phifans wrote:jbent87 wrote:phifans wrote:Hinkie did what every GM in this league dreams to do.
Keep being bad and keep tanking until you got enough high lottery talents while don't have to worry about your poor records would cost your job.
Genarally He did a great job making some trades to put this team into a better position.
He did fine in draft by strictly following the strategy of picking BPA.
I just think if you believe Hinkie lead the team into the right way then you should also give the ownership credits too since ultimately they are the one who give Hinkie permition to do what he want. And thats a kind of rare permition for a GM to get from your boss in this league.
They gave him permission to do all of that and then pulled the rug out from under him in the 11th hour due to peer pressure from Twitter and local media.
They didn't do it because of pressure from outside. They did it because they believe Hinkie has done what they asked him to do two and half years ago and they think some others may be the better candidate for the rest of work. The point is they know what they want from the very begining and they find a right guy to excecute the part one of this plan.
Not true.
Hinkie was not hired just to acquire assets. He was the GM, and he was hired to build a contender.
Whether it was outside pressure or inside cold feet, they lost their nerve, and gave up. They pulled the rug out from under him under the pretense that he was failing to accomplish something that he hadn't even started to do, which was try to win games, or improve the product currently on the floor.
He was going about his business of building a contender, and the first phase was asset acquisition. The second phase was going to start this past summer anyway, and he was not given a chance to attempt that second phase, which implies that they were unhappy with the results of the first phase in some way. The results of the first phase were beyond exceptional, so they either lost their nerve internally, or they were pressured to do it externally. Basically, once they brought in Jerry, he saw to it that they hired his son, and they made a decision that they trusted Jerry more than Sam.
I think that the owners believed in Sam completely in the beginning, and accepted his vision. Then they got nervous, and brought in another voice, and that voice had an ulterior motive. Obviously comparing Sam's resume to Jerry's resume will favor Jerry. The owners aren't basketball experts, and they just decided that they trusted Jerry more than Sam. I also think that they underestimated what kind of man that Sam was, and they figured that they could have their cake and eat it too. They thought that they could get away with emasculating him, and it turned out that they couldn't.
So Sam moves on with his balls intact, and the Sixers will move on benefiting from what he accomplished. Bryan can only screw it up, or finish what Sam started. The only way that Bryan could deserve credit for building a contender would be if he was able to get our first star through a free agent signing. Well we have two of them now from Sam, so the first star free agent that we get now(if we get one) will be joining a team with two other stars, so that would still be because of Hinkie.
