Opinions on Mike Dunleavy as a GM?

[Smirk]

Mike Dunleavy is part of a group that is trying to buy the Hornets. There are two groups bidding against each other.

A lot of us Hornets fans are terrified that if the Dunleavy group wins out, that Dunleavy will butt his way past Dell Demps (who we all love and respect a lot) and take over player personell. From what a lot of us gather, he wasn't the greatest of GMs. He made some no-brainer draft picks, but I don't know anything about him otherwise, besides the fact that he was canned. I didn't follow the Clippers much then.

Thoughts? Should we be afraid?

[Neddy]

duns is not a bad GM at all. our clipper success' ground work was done by duns before his protoge took over the job. Zbo trade certainly helped us, drafting griffin wasn't necessarily due to his savvy GM ability as we got lucky with pingpong balls, but all the surroundings that came with it was duns. he also was more or less an acting GM when faker spy elgin baylor held that title for us too. signing cat mobley, trading for sam i am and a first pick for marco was all duns.

just don't let him coach anymore.

[jflipclip]

he also was more or less an acting GM when faker spy elgin baylor held that title for us too.

Really?

I'd rate Dunleavy an above average GM. He's more active and most of his decisions make sense. He made the move for Cassell, signed Mobley (very valuable when he was here), traded for Radman for that playoff push, grabbed Camby, traded for Zbo (who got his head straight first here before he went to the Grizzlies). Baron Davis situation didn't quite work out but at the time it was considered big for the Clippers-- but I think that situation was mainly due to Brand's filp-flop. There's only a few cases where I questioned his decisions, like his obsession over Korolev that one draft.

As a coach, he's a defensive-minded guy. If you thought this Clippers offense was stagnant, you obviously didn't watch us 5-6 years ago.

[Neddy]

If you thought this Clippers offense was stagnant, you obviously didn't watch us 5-6 years ago.

pardon me? what the heck are you talking about? how did you get this conclusion from my previous post? and just so you know, i was a sports arena regular since ken norman was drafted by clips. 5-6 years is yesterday for me.

[mkwest]

Smirk,

As a GM, a good portion of the fans were fine with him. I believe that he is more cut out to be a general manager than a coach. Was every move that he made great? No, but he made a lot of quality moves that benefited us. As others have stated, he was heavily involved in the personnel decisions even when Baylor held the GM title. Drafting players such as Eric Gordon and DeAndre Jordan were decisions that he was involved in. Unfortunately, so was drafting Yaroslav Korolev. He was good friends with Korolev's dad and totally screwed us in the draft that year.

He was able to convince Donald T. Sterling to actually open up his wallet spend money on this franchise. That is not some small fete. Some of his trades have already been mentioned. He was not a fan of adding Baron to the roster (didn't want to coach him), but was put into a difficult position. Adding what was perceived to be a "We Believe"-era Davis to perennial 20/10/2 Brand was a no-brainer. Brand defected and we were stuck adding a disgruntled Baron only.

Dunleavy has a very strong basketball mind, but it doesn't necessarily translate onto the court as coach. His playbook is reminiscent of football coach. The players had a tough time trying to execute them. He's heavily defensive-minded. He's quick to make excuses rather than adjustments. We were all content to see him step down from his coaching hat, but many were disappointed to see him relieved of his FO duties.

pardon me? what the heck are you talking about? how did you get this conclusion from my previous post? and just so you know, i was a sports arena regular since ken norman was drafted by clips. 5-6 years is yesterday for me.

I believe you misread his post. His only reply to you was your Baylor comment ("Really?"). The rest was addressing the OP.

[Neddy]

oh i see, my bad then for getting offended over nothing. my apologies.

[thanumba2clippersfan]

I was fine with Dunleavy as a GM. Didn't really like him as a coach. If he does become a part of the Hornets I'm sure he will want to put his finger prints on the franchise. I can't say what move he would make at GM. Just don't have him as your coach and the Hornets will be fine.

[krazyclipperfan]

He was a pretty good gm, him coaching was just ok. The problem he had was he had both job and no one to bounce ideas off. He was holding two job when he could only do one.

[azncorruptedo17]

horrible coach xD

[Sofia]

I wasn't mad at him as a GM. I wanted to punch him in his mouth as a coach though.

[TheNewEra]

One thing I give Dunleavy credit for I don't see him being that dumb to sign Ryan Gomes and Brian Cook

[RiversideClips]

I liked Dunleavy as a G.M. minus the Korelev pick. He was basically the G.M. when he worked w/ Elgin so I'm basing his time w/ the Clips as a 2 job position.
I always wondered if Dunleavy was bi-polar, As a G.M. he would get quick,fast,speedy free style players & as a coach slow them down & make them play a 1/2 court game. I could never figure out where he was coming from.
Hornet fans beware, keep him as far from the bench as possible.

[azncorruptedo17]

Hornet fans beware, keep him as far from the bench as possible.

Lol... as long as he doesn't become the coach, they won't have to worry about chanting "Fire Dunleavy" through the streets

[adiedanny]

Dunleavy was a great GM. He was responsible for making some seriously lopsided trades for us. He was key for the change of culture for our franchise. It all started with the signing of Mobley. If he becomes your GM all other NBA teams beware.