Geoff Petrie interview

worzel gummidge · Oct 29, 2009

Interesting as the topics are very relevant to the Rockets today.

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/2009/10/petrie-unplugge-1.html

October 28, 2009

Petrie: ...Just trying to go it alone by drafting only, unless you get the No. 1 pick in a year where there's LeBron James or Tim Duncan or a player like that and are fairly obvious that that's what they're going to be, it can be a longer road.

...It's really hard to just turn a team around on a dime immediately without some fortuitous set of circumstances. But on the other hand, at least if you're rebuilding, to me that's different than building, because if you're rebuilding that means you were once good. As opposed to the five-year plans in communist Russia where they never worked but they kept having five-year plans. (laughs) But still, the thing is to do it as soon as possible and as quickly as (you can) as opportunities present themselves that will help you get there.

Q: The Blazers are a decent example...where they had this bubble around their young guys, and they said, 'Unless it's a hell of a player, we're not touching this core we have going...'

Petrie: They took the longer term view, and was five or six years out of the playoffs for them to do that.

...I think things like what Boston did, certainly you look from a historical standpoint at how that happened and what were the things that made it happen.

...Let's just say you got rid of all your good veteran players right off the bat, how much better would you be today? I don't know. You still have to draft right, you still have to sign right.

I'll be honest. It wasn't on my radar and I don't think it was on a lot of other people's radar that we would go from 38 wins to 17 wins with basically Ron (Artest) leaving and getting Donte (Greene) and the pick and drafting Jason Thompson, that's going to cost you 21 games. I could've seen us falling back some, maybe, but not 21. I could've seen us falling back some, but not 21.
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