Yup.
It's a world view he shared with Chris Grant that size is not important.
The 2 easiest positions in the NBA to fill are the low skill energy big and the undersized inefficient combo guard with a low BB-IQ.
The league is over-run with those guys.
We used a pair of #4 picks for the easiest kind of players to find instead of drafting centers.
There was no value in either of those picks just from a shear scarcity standpoint as it was always going to be harder to find a Val/Drummond/legit center than a Dion/TT type.
The fact that Griffin was involved in that type of backwards thinking and wasting of scarce resources should have disqualified him outright for this job.
Center should have been a top priority the second you knew you were bringing in Love. The entire world knows he is so soft he makes Charmin look like 24 grit sandpaper. That was a "known known" and it was just completely ignored.
Now we find ourselves in a position where the league knows we're desperate, which raises the price.
Waiting until the off-season is great, but I continue to be baffled by this idea that teams will be lining up to give us a productive center worth having in exchange for Haywood's contract.
Every other team in the league realizes how vital it is to have a solid center, so if they are looking to save money it will be on another position that can be more easily replaced.
If we needed to clear cap room, it should have been Dion or TT to go instead of Zeller as finding a center to even match his production was going to be impossible.
It will make the Dion supporters butt hurt, but he is Rodney Stuckey with a bad attitude and nothing more. At this point it's actually arguable as to whether he is a poor man's Stuckey.
Griffin though once again has a distorted world view that doesn't find value in size, so he doesn't think the way a normal person would about how you go about replacing a young 7 footer with something comparable given the resources you have to work with.
The same mistakes keep being made and their is no accountability. Firing people in this organization is nothing more than a reward for their underlings the way Gilbert runs the place.
The team's biggest problem is David Griffin, and he needs to be shown the door.
The same band who failed to see Grant for what he was will no doubt call for more time, but Griffin is what he is and just like with Grant all time is going to do is be wasted so the few holdouts can realize 2 years from now what most of us already know tonight.
