And remind us what you've said about VSpan, Chase (versus Parsons until even you had to backpedal) and Brooks (versus Lowry) etc.? Or that everybody on the Rockets has a problem with McHale and wants to leave when it is Martin and Lowry when they lost playing time for one reason or another (Chase just mentioned playing style differences) when Parsons and Dragic said they love playing for McHale and Lee said his first preference would be coming back and Camby is recruiting Dragic to come back despite being a free agent himself, and Scola seems to want to be a Rocket lifer. And pounding the table on DM calling players assets and not willing to overpay for a player's services being a flaw when every GM in the league thinks this way, as if it would be better to call players liabilities or overpay for them. BTW, an asset is a player that is desired in the league at a reasonable or attractive contract, which is what good GMs should try to acquire as many of as possible, versus a liability being an overpaid good player or a bad or easily replaceable player at a contract that is difficult to move. So stop using these quarter (at most) truths. No GM will be able to pick the best player available at their pick every single year and not have any better players picked after them. This is not the Efficient Market Hypothesis at play here. Does that mean that 2/3 of the picks chosen before Parsons had useless GMs? One year you bash DM for picking conservative players like Patterson, the next year it is for upside players that need some time to develop, and this year it is for picking BPA? And have you looked back at the 2010/11 drafts to see how shallow and average talent the pool were those years? Was there 2-3 players that might've been picked below Patterson and Morris that will obviously be vastly better (reasonable), or a dozen or so? It seems you may have a standard for DM even you yourself (in your own mind) might not be able to live up to! As for Dorsey and Taylor (in case you forgot), how many 2nd rounders in the league pan out? The simple number is that if every 2nd rounder works out (by that I mean rotation player, say top 10 player in a team) then including 1st round picks, on average every team should churn its players totally every 5 years). Name me a GM that has never missed on a 2nd rounder, or actually one with a batting average (note the word 'average', not every pick) vastly better than DM in the late first to 2nd round? We're talking Landry (starter and offered 8/9M salary), Brooks (MIP), D-Mo (I'm guessing here, and allowed to since you seem to like him or at least haven't bashed him), Chase (traded for first and expected to be a starter in Minnesota ahead of real lottery picks) and Parsons ('almost' untouchable in some fans views here). So stop taking your biased views and throwing it around CF like they are the truth.
