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Originally Posted by WTFchris
right charlie rosen... any time a sports writer drops 'passive agressive' in his article, you know he's gone to the BS.
i dont know what people want from darko.
what more do you expect from a 20 year old kidd who hasnt played in 2 1/2 seasons?
hes going to be inconsistent.
hes going to make bad decissions.
hes not going to turn a team thats clearly tanking into a playoff team.
the fact that he's put up a few nice games is more than alot of people thought he was capable of.
sometimes i wonder if people look at this as a piston fan or as a critic. because some of these comments just dont make sense.
and how bout two other trades to compare it to:
kwame for caron butler and chucky atkinson.
eddy curry for 2 lottery picks and sweetney.
in my opinion, eddy curry had far more warts than darko (yep), and kwame was only a slightly smaller question mark than darko.
i think both of those trades are way better than what detroit got for darko and its backup pg.
That is absolutely, positively 100% untrue.Quote:
Originally Posted by b-diddy
Everyone, and I mean everyone, expected and continues to expect Darko to have some games where he fills up the box score.
Most of the Darko bashers also believe that Darko will have a very, very long career in the NBA, in which he'll have plenty of, as Joe Dumars himself put it "18 point, 10 rebound and 4 block nights".
Where did you get that statement?
There you go Kilo.Quote:
Originally Posted by b-diddy
The main difference being that curry and brown had enough playing time to at least give potential trading partners some idea what they were in for. The higher level of speculation involved with Darko watered down his value.Quote:
Originally Posted by b-diddy
Eddie Curry also possessed FAR greater proof of viable and productive talent than did Darko at the times of their respective trades.Quote:
Originally Posted by b-diddy
Curry was also persued by an idiot GM.
The Kwame deal is more comparable. If we get a player better than Butler with that pick, we come out ahead of them on the Kwame deal. And Kwame and Curry at least showed they belong in the NBA at some capacity. Darko hasn't shown that yet.
1) (taymelo) i recall paul silas and barkley (irrelivent) saying darko didnt belong in the leauge. i wont name names, but i'm pretty sure some people have said that darko isnt nba material. in orlando, he's putting up numbers to justify him being in the nba. at this point, what more could you expect?
2) (geerussel) both those guys had shown more, but curry in particular, had shown enough to prove that he was as much a problem as he is an answer, and definitly didnt deserve that contract. darko is more of an unknown. but with curry, you know your getting a guy who is a complete fat ass, has no work ethic, only plays on one side of the court (and only 1/2 the time), and has a bum ticker. im convinced darko had more trade value than curry.
3) (chris) isiah might be a lousy gm, but he's not the only lousy gm in basketball. but i agree, the kwame deal is a better comparison. maybe the pick will be better than caron, maybe not. but the fact that washington didnt have to wait 2 years to get him makes that deal alot better, regardless.
i just see this deal looking worse and worse for the pistons, and its only justification is that an old man with all the money in the world didnt think detroit fans deserved to have a team that pays the tax. im 100% confident a better deal was out there.
On the day of the trade, I heard Silas say that it was his opinion that Darko would be a career "journeyman", which is not the same thing as saying a guy doesn't belong in the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by b-diddy
But I agree with most of your other points.
^In the same prodcast Silas made a comment as the program was fading to commercial, something like "Because the kid can't play".