Grizzly fans.

[PBRME]

Hasheem Thebust has become the highest ranked draft pick to be sent packing to the D League. Thanks Heisley for pushing him instead of Tyreke Evans. Please keep your nose out of the draft this year and let the people you pay to make these decisions make them.

 

[AlCoDog]

Hadadi is the 2nd strinig center, let that sink in for a minute.

 

[PBRME]

Hadadi had some quality minutes last night. If only he could doit on a regular basis.

 

[Seinfeld]

in a 2nd string center. Given 10-15 minutes per game, he's shown that he can get us 6 pts and 4 or 5 rebounds. The difference in Hadadi, though, is that we're paying him $1.6M this year. Thabeet, on the other hand, is the third highest player on the team and is getting close to $5M. Not to mention the fact that we blew a #2 pick on him. Yes, we spent a #2 pick on a career 3rd string center who may one day work hard and improve to become a 2nd stringer. Nice work Grizz.

No matter whose call that was, that is a move that someone has to be fired for.

Could you imagine the Grizz right now with this?

PG-Mayo
SG-Evans
SF-Gay
PF-Randolph
C-Gasol

Conley, Young, and Brewer coming off then bench. That's a strong lineup.

 

[ckDOG]

But, drafting Thabeet was the logical thing to do considering the knowns at the time. Griz desperately needed some help on the inside. I don't think anyone anticipated Marc Gasol improving as much as he has. Combine that with the fact that Conley is a serviceable PG (boring as hell, but effective enough) - then you have a good case to draft the best center you can get your hands on.

I hate that it worked out the way it did - but I don't necessarily think it was a boneheaded move at the time.

 

[Seinfeld]

that hasn't been named LeBron or Shaquille. However, my biggest problem with the pick is that unless you have someone in the draft that is a sure winner and happens to fit your team need, you cannot draft based on team need when you have a Top 3 pick. For most teams, those picks come around about once per decade so you have to draft a solid contributor, no matter what the position in my opinion. Thabeet may have been the best center available, but he was a 50/50 risk at best and he was probably ranked somewhere between #7 and #15 in terms of overall talent. Looking back, even that was apparently being very kind.

The Grizz gambled big time and I just don't think you can do that with a #2 pick.

 

[zerocooldog]

his frosh year at UM mainly b/c he was taking over for Rose (who was ridiculous), it wasn't until the tourney and mainly that Missouri game where he really showed great potential. Hindsight is 20/20 and if the grizz had drafted Tyreke it wouldn't have made any sense at the time. They originally tried to trade the pick but couldn't get what they wanted so unfortunately they were stuck in a catch 22 and took the consensus player.

 

[dogfan96]

Tyreke Evans dominates the ball in Sacramento just like he did in Memphis.. I'm not sure how well we would mesh with the Grizzlies with Randolph and Gay being the top two scoring options and him trying to play off the ball

 

[dawgatUSM]

But that'd make too much sense.

 

[RebelBruiser]

he made mention that in the last 3 years I guess it is, the Grizzlies have had a Top 5 pick each year. Out of those three picks, they've landed Mike Conley, OJ Mayo (via Kevin Love), and Hasheem Thabeet.

That's one really good pick up and two awful Top 5 picks. With three Top 5 picks, you would think you could get at least 3 full time starters. Thabeet is a D-leaguer, and Conley would be a reserve PG if the Grizzlies had anything else at the position. That's just plain awful.

 

[dogfan96]

nm

 

[PBRME]

Sadly you can't fire the owner. Tyreke Evans was Wallace's choice.

 

[o_oxfordstudy]

I feel like it could be the best thing for him, I think they sent him there to just get minutes, which he's not able to get in memphis, and develop. I don't see this at all as a sign the suits have given up on him. Would have I rather have had evans, no doubt but like someone said earlier no one really expected this much out of marc so we have the luxury to send him down for a while. I bet by the end of the season hell be back in memphis hopefully for a playoff series.

 

[ColMuldrow]

I think that the plan was to insert Brewer into the lineup so that OJ could play the point more and Conley would lose minutes. Unfortunately he got hurt his very first outing. On that note, has anybody heard anything about his hamstring in the past few days? Last heard he was out 2-3 weeks.

 

[hatfieldms]

They are hoping to have him back in about 3 weeks. I sure dont see them rushing him though as I would imagine they are going to resign him in the off season, and do not want to risk anymore injury