lol The Grizzlies recently decided to let go of their scouts, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "I prefer a smaller group," Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace told the Commercial Appeal. Last season, the team had five full-time amateur scouts. They still have a part-time scout to keep an eye on players in Europe, but they don't plan to make any hires heading into the 2009-10 season. "We had a restructuring," said Wallace. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/aug/02/grizzlies-cutbacks-revealing-priority/
I guess they figured out that Thabeet is going to be a major bust, or maybe they just wanted to save a few bucks. I wonder how they're going to draft from now on, they should just pay the guy from draftexpress to do it for them.
lol. maybe they can ask University of Memphis coach Josh Pastner for some of his recruiting techniques...
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner! Been saying this for over a year. Why have scouts if you never listen to them and make dumb decisions anyway? Next move should be to fire the coach, GM and owner of this sorry excuse for a franchise.
Wallace should just join CF.net. We have more scouts here than he can ever hire. Making Dadakota his head scout would be the best move of his life.
What's sheer comedy is how they spin it afterwards. "We had a restructuring" and "I prefer a smaller group". Come on, come up with something a bit better than that.
and yet the rockets still went 2-2 against them. I don't even think they are the worst in the nba- that distinction goes to LAC.
Who cares? Here's one for you: And yet the Rockets finished almost 30 games ahead of them in the standings.
Memphis still has player talent. Mike Conley, OJ Mayo, Marc Gasol, Rudy Gay. Just the management that really f'ed them up.
1) Scouts don't draft. They just do the reporting. They have a large influence in who gets drafted, but they don't have the final say. I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't even in the draft room 2) Everybody knows they shouldn't have taken Mike Conley.
The Grizzlies are a money making exercise for their owner. You keep the front office payroll in check - and keep the team under the salary cap, then you can make millions by "eating bad contracts" for teams and "facilitating trades" with your cap space. Michael Heisley is laughing all the way to the bank. Oh - and incidentally if the team wins a few games along the way, then that's just a bonus. They might win 30 games this season - that'll get bums on seats and even more $$ in Heisley's pocket.
