Jamaaliver wrote:kg01 wrote:Jamaaliver wrote:As far as Bradley, yeah. I guess. I mean, he's in the Basketball Writer's Hall of Fame. But, I'm sure he knows absolutely nothing about the sport.
You put way too much stock in what ajc writers say.
Being in the BB Writers HOF means (a) he's been employed for a long time and (b) he has enough friends on whatever the nominating committee was. It's not like they have to take a test or something. I bet if you ask him to breakdown a play or a prospect he wouldn't be able to do it much more than you or I.
Perhaps. I just know that local sports writers do have contacts within organizations for every team. AJC doesn't report rumors, innuendo and limit articles based-on 'off the record comments'.
But as a guy who lives 700 miles away, I acknowledge they hear a lot more than I do and often keep that info close to the chest.
NOte: Jeff Schultz is b@llsy as hell. Having gone toe-to-to with Koonin in the aftermath of the Ferry fiasco and being one of the few (only?) local guys to ask Budenholzer point blank if he was leaving after the season.
I think, in theory, they have all these sources and info they're sitting on. I don't think that's reality for these guys based on the content of their articles. It's like they dip a toe in where the really good ones take swan dives.
