Cinco de Mayo

It's Bayless' own damn fault he dropped, so I don't want to listen to him *****. He wouldn't even work out for half the teams in the 5-through-10 range. What does he expect?

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Paxil

I am sure it was his agent that told him what to do... and right now... I love his agent. THANK YOU!

Cinco de Mayo

Are you sure it was his agent because his agent doesn't wear a black-and-red jersey?

Bayless flat out didn't want to go to certain cities -- Milwaukee, Charlotte, Memphis.

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mediocre man

Add Seattle/OKC to that list too.

It was a huge mistake that cost him some money up front, but probably put him in a better situation in the long run.

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Cinco de Mayo

I completely agree, but I'm not going to hear him cry about 10 teams not wanting him when he crossed about five of those teams off his list from the day he declared for the draft.

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mook

he probably knows less about the Blazers than most posters on this board.

in the one interview I've heard, he sounded enthusiastic about playing in Portland, but he repeatedly talked about Oden and Roy (and brought up Aldridge at the end). I bet if you showed him a photo of Martel Webster a week ago he wouldn't know who it was.

that's ok, though. we weren't on his (or anybody else's) radar in getting Bayless right up until we did. I'm just happy to have him.

mook

meh, I wouldn't read too much into it. if you follow pro athletes very long, especially the good ones, they always seem to come up with some perceived insult they use to fire them up.

besides, he's only following the NBA draft ritual:

1. assemble a bunch of guys who are supposed to be the top dozen or so picks. make sure they all get lots of face time on the camera, particularly the ones who may fall. it'll be that much sweeter television if they do.

2. keep focusing on the desperate looks of the guy or two who ain't going where he's supposed to.

3. watch his bewildered face as he tries to figure out who the hell lied to him and where exactly on a US map they are going to live the next 3 years.

4. do a follow up interview a few days later after he's done crying and he's had time to convince himself that it would've sucked going to a really bad team anyway.

5. listen to him declare that he'll prove all those teams who whiffed on him wrong.

every. single. year.

the only thing that makes me a little nervous is that the last time we got that guy was Qyntel Woods. but he fell farther, and for different reasons.

mobes23

Boy, I hate to say it, but all the talk of slipping reminded me of when we drafted Walter "The Truth" Berry at the 14th spot as we was coming off a college player of the year season. What a disaster that was -- the guy never amounted to anything.

If I remember right, he was a consensus top 5 pick, but all the teams that drafted before PDX did their homework and realized the guy wasn't worthy. Portland didn't do it's homework (thinking he'd be long gone by the 14th pick) and we all initially thought we'd gotten a bargain. Chalk that one up to cruddy scouting and I have a lot more faith in KP's crew dotting i's and crossing t's.

Fork

Ugh...bad flashback there. At least we got two time all star Kevin Duckworth out of the deal with San Antonio.

I'm hoping in a couple years we're reminded more of Paul Pierce.

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mobes23

To be honest, I hated to even bring it up. But, it IS part of our history, I guess.

Schilly

You've got some work to do in convincing me that KP didn't do his homework.

Schilly

Here's a real simplereason why he slipped....

he wasn't a top 3 player

Seattle... He already told Seattle he wanted no part of their Move to OKC etc.
Memphis: didn't need a combo guard
New York's biggest glaring weakness was SF... Plus Caoch played with Gallinaris dad in EUrope apparenlty good friends
Clippers: probably already had a good idea that Baron Davis was coming, needed move of a true SG
Bucks: I reallly don't know what the bucks are doing, but my guess is they had promised to ALexander before trading for Jefferson
Bobcats: I'm pretty sure they thought they would be trading Augustin to us.
Nets: Needed a C.
Pacers: Had a trade lined up with Portland.

This was a funky draft, where in general teams drafted for need rahter than BPA. That caused Bayless to slip.

World B. Free

LOL Maris got owned. It is true though, he knows the least of anyone on this forum about the Blazers.

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