I've long felt Griffin has massively fumbled an insane bag.
Everything he got has been handed to him. He lucked into Zion and having AD to trade for assets. He was gifted a massive haul, and even then owes the development of BI and Zo into really good shooters and BI from a meh player to a young star with more room to grow to their shooting coach Fred Vinson. Imagine how they'd be if BI and Zo never took their respective leaps?
Then? He gets the 4th pick in the draft in 2019 from LA and has the opportunity to draft DeAndre Hunter or Darius Garland, and instead his dumbass trades back for Jaxson Hayes
Imagine Garland with a year under Jrue's tutelage to learn the game, imagine Garland's ball handling and shooting to pair with Zion, Garland's half court ability to pair with Zo who runs transition, imagine a young 1-4 of Garland/Zo/BI/Zion all 24 and under
He initially makes a good deal moving Jrue, and chooses to take the terrible contract of malcontent non-shooting Eric Bledsoe over the expiring deal of George Hill, a vet who can space the floor and mentor young guys until the deadline when you could've flipped him for another pick
Instead Bledsoe tanked moral, took minutes from young guys like Kira and NAW, and had to give up assets to get rid of him
AND THEN this dumb muffukka acquires Steven Adams, and before he plays a minute for them gives him a big extension a purely interior big man who's not a great defender who doesn't fit the timeline at all is what you pair Zion with? And pay him big money? They'd have been better off getting Nerlens Noel for cheap to at least hold down the defense
They made a halfhearted playoff push that they flopped out of when instead could have easily had a gentle tank at the end of the year and put themselves in the running to add Cade, Green, Suggs, Mobley, etc. to their roster... Garland/Zo/BI/Zion/Mobley was a real potential outcome for them, and that outcome would've left them with all the cap flexibility in the world since 3/5 guys are on rookie deals still.
Then they let Zo go for basically nothing??? A guy Zion clearly said he loves playing with???
Get that man outta here
he's fumbled the bag literally every step of the way. There's no reason why the Pels aren't Russ/Harden/KD/Ibaka OKC 2.0 rn
Everything he got has been handed to him. He lucked into Zion and having AD to trade for assets. He was gifted a massive haul, and even then owes the development of BI and Zo into really good shooters and BI from a meh player to a young star with more room to grow to their shooting coach Fred Vinson. Imagine how they'd be if BI and Zo never took their respective leaps?
Then? He gets the 4th pick in the draft in 2019 from LA and has the opportunity to draft DeAndre Hunter or Darius Garland, and instead his dumbass trades back for Jaxson Hayes
Imagine Garland with a year under Jrue's tutelage to learn the game, imagine Garland's ball handling and shooting to pair with Zion, Garland's half court ability to pair with Zo who runs transition, imagine a young 1-4 of Garland/Zo/BI/Zion all 24 and under
He initially makes a good deal moving Jrue, and chooses to take the terrible contract of malcontent non-shooting Eric Bledsoe over the expiring deal of George Hill, a vet who can space the floor and mentor young guys until the deadline when you could've flipped him for another pick
Instead Bledsoe tanked moral, took minutes from young guys like Kira and NAW, and had to give up assets to get rid of him
AND THEN this dumb muffukka acquires Steven Adams, and before he plays a minute for them gives him a big extension
a purely interior big man who's not a great defender who doesn't fit the timeline at all is what you pair Zion with? And pay him big money? They'd have been better off getting Nerlens Noel for cheap to at least hold down the defenseThey made a halfhearted playoff push that they flopped out of when instead could have easily had a gentle tank at the end of the year and put themselves in the running to add Cade, Green, Suggs, Mobley, etc. to their roster... Garland/Zo/BI/Zion/Mobley was a real potential outcome for them, and that outcome would've left them with all the cap flexibility in the world since 3/5 guys are on rookie deals still.
Then they let Zo go for basically nothing??? A guy Zion clearly said he loves playing with???
Get that man outta here
he's fumbled the bag literally every step of the way. There's no reason why the Pels aren't Russ/Harden/KD/Ibaka OKC 2.0 rn
