Chauncey being considered for front office job

Q00 · Post #1 » by **Q00** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:21 pm

Matt Dery ‏@dery1051 4h
.@WindhorstESPN says Chauncey Billups is a name to watch around the league for a future GM.

Also, I don't know who this guy is but he responded with this:

Bruce Tennen ‏@BruceTennen 4h
@dery1051 @WindhorstESPN He indicated to me at the Miami game that both Cleveland & Detroit will be vying for CB's services.

The second tweet goes in line with what Windhorst said in the radio interview, mentioning that he could see the Pistons hiring Billups to be in charge of personnel, and then pairing him with a more experienced numbers guy to do the techincal stuff. Perhaps Gores is looking at that Schlenk guy as President with Chauncey as GM?

I'd be cool with that combo. I think Chauncey has a lot to offer and it sounds like he will be in demand by other teams.

Kilo · Post #2 » by **Kilo** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:27 pm

Yuck. Billups joing our FO is fine, but not as GM. How about he cuts his teeth a little bit lower on the decision making food chain first.

Schlenk as GM with Billups as assistant GM might be okay. But I wouldn't want Schlenk as President, as he'd be going from Assistant GM with Golden State to Team President? He seems to be missing a few intermediate steps in that ascent as well.

I could also see Dumars as GM and Billups as assistant GM in Cleveland.

Clarity · Post #3 » by **Clarity** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:34 pm

We need a proven GM to undue the nightmare Joe created for us last Summer.

I love Chauncey, would be heartbroken if he went elsewhere, asst GM here, cool, GM, nah..

MotownMadness · Post #4 » by **MotownMadness** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:34 pm

Were not in a situation to be gambling like this with the franchise. I do think he would make a hell of a coach though.

Kilo · Post #5 » by **Kilo** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:35 pm

MotownMadness wrote:Were not in a situation to be gambling like this with the franchise. I do think he would make a hell of a coach though.

With LB as his top assistant for a couple of years.

DBC10 · Post #6 » by **DBC10** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:40 pm

Let him have something within the organization like a scout or even assistant GM, not a big time position like that.

I'm opposed to a full time job like a GM.

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Q00 · Post #7 » by **Q00** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:46 pm

Kilo wrote:Yuck. Billups joing our FO is fine, but not as GM. How about he cuts his teeth a little bit lower on the decision making food chain first.

Schlenk as GM with Billups as assistant GM might be okay. But I wouldn't want Schlenk as President, as he'd be going from Assistant GM with Golden State to Team President? He seems to be missing a few intermediate steps in that ascent as well.

I could also see Dumars as GM and Billups as assistant GM in Cleveland.

Joe went straight from player to GM/President of basketball operations and worked out just fine with no experience.

Schlenk has a pretty impressive resume and sounds like he could handle it, in my opinion. And Chauncey has more experience in business than people think. He has a degree in business and owns a bunch of Wendy's franchises. I don't think being an assistant GM first is all that necessary for him. In fact, hasn't he already spent some time working with Joe over years learning the job? I thought he did that in his last year here before the trade, and they talked about him doing that this year too.

I don't know, I would trust Chauncey's ability to evaluate talent and know how to put together a winning team.

Q00 · Post #8 » by **Q00** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:52 pm

MotownMadness wrote:Were not in a situation to be gambling like this with the franchise. I do think he would make a hell of a coach though.

What GM/President is available that won't be a gamble? Its not like there are a lot of proven, experienced guys sitting home. I think whoever they hire is probably going to be a first timer.

Clarity · Post #9 » by **Clarity** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:59 pm

Q00 wrote:
MotownMadness wrote:Were not in a situation to be gambling like this with the franchise. I do think he would make a hell of a coach though.

What GM/President is available that won't be a gamble? Its not like there are a lot of proven, experienced guys sitting home. I think whoever they hire is probably going to be a first timer.

Kevin Pritchard or Tom Penn are the no brainer picks, both has experience & their strength is talent evaluation which is our main need.

Neptune · Post #10 » by **Neptune** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:02 am

I would love Billups to be our GM if Dumars really resigns. Hopefully Dumars has been giving him pointers throughout the season.

MotownMadness · Post #11 » by **MotownMadness** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:04 am

Neptune wrote:I would love Billups to be our GM if Dumars really resigns. Hopefully Dumars has been giving him pointers throughout the season.

You really are Blaha, You should hope Hes nothing like Dumars :lol:

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DBC10 · Post #12 » by **DBC10** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:04 am

Clarity wrote:
Q00 wrote:
MotownMadness wrote:Were not in a situation to be gambling like this with the franchise. I do think he would make a hell of a coach though.

What GM/President is available that won't be a gamble? Its not like there are a lot of proven, experienced guys sitting home. I think whoever they hire is probably going to be a first timer.

Kevin Pritchard or Tom Penn are the no brainer picks, both has experience & their strength is talent evaluation which is our main need.

Yep, they both have decent to good pedigrees and worked their way up which is one of the primary things I value.

Both had a hand in making that Blazer team sort of relevant again for the future.

DBC10 · Post #13 » by **DBC10** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:06 am

MotownMadness wrote:
Neptune wrote:I would love Billups to be our GM if Dumars really resigns. Hopefully Dumars has been giving him pointers throughout the season.

