I was one that was suggesting him as part of the trade, but it wasn't because I didn't think he had plenty of improvement in him. He was looking like having a break-out year last year until he tore his hammy off the bone against you guys in the preseason game and he was very much like Armitage in that he'd genuinely improved steadily from season to season and there was really no telling how long he would continue to improve until he hit his ceiling.
But I just believed that if you want quality you have to give up something of quality and I put him forward as a genuine option who I believed had enough quality (when combined with something else, like our 2nd-rounder, or Hickey), but got pretty much ridiculed for the suggestion, as if we were just offering up our scraps- for someone who I didn't believe, and still don't, was worth pick 5, given all the uncertainty around WADA and all his personal baggage.
