #1 » by **cdubbz** » Thu May 1, 2008 1:35 am

I loved Powe in HS, college and now hes doing great for the celtics. Not super great, but hes a hustler. Undersized yeah, defensive liability yeah (but hey were the warriors). I just love his hustle and muscle down low fighting for rebounds. We need to bring powe the show back to oakland. max contract status.

iowarrior · Post #2 » by **iowarrior** » Thu May 1, 2008 2:31 am

+1

I've never cared if Gary Payton or Jason Kidd came back to Oakland but I always hope that someday Leon will. He came so far from living on the streets to become a professional - an inspiring story for sure.

Abyss Impact · Post #3 » by **Abyss Impact** » Thu May 1, 2008 2:45 am

NO. Are you dumb? He is useless. He won't even get on the floor because he has no skills what so ever. POB > Powe.

dajrichshow · Post #4 » by **dajrichshow** » Thu May 1, 2008 3:15 am

I still can't believe we picked KOSTA PEROVIC over Leon Powe in 06.

cdubbz · Post #5 » by **cdubbz** » Thu May 1, 2008 3:42 am

Abyss Impact wrote:NO. Are you dumb? He is useless. He won't even get on the floor because he has no skills what so ever. POB > Powe.

No, i'm not dumb. Its an opinon biatch. POB > Powe? Sure maybe. Not fair to compare since we never see POB play, so im not gonna go there. And youre the idiot saying powe has no skills whatsoever.

iowarrior · Post #6 » by **iowarrior** » Thu May 1, 2008 3:45 am

No, Abyss, we're not. In fact we're damn pretty smart aren't we, cdubbz?

We really would just like to see a guy who grew up around these parts come back to the Bay to play for the local team. And the guy is not unskilled. He was a productive scorer and rebounder for the minutes he was on the floor this season.

What is it now, Abyss? About 7/8 of your posts on MP and for the other 1/8 the reader is supposed to try and figure out if you are serious or sarcastic. It's a very tired act.

Abyss Impact · Post #7 » by **Abyss Impact** » Thu May 1, 2008 4:02 am

Dude, Powe will never get playing time here unless Nelly leaves. We need experienced players that Nelly trusts or else they will mainly be sitting on bench until garbage time.

old rem · Post #8 » by **old rem** » Thu May 1, 2008 6:12 am

dajrichshow wrote:I still can't believe we picked KOSTA PEROVIC over Leon Powe in 06.

Me too.

Powe obviously had at least the stuff to earn minutes on any team. Kosta was and is a roll of the dice to just be a usable emergency C.

old rem · Post #9 » by **old rem** » Thu May 1, 2008 6:21 am

Abyss Impact wrote:Dude, Powe will never get playing time here unless Nelly leaves. We need experienced players that Nelly trusts or else they will mainly be sitting on bench until garbage time.

Yeah,that's basically so, However Powe has on his resume that he played some role for the top team in the East. That, Nellie can't undo.

Nellie has used guys based on them doing something somewhere else. It's guys we draft who Nellie tends to under-rate.

Mully rules · Post #10 » by **Mully rules** » Thu May 1, 2008 11:49 am

Well, Powe would be the perfect center for Nellie. He's shorter than 6'10 and can rebound. I never seen him play, but I imagine he can run the court well. So he fits well.

Mylie10 · Post #11 » by **Mylie10** » Thu May 1, 2008 3:34 pm

Powe would be what the doctor needed and we could have had him in the second round.

Another fumble from the FO.

St.Nick · Post #12 » by **St.Nick** » Thu May 1, 2008 4:18 pm

Mylie10 wrote:Powe would be what the doctor needed and we could have had him in the second round.

Another fumble from the FO.

What the doctor needed?

Yeah, it is too bad that we passed on Powe. Its also too bad that we passed on KG, Tracy McGrady, Carlos Boozer, yadda, yadda, yadda. What a dumb front office we have (and every other team has, as they did not draft the best player because available they didnt have hindsight vision).

Post #13 » by **Sleepy51** » Thu May 1, 2008 4:46 pm

St.Nick wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

What the doctor needed?

Yeah, it is too bad that we passed on Powe. Its also too bad that we passed on KG, Tracy McGrady, Carlos Boozer, yadda, yadda, yadda. What a dumb front office we have (and every other team has, as they did not draft the best player because available they didnt have hindsight vision).

Wait, are you now saying our front office was not inept for the longest playoff drought in NBA history? Are you saying they weren't inept for getting nearly every draft wrong for more than a decade? What exactly is the front office supposed to do other than make the right decisions on players and contracts?

turk3d · Post #14 » by **turk3d** » Thu May 1, 2008 4:54 pm

iowarrior wrote:No, Abyss, we're not. In fact we're damn pretty smart aren't we, cdubbz?

