Quake Griffin wrote:Fire Doc is permanently in his sig…that's not anxiousness.
and echoed by Ranma via And 1s.
If Ballmer gives us a new GM this offseason, I'm fine with that. Doc is just fine to me as a coach.
I'd be fine with a competent GM putting together a roster for Doc to strictly coach it, especially given the high price of first-rounders paid to not only obtain him but also sacrificed towards rectifying his mistakes. I'll further acknowledge that he's done a tremendous job with DJ. That alone makes him worth the price of his contract. I'll even go as far as to say that maybe he'll eventually learn enough in emulating Popovich to be a competent personnel executive one day.
However, he is solely responsible for our roster's shortcomings by squandering assets and opportunities, which have thus shortened our window for competing for a championship. That, to me, is almost unforgivable given what he was provided when he came aboard. We have to win and we have to do it soon since we're still trying to fill a hole at SF and practically have no bench to speak of, plus, we have little assets left to address those areas of need. If it weren't for the cap spiking up in the next few years and the BAE, we'd be further screwed.
I've resigned myself to accepting that this is Doc's team for better or worse, but I wouldn't be at all heartbroken if he were completely replaced with a complete set of a coach and GM. For instance, I'd much rather have Danny Ainge and Brad Stevens than Doc. I've always had disdain for Jim Harrick when he was coaching UCLA during my Bruin days, but when he got us a championship in 1995, I was grateful enough to give him his due as a recruiter (or at least someone who was able to put together a staff that was good at bringing in talent) but it didn't blind me from the fact that he still wasn't that good of a coach. Likewise, Doc has to win with what he's got for me to afford him any further goodwill. I still wouldn't be blinded to his failings but at least that would help build up his legacy beyond his "fluke" championship in Boston where he was handed a stacked roster by Ainge.
I'm not at all tolerant with Doc's continued short-sighted and panicked approach to sacrificing our future to fit his narrow vision. He better win since he's put this all on himself with the big contract, the dual roles, and the amount of resources afforded to him. His ego of insisting to fashion a roster his way is what upsets me when he should have realized that he's best served when someone else handles the GM duties. He's maneuvered us into an urgent position of having to win now, so he can't have it both ways in also expecting patience. This GM-in-training bit doesn't fly with me. There's no excuses. I demand results.
