Spectacular article.
We, as readers and watchers, need to be smarter consumers of our media. We need to get beyond the entertainment and thrill and ask some appropriately skeptical questions. If we want our opinions and analysis to be legit we need to refuse to surf unless the ocean is really up. We need to eschew snap judgments and the constant pedestal elevation-wrecking ball cycle that our popular culture encourages us to employ with our public figures. Jumping at shadows is only fun for so long. Following saints and spitting on sinners gets old after a while too. Real, verifiable, understandable human texture is far more interesting and, for my money anyway, entertaining in the long run.
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In the end "In KP we trust!" and "KP is an idiot!" both miss the mark by a long shot and always have. Kevin Pritchard is a very good GM. He knows basketball and he knows his staff. He's made, or contributed to, decisions which have brought this team from cellar-dweller status to fighting in the middle of the playoff pack. Kevin Pritchard is also going to make mistakes like any GM would. He's going to watch things happen beyond his control. Most of them he'll cope with. Some of them he won't be able to compensate for. That's sports for you. He's a person...a person who knows more about this sport than most of us could fathom, but a person nonetheless. No halo. No aura. No ability to make the impossible happen. But no matter what has happened recently the good of his tenure has far outweighed the bad. The balance of the evidence indicates that we're lucky to have this person at the helm.
That trade was also less one-sided than it initially seemed, as well (yes, it's a shock).
