John Nash
John Nash
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It is what it is. We did at least do something that will help us in the long term.
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It's hard to project because we're so young, is what it boils down - and inexperienced. It's probably going to be a little rocky in the beginning, and hopefully we can generate some progress over the season.
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We're inching closer and closer to the cap as we go into the future, but we're still not under the cap. But we're no longer in that situation where we're so far over that you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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We want to be able to react to the market and whatever options and opportunities exist.
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That talk is ridiculous. Those are the same people who said Chauncey Billups was a bust. The fact is, it takes a while in the NBA, and it takes a while to make the transition from high school. The bottom line is, when we drafted him, there wasn't any commitment to play him in his rookie year, he was going to sit and learn from the veterans. Yet, somehow he forced his way onto the floor through way of practices. And this year, there was no commitment to start him, but somehow he won the starting job. Then he got injured.
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I was just coming in hoping we could hold our place because I liked what I felt would be available at No. 5. Now that we are at three, we have improved our chance of getting a good player.
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He's capable of doing it. He's got to be comfortable physically, and then he's got to be comfortable with the system. I think both the surgery and the new system have probably been a big adjustment for him.
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My parents provided an encyclopedia, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, that I learned a lot from by reading it as a child.
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