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Years ago
Jeff Van Groningen - All spin, no ding
Ok, so with JvG's recent Aussie Hoopla podcast, "addressing" fan concerns from the Open Letter, I thought it might be easier to group all that related chatter under the one banner, even though JvG has his stink over all the other issues for the Kings, there are some specific podcast related spin that is just super frustrating...
http://www.aussiehoopla.com/kings-gm-jeff-van-groningen-answers-outraged-fans-after-30-point-thrashing/
Couple of issues off the top of my head...
- He's all spin and full of shit... This was just a platform for Jeff to get happy clapped with (as others have mentioned elsewhere) no actual rebuttal or questioning of his spin... If anything, the podcaster just continually made more excuses for him...
- As koberulz pointed out elsewhere, if they were always planning on getting a third import around now, why still sign 11 players?
- Singh wouldn't have this criticism if he was a white guy his size...
Bullshit and the insinuation that Jeff put that out there is insulting... He's too old for a DP spot which is the level that he is, a project level player, but he's using a full roster spot and our front line is so weak...
- Tommy knew it was going to be like this and he was ok with it because it's his last season...
He knew that players like Pineau and Singh would be getting minutes and he would be getting DNPs? Spin...
- No discussion of how there was a lack of anything in regards to fixing last seasons problems (especially rebounding) even though they were planning on saving their $$$ for a higher quality import...
- Lack of import PG was spun out of the way without any real discussion, with the assumption that we need to bring in a Cotton/Ware level type PG "but we have Lisch" is all well and good, but he is NOT A PROPER PG and THAT is the skillset that we need... Facilitating, hard nosed playmaking guard that if Lisch DID go down, we would not have a huge gaping frigging hole in our backcourt... The fact that Leslie's spot could have been taken up with a more role playing guard like this wasn't even brought up... "But Lisch won the league MVP as an import guard, so he's more than fine". Bollocks.
Anything I missed?