Bobby Brown Traded to the Clippers; JamesOn Curry Cut

by Scott Schroeder on Jan 26, 2010 2:55 PM EST Comment 10 comments

I get it.

Bobby Brown is better than JamesOn Curry. I remember this clearly from when Brown broke out in Vegas at Summer League two years ago - after Brown ferociously dunked on someone, we played "Don't Be Cruel."

It was awesome.

What I didn't get it is why the Clippers, who didn't have anyone scouting at the D-League Showcase, decided to randomly call-up JamesOn Curry, decide they didn't like him, then blame the D-League.

It's not the D-League's fault you either have a terrible scouting department or didn't scout the D-League at all. It's not the D-League's fault that you picked up a player that you'd heard of before over someone that, you know, is actually good at basketball.

Honestly, you would have been better off going to google, typing in "D-League Call-Up Rankings" or "D-League Prospects" and ending up either looking at our call-up rankings, DraftExpress' Top 30 D-League Prospects or Kevin Pelton's D-League Translations. At this point, you would have noticed JamesOn Curry is not well represented on either of those lists and moved on to a guy like Mustafa Shakur or Dontell Jefferson or Maurice Baker or Curtis Jerrells or Shaun Livingston or basically a lot of guys not named JamesOn.

This also would've prevented you from making the following statement:

"We needed to do something and this gives us the ability to get an NBA player as opposed to playing the carousel of going down to the D-League and trying to find somebody," said Clippers assistant GM Neil Olshey.

It only doesn't work if you don't know how to use it, Neil.

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I mean, it is the Clippers.

Just sayin’

by Spider Jerusalem on Jan 26, 2010 3:53 PM EST reply actions

I know

It’s just, to me, I would that at some point they’d rather not have people explain their terrible decision making by saying “I mean, it is the Clippers.”
As long as they do things like this though, however minor it might be, those excuses are going to keep coming.

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by Scott Schroeder on Jan 26, 2010 3:57 PM EST up reply actions

So would Clipper fans.

I imagine that will happen whenever Sterling goes, and they get an owner who is actually concerned with winning.

There’s really no excuse for not having a scout at the showcase, though. It is the reason they do the showcase, after all, to make it insanely easy for the NBA to get a solid look at D-leaguers.

by Spider Jerusalem on Jan 26, 2010 4:18 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah

Best, maybe only, word for it is lazy.

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by Scott Schroeder on Jan 26, 2010 4:29 PM EST up reply actions

Clippers Genius

Sterling probably wanted to save the $400 airfare so he could buy another ad in the LA Times telling the world what a great guy he is. Somebody has to be the embarrassment of the league. It’s just a shame that it’s been the Clippers since Sterling got involved.

by gpralph on Jan 26, 2010 5:11 PM EST reply actions