On a scale from 1 to 10, rate your team's Front Office

[disoblige]

How would you grade your team's management? Think about everything from player acquisitions to draft picks to overall team strategy. I am very curious. Our team is currently bad and some of the fans thinks our management is bad. I am wondering if the grass greener on the other side.

[Calvin Klein]

4

[SkyBill40]

Suns: 4


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[Sealab2024]

Minnesota-8&1/2. Tim Connelly has only been here for 18 months but he's put his stamp on the franchise. Besides the Gobert trade which I think we all agree was one pick too many (and as it stands now is Walker Kessler and Keyonte George to the Jazz so far), he's made solid moves like getting Mike Conley and NAW for DLo, signing Naz Reid to an extension and getting Monte Morris who was desperately needed and is rounding into shape.

In the draft he's taken Kessler who was a good pick at that spot, Wendell Moore Jr who was not, Josh Minott who won't fail for trying and Leonard Miller. Miller to me is the big one. Connelly got a potential lottery pick, at the top of the second round, in a year we didn't have a 1st rounder. Miller looks to be the newest model in the Timberwolves line of athletic 6'10" big men with giant wingspans, shooting ability and defensive versatility.

So 8&1/2 gave up too much for Rudy but has done excellent roster building work otherwise.

[djsunyc]

raptors: 10

[jkvonny]

9 or 10.

Spurs. Rich history, more winning (minus last few years), drafting, and good scouting over the years. We don't get tons of marquee FAs. Mid/small market.

[meekrab]

Bulls have either a delusional moron or a straight up liar running the ship, either one is not great. "We like the guys we have" "Ownership would support a rebuild but we want to remain competitive" "we shoot 2-29 from 3 point at home against the Pistons"

[Ugly0598]

Utah: 5 since about 2022.

[Mr_Mojo_Risin]

10

[JujitsuFlip]

Koby Altman isn't that great. Ainge always bends him over in trades but he's did well in a couple other trades. He's very mediocre at drafting, when the pick isn't obvious. He's had some good signings but that Kevin Love extension was brutal. He also gets worked over by Jeff Schwartz in buyouts.

Hard to put a number on it. Idk maybe 3 on the low end, 5 on the high end.

[zimpy27]

Lakers moves since in last 5 years.


- Danny Green and Jaden McDaniels for Dennis Schroder
- Offered Schroder 4 years 80m, thankfully he turned it down
- Kuzma, KCP, Isaiah Jackson for Westbrook
- Couldnt re-sign Monk because of Westbrook deal
- Caruso let go for 4 years 30m
- Effectively gave Conley and SRPs for DLo
- Have failed to improve roster around Lebron and Davis in 4 seasons


Good things to note:
- Got out of Westbrook deal, got Vando
- Added Rui for Nunn and not much else
- Got Reaves



What should they get?

[Mr Puddles]

Suns: 4


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I don't get the hate suns fans give their front office. Current front office made the following key moves:

• traded ariza for oubre: solid move, oubre played a lot better for the suns than ariza did.
• traded 6th pick (Culver) for 14th (Cam Johnson) and Dario Saric: steal.
• sold TJ Warren: bad move in a vacuum, but this opened up cap space to sign Rubio who helped the suns get 0.5 games from making the playoffs. The Suns already had bridges, oubre as their wings, didn't have enough money to retain all 3 and PG was a huge area of need.
• took a flyer on cam payne: solid
• traded Rubio, Oubre and a late first rounder for Chris Paul: absolute steal.
• drafted Jalen Smith: idiotic, Haliburton was gift wrapped for the suns and would have been a perfect successor to CP3.
• re-signed Ayton to a max: can't really blame them there, if the alternative was to have him walk for nothing.
• traded for KD: IMO a very solid trade that by all reports got pushed by the owner. However I get that not all suns fans agree.
• signed shamet to a multi year deal: dud - shamet never fit well and it was puzzling that he got a pretty nice contract right off the bat.
• traded CP3 and shamet and some pick swaps for Beal : steal IMO, both guys played pretty poorly in their last year as a sun.
• traded off season aquistions for Royce O'Neal: great move.

Overall, passing up on Haliburton was terrible, they mishandled the whole Ayton situation and inexplicably gave shamet a bunch of money.

But I'd argue that the good moves offset the bad ones.

I'd give the current front office no less than a 6.

[xxSnEaKyPxx]

Kevin Pritchard is tough.

He does great in trades, but the dude is atrocious in the draft. He's done okay the last two years, but everything before that was a nightmare.

[bstein14]

Pistons a 3 out of 10 and its only because we've not made the mistake of handing out bad contracts (Bagley was worst but two 2nds cleared it from the books). We've also held on to duds (Killian Hayes) for far too long. I think this offseason is make or break for Weaver he either makes the right moves and the ship turns around or he makes the wrong moves and he's gone before New Years Day 2025.

[Prez]

I'd give Jon Horst like a 7.5, I think he's pretty good. He's solid trade wise, but more importantly, clearly understands the weight of having a generational guy like Giannis in a small market, because you have less than zero chance of signing a guy like that in FA and you may not get another guy like him for another 30, 40, 50 years. And because of that he's willing to hurt feelings, willing to make ballsy moves to constantly surround Giannis with enough talent to at least give him a fighting chance every year barring injuries.

The main reason I wouldn't go with an 8,9, or 10 is his drafting record is just not good. He's compensated for that a bit by being pretty good with finding solid to good veteran players to fill out the roster despite having limited assets to acquire them (Lopez, PJ Tucker, Portis, Patty C, George Hill, Matthews, Beverley, etc), but still, you gotta hit on more draft picks.

[JnewFTW]

Heat - 9 or a 10

Constantly finding diamonds in the rough. Model of consistency with Spo being there so long. Always getting the best out of the team, hardly ever under achieves. Only thing I would ding them for is their inability to land some stars in trades, and being a bit complacent in free agency.

[Forbes]

Mavs-5

We always have 1 main superstar and they have had to suffer from having a constant revolving door of teammates.

Why has it been like this for 24 years?

[AussieCeltic]

Brad Stevens had been a 10

- J-Rich, Romeo Langford, 1st for Derrick White
- Kemba + 1st + 2nd for Horford, Moses Brown, 2nd
- Nesmith, Theis, Stauskas, Fitts, 1st for Brogdon
- Smart + 2nd rounder for KP and first round pick
- Rob Williams + Brogdon + 1st for Jrue Holiday
- 2x 2nds for Tillman

[jkvonny]

Kevin Pritchard is tough.

He does great in trades, but the dude is atrocious in the draft. He's done okay the last two years, but everything before that was a nightmare.

Pacers doing well.

[xxSnEaKyPxx]

Kevin Pritchard is tough.

He does great in trades, but the dude is atrocious in the draft. He's done okay the last two years, but everything before that was a nightmare.

Pacers doing well.

Like I said, he does great in trades.

He's done okay in the last two drafts, but prior to that, I don't believe we have a single draft pick on our roster from him.