Daryl Morey admits GM's browse Message Boards

Post #21 » by **montestewart** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:36 am

Ernie Grunfeld started a thread on the Wizards board.

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ndnow · Post #22 » by **ndnow** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:49 am

I have a feeling many GMs come on this board read an opinion and do the exact opposite. Would be fool proof.

Em1 · Post #23 » by **Em1** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:52 am

sky blue, water wet, guys look at porn on the internet. facts of life.

Q00 · Post #24 » by **Q00** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:55 am

When you think about it, if a team is trying to make moves to appease their fanbase and win fans back (which a lot of bad teams do), what better way to get an idea of what their fans want than message boards and comment sections of articles? Its not much different than what teams have done for years, in terms of signing big names to sell tickets. Sports are all about marketing and the internet is a great new way to find out what your customers want. I think teams put comment sections on their website articles for a reason, and there's probably someone in the marketing department who is responsible for reading them to get an idea of what fans are thinking to better market the team to them.

That said I doubt any teams are making decisions just based on what fans are saying about a player or trade. It can probably be a useful resource for them, but in the end they aren't trading a player just because a bunch of fans say to lol.

Torres · Post #25 » by **Torres** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:56 am

lol imagine if all the gms really did use realgm.

Sonny Carson · Post #26 » by **Sonny Carson** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:00 am

Hi Daryl!

SichtingLives · Post #27 » by **SichtingLives** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:12 am

Man that's gotta be rough to browse through a message board only to find a bunch of random strangers crapping all over your life's work

Mr.Raptorsingh · Post #28 » by **Mr.Raptorsingh** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:16 am

We all know Bryan Colangelo did.

Social Lubrication · Post #29 » by **Social Lubrication** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:27 am

In light of this news, I'm taking credit for the Rudy Gay trade.

Sixteen · Post #30 » by **Sixteen** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:30 am

BieberLUV wrote:do owner's read message boards too?

if so, **** you herb kohl

The Sixers co-owner at a time a few years ago admitted to me on twitter that he's actually a big fan of real gm message boards.

Shem · Post #31 » by **Shem** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:06 am

Scalabrine · Post #32 » by **Scalabrine** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:22 am

I posted the Steve Francis and cat mobley for tmac trade when I was a teenager a few weeks before it happened. I'll take credit for it now....

Zion Wembanyama · Post #33 » by **Zion Wembanyama** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:27 am

Ok so this is soooo awesome. Like best thread ever ! Alright so let's grind up tons of Eric Gordon trades. At least 100. One has to stick right? Sorry EG nothing personal.

#imaterribleperson

sssavio · Post #34 » by **sssavio** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:36 am

Nyk_Fatboy wrote:Hi Daryl

blazza18 · Post #35 » by **blazza18** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:40 am

Maybe, every once in a while, John Hammond should read the Bucks threads .

Nate505 · Post #36 » by **Nate505** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:41 am

While I don't believe every athlete/GM looks at message boards, I don't see how many don't. I imagine most people in life are curious about what is said about them. Though I can also imagine some people staying away just because that might drive them insane (that would be my personal hell).

Greek · Post #37 » by **Greek** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:31 am

Imagine how cool would be one of us to get a job offer from a team based on his comments here...

/green

jowglenn · Post #38 » by **jowglenn** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:17 am

Every trade I've ever posted was actually a request from a GM who wanted to feel out responses from different fanbases and get a different perspective.

Prospect Dong · Post #39 » by **Prospect Dong** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:17 am

lakerhater wrote:This sort of thing blew up in GSW's face in 2009 when the infamous "flunkster dude" posted on warriorsworld.

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Ra ... 230477.php

"So it was when Warriors media relations director Raymond Ridder, signed on as "The Flunkster Dude," was detected defending new general manager Larry Riley on the blog site WarriorsWorld after a conference call with season-ticket holders. He got far less than the desired result."

Also, I'll bet more then a few NBA GMs found out about realgm's trade checker back in the day and used it quite often as a quick check to see if a deal was even feasible. Kudos to realgm and their trade checker.

I've always suspected that around half the warriors fans on the trade board are directly in the pay of management. You don't get stuff like old rem's "Nelly has got this team playing 0.500 ball, it just hasn't shown up in the standings yet" without someone cashing a pay-cheque.

There was an incident a few years back in the playoffs where a bench player for the Wiz, Juan Dixon I think, announced after a rare good game that he'd been motivated by reading a 20 page "Juan Dixon is an ovverated scrub" thread on realgm. So I guess calling out your players sometimes works...

Andre3822 · Post #40 » by **Andre3822** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:22 am

Imagine how emotionally traumatized Colangelo was after an hour of RealGM.