Rob Pelinka Discussion: BBall Ops Pres + GM (AKA: Lucky Rob)

Bynum had glaring red flags in his injury report coming into the league, missed a bunch of games his first few years, became a legit All-NBA center in 2012 and then basically never played again. I'm willing to trust our medical reports on Williams.

 

To be fair, we do have one scout on the roster if the FO is willing to kiss and makeup with him, maybe he'll share his scouting reports.



Plus, Bryce is at Arizona this year. They're projected to have 3 players from Arizona entering the draft this summer, Bron will have all the info on them.

 

so does that mean we have no scouts, or that we didn't fire every scout?

 

This f***er doesn't know s*** about anything. Why do you keep quoting him?

 

He doesn't have s***. Let common sense guide you. Journalist, real ones, don't exist anymore. All you have is these dinks. That's it.

 

same for gms, though, right? it's hard to just overhaul the whole thing in the middle of a season or after the summer's over. i was encouraged to hear the overhaul is coming, but i'm nervous because we have a pick and a ton of space this summer. we're kind of in do-or-die territory on luka's prime come july.

i was glad to hear he asked about the scouts, as that borders on actual journalism and not just the shock-jock dj stuff irwin typically trades in.

that said, i believe he has a source or sources, but i believe they're incredibly biased and feed him stuff that clearly suits a pre-existing opinion/agenda.

tbh, sports journalism is kind of ridiculous, and i get that that's what you're saying. but i think there are degrees. like, yes, you serve as a shill sometimes, but also being interested in the truth is good.

i saw you disparage stein recently, and imo, he at least attempts real sports journalism (i.e., he reports what he hears and doesn't seem to have any personal bias or slant to his reporting). like, yeah, fox news or msnbc isn't journalism in the way that it needs to exist in the world, but that doesn't mean anyone attempting to report information to an interested public has to be terrible.

 

Rob must like the trade, he's talking to the media

 

So again Walter and his people and their methodology are already involved. So if people want to continue to think “they” know better about what’s best for this team than what new ownership’s plans A, B, C, D, E, and F are …. I find that really comical. Mainly because they hate Pelinka so much and just can’t help themselves from continuing to bash the front office. Yes chances are excellent Rob will be gone at some point maybe sooner than later BUT Walter and Company are very hands on already.

 

would love to know who the players were that we turned down. i'm sure he's not just talking about deandre hunter here.

this was a good, safe, media-savvy statement about why we didn't make big moves. he gave himself away a little but then caught himself with the "and we may keep our guys" comment. and i don't think he's lying about that...but i don't think it's plan A. he clearly thinks some players are going to shake loose due to the aprons. a lot of deadline moves were apron/tax driven, so he may be right.

that said, i still think the best chances will be on the periphery, as okc and denver are going to try like hell to let anyone but us benefit. need to pull a boston and get a jrue holiday out of our competitors trying to solve their problems without us.

 

I literally had a short dream a few nights ago we gave up a first and expirings and got Caruso back. Too bad!!

 

ironically, i think this is who the thunder will try to dump this summer. it will be tempting to take him, but i'd actually say no (!). he'll be 32 in a month and under contract for three more years.

ok...depending on what else happened, i might not say no...but i'm not giving up picks. some sucker will, though, and bail presti out.

but if he called me looking to dump caruso, i'd want to talk dort, wallace, or mitchell instead and then walk the convo back when some of his firsts were on the table.