montestewart wrote:nate33 wrote:It don't think there's a precedent for a team with a 26-year-old 3-time All-Star and two 23-year-old above-average starters to decide to blow it up and rebuild. Outside of Gortat, this team has at least a 6-year window, if not longer. I agree that it's probably never going to happen with EG at the helm, but that doesn't mean you blow it up. What you do is fire EG.
EG keeps diving through that window like the building's on fire. All his moves in recent years have the look of fear. Call it GrunFear. He panics when quality young players don't translate quickly enough into wins, and so he blows cap space on expensive veterans to get the team to the middle, rather than leveraging cap space toward additional assets that can help in the long term. He panics in the face of an unexpected (to him) injury to a key player or an unexpectedly (to him) bad record, and he trades longer term assets for more short term solutions. He goes all in for forwards, wings, bigs, bench, or whatever position he perceives to be the team's weak point, amassing volumes of such players as if quantity rather than quality is the solution. The injury history of some of his acquisitions probably magnifies that fear. GrunFear.
This is so true.
In the Summer of 2014, we were coming off a year of shoddy PF play and we were about to lose Booker. So EG overreacts and adds 3 power forwards: Pierce, Humphries and Blair to a team that already had Nene, Seraphin and Gooden capable of manning the spot.
In the Summer of 2016, he made the same mistake, only at the center spot. With Nene departing, he spends $21M a year to replace him by adding Mahinmi and Smith.