You really are Blaha, You should hope Hes nothing like Dumars .

This, Dumars did fine in his first few years, then just collapsed after Davidson died and had literally zero help. He really had a lot of help in being GM.

wire28 · Post #14 » by **wire28** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:07 am

if chauncey is hired to be GM, fire whoever hired Billups

can we just for once just get some common sense going in here. the team has been trash for 5+ years just get some qualified, experienced people in here so we can start fixing this piece of crap

Clarity · Post #15 » by **Clarity** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:08 am

DBC10 wrote:Yep, they both have decent to good pedigrees and worked their way up which is one of the primary things I value.

Both had a hand in making that Blazer team sort of relevant again for the future.

Yup!

Without historically freak career ending injuries to Oden & Roy, Penn & Pritchard would have been the architects of a dynasty.

DBC10 · Post #16 » by **DBC10** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:10 am

Clarity wrote:
DBC10 wrote:Yep, they both have decent to good pedigrees and worked their way up which is one of the primary things I value.

Both had a hand in making that Blazer team sort of relevant again for the future.

Yup!

Without historically freak career ending injuries to Oden & Roy, Penn & Pritchard would have been the architects of a dynasty.

Man, Oden, Roy, and LMA...That's the big 3 that can take down anyone. Roy had the most smoothest game I've seen from a SG in a long time.

Clarity · Post #17 » by **Clarity** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:15 am

DBC10 wrote:
Clarity wrote:
DBC10 wrote:Yep, they both have decent to good pedigrees and worked their way up which is one of the primary things I value.

Both had a hand in making that Blazer team sort of relevant again for the future.

Yup!

Without historically freak career ending injuries to Oden & Roy, Penn & Pritchard would have been the architects of a dynasty.

Man, Oden, Roy, and LMA...That's the big 3 that can take down anyone. Roy had the most smoothest game I've seen from a SG in a long time.

Roy was insane, complete game, clutch as hell, he literally had everything.

Oden would have been a first ballot hall of famer off his rebounding & defense alone, forget all the dunks.

& we have seen what Aldridge became.

Lebron James would probably still be ring less.

sfballa13 · Post #18 » by **sfballa13** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:43 am

Chauncey as GM would be the worst possible outcome for this offseason

And people are vying for this guy?

Give me ONE good reason ANYONE would consider hiring this guy.

The era of former players as GM is over. Give me a smart young up and coming GM before another schmuck like Joe D that will hand out contracts to his "buddies" screw that!

Neptune · Post #19 » by **Neptune** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:47 am

DBC10 wrote:
MotownMadness wrote:
Neptune wrote:I would love Billups to be our GM if Dumars really resigns. Hopefully Dumars has been giving him pointers throughout the season.

You really are Blaha, You should hope Hes nothing like Dumars .

This, Dumars did fine in his first few years, then just collapsed after Davidson died and had literally zero help. He really had a lot of help in being GM.

Dumars isn't nearly as bad as some of you try to make him. :nonono:

wire28 wrote:the team has been trash for 5+ years just get some qualified, experienced people in here so we can start fixing this piece of crap

All the qualified guys don't have any professional or collegiate basketball experience. We'll suck for a long time if we hire any of those dudes. And I mean we'll suck for a loonnggg time. I wouldn't be surprised if we did though, Gores doesn't know any better.

Q00 · Post #20 » by **Q00** » Tue Apr 1, 2014 2:57 am

Penn and Pritchard have done absolutely nothing. The injury excuse is flawed because no one knows how that team would've ended up. These were also the guys who passed on maybe the best scorer of all-time for Oden. Even if he stayed healthy, no one knows how great Oden would've actually been. So we can't just assume he was going to be great because he was hyped up to be great. Its possible he was just another 10-10 guy with good defense like Okafor, in which case that would've been a colossal blunder taking him over Durant, even if healthy.

I also think Roy was always overrated. He was a good SG, but he was no Kobe or Wade. So lets not act like that team was something more than it was.

Even if you loved those players and thought they were great picks, any GM can hit on a couple lotto picks. That doesn't prove he knows how to build a championship team around them. People say Dumars doesn't deserve credit for the Drummond and Monroe picks because he just took the BPA, so why does Penn and Pritchard get so much credit for taking Oden, LMA, and Roy?

And for the record, he didn't even draft LMA and Roy. He was only their assistant GM at the time of those drafts. The "good" draft pick he made was passing on Durant for Oden.

Don't forget about him trading Zach Randoplh in his prime to the Knicks for Steve Francis and Channing Frye too. People made fun of Isiah when he traded for Francis, but he turned around and suckered Pritchard out of his best player for him. So if you think lowly of Isiah, what does that say about Pritchard?

His job with the Pacers proves nothing either, as that's all Larry Bird's team.

Even if you wanted to hire him as our GM, he's already got that title with the Pacers, so why would he take the same job here?

As for Tom Penn, he's nothing more than a cap guy, who is now basically a used car salesman for ESPN's draft coverage. Might as well just hire Chad Ford.

I honestly don't get the fascination with these guys at all.