Originally Posted by Gazoo
My point, though, is that GM's of professional sports teams do lots of dumb things. It doesn't prove they know what they're doing just because they have a title and a salary.
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No but who wants to be "that" guy that missed out on potential greatness especially seeing that most 2nd round picks don't make it anyways and that there is ZERO risk at even signing the kid as a FA? You cannot teach DNA, you can't teach 6'10/11", you can't teach length,you can't teach leaping ability, etc. You can teach structure, you can teach footwork, you can put on weight/strength/conditioning to a player, you can coach to a player's skill set, you can also lay it on the line about work-ethic and attitude.
We all talk about the lack of work-ethic and terrible attitude of Kostas but the kid went thru some real tough issues even leading into early this season. You think every 19-20 year old matures the same way and grows up the same way? What was very encouraging is the coaching and structure of AG and staff that Kostas DID adapt and buy into the last 10 plus games or so. He simply bought in.
Fact of the matter is that if you watched any tape on Giannis and or even watched the 60 minutes feature you saw EXACTLY the same kid in that video that we saw at UD. A long and lean player who dribbled up to his eyebrow, a player who got the ball stolen from him, a player that raced back down court to make a spectacular block on the fast-break attempt. Kostas had all of that happen several times this past season..