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Message: [QUOTE="Czar, post: 1209526, member: 549"] There is literally no positive benefit to what Jim is doing right here. The people here acting like Ford is giving "advice" or is some guy doing his own talent evaluations sound completely ignorant. He's not a Keith Law. He simply ranks based on the rumor mills going on around NBA Front Offices. Note this isn't coaches but that's not the point, Front Offices and GM's are the ones giving a single crap about draft talent right now. So if he says Mac is near the middle of the Lottery, it's like Mac is getting a lot of talk. Ford isn't telling kids to leave. If the kid and his family want to take Ford's ranking to heart that's their prerogative. Meanwhile, Jim isn't helping anything with this tirade. He looks out of touch and spiteful. This isn't yelling at Andy Katz over Fine reporting, this isn't getting behind Gerry and going off. All he's done for 3 conferences or so in a row is throw kids under the bus. What's the point of bagging on McCullough's height? Is he trying to prove something? Because EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS THIS, everyone knows his camp measurements. This isn't some new info for NBA GM's. So what do you get out of it besides possibly pissing McCullough off for getting angry at positive press? Can McCullough control what NBA beat and draft writers write about him? No. He's not the bad guy. And to the guy who said that Jim knows more NBA people than Ford, why? What reason does Jim have to know anyone in the NBA beyond the fact that he recruited them or coaches them for Team USA? Why would he need to talk to NBA coaches unless they ask him for a word about a Syracuse player? He's not a Pitino or Calipari who is around the NBA a lot or coached there. It's completely logical Ford knows more "NBA" people from current front offices to coaches. [/QUOTE]

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