Scase wrote:But I'm not comparing it in a vacuum.
Comparing him to old Raptors GMs is utterly pointless. I have been judging him on his performance since the chip, and that has been against the performance and outlooks of all other GMs/teams in the league. He has been objectively bad, his only saving grace up until the gifted OG trade, was drafting Scottie.
He gets flowers for that, but 1 thing going well in 4 years is not something to be proud of. If we want to talk outside of a vacuum, we can talk about how Masai is the highest paid exec in the league, and has some of the worst performance over the last 4 years. We had a good record the year after the chip, and it's been a slide ever since, worse by the year, and puzzling or outright bad moves have made up the majority of that time span.
I don't see how it is so controversial to say he has not been good since the chip, this doesn't devalue or erase his contributions in getting that chip, but that chip also doesn't give you carte blanche to **** the bed either. Overall he's been good, lately he has not, I don't think this is really that outlandish of a statement.
I mean as a team we mortgaged everything for the chip. I don't think any GM would have done to much better given the situation we were in. Kawhi left and there was nothing that was going to be done about it. Once that happened we were a 3-5 seed team with aging veterans on expiring deals. Our one chance at a good season was the next season but with the bubble we lost home court advantage which would have helped against Boston, other teams had time to heal while some of our team struggled (Spicy P). Then you had your aging frontcourt leave (Probably not bad considering they both fell off on their new teams) and were regulated to a different city for a year. He made the best draft choice you possible could in that draft as we drafted 4th but got the best player.
Then he was left picking up the pieces of those fall outs. I mean could we have gotten something for FV maybe but who knows how good it would have been in the end being expiring contract. We got great value for OG in players but not picks. Siakam's value wasn't that great of a return (lets see what we do with Brown in the off season) but he had us by the balls in dictating where he would re-sign.
So I don't think it has been terrible, no GM/president is going to be perfect with every move. I don't know if another GM/Pres coming into our situation would have made any better moves and I don't know if replacing the FO at this point will help us move towards a different path then we are on now.