It Is Now Officially Time to Part Ways With Ernie Grunfeld
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 3:08 pm
My sincerest apologies as I know this should probably be lumped into another thread and most likely will be after I post it. I don't post much and when I do I seem to break the super serious message board laws of the Internet. Sorry.
But I feel like the Prosecution has finally acquired its smoking gun in the case of the People vs. The Grunfeld. Forget every mistake this guy has made for the last 13 years for a second (which is unreal to me in itself that this guy has kept his job for the amount of time that I went from being born to chanting Hebrew while my pizza-faced friends laughed at me at my Bar Mitzvah). This Morris trade was complete failure on all fronts. You don't use fruity buzz words like "jolt" without implications. You essentially told a fanbase, "yeah, this is basically going to at LEAST secure us a playoff spot." Well it didn't. And good luck keeping even my interest as a fan who pays more attention to this team than any human being ever should without a draft to care about. I have absolutely no reason to give a flock of flying f's about this team until late in the summer and short of acquiring Kevin Durant, I really don't think there'll be a reason to care even beyond that.
Looking even further into the future: is Morris now a starter for the foreseeable future? I don't think he'd take too kindly to being a "jolt" off the bench if we were to acquire a starting PF in the offseason. And that's a huge problem. Morris does nothing to change the complexion of the team on either end of the court. He isn't dynamic in any way. Quality rotational big? Sure. Nothing more.
There's no way this trade isn't the final straw. It screamed grasping. It screamed reactionary. It screamed shortsighted. It was a horrible decision and it would be the knockout punch for any GM currently on the ropes with his franchise, let alone one that's been on the mat for almost a decade and a half. Give me a new direction to be excited about; someone with different thinking that can inject a little change.
Again, I'm sorry, I know most of this has been covered elsewhere more thoroughly. I've just had enough already.
But I feel like the Prosecution has finally acquired its smoking gun in the case of the People vs. The Grunfeld. Forget every mistake this guy has made for the last 13 years for a second (which is unreal to me in itself that this guy has kept his job for the amount of time that I went from being born to chanting Hebrew while my pizza-faced friends laughed at me at my Bar Mitzvah). This Morris trade was complete failure on all fronts. You don't use fruity buzz words like "jolt" without implications. You essentially told a fanbase, "yeah, this is basically going to at LEAST secure us a playoff spot." Well it didn't. And good luck keeping even my interest as a fan who pays more attention to this team than any human being ever should without a draft to care about. I have absolutely no reason to give a flock of flying f's about this team until late in the summer and short of acquiring Kevin Durant, I really don't think there'll be a reason to care even beyond that.
Looking even further into the future: is Morris now a starter for the foreseeable future? I don't think he'd take too kindly to being a "jolt" off the bench if we were to acquire a starting PF in the offseason. And that's a huge problem. Morris does nothing to change the complexion of the team on either end of the court. He isn't dynamic in any way. Quality rotational big? Sure. Nothing more.
There's no way this trade isn't the final straw. It screamed grasping. It screamed reactionary. It screamed shortsighted. It was a horrible decision and it would be the knockout punch for any GM currently on the ropes with his franchise, let alone one that's been on the mat for almost a decade and a half. Give me a new direction to be excited about; someone with different thinking that can inject a little change.
Again, I'm sorry, I know most of this has been covered elsewhere more thoroughly. I've just had enough already.