VDT wrote:We are trying to evaluate Bran here. The fact that Butler wanted to go Miami, that didnt have cap space and ultimately had to send Richardson is not credited to Brand. This is just luck.THe essence of the matter is that Brand send assets to get Butler and then he didnt manage to keep him or didnt want to keep him because he regretted the trade. Either case looks bad.
So it's Brands fault that Jimmy wanted to go where the "weather is nice" (he actually said that btw) and he wasn't committed to staying in Philly? But now were get Jrich "he had nothing to do with it?" Your BIAS is showing here in a major way
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Yu judge players by their contracts. Shamet on his contract is a player you want to have, Harris on his contract is not. At least if you want to win. You saw Harris in these two games. Who wanted Harris? Harris has been passed from team to team for years. His last team (clippers) offered him 20 mil. If there is an idiot GM out there willing to give him the max you let him do it. The whole notion that Harris is some hot commodity that we need to have no matter what is ridiculous. He is a mediocre player that doesnt really fit the team and who is paid a ridiculous amount of money. All these are on Brand.
No I judge players on their PRODUCTION and ABILITY. The money a player is getting paid IS NOT MY MONEY!!..The fact is Tobias is a 20 ppg wing who's stats are pretty much the same as Kriss Middleton!!..wings like him don't grow on trees and folks acting like his inclusion in this team "is a problem" are very sadly mistaken imo. Trading for him is a LONG way down the list of reasons why we suck right now...the two main issues are BEN AND BROWN!!..period.
The team needs someone to initiate the offense in the half court and someone that can create his shot from the perimeter and create for others at the same time. Ideally, but not necessarily this would be the same person. The Sixers are paying a ridiculous amount of money for their bigs and they have no one on the perimeter. That's not on the coach to fix, that's on the GM who has paid Horford and Harris all these money and they are doing nothing.
There was no way Brand could have gotten such a player when Ben was still the PG when this season started. Ben's lack of growth has undermined the team's progress imo and that's on Ben and the coach...not Brand who has given his coach a decent set of tools for two years in a row now.
Brand is two years now and the Sixers situation is getting worse by the year, when even doing nothing would result to improvements due to the age of the main Sixers players in 2018. As i said, he has no idea what he wants to do or what style the team is supposed to have and always goes for the lowest hanging fruit, overpaying for mediocre players that no one really cares about. I think there are a lot of people on realgm that could have done what Brand did. Not because they are good at Gming but because what Brand did is terrible.
LOL "getting worse by the year"??? HE'S HAD ONE DRAFT AND ONE FREE AGENCY AS GM!!..and you think that's enough to fully judge him?
During his time he got Jimmy Butler for a good deal, drafted Matisse, got Tobias to create a starting five that was dominant when they played together etc...but sadly he's been lumbered with a lacklustre coach and PG who doesn't know how to shoot any form of a jumper...tell me a GM who can succeed under these circumstances?
If Brand is fired along with Brown then I'm not gonna cry about it...but the truth is he's a scapegoat for many of you forum GM's and it's ridiculous imo because all Elton has done is try to create a winning team and be aggressive doing so!!..the whole organisation was involved in getting Tobias...so to put the blame on just him is not fair.
