PLO wrote:SpoSucks wrote:CoreyGallagher wrote:...Because he stepped in and put people into positions that forced our GM to resign as a result of it. So, yeah, we're bitter. Lol.
Also, nobody here actually expects Silver to do anything about it, assuming was implied sarcastically.
OK, that clarifies that part. Still, you operate within a system you're not in charge off. You have to live with the results of your actions. That's life. Now buck up. And rather than be upset it happened, you should be happy. Very unlikely any other team now does the same. Since you all worship the ground Sam Hinkie walks on, nobody will be able to duplicate "The Process". It was the greatest play ever, right?
I'm not sure what you are getting at: other teams tank so to say its "very unlikely any other team now does the same" isn't true. No one has said its the "greatest play ever" but Hinkie tried to maximise outcomes for the 76ers within a system he wasn't in charge of, as you say. Some of the individual deals he was able to work out en route to where we are now were pretty incredible though and maybe that is one thing Silver found so galling - Hinkie made a lot of the league look pretty stupid. That and the fact the tank was blatant, but the Lakers, for example, were trotting out Kobe every night through this period so it wasn't as if their tank was any less blatant.
What I'm saying is that being bitter about Hinkie being essentially forced out is illogical. The firing was as much a part of The Process as drafting Joel Embiid or Ben Simmons. Hinkie used a strategy of accumulating multiple picks that was unconventional but highly successful. He did it in a way that brought a lot of criticism. (I'm not making a criticism here just laying out the general framework). But as I said earlier, The Process existed within the larger system know as the NBA. Hinkie used the rules to his advantage as best he could. Nothing wrong with that. The problem is that he didn't control all the rules (or perhaps think enough about the implications of his strategy). And that's where the NBA stepped in (I'm assuming they all didn't break any rules/laws. I never heard they did.) Essentially the termination of Hinkie as GM was the final (and perhaps logical) step of The Process. What you and CoryGallagher are doing is saying" I liked the part where our GM took advantage of the rules but I don't like the part where the rules worked against our GM." There is absolutely nothing wrong with what the league did just as there wasn't with what Hinkie did.
