clipperlover wrote:esqtvd wrote:
Under Sterling, we had the most underpaid and understaffed FO in the league. As for all the 'shouldawouldas' at the back of the draft who became useful players, the whole league passed on them too. There's always a few longshots that come in, but in the same draft Utah got Gobert for a second-rounder and cash, they drafted Trey Burke at #9, who was a bust.
It's still a crapshoot.
That said, it's good Doc's no longer the big boss but today there are like 6 guys, making millions upon millions of Ballmer bucks, doing the job Doc did for nothing under Sterling.
C'mon Tom.
Blake, DJ, Bledsoe, Eric Gordon, Chris Paul, Bench called Quest were all moves done by Dunleavy and/or Olshey that didn't get paid anything near what Doc was paid when he came over. Those guys set Doc up for success and Doc's big signature moves for this team were:
1. Get rid of the rising, defensive minded PG star in order to trade for a no defense, career bench player and promote him to starter.
2. Get rid of a veteran SF for the Stay-Puft SF instead of filling the need at backup C by grabbing Gortat
3. Signing Byron Mullens as the solution at backup big.
Doc improved the Dunleavy/Olshey teams by 1 game for 1 season. Doc had one season with Sterling as owner and that was the most wins. Blaming Sterling for Doc's failures is laughable. Doc had exactly one team in his first 8 years that finished more than 6 games over .500. Then, Ainge gifted him Garnett and Ray Allen and he became some master coach that parlayed that team into 1 title and no back to back Conference Championship games.
Doc did have great success in pissing off so many players that they were happy to leave.
Doc is the coach and he isn't going anywhere, but he may be the most overrated coach in the NBA.
if they have to move on from doc, I'm hoping they find the right coach, but I'm not going to get on rant about it.
I agree he's overrated, but I don't think he's horrible.
People like to put him in the upper echelon of coaches. Whenever you hear people talk about doc, they talk as if he's in the same category as pop and such. He's not. He's a couple of notches below that. he's not a legendary coach by any means, but I feel he can win with this roster.
As a front office exec, he was horrible.
Ouch, just saw this:
didn't know that at the time. Oof. Well, here's to hoping he can get the job done.
