If a seasoned all-star cannot guard LeBron, what makes you think an unproven rookie can. We have never seen Walker or Giddens defend anyone in the league so there is no barometer to judge defensive ability against. Im all for playing them a little bit to see what they could bring to the table, but saying that if we put them in we could have stopped the King, that is a little farfetched
Absolutely agreed, especially since Lebron has about 4 inches on either Giddens or Walker. If we're relying on rookies to be a "Lebron stopper", this team is truly screwed.
As for POB, he's averaging 7 turnovers and 12 fouls per 36 minutes, playing against scrubs in garbage time. His coach says he's lazy, as did his former coach and GM. I'm not sure what the fascination is, but the guy is a stiff.
As did the people who saw him in college.
TP. Said everything I would have said. Giddens and Walker have no hope against a player like Lebron, and O'Blount has no business in the league.
Then why did Ainge sign him?
Ask Ainge. But last I checked Danny was human which makes him falliable. The man does make mistakes you know.
I'd love to ask Danny why in the devil he did a lot of the things he did last summer. I have a boatload of questions about the Dumpster Diving Summer of 2008.
the only mistake that i see that he made was not resigning Pose...
the two draft picks seem to be playing well in the D-League and POB, for me at least, was a next year addition....
I know that we've been over this before but you really consider the Posey non sign his only mistake?
It's a mistake to not give Posey that extra year under the logic that it is wasting a year of the GPA window and yet signing POB isn't wasting a year of the POB window? Wouldn't signing a veteran, any productive veteran you could have gotten for similar money been better. Bonzi Wells at the same money wouldn't have helped more this year in the prime of the GPA window? I can't see how signing O'Bryant as a project when you have decided to already keep two rookie draftees on the roster is a wise decision when a productive veteran would have helped this team so much more.
And after watching Tony Allen and seen his propensity for dumb play and getting reinjured, you really think that was a good move on Ainge's part. That's 2.5 million over two years for a guy that's been the most injured player on the roster this year and who's game every single Tony Lover said would return to his 16 game miracle Tony form of 2006-07. It hasn't. He's the same old Tony. You know the guy this coach all but refused to play in the playoffs because he doesn't trust his decision making, play or game.
Sorry, if Danny wasn't going to overpay for Posey from the beginning and just given him what he wanted right away, he should have immediately jettisoned the idea of a Posey return and worked to bring in a better group of veteran's and maybe overpaid for someone reallly good.
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