yosemiteben wrote:I don't think Mitch is as bad as he is made out to be on here, and I don't think Cliff is either. We are not in nearly as bad a spot as we could be, and I do believe we are positioned well for the future given the draft assets and cap flexibility we have. With that said, I also think it's very clear that neither our coaching staff or FO are going to take us there and a change is needed.
Mitch has had more success than any Hornets GM at the most important aspect of this particular GM job, which is drafting, so that counts for something.
I'll relentlessly bash individual moves, but I do give a lot of leeway with big picture type stuff to Hornets GMs because of the seeming impossibility of succeeding at this job under MJ.
I still feel like the JB firing was more of an MJ thing and that decision is what cascaded into the Hornets ending up with Clifford. They have to get a better coach, but I really don't know what the answer is to the GM situation.
Part of me feels like maybe its good Mitch will be making the picks in this upcoming draft, but I also have trouble getting over the 2021 draft because its the kind of horrible whiff that could indicate a red flag in the process, but outside of that year the process has yielded pretty good results, so idk. Everything besides the draft still worries me, but idk if any of that gets better with a different GM (no excuse for Mitch if he resigns Oubre though...).