HALLELUJAH: Ernie Grunfeld fired

CobraCommander · Post #221 » by **CobraCommander** » Thu Apr 4, 2019 2:07 am

I was in Japan when I got a call from the baroness and I celebrated with the yakuza by drinking sake followed by reading forever neverland...

Anyone that disagrees can eat ah

leswizards · Post #222 » by **leswizards** » Thu Apr 4, 2019 2:08 pm

johanliebert wrote:you guys were a laughing stock long before grunfeld.

he did build a solid core just a few years ago and all a new GM/pres will do is get back to the point yall were at in 15'.

You are correct that the Wizards were a laughing stock, and the first few years with grunfeld were good, but the past decade has been awful. Grunfeld did not build a solid core. The team got lucky in the lottery 3 times, and that built the solid core. Just about everything else Grunfeld did prevented the Wizards from building a solid core around those 3.

Post #223 » by **montestewart** » Thu Apr 4, 2019 5:36 pm

More celebratory music

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DANNYLANDOVER · Post #224 » by **DANNYLANDOVER** » Fri Apr 5, 2019 12:54 am

Anyone checked in on hands yet? Could be on suicide watch now.
RIP Miley...

CobraCommander · Post #225 » by **CobraCommander** » Fri Apr 5, 2019 2:05 am

DANNYLANDOVER wrote:Anyone checked in on hands yet? Could be on suicide watch now.
RIP Miley...

And to this again I say

closg00 · Post #226 » by **closg00** » Fri Apr 5, 2019 1:32 pm

DANNYLANDOVER wrote:Anyone checked in on hands yet? Could be on suicide watch now.
RIP Miley...

Hands is still at-it

Yeah. Ted is a good owner and it all starts there. And some luck. And a franchise level head coach.
First thing I want from my GM is for them to find me the right Head Coach
commented on Ernie Grunfeld dismissed as Wizards’ President of Basketball Operations from Bullets Forever, Apr 2, 2019, 5:53pm EDT

DANNYLANDOVER · Post #227 » by **DANNYLANDOVER** » Fri Apr 5, 2019 4:30 pm

closg00 wrote:
DANNYLANDOVER wrote:Anyone checked in on hands yet? Could be on suicide watch now.
RIP Miley...

Hands is still at-it

Yeah. Ted is a good owner and it all starts there. And some luck. And a franchise level head coach.
First thing I want from my GM is for them to find me the right Head Coach
commented on Ernie Grunfeld dismissed as Wizards’ President of Basketball Operations from Bullets Forever, Apr 2, 2019, 5:53pm EDT

LMAO, like he said before...always right

DCsOwn · Post #228 » by **DCsOwn** » Fri Apr 5, 2019 5:50 pm

Read on Twitter

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pcbothwel · Post #229 » by **pcbothwel** » Fri Apr 5, 2019 6:05 pm

DCsOwn wrote:

Read on Twitter
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To me, Connelly or Sheppard would be good as President. So Im good with that. But Im curious who takes the mantle as GM?
Weaver, Zarren, or Langdon is my hope

payitforward · Post #230 » by **payitforward** » Fri Apr 5, 2019 9:24 pm

Ernie was "President." There was no official use of the term GM.

youngWizzy · Post #231 » by **youngWizzy** » Sat Apr 6, 2019 2:22 am

Connelly seems like a great guy from what I've seen. I sense a great deal of knowledge about basketball in general as well as talent evaluation.

Watch on YouTube

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #232 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Sat Apr 6, 2019 1:10 pm

youngWizzy wrote:Connelly seems like a great guy from what I've seen. I sense a great deal of knowledge about basketball in general as well as talent evaluation.

Watch on YouTube

Great interview. I’m sold, largely because of the culture he’d create.

badinage · Post #233 » by **badinage** » Sat Apr 6, 2019 7:11 pm

Good piece — not for the writing (it’s badly written at times, overwritten at others, the writer more than once succumbs to “in terms of,” etc.), but for the picture it gives of who and what Connelly is.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/joelrush/2018/09/09/the-reconstruction-how-tim-connelly-completely-transformed-the-denver-nuggets-roster-in-4-years/amp/

payitforward · Post #234 » by **payitforward** » Sat Apr 6, 2019 9:49 pm

In short, he seems to be quite competent. He took 3 players in '14, 2 in 2015, 4 in 2016 (a particularly adept performance in a weak draft), got the steal of the draft in '17 by taking Monte Morris (yes, the guy I wanted...) @ #51. Took a big flyer on Michael Porter last year along w/ 2 R2 guys.

That's 14 picks in 5 years. So we know who he's not like!!!

cwb3 · Post #235 » by **cwb3** » Sun Apr 7, 2019 12:31 am

Such happy news! So long overdue. Now hire from the outside and fully clean house! :nod:

TGW · Post #236 » by **TGW** » Sun Apr 7, 2019 8:27 pm

Connelly is good but he has missteps. He basically built the Utah Jazz into a solid basketball team by gifting them Mitchell and Gobert. He also made some mistakes in his early years with the nuggets. He’s an absolute upgrade over grunfailed but he’ll make some bad moves along the way.

Wizardspride · Post #237 » by **Wizardspride** » Sun Apr 7, 2019 11:11 pm

Read on Twitter

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owneroz · Post #238 » by **owneroz** » Mon Apr 8, 2019 1:12 am

Place your wager Scott is fired Wednesday.

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long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #239 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Mon Apr 8, 2019 1:40 am

owneroz wrote:Place your wager Scott is fired Wednesday.

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I sure hope so, but I doubt it.

The GM should hire and fire the coach.

owneroz · Post #240 » by **owneroz** » Mon Apr 8, 2019 1:56 am

How tf do they lose against the Knicks???

Just put this season to bed and get on with business already damn.

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