Rob Babcock
Rob Babcock
Rob Babcockis the former Vice President of Basketball Operations with the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA. He is also the former general manager of the Toronto Raptors...
bright building faith future team
Yeah, we have a lot of faith in them. We're building for the future of this team and we think it's a very bright future.
financial help worked
I can't go into any of the financial details, but some things were worked out that will help us,
themselves training work
But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.
course pulling
Of course I'm still pulling for (the Raptors).
clear force player team trade
No one is going to force me to make a trade. I've made it very clear the only way I would trade any player on our team is if it's a trade that makes us a better team.
ask determined fill guards guy interested left likely looked money point serious sign spot third worth
When we looked at the other (free-agent) point guards who were available, we determined a lot of them weren't worth the money. And of the ones we were interested in, we had to ask ourselves, do we have enough money left to make a serious bid? So at that point we said, okay, let's sign Matt, who we wanted to keep anyway, and we likely will go with a minimum-salary guy to fill that spot as our third point guard.
kinds looked waited
We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.
agents best free pops pursuing trades
We're pursuing trades and other free agents as well. We'll just have to keep pursuing them and see which one pops up and take the best one we can get.
adding opportunity possible strong team
We'd be getting the opportunity to be as strong a team as possible (by adding Duhon) and it would give us a lot of flexibility,
both excited game hard past season throughout worked
We are excited to have Pape back with us. He has worked very hard on his game over the past year, both during the season and throughout the summer.
depending next player signed since sure training until wait
It's unrelated, since we still could have signed another player now without waiving anyone, ... That's not to say for sure that we won't sign someone next week. But we still may wait until just before training camp, depending upon what happens.
likely playing
It just made sense to do it, ... He was the least likely of them to get any playing time.
firing logical looking player
Waiving a player never is easy, because you essentially are firing someone, ... But looking at our team, this was the most logical choice.
bugs certainly good step
There are certainly a lot of bugs to be ironed out, but it's a good step in the right direction.