First, Dave Joerger spoke about the upcoming game and how the new players would fit into the rotation-he said we'd likely not see Darko and Kwame together on court much, maybe ten mins per game, said he loves Memphis, his wife has a place to run their horses, etc....
Then Conley spoke for a second-still hurt, finishing up rehab,frustrated by injuries and team struggles...and he also mentioned that the last time the Tigers lost was to his team
Then Chris Wallace came out and threw Pau under the bus.
I'm not kidding.
He had a list on a dry erase board in three columns: the teams in the west and how tough a "neighborhood" we inhabit in the West; one with "Pau" at the top; and "assets we gained" was the third.
he said more than once:
"I'm not here to disrespect Pau"
"I'm not here to throw dirt in Pau's face"
etc.
The "Pau" heading was most interesting-the following liabilities were listed:
1-$48 mil over 3 years-there are other players in the league making that $ who produce much more
2-durability-he stated that there have been ongoing questions regarding Pau's durability-broken foot, etc.
3-"summer activity"-he harped on this, esp. the fact that the training and coaching and practices in Olympic and nat'l team play are much more numerous and strenuous than NBA rules allow.
4-Grizzlies are 0-12 in the playoffs-didn't lay that entirely on Pau, but said again that a player making that kind of $ should be more able to pull a team through.
Then, not listed, but he spent time on this-what a team must consider is that once a player is on his downside, the contract becomes ever more a burden on the team and how it is able to structure its payroll (i.e. what happens if Pau gets hurt in the Olympics).
He said that he didn't want to make a trade that moved us up a couple spots in the west-he'd rather us be a team that can make noise in the playoffs in the future.
I apologize for any inaccuracies and subjectivity in this recap-this is from memory.
In my opinion, Chris wallace was the one going around town taking Pau off the city bus ads and ripping his pictures out of the locker room hallways and such.
again, this is not intended as "minutes of the meeting"-this is from memory and has the inevitable subjectivity injected (see: Heisenberg uncertainty principle).
Oh..and Mo Williams ate Kyle's lunch courtesy of the pick and roll.
