<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Jun 16 2008, 11:56 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Jun 16 2008, 12:54 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (soul driver @ Jun 16 2008, 07:35 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Interesting. So are you implying that perhaps the Nets aren't giving Galanari the guarentee?</div>
I personally think the idea of a guarantee is idiotic.
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It's true; all it does is makes Thronikipedia's job that much more difficult, and increases the chances that we f*** this up on the 26th.
I'd rather have as many options as possible.
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Well, the team isn't bound to it (such as if someone unexpected falls); the player isn't bound to sign and not go back to Europe even if the team DOES select him; and any other team could still draft him anyway.
If the Nets DO offer a guarrantee, and then select him with #21, then you just have a pissed-off player.
I just don't see the point. It's not as if, by agreeing not to work out for other teams, that the player (Gallinari in this case) will remain an "unknown" and that no other team will ever have seen him play. It is just stupid. I can understand that players want to have some sense as to when they might be drafted. If I was the Nets, the farthest I would go would be to say that we like you, and that you are one of about five players we'd consider at #10 depending on what shakes out, but we'd almost certainly take you at #21 if you last that long. If that isn't good enough for Gallinari, let him pull out. I mean, there is essentially no incentive for him to pull out, if we are to believe his "threat" that he will just go back to Europe if he isn't happy. If that's the case, why should he care in advance who selects him or when? Just wait to see what happens and then decide what to do. The answer is obviously that he DOES want to play in the NBA, and just doesn't want to take a financial hit to do so.
