Highlights: -Chris Paul was in recruitment with iggy -won't try to get perfect roster in July -will probably keep our bi annual exception and trade exception through the year to keep our power dry -have our picks after next year and a bunch of international talent we like -Sergio Llull has turned down great offers from us. He's the best guard in Europe. He'll play for us someday. Maybe on the back end of his contract. He and coach McHale flew out there to meet with him, thought they had him -just don't have the tools to make him an offer he'll accept. Jokes that nets owner has ways to pay guys that we don't lol -playing for us is attractive to him but he loves Madrid -simmons mentions that we have hit rock bottom twice and reloaded both times. Lays out how poorly everything was working in terms of not getting assets together before harden happens. Then points out how everything fell apart last year again with Dwight and how we bounced back again. -morey mentions thought we had title team in 09 when mcgrady and Yao got hurt. We hit rock bottom then. -we don't rebuild. Our rock bottoms are 41 win seasons. All his analytic friends were giving him grief for being st 14 in the draft -two years ago was worse (year after wcf) -that $hits not happening again (exact quote) -les loved dantoni. Les got mad at morey for not signing dantoni fast. Morey did his due diligence before deciding on dantoni -thought they had a real shot at al horford -great time to be alive when he was doing analytics and no one else was doing them -now every one does the same thing -by our analysis we fourth best drafting team -tanking is really smart. We've never done it but some teams should look st what philly did. -astros are benefitting from tanking. Cubs did it -after losing Yao and Tracy went down he showed les two paths; tanking or free agency. Need to maintain flexibility in second. Could wait a long time before that route works because -we could have done harden deal in his opinion even with pau deal going down. -still need a lot of luck -we got lucky with Dwight and Chris Paul. Lucky two star additions -realized star centers weren't the way to go in last three years. He loves the big guys sad to change -soft spot for big players who play tough -soft spot for pj tucker specifically -tough for him to accept modern NBA is changing the five -Noel being about to free agent changed what he could get in trade
That was great, thanks for sharing. Could you elaborate on what this means: -Noel being about to free agent changed what he could get in trade I don't understand what Noel has to do with us.
They were discussing the evolving center position. Morey described the new center and simmons wondered why Noel wasn't worth more considering he fits the description
