likwitdesi wrote:Krizko Zero wrote:hands got something right. Unbelievable.
@MrMichaelLee wrote:Agent Zero to Agent Six? Doesn't have the same ring, but Gilbert Arenas has submitted paperwork to change jersey from No. 0 to No. 6
He was right on Blatche too. He never quit on him.
Thanks Likwitdesi
Hey Krizko, care to go head on head about who was right about what ? Here are a few more that I stumbled into.
EJF was an idiot and we would never win anything with him. Dating back to session one of him being here. By season two I was done. But I did pull for him to get a clue. Seemed like a nice guy and he was a local but I said he was more lucky then good. He was Norv. He made his name in NJ and it was because of Kidd and his players more then his wonderful offense which I hated.
As confirmed by D10, Abe had a lot to do with some of the moves we were seeing and that EG was painting between the lines he was given. Keeping EFJ. Signing Gil to near max. Keeping AJ. All Abe finger prints. Even trading last years pick. Some would tell me to get off it. Show them the proof. D10 showed it. But it was obvious even without that.
Haywood was a keeper.
Never once said trade him and said he should be part of the core.
Dray was KG Jr and should have gotten more playing time dating back to the first time I saw him get some minutes.
Never entertained the idea of trading Dray. Dray should be playing with Haywood at center. Even back when we were playoff bound, we needed to invest in this kid because he was the future not the Big Three. You needed a scoring PF who could defend and provide weak-side help, and Dray was our best shot at that. He was the perfect weak side help to Haywood bulk.
Kill the Big Three - Always hated our version of it and I hated the whole idea that Haywood wasn't a core member or that they didn't focus on a total team concept. Even the Gil, Hughes, AJ version was stupid.
PG - we need a real PG. Gil is a SG. Trade Gil before we needed to offer him a max cuz he is 1) a flake 2) not a PG. No team has ever won a championship with a Gil like PG. Closest was AI can AI was fools gold also. Gil admitted he wasn't a leader and got away with that crap... As the PG. Just stupid. We could have gotten value for Gil back before his final year. Hell, I was talking about trading one of him or Hughes dating back to when they played together. We got nothing for Hughes and got stuck with paying Gil a huge contract that he will never be worth. We paid GIl near max and we still don't have a PG. And even after that, we should have let him walk before signing a player like that to so much money for so long. You don't pay near max for a shoot first, no defense, none team leader, flake. We could still have Haywood if it wasn't for Gil.
Said trade AJ when he was an expiring 16M or don't pay more then 8-10 for him. Even came up with the reverse contract idea for him. I was back and forth with AJ. There were times trading him made the most sense and other times keep him did. But they always involved letting Dray play PF and moving him to SF, bench longer, or part time PF given the roster.
CB could play SG and with our roster we should have gone Haywood, Dray, AJ, CB, Gil or at least tried the freaking line up once. Thanks EFJ. CB is now the starting SG for Dallas who is one of the best teams in the league and on a 13-0 run since trade. Oh, and they have Haywood as the center and a real PG. You look at that line up now and have to wonder what a different coach could have done with it. If the big three was killed and Haywood and Dray were giving more of the focus. If they could play like a team, that's a deep playoff team. Maybe more. If only.
Said we would draft McGee or Hibbert the whole time. Hibbert was off the boards. Who knows if we would have taken him. But I was calling for one or the other. We needed a center. And I wanted a back up PG. But I read up on McGee and saw the work he was putting in with the NFL player who had him in camp and said he would be one of the two we considered. We need Haywood insurance but we need to start growing a center now.
Said Curry was what we needed last year when he was on Draft X page 2. Never even wasted my time talking about Blake. I knew we had Dray and wanted him to get a shot. Said we needed a PG/SG given what we had. Been calling a true PG and more centers since I can't remember. Dray was never a center and we wasted years of his development playing him there because we didn't have enough center. But with to many youngters acting foolish and Abe about to die, I then said we could trade the pick. I missed out on the Blair thing totally because of his knees.
Back to Dray. People hated him taking the outside shot, I said the kid had a nice stroke and should be taking that shot because it would come with doing it. Kid seems to have a nice stroke now. People said he was slow. I never saw that. He can run the court. Sad he had handles for a big. Well he still messes up but he does have handles for a big. Plus still learning how to handle the double team but he can pass as well. Kid got almost no minutes to develop for years.
Never once thought we should trade him.Speaking of Kid, I wanted us to go after him instead of getting behind Gil when he wanted to leave NJ.
Kidd, CB, AJ, Dray, Haywood. Hmmmmm. Sounds almost like the Dallas roster and no guns in the locker room. I think we would be maybe seeing some deep playoffs this year instead of rebuilding and we could still have McGee in the wings. I would be happy to have that as our team.
These aren't things I was late about. These are things I posted about and mostly got jumped for saying at the time or made fun of, or called clueless. Things that few people chimed in with me about.
Kind of like this Gil changing his number thing. Hey, I understand the dynamics of this board and trying to be a good sport about it. I was one of the cool kids growing up and know how clicks work. But I was the one in the group that would still talk to anyone. I never tried to be cool and that drove the ones that were crazy. I just dealt with people on their merit. I don't have the contracts some do. I don't have the deep stats of others. I don't type well or even spell that great. And I don't know every player, GM, head coach or college player like some. But honestly, lets not twist the truth about who gets things right and who doesn't.
I do what I do. I'm decent at judging character, talent, strategy and intangible and how it all fits together and what's the next best move.
