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Bradoff's shooting coach?
"You too can average 32.9% from deep for your career!"
Twitter profile pic: 1990s Baywatch model or an NBA GM au fait with CBA minutiae...I would probably the pick former if I i didn't knew...
Last edited by spursistan; 03-12-2017 at 03:35 PM.
Literally the first thing Babby did within a week of being hired was trade for the Turkoglu contract every had been saying was virtually untradable and offer Childress twice as much money as any other teamYeah. Should be a cautionary tale on hiring agents as GMs. Too much conflict-of-interest can emerge, like Pelinka already trying to get Kobe an FO job
Looks like the new Lakers GM is doing similar things
This was the precursor to the fortification of Nash.Literally the first thing Babby did within a week of being hired was trade for the Turkoglu contract every had been saying was virtually untradable and offer Childress twice as much money as any other team
Looks like the new Lakers GM is doing similar things
The Prediction
Phil Jackson's sloppy seconds. Nasty, but per par.the raping is not finished
An interesting move for sure, to say the least. Difficult to call it terrible or genius either way. It's the type of move that simply will have to be evaluated later after seeing what kinds of moves he makes.
I would say I think American pro sports teams may start looking outside the fraternity of former players and coaches more and more to run their teams more like a business and less like an exclusive country club. The success of Theo Epstein and the already mentioned Bob Myers does give "some" precedent. Obviously both had some front office experience, Myers with very little but at least some. I think it would have been wiser to get someone older with a lot of experience to at least mentor Pelinka in an assistant general manager position for at least a year or two. And maybe they do get him a special consultant and/or mentor. But flipside is that while the Lakers are so bad and organizational mistakes don't necessarily mean you're costing the team championships, perhaps it's the type of situation where it's fine to just throw him to the sharks and see if he can survive.
No guarantee getting a guy with experience would end up being better. Could also end up being like a Billy King or Kevin McHale caliber GM. If the choice is between a former coach/general manager with experience and limited or very little success and a guy with zero experience but is extremely intelligent, you may be just rolling the dice either way anyway.
Only time will tell.
The strategy of magic is just to lose games to get the pick? I think most on this forum could probably run a team like that
With that kind of weak ass resume
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