<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RUstrong @ Feb 19 2008, 04:24 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ly_yng @ Feb 19 2008, 01:34 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Hey, maybe Kiki+Thorn = a competent GM. Kiki understands the value of the salary cap and wise investments, Thorn has a talent for making other GMs blink.
Maybe? Possibly?</div>
Maybe. Possibly. If Thorn doesn't get us anymore Wrights, Planinics and Carter-sized contracts I may re-like him.
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Don't blame Thorn for Wright. Indications at the time were that he would have taken McCants, but he went one pick earlier. When the pick came up, other fans were partial to Gerald Green, Joey Graham, Hakim Warrick, Wayne Simien, and John Petro. None of them have been any better. Fans harp on the success of Danny Granger, but he was only one of a half-dozen viable candidates at that point in the draft, and he was an injury risk. The other first-roudners drafted after Wright included Julius Hodge, Jarrett Jack, Nate Robinson, Francisco Garcia, Julius Hodge. It's not like 2001, when the Nets selected Brandon Armstrong over a half-dozen significant contributors.