Eh, Jonas wanted to play in Toronto and didn't want to come to Cleveland. His agent did a good job of getting what they wanted. Grant was afraid the kid wouldn't ever come over and play so he passed and took the advanced metric project instead. In retrospect Grant should of called their bluff, but that shit's in the past now, best to move on.
I'm not going to say Grant screwed up because of one game. But seeing this hurts a bit. I do understand the Cavs reasonin to a degree. If Jonas really didn't want to be here, that is obviously a red flag the first year after Lebron left. I'm more angry Barnes didn't declare in 2011.
Irving
Waiters
Gee/Barnes
Varejao
Zeller
Take someone like Noel and boom.
I don't understand this. Isn't Zydrunas a Cleveland guy? Did he not love being here? Is he not involved with the organization? Is he not Lithuanian as well? If this really was the case, why was Z not brought in to put on the full court press? If it really was a matter of making Jonas want to come here, why not bring Z in? What's the point of him being involved in the organization if he's not going to help convince players to come here?
I don't understand this. Isn't Zydrunas a Cleveland guy? Did he not love being here? Is he not involved with the organization? Is he not Lithuanian as well? If this really was the case, why was Z not brought in to put on the full court press? If it really was a matter of making Jonas want to come here, why not bring Z in? What's the point of him being involved in the organization if he's not going to help convince players to come here?
There is alot of revisionist history going on right now with this "he didn't want to play in Cleveland" thing that it looks like Grant whiffed terribly on him.
Thankfully we won't have to put up with the "it was a weak draft" excuses for TT much longer when people use that excuse making it seem like he was the best we could do.
Now that JV is starting to scratch the surface of his potential, he will be a daily reminder how the failure of Chris Grant's computer spreadsheet based approach to building a team.
Now that he's starting to scratch the surface of his potential by having one single good game, we'll forever be reminded of CG's incompetence.
He's had a run of 4 good games in a row.
Not claiming the sample size is near enough to make a determination either way in terms of Tristan or JV, but he's not playing like a bust which a lot of Tristan fans were saying he would be
if both hit their peaks Tristan will blow Jonas out of the water.
He is latvian not lithuanian, so I'm not sure how much z would have helped. Really it doesnt matter, he had no say in the matter. If we would have picked jonas he would have played for us. I think that is something we all tell ourselves for not picking the superior talent.
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