Ian Scuffling wrote:Fadeaway_J wrote:This front office has made too many idiotic decisions in a circumstance where they already started with very few avenues to rectify them. I have as little faith in DLo as everyone else, but he's only on the team because they were desperately trying to salvage one of the dumbest trades in recent memory. Limited guys like Reddish and Prince are playing major roles in large part because these dimwits let Caruso walk and traded KCP in the Russ deal. You just can't afford that kind of tomfoolery when your best players are old and/or injury-prone and you've already traded away your entire draft and almost all of your young talent.
^^THIS^^ And there are people out there "feeling" Pelinka has done a decent job? I just don't understand it. Again, yes would love another championship for Lebron, but this all seems like gravy to me. This guy is still this good at this age and mileage. Just enjoying the journey this year.
I think he did a decent job under the circumstances: there are 2 major moves that I wouldn't do, but imo none of those decisions were at his hands:
1;I wouldn't have traded for Westbrook - though I would have probably been fired right away as both AD and James were forcing this and were hell bent that this will play out well
2;I wouldn't have been cheap w/ Caruso - though Jeannie had a payroll target which would have been exceeded by Caruso's 10m/yr extension.
Apart from those, he did a decent job: he put together a nice roster in '20-21, get rid of Westbrook without sacrificing much and at the end the roster improved significantly. (I didn't think this was possible at all). He also did the right moves in '23-24 - the fact is just, we didn't have enough assets to improve.
In hindsight he probably overpaid in the trade for Davis (1 year of contender status diesn't justify the ton of prospects and picks we paid).
For the future I'd like him to prioitize the post Lebron and post AD era. No more retooling, no more trading of future assets (unless they result in a starter level player post rebuild), contrary: trade away aging players who has sone value. If he can do that, I'm fine w/ his job.
