Andrew McCeltic wrote:itrsteve wrote:Red2 wrote:Im not giving up multiple first round picks to move kemba. I think he would help a team like the knicks so maybe theres a fit there. I guess i have to give brad a chance but making him GM is one of the dumbest decisions ive I’ve ever seen
Disagree for a few reasons:
1.) He's not married to the decisions of yesterday
2.) If anybody has a read on internal personality mix matches, it's going to be him
3.) I trust his basketball mind to know where the deficiencies are
He has a crap ton of big decisions (or non-decisions) to make, more than happy to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The knowledge of locker room personalities will be out of date very quickly.
He’s got a good basketball mind, but that’s only part of the job. Dealing with agents, targeting free agents, drafting shrewdly, negotiating trades, balancing short and long term planning, managing the cap… Identifying team needs and putting together compatible players is much easier to envision than accomplish.
The thing is, you're stance that Brad is a bad hire for this job is based on the same thing that anyone saying he's a good hire is - nothing. Quite literally none of us have even the slightest clue whether Brad is qualified to take on those other aspects of the job you mention. Unless you're hiring someone who has done the job before none of us ever really have any clue whether to say it's a good hire or bad hire. And even then we don't know how those experiences changed them and what they will do differently. We don't interview these guys.