Hotmayo wrote:Alright joe d messed up alot, but did some good as well. Like winning a championship.
We could have, should have, would have. . Is all in the past. Stop bashing him and lets move on to a new era of Drummond, smith, kcp, jennings, meeks. Lets see what these guys can do with a better coach.
Everything JOE did that was successful was just pure luck. Sure, he had a knack for picking decent 2nd round picks but outside of that, I challenge you to prove to me that his success is purely attributable to his intellect.
While bashing Joe D had become a popular hung among pistins fans, I think it's completely warranted and I'm all for it. That fat piece of **** resigned his mates to stupid contracts, and made poor decision after poor decision. I'm not gonna bash him for Darko, in fact I almost applaud it. We missed out on proven players such as Melo, wade and bosh. Many gm's labelled Darko as the "European wilt chamberlain", if he even managed to scrape the surface of his potential he would have been a dominant player.
To top everything off, Joe D is gone and we still feel the effects of his rein and will for a couple seasons. We lost a #9 pick in loaded draft to save one year of a poor contract which could have been used to draft our next PF of the future in Noah Vonleh the perfect compliment to drummond, and to make matters worse that year of saving was used to sign josh smith when we already had monroe. Not only have we reduced Smiths value to almost nothing, we will now loose monroe which to a small market team like us hurts badly.
While this will seem pessimistic, I hate Dumars more for what he's done to us the past decade plus than how much I like him for lucking into a championship team in 2003-04.
At least we have a respected, good coach in SVG and we will never need to deal with that incompetent fool as the leader of our franchise ever again
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