p0peye wrote:The-Stallion70 wrote:j_n wrote:We started the 2015-2016 season 19-13 with Skiles before going 17-33 to finish the season.
6-8 would be a very disappointing outcome for this upcoming month.
Skiles team had some legit talent on it, I think we could have made the playoffs with a better pg and not stupidly offloading Tobias.
Tobias
Oladipo
Gordon
Vucevic
Fournier
Young but our group had talent, Oladipo was an all star only two years later.
Biggest mistake of Hennigan era was mishandling Dipo, guy was all NBA in Indy and for our team we let him get out of shape, and he had ballooned up to 230 one year.
With that said, our group now is better.
Banchero is the best prospect we've had since Dwight, Franz roughly on par with Dipo.
Elfrid Payton, point guard of the future, was the hill Henny died on.
Disagreement on Elfrid between Henny and Skiles started in mid-January with Skiles threatening to leave. Skiles was temporary appeased by Henny trading Tobias for Brandon Jennings and another floor spacer in Ilyasova, but issues went beyond destroying the offense as Elfrid couldn't navigate a screen to save his life. Skiles quit on the team in May.
In aftermath of Skiles departure and accepting the defensive issues of Elfrid/Vučević pairing, Henny dealt Oladipo away to acquire Ibaka and signed Biyombo to improve rim protection.
All fixes failed miserably.
Skiles, Payton and Harris were never a big issue one way or another, it was the horrific asset management in the 2016 summer that destroyed the team.
For a few minutes on draft night we had a very young team with 3 future all stars along with Gordon, Ilyasova, all of our draft picks, max cap space and a Laker pick that was expected to be very high.
Trading Oladipo alone for an expiring Ibaka would have been insanity but adding Sabonis and Ilyasova was just criminal.
That and the Biyombo signing were enough to set us back 5 years.
Up until that point I thought Hennigan did well, more hits than misses but that summer overshadowed anything else he did.
