ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:DarkHawk wrote:One thing we're seeing is, the players we acquired this past off-season are smart and experienced. Losing guys like Jackson and Bender allowed us to add players like Frank and Baynes.
The FO deserves a ton of credit for finding value in players other teams cast off - Carter, Kaminsky, Rubio, Baynes. What's most amazing to me is how well we're playing defensively despite not having players who are celebrated defenders in this league - but that's a credit to the coaching staff, I think. Frank's defense and rebounding have definitely been much better than I expected, while Carter's shooting has been way better than I expected.
The way things are going, James Jones has a shot at executive of the year, and Monty has a shot at Coach of the Year. Too much improvement from too many players for the guys up top not to get a lot of the credit.
Hopefully someone in the front office is smart enough to recognize that Executive of the Year is all fine and dandy but one year doesn’t mean much. If someone wants to list the moves that McD made that turned us into a 48 win team in 2013-14 it’s very similar to the kind of moves Jones has made. Difference is we got youthful cornerstones in Booker, Ayton, Oubre. Regardless as long as Jones and company doesn’t try and get cute and start making bad decisions later we should be fine.
