WeekapaugGroove wrote:I have a feeling this is happening. Just too much smoke for there not to be some fire. As a person who advocates hiring smart people and as a Suns fan who just watched a smart guy in Hornacek do wonders in his first year Kidds background troubles me. With that said I'll hold my judgement until i see the results; if he puts good people around him and doesn't act like the jackass his past tells you he might then he might be OK. Obviously I voted no on the poll above but realistically i don't know the dude and I really don't know if he'll do a good job.
I had real hopes that Edens and Lasry would look at what the Suns did and follow that same line of thinking...instead we get Jason Kidd.
The Suns hired a smart guy in Ryan McDonough, who came from Boston, who then hired a good coach in Jeff Hornacek. In one year, two smart guys dramatically turned around the Suns. They traded away the waste (Gortat, Dudley, Scola,) collected assets (3 first round picks, Eric Bledsoe,) and developed players. That's how you build a basketball organization and culture.
In my ideal world, Lasry and Edens would have hired another smart, analytical mind from Boston in Michael Zarren and a young smart coach in Mike Longabardi. That's a good basketball infrastructure. Those kinds of minds would turn waste like Illaysova, Mayo, and Zaza into assets.
