"It does kind of bother me, because it's not true," Robert Sarver said of the frugal label. "The fact that people will look at the team and say, 'I disagree that they did this or that,' is totally understandable. Some decisions we make are good ones and some aren't. To think it's about money and that we're not competitive and we don't have a strong desire to win is completely inaccurate.
"A lot of the people's frustrations have come from selling the draft picks. In those cases, it's not so much about the money. It's about, 'Are we going to get someone who's in our rotation?' If you draft a player who spends their whole three years on the bench and doesn't play, is that really a good move vs. taking some of that money and signing Grant Hill or having the money to bring in Gordan Giricek?"
This guy is going to argue that for the franchise it was better to be able to sign Gordan Giricek (or even Grant Hill, although hell they got Hill at a bargain bin price) vs. drafting Rajon Rondo, Rudy Fernandez, David Lee, Kyle Lowry, Josh Boone, and a host of other guys that would still be playing and producing on small rookie scale contracts?
