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...
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.
gives guard help insurance players point position younger
He gives us insurance at the point guard position and will help our younger players develop.
certainly changed deal felt fit gives good guards healthy last point regards road signed year
We signed Rafer to a six-year deal last year without any really healthy point guards other than Milt Palacio. Things kind of changed over the summer. Rafer still would have been a good fit for our team, but we felt this was a better fit and certainly gives us more flexibility down the road in regards to the cap.
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.
suddenly turns unless
We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,
experience
I was very surprised. I had no idea this was coming. They told me they want someone with more experience.
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,
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.
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.
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.
balancing pursuing regard trades
We still have some trades we're pursuing with regard to balancing our roster.
cutting guys hard learning plan realize starting turning understand
We still have a long way to go, but we have the guys here now who see what the plan is, and they understand it, ... They realize that there's no cutting corners, that it's going to be a lot of hard work, learning to play as a team, doing things the right way ... Our guys are starting to get that and things are turning around.
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.