Bogyo wrote:Ghost of Kleine wrote:
Thoughts from PHNX on the great under the radar signing of Tyus Jones for the Suns. The front office is making many very impressive moves to get us on track! And should get their flowers for doing so after so much previous disappointing decisions and outcomes.
Really? Not in my book. If you do the most logical thing (that everybody and their grandmother was SCREAMING for quite a while) in your job, then are you really supposed to get your "flowers"? I dont think so, and I dont get it... like when he brought in Rubio and everyone was claiming he was a genious... That was the move everyone saw, wanted, the team needed it, the players involved needed it, the coaches needed it, basically it was the most simple, logical move ever... Is he a genious for that? I dont think so - plus he started fkg up the assets of the team there with the TJ giveaway... So no, no flowers from me. I happily acknowledge the fact that he did something very logical (for once), and did not manage to fk it up some other way.
Sure man! I can understand that perspective. My assessment however is cumulative that allows me to give them some (not all) credit for making noticeably better movies than have previously been made from our front office. Now do I expect it to at all change our trajectory or render a championship outcome for us?.....................OF COURSE NOT! Do I suspect that in doing some of these moves we're maybe just "spinning our wheels" and will still fall short of our lofty goals yet again? ABSOLUTELY!
However, I can still say with a modicum of reasonable objectivity that they're showing patterns of improved decision-making/ discernment if even to a measurable degree. Now when you make the stark comparison between the usual prior head scratching and incredibly obtuse, even detrimental decisions made prior to these current decisions in:
- Actually keeping their draft picks, and drafting players to develop.
- Actually resigning players instead of just letting them walk for nothing.
- Making trades to actually bring in more productive players.
- Finding ways to actually sign higher tiered/higher impact free agents than the usual low end incredibly washed cast-off garbage heap options.
- Bringing in more notable, respected, proven, high-end names for the coaching bench/front office roles.
- Actually bringing back a legitimate G League team to farm young talent rather than embarrassingly being the only NBA team without one.
These considerations in my personal opinion show that steps in the right direction are finally being recognized, acknowledged, and addressed. Now I'm not giving any specific person sole credit for this, but again am choosing to give at last a measure of recognition to such better judgments being made in comparison to the absolute "sh**show" we had to endure before. We all can choose to view our current situation through whatever individual lens we choose my friend, But for my part, even though I've not at all been much of a fan of the majority of the decisions made by this front office, I can reasonably and objectively find this medial improvement encouraging and give them their recognition for the measurably better decisions. I'd rather see some than none at all.
