ConSarnit wrote:Roger Murdock wrote:Sealab2024 wrote:
You can't downgrade from the worst winning percentage in American sports. Not just basketbal, all sports.
You can do worse. A bad owner is better than a broke owner. Broke people do desperate things and short sighted things.
Really? How?
Glen Taylor has owned the Wolves for 30 years. They have won 2 playoff series during that time.
I’d rather have the poorest semi-competent owner than Glen Taylor. The poorest owner in the world, with a mandate only to spend to the bare minimum, would still have done a better job than Taylor.
Taylor is hands off and loyal to people he's familiar with, regardless of their competence. That lead to a "Country Club" vibe that kept a guy like McHale around for far longer than he deserved, as well as somewhat leading to the David Kahn experience (as he was recommended by David Stern IIRC).
In recent years he's been better honestly. He seemed to recognise his faults and hired a firm that lead to hiring Thibs as the GM/coach, with the GM part blowing up spectacularly but he was still a decent coach. Moving on to Rosas was good as Gersson did a lot of good work, particularly with scouting, that's laid the foundations for what we are now. Unfortunately the man just decided to put his balls in the wrong hole, among other things. I should mention that Flip was in here as well between Rosas and Thibs, who also seemed to have some promising signs developing the youth before he unfortunately passed.
The real issue with Glen from an ownership POV seems to be that he's so hands off that he becomes oblivious to incompetence or poor management. Which seems insane given he's literally courtside night in, night out, but here we are. If he's got a good FO in place I think he'd be more or less fine, although I do kind of want him gone just so that KG can get his jersey retired and become more a part of the franchise again.
And as much of a breath of fresh air ARod/Lore have been I was never that keen on having "owners" that could barely afford to buy 20% of the team themselves. That felt like a disaster waiting to happen, and still might if they get the sale overturned, but I'd rather Glen sell to some billionaire that can afford the team outright. Someone like Ishbia, even if the Suns have been a bit of a disaster to this point.
