Russillo: I swear we should just replace the word “upside” with the phrase “we don’t know how bad he could be.” Like everyone else, I’m not sure. He is a product of human nature; we don’t know enough about him, so we assume he is going to be good.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Turner wasn't a big upside guy and we didn't know how bad he could have been until he did. Beasley, Derrick Williams, a million other guys with a year or more of college gametape who sucked

td11 wrote:i drove through cleveland the day they were taking down the "we are all witnesses" billboard

Gimpy wrote:

Youseff wrote:god Scout 1 seems like the most insufferable prick in sports

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/ryen- ... on-gordon/

Didn't we determine Scout 1 is actually Ainge?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I just think it was kinda condescending on his part

and "upside" is a noun while "we don't know how bad he could be" is a whole sentence, that doesn't even make sense

That guy has ridiculous we don't know how bad he could be

JFLNYC wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I just think it was kinda condescending on his part

and "upside" is a noun while "we don't know how bad he could be" is a whole sentence, that doesn't even make sense

That guy has ridiculous we don't know how bad he could be

I think his comment was astute, and is often not considered enough. We're all human beings and we all bring our bias and prejudices, hopes and aspirations to the table in projecting players. I know for myself, having played the 4 & 5 when I played and with Wilt having been my idol, I'm particularly hopeful about bigs. I'm sure that influences my views on guys like Embiid and Vonleh. Was he condescending? Hear the message, not the messenger.

Grotewold wrote:

uncle milt wrote:sielski with the kill shot

the first commenter wrote:I don't trust the 76ers management at all. I am concerned that they might be intentionally driving attendance down to justify a move to NJ.

Hinkie is not a kind of talkative man, he would rather to preserve his energy and keep his mind fresh and BE STILL FOCUSed on his path to choose the RIGHT TARGETs to be pick that to improve his team in this coming draft "It's kind of meditate in different method to get a DEEP feel on the OBJECT(s)" and not to let his attention wandering around uncontrollably and be disturbed by those wishful thinking "TRASH" people out there from the media guys to other teams's sources that to automatically downloads and hijacked in His brain - pure - hard drive - system ah. Lol

Hinkie is the right man for this job. PERIOD !!.

Good dayyyy........CHEARRRR

Houshphandzadeh wrote:if you spend your whole draft prep thinking about how bad guys could be instead of how good they can be, you're gonna pass on Dwight Howard for Okafor, Drummond for Thomas Robinson, etc etc

Grotewold wrote:

Ford wrote:Sources: Cavs owner Dan Gilbert wants Wiggins at No. 1. Cavs front office wants Parker.

Would have guessed the reverse

cavsdan
Nonsense. We are united.

joe table wrote:

Hinkie is not a kind of talkative man, he would rather to preserve his energy and keep his mind fresh and BE STILL FOCUSed on his path to choose the RIGHT TARGETs to be pick that to improve his team in this coming draft "It's kind of meditate in different method to get a DEEP feel on the OBJECT(s)" and not to let his attention wandering around uncontrollably and be disturbed by those wishful thinking "TRASH" people out there from the media guys to other teams's sources that to automatically downloads and hijacked in His brain - pure - hard drive - system ah. Lol

Hinkie is the right man for this job. PERIOD !!.

Good dayyyy........CHEARRRR

JFLNYC wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:if you spend your whole draft prep thinking about how bad guys could be instead of how good they can be, you're gonna pass on Dwight Howard for Okafor, Drummond for Thomas Robinson, etc etc

He's not saying that at all. He was saying that, the less you know about a player, the more likely it is you'll project based on you're own human nature.

It's not binary. All he's saying is, in the absence of information, if you're going to project high, it's worth considering the alternative.