AirP. wrote:Romulus wrote:Could have had Siakam, OG, or even Caruso. In every case, Joe Lacob said no. What kind of moron is running this team and turning down those deals? Geez.
The situation is dramatically different now than it was last season. Obviously, Lacob really likes Kuminga and there's a lot to like about Kuminga although he's not really a good fit for this current roster. Last year the Warriors and Kerr started moving towards developing Kuminga, the injury happened to Kuminga and something seemed to internally changed with GS for them to make a hard pivot to go after KD then Butler to allow Curry to play meaningful games and be a better team. Normally these hard pivots come with GM or coaching changes but something else triggered this hard pivot for the franchise.
Perhaps Lacob sincerely likes Kuminga, but there are many players in the league liked by their owners without being "loved" if you know what I mean. There is much more than that, Lacob's enormous ego that only stratosphere from the time he took over the laughingstock of the NBA through a dynasty. Many factors were involved into building the dynasty, not just him. He inherited Curry and frankly West was responsible for a lion's share in both PR / legitimacy stability (why Lacob smartly brought him in to begin with) as well, as becoming practically the main architect of the team, and eventually his last act of the closer on bringing in KD. Regardless, it all happened on the Lacob's ownership watch and skyrocketed his ego into believing he could be a grate GM. It took an enormous hit with Wiseman pick; he can't crap the bed with only two back-to-back high lotto picks he ever had.
