Thursday, June 25, 2009
The Draft Post
Posted by Chris Herrington on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Alright. Here we go. This will be the forum for tonight's draft. I'll pop in here occasionally with commentary or maybe even news if I have any.
Let's do this.
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I've been waiting for this night for weeks but now that it's here I'm just disapointed. I am hoping for a splash but I know we're going Thabeet!!
I'm with grizzbear... I have a feeling I am going to be severely disappointed at the end of the night!
BOO!....YOU SUCK THABEET!!!...I THOUGHT PAU WAS SOFT!...BOO!..
Just practicing for game 1 next year.
Griz now prepping contract offers to Peter John Ramos and Wang Zhizhi to add to Thabeet, Gasol, Darko, and Haddadi.
This organization's fetish for point guards and centers is unseemly.
There ARE other positions on the team, Mike Heisley et al...
WTF! Why did The Grizzlies just draft the one player that was a consensus "not wanted by Memphians?" Is this a joke?
haven't heard anything but the rumor is that Wolves want Thabeet, so there COULD still be a deal.
Tyreke to Kings. I like him as a pro, but if the Kings are planning on playing him at the 1, they're in for a rough transition.
Wolves will take Rubio and there won't be a deal with us! Unless they are satisfied with getting Rubio and Thabeet and decide to give Love and the 6?
i would poop my pants if we could trade thabeet to the wolves and get love and also flynn @ #6
Hollins has just put his head coaching future on the shoulders of Conley and Thabeet
that should knock us out of the 6 and Love. I know it was reported that we liked Flynn but can't imagine us doing it now.
Seriously, first I lose the pop icon of my generation, and then the team that is my heart and soul makes the one move that every local person begged them to not make. Hey Heisley, did ever occur to you that we already have a pure center in Marc Gasol that the FANS LOVE! Well, two good things:
1) a U of M player went in the top 4 defying early season expectations, and
2) At least Rubio's agent is now looking like an absolute idiot. Fegan just put Rubio in the worst condition possible: He just cost his client (whose locked into a multimillion buyout and can no longer return to his old team) millions as Rubio fell from 2 to 5 for nothing as he's still not in his desired location. And how are the marketing opportunities for Spanish speakers in Minnesota compared to Memphis? Oh, and he just went to a team that used the very next pick to draft another point guard. How are those playing time prospects versus Memphis looking right now? After the Yi debacle, do you think Fegan will ever get another international client?
Relax and trust the professionals. Minn looks like they traded up for Thabeet and then just had to take bpa with two pgs. OK were going to take Thabeet at 3 according to everyone. 4 teams passed on Rubio. His trade value was obviously not that high.
Go Thabeet. I wish you the best.
If Wolves are trading Rubio or Flynn it would make sense to take the traded player first on the more expensive contract. Rubio gone? Or keeping both?
Good point Chris.
But the knicks got Hill and I don't think the Grizz want Rubio..
I think they traded up for Thabeet and then were stuck and just took bpa...
dont be depressed yet, at least wait and see what happens. who knows, thabeet could turn out to be good.
I think that they will keep them both. Flynn may start the year and hold things down until Rubio is ready.
is chris vernon still alive? is wallace still employed by the grizzlies? is heisley on drugs?
What a effing disaster! This doesn't help the team at all. We already had a true center so we are stuck with the same team except a lower upgrade in the center. I can hear the phone lines going silent now for season tickets. Shawn Bradley II welcome to Memphis. Fegan the idiot just lost his client millions now he has to play in frigid MN. Terrible strategy by Wallace in not hyping Rubio. Got nothing in return. The second pick turned into a nightmare.
sadly jordan hill, tyreke evans, stephen curry, and brandon jennings will all have better careers than thabeet
I agree that Wallace should have at least postured that we wanted Rubio--it could have turned into a decent trade.
Interesting to see Wetzel's take on our pick on yahoo.com:
"Size, shot-blocking skill, upbeat personality and home continent says this is another Dikembe Mutombu. Needs work offensively, but at least Memphis didn't pick (or trade for) a point guard for the first time in four years. A rare draft-night victory for common sense. – Dan Wetzel"
Soembody look this up: did Lionel Hollins get his stuff smacked by Manut Bol at some point during his playing career?
But I don't think Minnie and OKC came out much better. The Rubio thing will be a mess, and Flynn is fun but not a superstar. OKC looks like they took Harden to appease Russell W; he can't have been #3 on the board.
Herrington, any trades open up because of this? Is Love still a possibility, maybe straight swap for Gasol? Not that Thabeet-Love turns me on.
Obviously Rubio didn't have the trade value. We could have talked him up all we wanted, it wouldn't have mattered if the other teams weren't into him. Obviously the top 4 teams were not.
Wow, I'm turning this off. I think the Grizz took an okay player, but the timberwolves had the chance to be the biggest winners until they took Flynn. Amazing, two point guards back-to-back. McHale wouldn't even do that. Khan is fired in less than 3 years
I have reason to believe some kind of trade discussions are still active, but I don't know — and have trouble even guessing — what they might be. Apparently Kevin Love is not involved.
This just in: Uwe Blab was just hired as an asst coach for the "International House of Big Fellas".
If Love is not involved then I don't want to do it. I didn't want to draft Thabeet at 2 but now that we have him we might as well use him. There was talk of bringing a veteran in but we are not playoff ready so the veteran would have to be young. and what team wants to give up a good, young vet?
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