Braggins wrote:I would rather incur the risk of him having a career ending injury and basically going to zero value than trade him for the package they got.
Good post, just quoting this part but wanted to make sure you knew I read the whole thing and think it was well thought out. Also I appreciate you taking the time to do it, I promise I have a brain that I use and I'm not just going on around parroting pro-FO takes because I'm too lazy to think.
The issue for me is we now need to extend him or risk losing him. I'm not comfortable extending him and see that as grabbing value while we can. You clearly are more comfortable hoping he recovers and can stay healthy, which is not where I am but is reasonable and not something I specifically have an issue with.
As fats more recent post suggests, one of the downsides here is we're all speaking about an issue where we are at an information deficit. Who tf knows what shows up when Mark gets a thorough physical. That information asymmetry makes it very difficult to analyze the risk proposition that we are facing with him or judge the team's strategy in dealing with him.
I do think I have two primary reasons why I am more ok moving on and more adverse to the injury risk. One I've mentioned several times, and that's my significant frustration with injuries on our team. I posted a few times that I was ok losing last season because my primary goal was to see who on the roster was worth building upon. Mark failed that test for me because he couldn't stay on the floor. Jury is out on Melo, I was initially hard out on him when it was announced that he was having surgery but it appears that he had minor elective surgery so I'm open to that being an overreaction. I definitely have baggage here and recognize that.
The second reason is that I think Mark very much fits what the FO talks about with the Hornets DNA values they spam. He is a high IQ, high character, coachable guy that fits the mold of what they say they want. Zach Lowe told a story that when Lee was first hired, he wanted to institute a formal accountability process where he had guys come in and they were going to talk about their goals for the season, and that when Mark came in he had a robust set of goals he had already built up that he wanted to share with the coach, which apparently Lee loved. It does not compute to me that our FO is moving on from Mark for a reason related to his approach to the game or his lack of alignment with values we're trying to build. That's a big reason why I'm leaning in on the information asymmetry and following the smoke of their being major risks going forward.
