fishmike wrote:reub wrote:fishmike wrote:Yup. Im not spinning over building with this timeline or that one... just do things the right way long enough and the wins will come. You need luck and you need it in multiple areas to get good enough to win a title. That should never stop you from building the right way with the right kinds of players. Ill say it again... Williams, Dotson, Mudiay, Burke, Kornet, Hicks.. these are our scrap heap guys and I think this is an incredibly solid group of guys this FO has added with literally no cost.
Frank (lottery pick) and Timmy (cap space, flexibility) had cost. Those are moves that can be costly mistakes if they dont yield good players. That first group? Considering Williams, Dotson, Mudiay, Burke, Kornet and Hicks cost us nothing that strikes me as a really good group with a mix of usefulness and upside while all being young/cheap/coachable
It has not been a bad first season for this management at all. Very good IMO
I agree. But Dotson and Kornet were added by Phil Jackson.
Frank also but for what its worth they knew Phil was gone after the draft. If they let Phil go before the draft he becomes a risk so they kept him around. No way Mills lets Phil draft someone he's dead against (not that Mills is trustsworthy but he was in the mix). Phil drafted well. Im not a fan of the overly spirited debate over who gets credit (or blame) for what... Mills was here. Im not going to nitpick
Phil, Gaines and whom ever in on it.
We make it sound if "PHil picked him", its like dropping a toothbrush in the toliet!
Even if you boil to sanitize, its still tainted??
Since Phil took him, he is some how damaged goods?
"but he is triangle"!!! But he was never baptized "triangle" so it won't be hard to convert him right?
"But he is triangle"!!! Ok, what does that mean really? Jordan was a 5 year high volume scorer before he got "Triangled", then a god.
Kobe, young wild child, fought the triangle for years. Has 5 rings. None without the triangle.
Mooby, false Triangle god. No soup for Mooby!
Phil thought Frank can be the Triangle Alpha hybrid part PG, part Scotty pippen defending three positions, Part potential somthing less than Kobe/jordan, but still good???
and the man with 11 rings think this and we somehow think this is a bad thing? The kid is 19 and we label him as average. You know, at 19 and undeveloped, thats really not a bad label for now.
For the record, if you drop the toothbrush in a clean toliet and boil it, I might, but drop it in a brown toliet? Nope.'
For that matter (Pun intended), we don't have to validate the Triangle anymore, he is gone. We just validating the king of bling eye for talent.