It is really, really hard to put a positive spin on the Billy Knight era, but Aldridge does his best.
I notice that he conveniently forgets to mention the garbage, backup center that Boston had playing on Friday night.
This is my favorite part of the article:
"It's wonderful if you can get a great young player, like Shaq in his prime, or a Dwight Howard, or LeBron," Knight says. "But if you can't get one of those kinds of guys, or even then, you have to have a good player at every position. And that's what I tried to do. I wanted good players who could be multi-dimensional at every position."
So that is his defense for taking Marvin over CP3? Hmm, he had the chance to get a guy like "Shaq in his prime, Dwight Howard, or LeBron," but took Marvin instead, because he was a good, multi-dimensional player? Huh?
Josh Smith has turned into a great pick, but as he went 17th, that has pick can be considered pure luck as much as anything.
The Joe Johnson deal was a homerun, except that we gave up more than we had to and started the Spirit on a 5 year lawsuit spree.
I would go as far as to say "thanks" to Billy for putting a couple of pieces in place, but he had taken the program as far as it would go under his stewardship. It is hard to stomach a piece making a martyr of a guy who took 8 years to do a job that could have taken 3-4 with better picks.