Eisley had a great A/TO ratio and shot a very high percentage. When contained within Sloan's pick and roll system in Utah and as Stockton's understudy, he looked like a highly efficient PG who could thrive in a bigger role. That's the flaw in extrapolating someone with more minutes and in a different system. Eisley was no better or worse than Ward or Childs, which is to say, none of these 3 guys were really starting material at PG.
Really the issue boiled down to the Ewing trade. When we traded the "old guard" under Grunfeld, we traded old for young and pushed our timeline out further. Example - Starks for Spree, Oakley for Camby, Mase for LJ (the biggest push in the example). Hard to lose the guys we loved, but turned out better for it.
BY the time we traded Ewing, he had suffered some major injuries on top of his age. We wound up moving his one big expensive contract for two slightly guys with big contracts - Rice and Baker. And then flipped Rice for two slightly younger guys with big contracts in Anderson and Eisley. So the problem kept compounding itself.
