kekgeek1 wrote:Kevon Harris signed a 2-way deal with the Magic. Your dream is dead Lip
Good for Harris and the Magic. It seems like the Wolves had another player/s in mind. Let's see who they get.
Crap! Connelly continues to frustrate me by ignoring all of my recommendations. :)
I'm starting to wonder about that Wolves phone that you have. Might want to get it checked out. Are you sure you aren't dialing Rosas instead?
Monster, it's even worse. Apparently, I've been dialing David Kahn.
I bet he got a kick out of that. Lol How is he doing these days?
David says he's doing fine and is looking forward to returning to the Wolves as Connelly's successor after the Gobert deal fails. He said if he could re-do the 2009 draft knowing what he knows now, he would have done things differently. Instead of drafting Ricky and Jonny, he would have traded both picks and Kevin Love to move up to #2 and draft Hasheem Thabeet. He said that Thabeet, under coach Rambis, would have developed into a combination of Vlade Divac and Chris Webber.
That's not the David Kahn I know. Thabeet wouldn't fit his vision of a face paced offense even with Rambis developing him! :)
What's kinda wild about that Draft is that Jrue Holiday is now easily the 2nd best PG from that deep draft class of PGs. Patty Mills is still a pretty good player in the league and a lot of those guys are done. Rubio is still around too. It could be said that Harden ended up being a PG and I believe I was someone who said he was a good playmaker but I wouldn't have said he was a PG. Tyreke Evans...it's really something that his career went the way it did.
Interestingly, I was part of a small group of season ticket holders allowed to watch the PG prospects work out and play a scrimmage at the Wolves practice facility that year. It was Jonny Flynn, Tyreke Evans, Ty Lawson and Jrue Holiday along with a couple lesser players who I can't even remember. The scrimmage was a 3 on 3. It was a lot of fun. I remember turning to one of the Wolves scouts sitting next to me and asked him who he thought made the best showing in that workout and scrimmage. Without hesitation he said, Jrue Holiday. That was exactly the same conclusion I reached.
What was really interesting is that the Wolves never allowed fans to attend any draft workouts after that because one of the season ticket holders attending, contrary to the rules we were given, posted a social media blurb proclaiming that Jrue Holiday performed terribly. The person who posted that comment was obviously an idiot because it was clear to anyone with a basketball brain that Jrue was the best player that day. He certainly wasn't the worst. That honor would go to Jonny Flynn. He was terrible that day. I was told that Holiday's agent saw that comment and was understandably furious. Hence the end to fans attending draft workouts. It sucks that one moron in our group couldn't help control himself and the result was an end to a pretty cool tradition of allowing season ticket holders to watch draft workouts.
kekgeek1 wrote:Kevon Harris signed a 2-way deal with the Magic. Your dream is dead Lip
Good for Harris and the Magic. It seems like the Wolves had another player/s in mind. Let's see who they get.
Crap! Connelly continues to frustrate me by ignoring all of my recommendations. :)
I'm starting to wonder about that Wolves phone that you have. Might want to get it checked out. Are you sure you aren't dialing Rosas instead?
Monster, it's even worse. Apparently, I've been dialing David Kahn.
I bet he got a kick out of that. Lol How is he doing these days?
David says he's doing fine and is looking forward to returning to the Wolves as Connelly's successor after the Gobert deal fails. He said if he could re-do the 2009 draft knowing what he knows now, he would have done things differently. Instead of drafting Ricky and Jonny, he would have traded both picks and Kevin Love to move up to #2 and draft Hasheem Thabeet. He said that Thabeet, under coach Rambis, would have developed into a combination of Vlade Divac and Chris Webber.
That's not the David Kahn I know. Thabeet wouldn't fit his vision of a face paced offense even with Rambis developing him! :)
What's kinda wild about that Draft is that Jrue Holiday is now easily the 2nd best PG from that deep draft class of PGs. Patty Mills is still a pretty good player in the league and a lot of those guys are done. Rubio is still around too. It could be said that Harden ended up being a PG and I believe I was someone who said he was a good playmaker but I wouldn't have said he was a PG. Tyreke Evans...it's really something that his career went the way it did.
Interestingly, I was part of a small group of season ticket holders allowed to watch the PG prospects work out and play a scrimmage at the Wolves practice facility that year. It was Jonny Flynn, Tyreke Evans, Ty Lawson and Jrue Holiday along with a couple lesser players who I can't even remember. The scrimmage was a 3 on 3. It was a lot of fun. I remember turning to one of the Wolves scouts sitting next to me and asked him who he thought made the best showing in that workout and scrimmage. Without hesitation he said, Jrue Holiday. That was exactly the same conclusion I reached.
What was really interesting is that the Wolves never allowed fans to attend any draft workouts after that because one of the season ticket holders attending, contrary to the rules we were given, posted a social media blurb proclaiming that Jrue Holiday performed terribly. The person who posted that comment was obviously an idiot because it was clear to anyone with a basketball brain that Jrue was the best player that day. He certainly wasn't the worst. That honor would go to Jonny Flynn. He was terrible that day. I was told that Holiday's agent saw that comment and was understandably furious. Hence the end to fans attending draft workouts. It sucks that one moron in our group couldn't help control himself and the result was an end to a pretty cool tradition of allowing season ticket holders to watch draft workouts.
Fun stuff Lip. You know those kinds of things would have eventually get shut down and yeah some people can't help themselves.
Jrue is a guy that was someone with injury concerns that seems to have put those issues behind him. He seems like a high quality individual in addition to being an excellent all around basketball player. I'm not going to knock the Sixers for doing it for a number of reasons but you can make the argument that they should have never traded Jrue Holiday. At one point that deal looked terrific. Noel was a good player and they had selected a seemingly good replacement for Holiday later in that same draft with Michael Carter Williams. The future draft pick they got in the Holiday trade they turned into Saric and a future pick which if I remember correctly was used after Hinkie was let go. I lost track of where the draft pick went they got back for MCW so maybe they got something good there. All those assets didn't add up to the value Jrue Holiday ended up being. Noel was traded for what ended up being two 2nd rounders the 2017 one the Sixers sold for cash.
