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The team knew Roy's knees were ticking time bombs when we drafted him. That was the reason he did not go higher. Pritchard wanted to guard the team and his max contract negotiations went for quite awhile knowing what he did.
Oden was fitted for an orthopedic shoe shortly after drafting him to compensate for his legs being unequal length.
The narrative should be "What if"
1. We build around LA. He was definitely sensitive. However, first year all he heard was how Roy was the savior. Then, we draft Oden. Nate even has all three over for dinner and tells LA he is going to be essentially the third wheel. May not made a difference when he became a free agent but it would not have hurt.
2. Following up on #1, we let someone else get the few years of Roy and take Rudy Gay. Gay had a pretty good career and would have fit with just about any team.
3. Assuming the ping pong balls still fall our way after the first two, what if we decide Durant is less of an injury concern and draft someone LA endorses?
4. When we trade Zach, what if we realize Penn was wishful in his thinking that releasing Miles for injury will not come back to bite us and accept the Knicks offer to also take Miles? David Lee or Paul Milsap would have been far more valuable pickups over Andre Miller. Heck, even after we exhausted our cap space that summer, it would have been possible that no one else had anything better than the MLE we would have been able to offer. I liked Miller but he was definitely not the PG we needed for the future.
Assuming we still draft Batum, how would that lineup look?
Lee Or Milsap, LA, Durant, Gay, (PG to be determined) with Webster, Outlaw, Blake and Batum coming off bench
Could also play this scenario with us drafting Paul instead of Webster but there is probably no way we would be bad enough to get LA or Durant.
Or we keep lamenting that guys that had huge medical red flags got injured.
Oden was fitted for an orthopedic shoe shortly after drafting him to compensate for his legs being unequal length.
The narrative should be "What if"
1. We build around LA. He was definitely sensitive. However, first year all he heard was how Roy was the savior. Then, we draft Oden. Nate even has all three over for dinner and tells LA he is going to be essentially the third wheel. May not made a difference when he became a free agent but it would not have hurt.
2. Following up on #1, we let someone else get the few years of Roy and take Rudy Gay. Gay had a pretty good career and would have fit with just about any team.
3. Assuming the ping pong balls still fall our way after the first two, what if we decide Durant is less of an injury concern and draft someone LA endorses?
4. When we trade Zach, what if we realize Penn was wishful in his thinking that releasing Miles for injury will not come back to bite us and accept the Knicks offer to also take Miles? David Lee or Paul Milsap would have been far more valuable pickups over Andre Miller. Heck, even after we exhausted our cap space that summer, it would have been possible that no one else had anything better than the MLE we would have been able to offer. I liked Miller but he was definitely not the PG we needed for the future.
Assuming we still draft Batum, how would that lineup look?
Lee Or Milsap, LA, Durant, Gay, (PG to be determined) with Webster, Outlaw, Blake and Batum coming off bench
Could also play this scenario with us drafting Paul instead of Webster but there is probably no way we would be bad enough to get LA or Durant.
Or we keep lamenting that guys that had huge medical red flags got injured.
