🎙️ @ZachLowe_NBA on the Hornets: "This is when you, as an ownership group and a front office, need to just eat some shit and show some fortitude, because this is a worst-case scenario for how your post-LaMelo season could have gone."
"All the scrutiny is going to be placed on you now. Was this trade a mistake? Did you underrate LaMelo as a player? Did you worry too much about his durability and his contract, and about how the LaMelo Ball + Brandon Miller + Kon Knueppel triple-max potential structure was going to work? Did you undersell the importance of last season and how it felt for the fans in Charlotte who have been longing for something like that? Did you, I don't want to say wrong the fans, but sort of misunderstand why they felt so much joy?"
"This is when you just have to eat it and don't panic. Stay true to what you believed in, which is, we don't believe he's gonna be worth the contract we're gonna have to sign him to in a couple years. We'll get a lottery pick this year if we don't make the playoffs, and the new rules may benefit us enormously. We have the Mavs pick, top-two protected. We have the Heat pick, lottery-protected. Just stay the course and weather the noise, because the more they struggle and the more Minnesota wins, the noise is gonna get really, really loud. And I don't think it's undeserved, because LaMelo's good and he's playing well in Minnesota... but it's a long season."
Full segment on the Zach Lowe Show w/ @kirkgoldsberry: open.spotify.com/episode/4Pevxn…
"All the scrutiny is going to be placed on you now. Was this trade a mistake? Did you underrate LaMelo as a player? Did you worry too much about his durability and his contract, and about how the LaMelo Ball + Brandon Miller + Kon Knueppel triple-max potential structure was going to work? Did you undersell the importance of last season and how it felt for the fans in Charlotte who have been longing for something like that? Did you, I don't want to say wrong the fans, but sort of misunderstand why they felt so much joy?"
"This is when you just have to eat it and don't panic. Stay true to what you believed in, which is, we don't believe he's gonna be worth the contract we're gonna have to sign him to in a couple years. We'll get a lottery pick this year if we don't make the playoffs, and the new rules may benefit us enormously. We have the Mavs pick, top-two protected. We have the Heat pick, lottery-protected. Just stay the course and weather the noise, because the more they struggle and the more Minnesota wins, the noise is gonna get really, really loud. And I don't think it's undeserved, because LaMelo's good and he's playing well in Minnesota... but it's a long season."
Full segment on the Zach Lowe Show w/ @kirkgoldsberry: open.spotify.com/episode/4Pevxn…
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