I think Pritchard got fired because he passed on Durant.

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I would have picked Oden too, but GOT DAMN Durant is just KILLING IT! He threw down 38 on Lithuania today and has the USA in the gold medal game now. I certainly hope Oden gets healthy, because this pick will haunt us almost as bad as Bowie if he doesn't. :hairout:
 
That is not the reason I heard. It had nothing to do with Oden and Durant. PA signed off on the Oden pick.
 
Everyone knew Durant was gonna kill it, so its not surprising. If oden stays healthy he'll show everyone why we picked him.
 
There would be 29 other fired GMs if that is the reason.
 
So basically you all are bitching because we won the lottery. If we got #2, or not even moved up (and probably picked Noah) you would have no complaints.

It's funny, I don't wish we had Durant, even though I can see he's an amazing offensive force. He's just kind of... boring. Tall jumpshooter. Woo-woo.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
So basically you all are bitching because we won the lottery. If we got #2, or not even moved up (and probably picked Noah) you would have no complaints.

It's funny, I don't wish we had Durant, even though I can see he's an amazing offensive force. He's just kind of... boring. Tall jumpshooter. Woo-woo.
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Honestly, the whole Durant/Oden thing is really just depressing. What irritates me is the statement, "if Oden stays healthy" which is used around here A LOT and seems kind of ridiculous the more people use it.

It's kind of like, if Qyntel Woods didn't have his head up his ass, he could have been an All-Star!
 
Natebishop3 said:
Honestly, the whole Durant/Oden thing is really just depressing. What irritates me is the statement, "if Oden stays healthy" which is used around here A LOT and seems kind of ridiculous the more people use it.

It's kind of like, if Qyntel Woods didn't have his head up his ass, he could have been an All-Star!
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Kind of like how ridiculous it sounds (to me) when people say he will never stay healthy and his body is falling apart and he will always injure his legs (even though he doesn't have a recurring injury that keeps flaring up).
 
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"One of them will win scoring titles and one of them will win championships."

I still agree.
 
To change the topic tangentially to Team USA (which is everybody but Durant and Love on defense, and Durant on offense), if Serbia ends up beating Turkey in this semifinal, then the fix is in. The US will have advanced through the elimination rounds playing precisely none of the teams (Spain, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina) that actually had a chance against it, or strengths where the US had weaknesses.
 
Just playing devil's advocate here...........I look at the box score today and I see Durant with another monster game. I see him taking 26 shots and I see that most of his teammates struggled with their shots. Is there a correlation? Does Durant have to take a lot of shots to get into a rhythm? Does that hurt his teammates?

Now I don't think KD is a selfish player at all. But I do think if BRoy took as many shots as Durant did, then he also would score more. But would that help the team win more? I don't think so. Great shooters like KD eventually get into a groove when they have the luxury of shooting that many times. It is not as easy when you have to share the ball. Don't get me wrong I would love to have the guy on my team, but it takes a lot of different types of players to win a NBA championship.
 
tlongII said:
I would have picked Oden too, but GOT DAMN Durant is just KILLING IT! He threw down 38 on Lithuania today and has the USA in the gold medal game now. I certainly hope Oden gets healthy, because this pick will haunt us almost as bad as Bowie if he doesn't. :hairout:
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Bowie was the correct pick, as was Oden, and doesn't "haunt" me in the least.
 
tlongII said:
I would have picked Oden too, but GOT DAMN Durant is just KILLING IT! He threw down 38 on Lithuania today and has the USA in the gold medal game now. I certainly hope Oden gets healthy, because this pick will haunt us almost as bad as Bowie if he doesn't. :hairout:
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Cool story, bro.
 
XXPrimusXX said:
Ever heard of Clyde Drexler? :deadhorse:

And without Bowie, we would have never gotten Buck, which in my estimation means no NBA Finals appearances.
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Can you imagine how good we would have been if we had Clyde AND MJ? We would have won 8 or 9 championships.
 
This thread just knocked down the intelligence level of this messageboard community by a notch. I really would have expected a little more from this group.

So far the only smart additions to the thread were those who said if picking a consensus #1 overall pick by every NBA scout and 39 of the 40 mock drafting firms would cause a GM to be fired, then 29 other GM's would have also gotten fired had they been drafting in the same spot. Simple as that.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
To change the topic tangentially to Team USA (which is everybody but Durant and Love on defense, and Durant on offense), if Serbia ends up beating Turkey in this semifinal, then the fix is in. The US will have advanced through the elimination rounds playing precisely none of the teams (Spain, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina) that actually had a chance against it, or strengths where the US had weaknesses.
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Dude, its been obvious that the U.S. was going to coast to the medal game for a long time now. I knew this when I heard Pau, Dirk, Ginobili, Nocioni, Yao, Bogut, Parker, Pietrus and Nene weren't playing.
 
HCP said:
But all the other 29 GMs would have picked Greg!
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Morey, Otis Smith, Kupchak ... that's three I can think of off the top of my head who most certainly wouldn't have.
 
At the time I didn't think he was the consensus number 1. Durant was an absolute stud in college. My opinion at the time was that you can't go wrong with either one.
 
Nikolokolus said:
http://www.draftexpress.com/article/Durant-Eclipses-Oden-on-DraftExpress-Mock-Draft-1815/

Oden wasn't quite the consensus #1 people are making him out to be in this thread
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Well, to be fair, that article was written in Feb, before the tourny. That same tourny where Durant flamed out and Oden's team went to the title game, and in that same game that the Ohio State guards shot their team out of the win, Oden made Horford and Noah look like chumps.

To certain basketball people the tourny counts for a lot in their players assessments.

Durant was good as a rookie, but nothing special. He was a low efficiency, high volume scorer, who didn't defend or rebound. It is what Durant has NOW become by making constant and large improvements in his game that has everyone going apy.
 
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