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...
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.
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.
basketball consummate effort gives good matt places team total
Matt is more than just a good basketball player. He is the consummate professional who places his team first and gives a total effort every night.
experience
I was very surprised. I had no idea this was coming. They told me they want someone with more experience.
games last win
I think if you look at us on paper, we probably will not win as many games as last year.
best trade
That was the best trade out there. There was no better trade.
suddenly turns unless
We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,
catch gives hopefully move opportunity pursued reasonable respect scenarios timing trade
We pursued all the trade scenarios we could (to try to move Murray). With that in mind, the timing of this is out of respect for Lamond and his family. This hopefully gives him a reasonable opportunity to catch on with another team.
curves depends good kids learning quickly
We've got some good young kids and it depends on their learning curves and how quickly they develop.
category determined directly expressed falls hide interest left money serious spoke trying
We had expressed some interest in him, sure. I'm not trying to hide anything. We spoke with his agent. But he falls directly into that category where we determined we don't have enough money left to make a serious bid.
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.
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.
based hoped last optimistic turned
Things didn't go as well as we would have hoped last year, but I was very optimistic that would have been turned around based off our discussions and the way things were going with our workouts,
basically message plan
The message that we want to get out there is basically what our plan is,