nate33 wrote:Nobody is saying the organization is perfect. But, generally speaking, I think they've handled Deni's development very well. The firings of the GM and the first coach had nothing to do with player development and had everything to do with the team shifting direction from the Beal era to a rebuild era.
You can argue that the firing of Wes was an indictment of the organization and there may be some truth to that. But overall, I thought Wes was doing a pretty good job of developing our important young players (Deni, Bilal, Kispert, Gafford) on an individual basis. They were all having career best years even before the coaching change. I think Wes was fired mostly because he was a bad in-game tactician and we lost too many winnable games, which led to him eventually losing the locker room. Also, our defensive execution was a mess. I don't think he was fired for lack of development of the young guys though.
I think rebuilding got a lot to do with player development, I don't know how you can separate the two, I mean, that's usually how it goes, especially with a team that probably isn't going to attract already established stars, this team's rebuild is based on its young assets and draft picks, so if the GM and first coach were fired because of shifting toward a rebuild, that means the team didn't thought they were doing a good job in that area.
100% !
