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Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:41 pm to Fun Bunch
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:41 pm to Fun Bunch
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You have to think like an owner.
What will get them a return on investment? A 2nd round pick? frick no. But selling it will.
Will adding a low 1st round pick do it. frick no.
Why would they want the Hornets to get appreciably better? It does nothing for them but hurt their own team.
But if they stay ostensibly the same, value is static. But with a new CBA in favor of the owners, value goes up. Perhaps by a good amount.
That's all they care about
I can buy the competitive argument.
But financially, this is a losing proposition for the other owners. That pick could have filled a roster spot for the owners for $300k. The vet minimum is more than triple that. And the average salary is more than 10 times that.
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Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:42 pm to CP3forMVP
It was $750k not $1mil lol
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:42 pm to josh336
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its doubtful anyone there would've helped us, 1 million dollars could
The only way a small market team is gunna win is to develop through the draft.
A million dollars? Thats peanuts brah.
We need bodies, we need to take a chance at a diamond in the rough. I dont give a shite if the odds are against us.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:42 pm to CP3forMVP
You answered your own question. To put money in the pockets of the owners.
And Eman, dont go off the deep end. Just become a realist.
And Eman, dont go off the deep end. Just become a realist.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:43 pm to JayJay2
I'm just so tired of seeing this team sell picks. I'd rather a pick wash out than pretty much giving him away and never having a shot.
I also irks me cuz you can definitively say the Hornets did nothing to improve. A million? If I had a mil in my hands, I'd be jumping for joy, but in the NBA, what are we going to do with that million we'll never technically see?
I also irks me cuz you can definitively say the Hornets did nothing to improve. A million? If I had a mil in my hands, I'd be jumping for joy, but in the NBA, what are we going to do with that million we'll never technically see?
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:44 pm to mhasen1
I'm pretty sure they have a plan to sell the team before any appreciable FA dollars are spent.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:44 pm to Eman5805
What type of player will you even get with 1M?
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:45 pm to CP3forMVP
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What type of player will you even get with 1M?
THAT money is not going to us. It is going to the rest of the owners in the league
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:46 pm to TigerEggs
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Jim_Eichenhofer Jim Eichenhofer Dell Demps said Hornets had targeted 5 players for middle of second round, but all had been drafted when the No. 45 slot came up. 1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:47 pm to MrWiseGuy
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THAT money is not going to us. It is going to the rest of the owners in the league
Doing favors for the league that wouldn't piss on New Orleans if we were on fire.
They'd just take CP3 and move him to friggin' New York or something.
Just gets better and better.
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Jim_Eichenhofer Jim Eichenhofer Dell Demps said Hornets had targeted 5 players for middle of second round, but all had been drafted when the No. 45 slot came up. 1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply
I can believe that.
I'm still pissed though.
This post was edited on 6/23/11 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:47 pm to Fun Bunch
How do we honestly expect to get better when we constantly piss away our drafts.
what do we have to show for this years draft?
Jarret Jack and a million big ones
That aint gunna cut it
what do we have to show for this years draft?
Jarret Jack and a million big ones
That aint gunna cut it
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:48 pm to JayJay2
Sounds like they had unrealistic expectations then folded when they didn't get what they wanted.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:49 pm to Eman5805
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I'm just so tired of seeing this team sell picks. I'd rather a pick wash out than pretty much giving him away and never having a shot.
If this were a 1st i'd agree but it's mid 2nd rounder. Odds are Harrellson rides the bench in the D-league for the next few years and then is back in Kentucky in jorts. If they had passed on picking all together I wouldn't have even been that upset.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:49 pm to Eman5805
I don't buy that Jayjay, this was a move the Hornets decided they were going to make long before our pick. We picked for a team for heavens sake, that doesn't happen because suddenly your guys are gone.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:49 pm to Eman5805
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They'd just take CP3 and move him to friggin' New York or something.
And where'd we send post help? ....
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:50 pm to Eman5805
One could spin this in a positive way:
Demps has been given a budget higher than we think. This gives him more wiggle room to deal with FAs within the budget, and he truly didn't think anyone would help us.
I don't believe it, but there you go.
Demps has been given a budget higher than we think. This gives him more wiggle room to deal with FAs within the budget, and he truly didn't think anyone would help us.
I don't believe it, but there you go.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:50 pm to Eman5805
quote:Its not a favor. The league owns the Hornets. You think Cuban, or any other owner, wants to drop cash into helping the Hornets get better? Hell no!
Doing favors for the league that wouldn't piss on New Orleans if we were on fire.
Not getting a player in the 2nd round is irrelevant. He probably wouldnt have done shite anyway. Its why we sold it that matters
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:50 pm to saintsfan22
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If this were a 1st i'd agree but it's mid 2nd rounder. Odds are Harrellson rides the bench in the D-league for the next few years and then is back in Kentucky in jorts. If they had passed on picking all together I wouldn't have even been that upset.
We werent going to pick harrellson numb nuts, we picked him for New York. There were options at our pick that would have addressed our scoring issues.
Posted on 6/23/11 at 10:50 pm to saintsfan22
This is the kind of attitude that breeds losers
Why even have a second round?
Why even have a second round?
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