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Is anybody else shaking there heads thinking about our major needs if we resigh Joe? Center...I'm read all the glowing reviews from the summer league on Pitmanm, Jordon, etc all these guy we could have pick and we ended up with nothing! Now we're try to trade for a 38 year old fat shaq! I'm almost done!!

geeman wrote:Is anybody else shaking there heads thinking about our major needs if we resigh Joe? Center...I'm read all the glowing reviews from the summer league on Pitmanm, Jordon, etc all these guy we could have pick and we ended up with nothing! Now we're try to trade for a 38 year old fat shaq! I'm almost done!!

Pittman will never be an NBA-player. He has a big body but nothing else. I think thought that selling the 31th pick was a mistake. Hassan Whiteside, Jerome Jordan and Solomon Alabi was still on the board....

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Pittman, but Whiteside was the real prize. Just like DeAndre Jordan a couple years ago you have a young C who left college before he was ready and saw him fall from a lottery projection to the 2nd round. In the 2nd round their is no risk to such a player. Sure they'll take time to develop to a full fledged pro, but they'll do it at low cost and if you are forward thinking you can lock them up at a fraction of the market rate for bigs (like Washington did with Andray Blatche). If they never develop you waste less than we did with Randolph Morris.

The thing is that move requires a longer vision. This ownership group obviously can't think that far out with their investments.

I wouldn't get spun about trading for Shaq though. I wouldn't expect us to do anything beyond minimum contracts at this point.

Dont look too much into summer league.

ATL DirtyBird wrote:Dont look too much into summer league.

Agreed. I probably would have taken Whiteside or D.Jones at 24,but guys like Orton,Alabi,and Jordan didn't interest me at all.