really good interview. dave mcmenamin had some solid q's
i liked that he brought this up, and the response was pretty good too
Q: In 1998, you told “Sports Illustrated” magazine: "Evaluating basketball talent is not too difficult. If you grabbed 10 fans out of a bar and asked them to rate prospects, their opinions would be pretty much identical to those of the pro scouts."
“I didn’t say that. What I said was exactly that and continued on. What I said, the point I was trying to make, was that it is so scrutinized, the top 10 picks, the top 15, there are services over and over and if you’re a basketball fan you read these services. So, my point was, you can grab 10 guys and say, ‘Who are the top 10 picks?’ and they’ll have that information. Where it becomes incredible, and that’s where our scouts are incredible, is when we pick 29th, 30th, 28th. That’s where scouting comes in to play because really (the top 10) is set, it’s (the bottom 10) where you really have to know what you’re doing.
“So, it was a compliment to our scouts and whoever wrote that, I forgot who it was, it was just completely unfair because he stopped (the quote). He put those three dots and that means it still goes on. He chopped it off there to make me look stupid. My point was it’s so well covered, that the top 10-15 guys are pretty much picked and where your abilities shine are when you’re picking 28th year after year after year.”
Q: So it was taken out of context.
“Totally. But, I don’t know how to get rid of it. Even you’re bringing it up. It’s attached and ... you know. I tried to inform people of exactly how that was. It wasn’t misquoted. They just cut it off.”
