Darth Magic wrote:VGOSWAMI wrote:Just caught the Dwight interview today, and wow...
I don't care if he's scapegoating the front office, if he says he's leaving because of the GM, it's a no brainer to me. Fire Otis. The ego on Otis amazes me. How can this guy refuse to acknowledge he has a problem with his star player. Again, this team can be good with slight changes, but if Otis is here for the long haul, then that's not proving anything to Dwight.
We've had a super star get a coach fired, now we are gonna let our super star fire our GM?
I find that all a little unsavoury, too, and I would never call for someone to lose their job.
However, I look at the current situation from this point of view - it really doesn't matter too much if Otis did or did not consult/listen to Dwight when making roster moves. If he wanted to consult Dwight, then fair enough, I know many GMs do ask for input from their star players. If he didn't, then also fine; he is the GM, and they are his decisions to make.
But that last sentence brings us back to the meat of it: they are Otis Smith's decisions to make, and whether he made them as moves to appease Dwight Howard, or if he made them independent of Dwight's input,
they were not good roster moves. He either should have been strong enough to tell Dwight that the players Dwight wanted (or losing the players we gave up to get the players Dwight wanted) would not be of benefit to the team, or otherwise he made these moves of his own accord and got them horribly wrong.
One way or another, I find potentially losing the greatest player in our team's history (and I mean that 100% - Orlando Shaq was pre-prime and wasn't here long enough) due to our front office's inability to construct a good team for him hard to take.
