Judging Talent By What You See, Hear, And Understand (Fast Company On Rich Cho)

http://www.fastcompany.com/1677664/judging-talent-by-what-you-see-hear-and-understand

 

Article by:

"John Baldoni: an internationally recognized leadership development consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker. In 2010 Top Leadership Gurus named John one of the world's top 25 leadership experts."

 

I've read more articles about how great Cho will be as a GM than I ever read about Pritchard while he actually was in charge of drafts and was the GM.

Wow me, Rich. Your press credentials are overwhelming at this point. Will the actions back up the words?

 

Cho this, Cho that

Do something to earn some of this praise. I'm tired of hearing about this guy already.

 

He doesn't need to do anything but eat the cake Pritchard baked and he will have done his "job".

I gotta say if this guy doesn't do some big move i'm gonna be disappointed just because of all of this hype he is getting.

 

No doubt. The guy has been handed consecutive 50-win teams, the former GM flipped the roster over 50% in those years, yet he managed to keep all of the best assets. He added very good players in Andre Miller and Marcus Camby while giving up basically nothing in return.

There is no learning curve here. Do something to improve the team before camp, or we're still in "baking the cake" mode. Win NOW!

Unless, of course, he thinks the team is good right now, and will win if healthy. In that case, why was the old GM fired?

 

Yeah, it's borderline annoying how much press he is getting when all he has accomplished is landing a job with an excellent roster that another excellent GM put together.

I really don't care how he orders at restaurants, his little computer software, etc. I'm still as unimpressed as the day he was hired until he does something.

 

He's cerebral? He doesn't need to make a move on a whim to prove anything to the fanbase. With a young team that is yet to be fully healthy and as deep as the Blazers are do we really need to make a move just to make one?

I'm willing to bet he wasn't hired with the intentions of making moves just to put his stamp on something. I'll let it play out a little before I want his head.

 

You guys are blaming Cho for Quick's trivial articles.

 

This article wasn't by Quick.

 

He's being blamed for not being KP

 

They were talking mainly about Oregonian articles, not the OP article.

 

In the N.B.A., the New Boss Isn’t the Same as the Old Boss

This even appeared on the main page of a newspaper website Down Under; which unless an article contains something about an Aussie player, is completely unheard of.

Cho has a loooong reach.

 

And praised for the same by others. The irrationality around KP goes both directions. Look no further than the various memes that KP, when he didn't make a trade, was (combined) a timid pussy who couldn't close deals and was too in love with his players. While Cho, in not making a deal, is being rational and analytical and simply must not have been offered enough.

For many, the battle lines have long been drawn on KP and until Cho makes moves to start a new "era" in terms of the front office, he'll be a proxy by which people continue to fight that battle.

 

Gang, it's summer. People will write about anything to fill space. Our new GM is as interesting a topic as any right now.

 

It Cho thing..............do what you wanna do......................

 

I'm probably one of those people who thought KP had fallen too in love with some of his players and while I don't think he was a "pussy" or timid, I do think he struggled to close deals (but I loved the Blake + Outlaw for Camby deal) -- whether that was due in part to incompetence, an over cautious nature, or the fact that there were no good deals to be had, or for none of those reasons. In the same vein if you're going to fire KP and replace him then I like the Cho hiring in principle, but I have no thoughts one way or another about his competence as a GM (yet); we'll have a better idea once he actually has any moves (or non-moves) to judge him by.

 

I think "let the cake bake" was effectively an euphemism for, "These guys of mine are young. I want to be absolutely sure they've had a chance to develop and/or blend with the system before I take a potentially premature risk in letting them go in a trade, etc."

 

What is interesting to me is that Sam Presti seems to be in "cake baking" mode in OKC. That team has obvious deficiencies in the front-court, and also in terms of an established veteran to take pressure off of Durant, yet nothing outside of drafting a long-shot in Cole Aldridge was done to address those needs. In Bizarro Land, I wonder what the posters here would say about OKC's summer if the the Thunder were actually the Blazers. An 8th seeded team that had virtually no injury problems does basically nothing to improve its areas of weakness.