payitforward wrote:Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:...the McGee/Nene deal; the OkAriza/Lewis deal; the Vesely draft; the Satoransky draft; the Foye/Miller for the #5 trade; the selling of the Blair pick; the re-signing of Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison;...
I have predicted EVERY ONE of these outcomes....
I feel kind of frustrated not having a voice that is heeded after ALL THESE YEARS…...
And you were right about them all. Only thing is I also predicted every one of these outcomes, and so did many others on this site and on numerous other sites.
What's weird is not that your voice isn't heeded -- I hope you don't let that frustrate you -- or my voice, or all those other voices.
What's weird is that it was not difficult to see what those outcomes were likely to be. Not difficult at all. Easy in fact. So... how in heaven's name can a so-called basketball professional make that series of dumb moves? Ok, maybe the '09 draft-day trade was ordered by the owner. Even so, I think it's clear that Ernie could have pulled out the #18 pick in the deal (Minny wound up trading it to Denver for not much) and gotten Ty Lawson who I had as *a lock* to be a top-tier point guard.
Not to mention the '08 draft -- go back and look at how Darryl Morey managed that draft. We picked a guy w/ enormous physical gifts but who hadn't even been a very good college player. Yet, it would have been child's play to wind up with Nicolas Batum and DeAndre Jordan (and maybe even a 3d player) instead.
If I can see these things -- and if I then watch someone like Morey execute them -- that means they are real and anyone should be able to see them. So... why can't Ernie?
Because he's an awful GM that has no business in the league. TL needs to fire him before next year's draft or we will get screwed again.
