David Kahn?

[revprodeji]

http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wol ... h-goes-on/

I hope it is an under the radar guy rather than a re-treat. Hinke would be cool.

[4ho5ive]

Someone school me on Hinkel-berry

[revprodeji]

http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=245

http://www.bizofbasketball.com/?option= ... l&Itemid=1

http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/Lindsey ... 1-822.html

http://newsok.com/article/3232747/?pg=2

Not much, but enjoy...I will look for more.

[4ho5ive]

damn, good looks on the info.

Sounds like shrink. Seriously though, sounds like someone i can get behind.

[revprodeji]

Or

http://www.canishoopus.com/2009/5/7/869 ... h#comments

Both are better than kahn

[4ho5ive]

beat me to it.

and i agree. Kahn is 2nd to last as i think Babcock is the worst of McHale.

I still like Banks, but since he hasnt talked about in a while, i think Hoiberg, Hinke or this new guy. I would love to steal this guy.

[revprodeji]

The portland guy sounds interesting.

http://www.blazersedge.com/2008/9/25/62 ... usive-a-ch

[shrink]

Sounds like shrink. Seriously though, sounds like someone i can get behind.

LOL - me too.

[4ho5ive]

I read that interview with Penn late last night and i took something that really kinda "won me over" in a sense.

Blazersedge: Would you say that flexibility is your primary philosophical goal when managing the cap, in terms of what drives your moves?

TP: The number one driving thing is talent acquisition.

What we've tried to do here is to acquire as much young talent as we could and then simultaneously create as much flexibility cap wise as we could. That was the objective basically since the Zach Randolph trade because that freed up our space. That put us on a pretty clear plan, to have cap room in 2009 at the same time we had a blossoming young team.

I know it seems like thats an answer you could get from anybody in any FO. But it seems like not every team thinks this way. I think he could do very well coming from a good FO that went through a similar, yet faster, rebuild.

[Devilzsidewalk]

thats the answer Isiah Thomas would give: "The number one driving thing is talent acquisition."

they key part was this sentence: "What we've tried to do here is to acquire as much young talent as we could and then simultaneously create as much flexibility cap wise as we could."

You take a couple of the most notorious screw up, Knicks acquiring talent at the expense of money and Phoenix shaving dollars at the expense of talent, blend 'em together, and you have a sensible plan

[john2jer]

So you either end up with a cheap talented team, or an expensive team with no talent.

So it's either the Spurs or the Wolves. Worst case scenario is the status quo.

[Calinks]

At this point I'm ready to give the job to this guy.



Just get it done McH... whoever. Taylor I suppose.

[skorff26]

Kahn is my 3rd worse viable option just ahead of stack and babcock. Only way kahn works is if Kahn is just the business guy While Hoiberg takes over basketball operations. So Kahn’s job would be to attract sponsors, sell suites and seats, get a good broadcasting situation, etc. while formally being the head honcho?

We had a similar screwed up situation in Portland with Paul Allen losing money and contemplating to sell the team. Then he fired the GM Nash in 2006 and Patterson as President shortly thereafter, brought in Larry Miller as President (former head of Nike Jordan Brand) and Pritchard as GM in 2007. For a while we even had a COO due to the ownership structure on top.

not what I want, but at least not horrible.

I like your thinking rev
Hoiberg being in charge of the basketball operations and only in charge of the basketball operations.
Bring in someone such as Kahn or someone else to deal with attracting sponsors and getting a better broadcasting situation; and to run the finances of team. They would be the head honcho but basketball decisions would be handled by Hoiberg.
Then bring in Simmons as an assistant GM, he would be in charge fan relations and media exposure. Just by hiring him to an important job like that would create some buzz for our team. Also I do honestly believe that he would be interested in fans opinions and that he would do an excellent job of promoting the team. I do believe that he could be a help to Hoiberg as well and come up with a few outside the box ideas that could benefit us and I think Hoiberg would have enough common sense to shoot down some of the worse outside the box ideas, and this way other GM's won't be as biased towards us since Hoiberg would be handling these conversations. I think simmons would do it since I believe that his dream is to be a GM in the NBA and this would be a very big stepping stone for him towards that goal.

I'm getting excited of my fantasy scenario... but it is only a fantasy... and now I'm back to the real world... at least we won't end up with dunleavy or isaiah... but our new GM probably will be just as bad or worse... if that's possible

[john2jer]

I could see Glen Taylor hiring some jokster off th street who could really screw up the team just to make Kevin McHale look better. It's all part of his master plan.