13 other teams passed on Kawhi. How many passed on Manu? He’s not a superlative drafter but “99% bad” is a 99% bad take
Parsons? Uh no. Capela is a product of Harden. He would be trash if Harden didnt get him 75 percent of his points. I dont care about 13 other GMs you are claiming his genius. Genius should of known.
Cmon man. This is soo illogical, he’s never had a lottery pick to work with how do you expect him to find these awesome players. He’s done pretty well for what he had. Sure he took Marcus Morris over Kawhi, but at least Marcus Morris is still in the league as opposed to some of the other players taken before him. Even the best gms will have missed. Royce White was taken 16th overall in 2012 draft. So what that he’s a bust. Have you looked at the players taken after him? Crowder, Draymond, Middleton are the only ones even worth mentioning. And they were all drafted in second round so every gm missed on them once. He may have even been better than them but you can’t predict mental health. He’s done pretty good getting contributors. Terence Jones, brooks, Parsons, capela, dmo all played pretty well at some point but injuries have derailed their careers. Also something that can’t be predicted. He’s not the best drafter but he’s still probably top 10 as far as gms are in drafting. Hard to judge a gm when he’s never had a top 5 pick or even top 10 picks. At least he didn’t draft Fultz, Ayton, Bennet number one overall.
So basically only RC Buford is a good GM because 13 other guys passed on Kawhi, and 16 other teams didn't trade up?
Actually a lot of people did. Morey just had the best package to trade for him. James Harden wasn't an unknown. Top players like Lebron were giving him so many props as soon as the trade happened on social media, so James was though of highly. Anyone who had watched that 2012 playoffs with the Thunder saw what James Harden could become as he was the ball handler for the Thunder in the most crucial times. He literally broke down an elite Spurs team. Don't you remember all of the "Rockets have landed their franchise player" articles from everywhere? Or the fact the Presti went to Harden for pre-approval on the trade to Houston? Heck even on 2k back in those days while he was on OKC, people would put Harden in as a starter and have him run the point. Of course Harden became even better than what everyone thought, but quite a few knew he'd become a superstar at some point. He just went above and beyond that and turned into a generational player.
Morey doing a slight Q&A on his Instagram right now and was asked what trade that fell through that hurts the most and he tagged Chauncey Billups.
