Pulling Against my Home Team

[Bassman]

Frankly the best thing that probably could happen here is for LB to leave, get rid of Higgins, and hire a coach who knows how to teach AND manage games well. We also need a quality GM/talent evaluator to help us draft better. I like Larry but I think his love of basketball doesn't equate to his efforts on game day. He's said he loves being a teacher but hates game coaching. He should be a 70 year old professor, not a head coach. Let Larry hang out with his hot wife, and hire a proven coach who can coach TODAY'S game. Get the "next-great-basketball-wiz-kid" manager who has PROVEN he can pick draft talent and make him GM. Then examine our parts and pieces, and see what fits for the future.

I understand why my friend Dmutumbo said what he said. I do not pull against this team, but I become indifferent and without enthusiasm when I see what we are working with. The desire for change drives a desire for the conditions of change. Frankly I prefer a "managed" breakdown and rebuild versus a blow-it-up mode, as I think we still have some windows for such an opportunity. There are some good young players out there to be had (Thompson, Thornton). Is there risk with them? Of course. Could we make deals that obtain those players while carving out some needed cap space? I bet we could. I also bet we could do it while hanging onto Crash. Getting young promising players in here is like getting draft picks. It moves us into a mode of "building a team" that can compete at a high level, versus hanging onto a team that's "just good enough" to edge into the playoffs, but nothing more.

Next years draft is slated to be HORRIBLE, with little quality depth beyond the first 2 picks. We have no pick in 2012, and with our current group we're likely just good enough to lose to the #1 seed again. But, if we are strategic in rebuilding now, we could explode into contention by 2013 with the development of our young core (+ Crash) and a coach that knows how to use them.

THE FUTURE COULD BE NOW:

DJ - Thornton - Crash - Tyrus - Thompson

[DY_nasty]

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Next years draft won't be anywhere near as shallow as this years...

[Bassman]

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Next years draft won't be anywhere near as shallow as this years...

I meant the upcoming draft in 2011..sorry if that wasn not clear.

[DY_nasty]

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Next years draft won't be anywhere near as shallow as this years...

I meant the upcoming draft in 2011..sorry if that wasn not clear.

Ah :/

I'd love to get Sullinger... oh well, its nice to want things

[Eoghan]

Me. I said we should draft Batum 1st rd and Ibaka 2nd round the year before Ibaka was drafted. I was ignored I believe. I'd find the post but the site is malfunctioning on me.

Not on realGM... unless you're some pbp.

Join date: May 20 2009.
2008 NBA draft: June 26 2008.

Props for believing in Ibaka can only go to Doc, as far as I'm concerned. He started writing in for him at pick like, 7 or something.

Meh, I said it somewhere, I've bounced around on boards for a bit. I was a Linkstigator for a long while, probably said it there.

I still think everyone is crazy trying to build the team through the draft with this FO, they obviously can't draft for ****. NC is a basketball holy land, we just need to ascend into a continual playoff team to keep the fairweather ACC fans interested and not have our owner embroiled in scandal and we'll attract better and better FAs like other teams. Don't forget, unlike other small-market teams, we have the Jordan Brand to entice FAs.

[Marvel]

Rod Higgins + MJ + LB + working the draft = COMPLETE FAILURE.

Where's Pritchard...

[Rich4114]

I can't argue with Mutumbo that much. I'm more with Fats on this topic. I don't care if they lose that much, but can't push myself to root against them.

With the way the draft lottery works, teams in purgatory (like us) are screwed. You have to get lucky and hit the jackpot on a guy who falls to you or defy the odds and land a top 2 pick in one of these watered down drafts.

The underlying problem though as Marvel has pointed out is that our front office blows. No matter what position we find ourselves in, not only can we not get lucky but even when they're presented with a decision to make, fans with ZERO experience running a FO can out smart them and make a better choice. (DJ, Ajinca, May, Morrison, not trading for CP3, etc.).

Go out and hire the top Spurs scout to be your GM and build it from there. Forget Higgins, what has he ever built in GS?