We really would just like to see a guy who grew up around these parts come back to the Bay to play for the local team. And the guy is not unskilled. He was a productive scorer and rebounder for the minutes he was on the floor this season.

What is it now, Abyss? About 7/8 of your posts on MP and for the other 1/8 the reader is supposed to try and figure out if you are serious or sarcastic. It's a very tired act.

To simplify Abyss, it would be like Pietrus going back to France to play for the French Nationals (the difference being they probably wouldn't want him). Powe's a hometown boy. F' Nellie, who cares what he thinks? We want our boy back.

St.Nick · Post #15 » by **St.Nick** » Thu May 1, 2008 5:26 pm

Sleepy51 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Wait, are you now saying our front office was not inept for the longest playoff drought in NBA history? Are you saying they weren't inept for getting nearly every draft wrong for more than a decade? What exactly is the front office supposed to do other than make the right decisions on players and contracts?

I didnt say any of that. You did.

We hit the ball out of the park on Biedrins, Ellis, and likely Wright. We also stole SJax and Harrington from Indiana and the Baron trade has paid off in a major way.

To criticize our FO for not drafting a backup PF is lame.

Sid the Squid · Post #16 » by **Sid the Squid** » Thu May 1, 2008 5:28 pm

I love Powe..Let's bring back the Custodian, Azubuike, Boykins, Diogu, Murphy, David Lee, CJ Watson, Pietrus..Let's also trade for Yi..

We could have the great SCRUBFEST ever!!!

Tank in 09!!!

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Post #17 » by **Sleepy51** » Thu May 1, 2008 5:44 pm

St.Nick wrote: Its also too bad that we passed on KG, Tracy McGrady, Carlos Boozer, yadda, yadda, yadda. What a dumb front office we have (and every other team has, as they did not draft the best player because available they didnt have hindsight vision).

I thought this was sarcasm.

It sounded like you were saying we can't hold those HUGE blunders against our front office because getting those picks right would have required hindsight? and because other teams screwed up the picks also.

Did I somehow misunderestimate you?

Abyss Impact · Post #18 » by **Abyss Impact** » Thu May 1, 2008 6:12 pm

turk3d wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

To simplify Abyss, it would be like Pietrus going back to France to play for the French Nationals (the difference being they probably wouldn't want him). Powe's a hometown boy. F' Nellie, who cares what he thinks? We want our boy back.

Patrick O'Bryant has more skills than Powe. Look how he turned out.

St.Nick · Post #19 » by **St.Nick** » Thu May 1, 2008 6:32 pm

Sleepy51 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I thought this was sarcasm.

It sounded like you were saying we can't hold those HUGE blunders against our front office because getting those picks right would have required hindsight? and because other teams screwed up the picks also.

Did I somehow misunderestimate you?

You unmisunderestimated me completely.

Our FO missed on a lot of guys. Every teams FO has missed on a lot of guys. We were especially bad in the 90s/early 00's with drafting. Now with the current FO, we are not so bad.

Certainly, it would have been nice to draft Ramon Sessions rather than Lasme or Powe over Kosta or anyone over POB, but pretty much every fan can make a laundry list of players that their team missed in the draft.

Back in the day we had something to really gripe about...Todd Fuller over TMac or Joe Smith over KG and so on...but now to knock our FO for not drafting Leon Powe...thats kinda dumb.

old rem · Post #20 » by **old rem** » Thu May 1, 2008 6:55 pm

The front office has had lotto standing most of 14 yrs now and the fact 2 long shots did pay off does not offset the mess ups. In large part-we often made the logical pick. We'd then slop up the development-or overpay by so much we turned a decent starter into mostly a cap killer.
If all else failed-we just shuffled a guy around to every role but the one he fit and compounded that with the instability of a new coach or half a new roster every 2-3 years.

Turning double-double guys into nothing (Jamison-Damp) did set up a "bargain" deal for Baron. Finding Monta kind of balances botching the Arenas thing. Biedrins? Well.....we did spend about 10 high rd 1 picks to find our Nate Thurmond replacement...finally the odds caught up.

I'm not saying Mullin sucks-in part because he's at least a notch better than the previous guys. Mully tends to take 3 steps forward and 2 steps back-so we get a tease that glory days are a"comin',but at a snail pace. I REALLY worry that Mully trys a "Big Move" and blows it.
At this point I'd rather see solid steady rise and no backslides. I'm for solid if safe moves (trade or draft) rather than a swing for the fences