Would Dame and CJ have been as good if they had skipped college? There are advantages to drafting basketball players instead of "projects."
Fucking espn... that interview with the bust of the draft is hiding some of the play from the steal of the draft.
Young is the kind of player who will put up impressive stats on a bad team, but his high volume/low efficiency approach will never have the kind of team success Curry has enjoyed.
Olshey is great in drafting Players, i give him 100% credit for that. But he's also a bad gm in free agency and contracts for Players imo. And sometimes to afraid to make a deal
Anfernee Simons in SL (4 games): 12.8 points per game 3.0 rebounds 0.3 assists 1.0 steals 47% FG 20.5 minutes Lonnie Walker IV in SL (4 games): 11.5 points 5.0 rebounds 1.5 assists 1.5 steals 34% FG 27.8 minutes
Find me one person in ANY work force in ANY environment who hasn't made mistakes in a 6 years span. Its their job too but they don't get fired unless its all bad mistakes and no good, or more bad than good. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone would like to go back in time and make better choices at times, yet the GM bro is the only one who has to be Godlike Flawless, or OFF WITH HIS HEAD...... Id suggest for anyone who wants him fired now or prior to now, take a look at your own employment history and see if you have been flawless or if you could have made better decisions at times than you did. Again, I will await patiently for someone to seriously say they are perfect at their job. Some people around here set themselves up for disappointment with unrealistic expectations... its really that simple.
It is a well established principle that people who make no mistakes take no risks. No mistakes is good for air traffic controllers, bad for CEOs and general managers. Show me a general manager who has made no mistakes and I would guess his team record is round .500.
Your Ugh is out of context. Trent got to the line... a lot. I don't want to calculate it all by hand, but he played well.
You are one big walking talking mistake.. GTFO. BAMM! I would put money on Ainge saying yeah, I might have taken that or done that different. No doubt he has made many great decisions, but do you know of the ones he past on that maybe he feels he shouldn't have? How about lets look at ourselves, which was what I was meaning. Calling out other people in other professions of which we do not have inside info on is pure speculation of not making mistakes or making mistakes. Not valid in this context.
Ainge has made some great decisions since 2007. Before that he was a terrible GM. He traded the 7th pick in 2006 to us for Theo Ratliff and Sebastian Telfair. Since 2008 do you realize that these are all 1st round picks he has made: JR Giddens, Jared Sullinger, Fab Melo, James Young, RJ Hunter, Guerschon Yabusele, Ante Zizic, and now Robert Williams (who has all kinds of issues already). If not for one miracle trade with Brooklyn he wouldn't have any of his higher draft picks that have done well either. I don't see that as perfect.
There is a difference between a GM who makes mistakes while executing a good plan, and a GM who has a bad plan. (or no plan) The first GM can claim "I'm only human." The second just isn't very good at his job. Those of us who think NO falls into the latter category aren't going to be persuaded (or shamed) by the "everybody makes mistakes" argument.
There is a huge difference between making mistakes and not producing... Neil has been on the job over 6 years now and not made one trade involving a major peice... he is scared to take a risk... that’s might be ok far fans like you who like watching a mediocre product, but as I die hard fan I have greater expectations
It's the complacency that gets me. He's sleeping at the wheel. When he's out doing daily interviews on ESPN/NBA TV during SL games, Denver reshaped its financial picture and improved for the future. The optics just aren't good when he makes empty promises and patronizes anyone who hints at a criticism. You'd think with so much pressure from Dame, he'd do something. Instead all we hear are excuses. "Portland isn't a FA draw." "No other team is making deals (blatantly false)." etc etc
