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Would be nice to finally have some solid additions to the front office. We've lost so many heads in recent years.
Besides... it's an excuse this...
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Signing off for evening w/two items: Spurs hope to re-hire Danny Ferry/Suns ex David Griffin rising in Denver GM search
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Fascinating...
Would be nice to finally have some solid additions to the front office. We've lost so many heads in recent years.
Besides... it's an excuse this...
Ferry pulled off some serious moves while in Cleveland. Him in the office should help the organization tremendously.
Spurs have a big hole to fill in their FO with Dell Demps gone. Ferry would be a nice replacement.
Sweet!
After all the drama that unfolded for and against Ferry in Cleveland, he should welcome the opportunity to come back home. Hope this works out for all.
Getting Ferry back would be a great move for the FO. In addition, it would be one less team GM out there hunting for Spurs targeted picks come draft day.
Good. He can teach Matt Bonner how to throw an elbow.
Finally the veteran SF backup we were waiting for!
...wait, he is coming as a FO executive?
Word......Danny Ferry, you have a chance to help the Spurs FO....COME ON DOWN!
Would love for him to come here.
agreed come back ferry
Ferry's reign in Cleveland will go down as one of the greatest fails in the history of the NBA.
not because of some obvious McHale/Isiah/Walllace type moves, but because of one of the greatest missed opportunities ever.
he made a myriad of moves and later almost none turned out to have been the right move to improve the team and build a champion around one of the greatest talents in the history of basketball.
Lebrons talent hid a lot, but in the end of the day it was Ferry's fail that drove him out of town.
Agreed ^
I approve. I always liked Danny Ferry. He's smart and that's one thing this FO needs. The Spurs brass seems to be getting leaner with every year.
It may go down that way but I have a feeling thats not the way it actually was. Its funny how EVERY preseason the media was all over Cleaveland and how they had a great team then come the post season when Lebron got ousted they'd say the opposite and how the team wasn't strong enough to help him win.
I'd have to say Lebron isn't going to get his share of the blame. Ferry probably shares some of the blame, but I think he did a damn good job trying out new things with what he had around him. I can't remember if he was the one who drafted Boozer, but if he was then its not on him that they lost Boozer.
N/M everything Boozer happened well before Ferry. I think the point still stands though.
Ferry built a young team that went to the finals and had the best record in the NBA at least twice. Ferry didn't Lebron's mom, and Ferry didn't quit in the middle of a playoff run.
Ferry did an ok job, but he never built a legit team. Lebron covered up a lot of his mistakes, not the other way around. While the Cavs were solid, that is easy to do w a player like Bron. Ferry did not do nearly enough IMO.
+1
Like not landing STAT because he didn't want to include JJ in the trade.
He's better than Bogans...
Maybe Ferry should have negotiated a clause in LeBron's contract that would have allowed him to tell LeBron to shut the up and play basketball? Maybe he should have sent LeBron back to school to learn that talent wins regular season games, but teamwork and chemistry win championships? Is that what you're saying he should have done? Because you're right - it is easy to be "solid" with a player like LeBron. But it's damned difficult to win it all with a player like LeBron. And unless LeBron grows up and figures some out on his own, he will wind up being the best player never to get a ring.
The Cavs had more than enough talent surrounding LeBron to win it all - especially the last couple of years, and their regular-season record showed it. But the deeper it gets into the season, the more LeBron turns the spotlight on himself, and the more of a distraction it becomes. All that talent in Miami might allow them to overcome that... but it might not.
There's a reason Terell Owens has never won a Superbowl. His teams were loaded with talent. (The Niners went 12-4, 12-4, 13-3, and 12-4 in his first five seasons with the team. The Eagles started 13-1, and were arguably the best team in the league.) He caught a lot of passes, made a lot of touchdowns, and sold a lot of tickets. He also created a media circus, put the spotlight on himself, and single-handedly destroyed any hint of team chemistry. And when he decided to leave his first team, he did it in a way that TOTALLY screwed them. Sound familiar?
Sometimes you can put a player like that on a team that is SO overwhelmingly talented, that they can win in spite of his presence. It worked for Randy Moss and Ray Allen, for instance. But in the age of salary caps, that is damned difficult to do. And it still usually means that the player has to be willing to shut the up for a season or two. And it's always an acquiring team that benefits from it. You can't blame that on Danny Ferry. He tried to create and run a class organization. Put LeBron on the 04-05 Spurs instead of Tim Duncan, and the Pistons would have kicked our asses. And if LeBron needs two additional franchise players with him to have a shot at winning a le, that's not Danny Ferry's fault.
Danny Ferry failed in Cleveland.
This. I wouldn't want him as the GM, but as part of the FO in a consulting role would be nice.
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