benji wrote:Vespasian92 wrote:There's a video of the Kings' draft-day war room where Vivek is quite vocal in support for taking Stauskas and everybody else agreed quietly and didn't really offer any counter-arguments for anybody else.
Shareef Abdur-Rahim left the team after getting into an argument with him, Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond on draft night over that pick.
Yes, I recall. My outsider's perspective is that Vivek, Mullin, and Pete have a vision that is set in stone (much of it stolen from GS by Vivek and Mullin) of a fast-paced team that shoots 3s. But they have Boogie Cousins, not Steph Curry. I'm afraid they don't want to adapt their plan to fit their personnel. I fear the powers that be believe in this certain plan and don't leave themselves open to debate or persuasion, even if the roster supports another strategy. Shareef wanted something different and got internal flak for it. Malone stuck to his guns and his gameplan (that got a .500 record for the first time in a decade practically) and got the bad side of the FO. He was against a possible Josh Smith trade for good reason, but apparently the FO wanted to make it (DET said no and closed the talks before).
And he had been arguing with them over the teams draft strategy for some time before.
Yeah, supposedly he
wanted Kawhi instead of Jimmer. He was right on that one for sure.