bran muffin wrote:AssistRubio wrote:He literally hasn't done a single thing right since taking over for the Wolves.
He hasn't done a single thing you agreed with. It doesn't mean he's done wrong.
Nor does it mean that he's done anything right.
AssistRubio wrote:He swung and missed on trading up for Garland.
You don't know yet if that's a bad thing.
Maybe you're saying something else here, but as far as Garland, your logic doesn't add up here. If he swung and missed on a guy who is successful, that's not good. If he swung and missed on a guy who is not successful, it means he's swinging for the wrong guys. Seems bad either way, unless you had something else in mind.
AssistRubio wrote:He swung and missed on acquiring D'Angelo Russell.
Don't blame your GM if a free agent prefers the Warriors to your team.
Yeah I don't see how Wolves fans think clearing cap space is a good idea over keeping assets they have in one hand. I mean it's a way to sell fans on sucking another year and not spending money this season on trying to win now. And from the looks of this thread, that con is working. The gentleman who mentioned keeping assets to have something to actually trade when that time comes was on point. And the other gentleman that imagined Danny Ainge would want to trade Tatum at all, let along for Wolves pieces, I just feel sorry for that guy. I also have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell him.
AssistRubio wrote:Which in return wasted our entire FA period with not being able to acquire a single meaningful player.
You guys are over the cap, and therefore very limited in your options in free agency.
Wolves are limited either way, nobody seems to want to play for a poorly run organization where there is rapid coach and GM turnover, and they just hired a kid to coach. Blame it on Thibs those contracts if you want, but it's the owner that hires the people that make these decisions, and he signs off on them too. Nobody trusts the Wolves front office. That's coming from a non-Wolves fan. I happen to love Minneapolis though, so don't blame the city. Great city. Terrible front office.
AssistRubio wrote:Now just let an asset like Tyus Jones walk for nothing.
You don't know if Tyus Jones with an $8M salary is still an "asset".
If he's a basketball asset compared to the rest of your team, he's an asset. Whether it's 6M or 8M or 10M. He makes the team better. Comparing numbers to average salaries and that bs phrase "positive value contract" or whatever it is, is a tool management uses to make excuse for not paying guys. The team brings in enough money to afford giving Jones 8M. He's worth keeping in my opinion. Otherwise you're just letting the few assets you do have disappear into thin air. If you don't want to pay him the full 8M, sign him and try to trade him a little later. Teams like and respect Jones, even if the Wolves don't, as the Grizzlies just showed us. One man's trash another's treasure I guess.
AssistRubio wrote:What in the world is he doing?
It looks like he's doing things you don't understand.
There can also be things the GM doesn't understand, that make fans question what the heck he's doing. Just to be thorough. If the Wolves were atop the West, and AssistRubio were asking that same question, it might look more like genius than ineptitude, understood or not.
As an aside. I thought the team was on the rise with players and fans happy right before they let Sam Mitchell go again. He had tuned into some of the strengths of the roster before Thibs came in and slowed things down. Everybody likes to scoff at Mitchell, but what he put on the floor spoke for itself. Look at the trends. It's a very questionable move by the owner to replace Sam Mitchell the way he did, in favor of an unhappy rigid close-minded coach whose specialty is defense and reputation for under performing offense that can't get the job done. The owner ripped the heart out of what they had which was a good thing going. Maybe some don't want Mitchell long term based on his reputation of the past, but if he had grown as a coach Wolves fans would have never gotten the chance to find out. Not a Wolves fan but I loved watching them with some of the pieces from this roster when he was coach, and they were giving contenders a run for their money on any given night. The team was trending in the right direction and the owner ignored all that in favor of his own conservative outdated (amongst other things) convictions. What a sad story for that coach and these players. I don't blame them if they all want to walk next free agency chance they get.
