Dadouv47 wrote:Yeah Presti failed in almost every trade in our previous era: Dion Waiters, Kanter, Kyle Singler. He also messed up by trying to develop some rookies instead of trading those picks for vets: Perry Jones, Lamb, Mitch McGary etc. He also messed up with our coaching staff.
On a more positive side, it looks like he has evolved in his approach to basketball and understand how to win in modern NBA. He stopped drafting athletic guys that can't shoot and is focusing on versatile players that can pass, dribble and shoot. The Giddey pick was kind of the exception.
Looks clear to me that current Presti is doing his best job as a GM since he started his career: got a ton of value in some trades; drafted good/great players (some busts) and finally hired an elite coaching staff.I wish we'd had a coach half as competent as Daigneault with KD/WB. Time will tell if he will succeed with the next moves to make.
i agree, but i think the crux of the issue is that after 2013 the FO seemed a bit desperate to please players. kept scott brooks because the players liked him, even though brooks got out coached every playoffs series he was in and clearly couldn't get more out of our players anymore. made trades with high flop potential to please the players and not lose durant/wb in the FA...
even the trades for george/anthony had a lot to it, trying to surround russ with good players after his mvp season. they made a bit more sense than those for dion/kanter, and had a lot more success (specially before the andre roberson injury), but still they had a resonating logic behind those moves that i don't like.
i seriously hope he has made internal self-criticism of those moves. players are divas, if you try to make those kinds of moves to please players, they'll always want more and all becomes very crisis-prone.
a sports manager always put the club's health above the players and just go on. lebron fans are lebron fans, heat and cavaliers could never retain them.
what i think it's ironic is that some of presti's criticism are around his lack of movement to maximize a player-based short window, which is really funny to me.