really?
Ok. I seem remember there being quite a bit of question about Marc, but I could be mistaken... Seems like he'd have been taken higher in the draft if he were that valuable...
And if he was so valuable why did he go #48? We have a lot of guys more valuable than a #48 pick...
lol i sat up til 4AM watching our guy Rudy and Rubio tear up the ACB but alright. You might even find my old posts on bballfroum.com with shady links to those games. Marc averaged just 18 mpg on their national team months before that trade. They actually played a guy name Felipe Reyes ahead of him.
as i was saying... revisionist history. Marc being anything more than an afterthought in that trade is just a lie.
this is a really strange hill to die on. I mean... Nas/Ant/Brown are all not far removed from being top 10 prospects in their HS ranks. To continually argue that a 24 yr old overweight C with questionable mobility is a better prospect with more trade value is just weird.
Right, you said many teams didn't value him. I think we have many players that many teams would value enough to pick in the first round if they were available. Nobody valued Marc Gasol that highly. Not even Memphis.
It's a popular saying, and used fairly regularly.
True. There are many sayings from the ol' days that are still around. I think as time goes by, more and more of these phrases will go by the wayside. There still are a lot of middle aged to senior ,Baby Boomers, in here . At 57, i come in at the end of that. But i still use many of the phrases today.
Seriously? Is being against saying "the hill you want to die on" going to be the hill you want to die on? Alright then.
57? You're still a young whippersnapper!
Don't forget that he grew up in Memphis (went to High School there), so they very probably had a much better handle on his abilities than any other front office.
Your lack of imagination and memory is astounding. Of course we can rebuild a contender around Dame. The only GM we've ever had with Dame has been one that was hellbent on the idea that he and CJ were the duo to build a championship team around, without that hindering the team building process we have years to get there if we start the rebuild in a bold way right now. As far as your memory is concerned... Kobe was three years older than Dame when he blew out his Achilles, unlike abdominal tendon tears that take 6-8 weeks to recover from if you opt for surgery Achilles tears... especially ruptures can take anywhere from a year and a half to never recovering from them. Kobe at 34 had also been playing a full NBA schedule plus deep into the playoffs for 16 seasons at that point. So yeah Kobe's 18th and 19th seasons in the league looked pretty bad. Dame isn't dealing with ruptured Achilles and he's in 10th season. Kobe won both of his MVPs after turning 30. I'm not the one that started the Kobe v Dame comparison, you did but if your going to make a bad comparison at least bring into consideration that your comparison makes it look like Dame is just now starting the second half of his career.
And if we could get so deep as to sign a Macmelon, Mcloof and Mcormick for vet mins??