re: Siakam to Pacers, Kira to Raps, Pels send 2nd

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And finding Herb and Naji and Jose is pure luck, not drafting.

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You must think he's the luckiest motherfricker on Earth, because he just KEEPS getting lucky in the draft, apparently.

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And finding Herb and Naji and Jose is pure luck, not drafting.

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Virtually every pick is luck.

Hell, we're a perfect example of that. We got one of, if not the, best prospect since Lebron, and even he hasn't really lived up to those expectations.

So not only is every other pick a function of luck, even the can't miss dudes have a level of luck associated with it too.

It's all a crap shoot.

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You're calling him a dumbass for a bad trade and picks but no credit for the good trades and just luck for the good picks.

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He has a history of bad drafts. I would attribute the better drafting to him delegating it more and being less a part of it.
David Griffin knows nothing about playing or coaching basketball. He has zero experience in it. He's a marketing guy who worked his way up the ladder to a GM role. His marketing skills, which impressed many and helped him move up, is that lying snake shite you hear from him everytime he talks, and why no one believes much of what he says.


What are these good trades he made?
I without a doubt give credit for going get CJ at the cost we got him at. That was a steal.
A monkey could have made the AD trade.
Signing free agent DG cost us a 1st and 4 seconds.
We lost Lonzo for basically nothing, and don't sit here and tell me the CJ trade doesn't happen without Tomas fricking Satoranksy's contract. That's such a stupid thing to assume was irreplaceable in that deal.
The Jrue trade really didn't work out well at all. We gave up an extra 1st and George Hill just to get Adams, then had to move down in the draft to get rid of him, and throwaway at the time George Hill fetched OKC two 2nds, and we lost Kenny Hustle in that deal. we had to give up a 1st to get rid of Bledsoe, who right after we did that, was traded by Memphis for basically nothing.

He gave up 2 2nds to get an expiring Favors as our starting center to start 2020, didn't do well, he expired, and he just went and resigned back with Utah. and that started the trend of our idiot GM giving away assets to get slow lumbering centers that can't shoot to play with Zion.
He missed an opportunity to get some assets to move Etwaun at the trade deadline, even though he had fallen out of the starting lineup but was still a good 3 point shooter off the bench. Etwaun expired and then went and signed with Phoenix.


Every GM has bad moves in their history. No one is perfect. But Griff has made some obvious blunders that has caused us to lose assets for no reason. I wouldn't call losing two seconds to get expiring Favors a blunder, but it was still silly to put a center like that next to Zion, and everyone thought that but him.

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What are these good trades he made?

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Don’t leave out one of his biggest blunders, trading down for Jax. He sits tight at 4 and picks the swing for the fences pick in Garland who most people had as the 4th best prospect and solved our issue at pg, or Hunter, who was the best player on a championship team and maybe could have instilled some maturity and championship pedigree into Zion when he needed it his first couple years. Instead we draft one of the biggest knucklehead immature prospects to pair with Zion. Not a good receipe when building a team from scratch and trying to set a tone.