zimpy27 wrote:BullyKing wrote:zimpy27 wrote:
I believe teams just have to work harder to make their teams competitive and it's important for owners to open their wallets when you have a great player or you will lose him.
The problem is this often becomes a self-defeating strategy. The Pelicans kept trading 1sts to get win now veterans in hopes that it would make AD stay. But unless you hit on all of those trades, you're now just an older team that still isn't a contender but without 1sts to get better.
Pels had a number of terrible GMs. Have to be smarter than that strategy, that's the same strategy Cavs used for LeBron. That does not work and it should be known.
I won't assign all the blame to the FO execs because owners sometimes tend to meddle and want immediate results after getting a star/superstar.
I don't recall Morey (Harden - Houston), Demps (Davis - New Orleans), ? ( LeBron - Cleveland) being allowed to tank while Presti was allowed to tank.
Is Presti a good GM?
Yes but I don't think that he would have been able to accomplish as much in regards to transactions if the ownership had pushed him to start trying to win ASAP.