Bruce Levenson....Hire ME as your new GM!

fo_o_fo_404 · Post #1 » by **fo_o_fo_404** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:08 am

Hey Bruce!

Save yourself and your partners in crime time and go ahead an bring me in for an interview. It's clear that no one wants this job. And time is ticking away.

You want to save money and hire on the cheap? Ok....I see you wanted to pay a GM $600-700 grand a year? Pay me $300,000 a year...and you got a deal. I'll come to work everyday....work hard....laugh at your jokes...watch Woody make the same mistakes as before....and 'no' wont be in my vocabulary. I'll be that good corporate guy to have.

Hell...for that much money, I'll change my middle name to Yes!

But in all honesty Bruce, there are many of us on here that can do the job as good, or better than some of the candiadtes you've selected to interview. Hey...just send me a private message with a time and place...and I will be there.

BTW, tell Mike G. Jr. that he should open the process to REAL GM's!!! Feel me?

playa_lev · Post #2 » by **playa_lev** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:48 am

Yes, and if you have your checkbook in your hands, hire me as a European scout, I have an eye for talent searching, and I live in Europe ... I would travel a lot, and I will send our gm (fo_o_fo) the reports from the biggest European tournaments. :pray:

tontoz · Post #3 » by **tontoz** » Wed May 28, 2008 11:19 am

Hell...for that much money, I'll change my middle name to Yes!

Seriously the ASG is a bunch of clowns.

td00 · Post #4 » by **td00** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:48 pm

The next GM of the Hawks:

1) Wont have the power to fire the head coach.
2) Won't be able to exceed the salary cap.
3) Wont' be considered the basketball expert.

Personally, I would clean house and give us a new direction for these young guns. Staying the course won't improve us if any this year.

We need someone who has had championship experience. Currently, the ASG has yet to understand that concept.

Hey, give me a Bill Laimberr, a Michael Cooper....someone that comes in a gets immediate respect. Championship experience is hard to find and hard to imitate.
We need that type of respect given to our GM by these players because they have been through the tranches.

Hey, ask David Robinson if he has an interest in getting this team's history turned around. Kenny Smith could be viable as well.
Someone who knows what it takes!

Where are we currently headed? As long as the ASG doesn't understand the needs of a championship makeup, we will continue to see mediocrity at best.

killbuckner · Post #5 » by **killbuckner** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:52 pm

td00- where do you get the idea that the new GM won't be able to exceed the cap!? And I still think its funny that it has just become gospel truth around here that the new GM won't be able to pick his coach. Seriously if that were true don't you think that the owners would just go ahead and extend Woodson's contract?

conleyorbust · Post #6 » by **conleyorbust** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:06 pm

Kenny Smith? Look, he seems like a nice guy but he says some (Please Use More Appropriate Word) things about basketball.

td00 · Post #7 » by **td00** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:03 pm

Killbuckner: I still believe that Woodson will be here based on the ASG's suggestions. I don't think Sund actually comes in here with as much power as BK.

Conley, while I am not sold on Kenny Smith, I was trying to remember names that are involved with the game on a daily basis. This franchise could benefit from those types of players who have made multiple championship runs.

While Smith may not be realistic because of experience, I think he gets the players respect up front and that is needed.

I don't know what Sund glowingly brings other than being around a long time and working for several franchises. I don't recall the major moves that he has made, but I will be very interested in learning what his philosophy in building a championship team is.

conleyorbust · Post #8 » by **conleyorbust** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:18 pm

td00 wrote:Killbuckner: I still believe that Woodson will be here based on the ASG's suggestions. I don't think Sund actually comes in here with as much power as BK.

Conley, while I am not sold on Kenny Smith, I was trying to remember names that are involved with the game on a daily basis. This franchise could benefit from those types of players who have made multiple championship runs.

While Smith may not be realistic because of experience, I think he gets the players respect up front and that is needed.

I don't know what Sund glowingly brings other than being around a long time and working for several franchises. I don't recall the major moves that he has made, but I will be very interested in learning what his philosophy in building a championship team is.

I see where you are going but I think respect is much more important for a coach than a GM.

A lot of times it seems like he doesn't watch teams that aren't on TNT - I'm probably weighing the fact that he ranked the Hawks as the worst team in the league preseason a little heavily but things like that make me think that he does little to no comprehensive scouting.

EDIT: he said we were the worst in the east, no mention of total rankings but in the west he says that no one except for Tyson Chandler deserves to start next to Paul on the Hornets and David West was nasty for a couple years before this one so he loses major points there too.

HoopsGuru25 · Post #9 » by **HoopsGuru25** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:34 pm

The reason people are assuming Woody is coming back is because everything is pointing in that direction. Why would they offer Billy Knight(who is no longer on speaking terms and tried to fire Woodosn 3 times)a chance to come back? Do you think that's a coincidence? It's also very strange that assistant GM's are turning this job down. It's foolish to act like there's no chance that the ASG is forcing Woodson on the new GM. I don't want to here "but BK doesn't deserve another chance to hire a coach". Yes that's true...but the fact that they wanted him to come back in the first place shows their incompetence.

We don't know if Woodson is coming back but if he's brought back then that's probably the reason we were turned down by four GM's(Petrie, BK,Grant,Lindsey). It takes some one extremely desperate to take a job in which they aren't allowed to hire their own coach. I will be glad to be proven wrong but I fear we will be hearing about Woodson's new contract any day now.

JoshB914 · Post #10 » by **JoshB914** » Wed May 28, 2008 11:29 pm

I think a big reason assistant GM's are turning us down is because they don't know who their boss will be in a year. Everyone is conveniently forgetting our disastrous ownership situation, would you really want to be hired by someone that could not be in there in a year? Not to mention Belkin will probably fire everyone that was employed by ASG, I would not want to get involved in that.

Retrovision · Post #11 » by **Retrovision** » Thu May 29, 2008 12:53 am

If we get curveball's im in.

killbuckner · Post #12 » by **killbuckner** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:32 am

HG- I don't think there is no chance that Woodson is being forced on the new GM- but thats far different from assuming that is what is happening. Like I said- I don't get why thats become the gospel truth around here. Fine to say you think thats what you think might be going on- but people here are just convinced which I think is odd.

JoshB914 · Post #13 » by **JoshB914** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:21 am

^^^ Not to mention that there is another very logical scenario. Like I said, I would think twice about making the jump to GM only to potentially get canned by another owner one year later.