Okay that thread title might not be totally accurate, but it illistrates my point...
Michael Jordan, -- you have no center, Emeka Okafor, Gerlad Wallace, Jason Richardson and Raymond Felton...what do you do in the draft?? Charlotte is a developing team, I feel wrong saying they are re-building because they have never been "built" per se. But because they are developing they need help from the draft, with MJ they will never be able to improve the way they could if they had a decent drafter.
Larry Brown -- He likes teams anchored by veterans. The team will never develop because he doesn't like younger players...He has already blasted Emeka Okafor in the past when he was head coach of Team USA, leading to speculation that Okafor will leave. Many people actually forget that Darko was actually a very good player, maybe not a 2nd pick player but a top 5 and defintely top 10. Larry Brown didn't play him and to this day he hasn't developed.
This is quite possibly the worst pairing of HC and GM for a developing franchise, Charlotte will be bad this year...
It worked in Detroit, because they could afford a bad draft (a la Darko) and didn't need the rookies to develop (a la Darko) because they still have a strong squad. They had a core of veterans that Larry Brown could have confidence in...It worked...
But for a developing franchise and this pairing will not work...
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