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Noah Will Save Us

I thought this is about Joakim Noah - that would be excellent backup for Gobert.... Noah Vonleh on the other hand is a lazy ***, big no, thank you.
 
So it's getting down to desperation hour. I don't believe our eyes are on anything right now. Our very last hope is the Denver front office being aggressive and proactive. Yes, Denver has helped shape our franchise into what it is today, and for that we are eternally indebted. It is now on them to take us over the top. They need to "be aggressive" in the buyout market and go pick someone up. Noah was a throw-in to the deal and the weakest link. If there's a roster crunch for them to bring in a buyout signing, it's Noah who's going to go, and DL should not pass up another Denver gift that drops from the sky. Go look at Noah's per 36 stats in Denver. He's pulling down 12 rebounds and hitting 100% on threes.

If we land Noah, then we will meet Denver in the playoffs and Rudy, Donovan, Mudiay, and Noah will all be big.

Please, Denver FO, be aggressive and go sign someone.
 
So it's getting down to desperation hour. I don't believe our eyes are on anything right now. Our very last hope is the Denver front office being aggressive and proactive. Yes, Denver has helped shape our franchise into what it is today, and for that we are eternally indebted. It is now on them to take us over the top. They need to "be aggressive" in the buyout market and go pick someone up. Noah was a throw-in to the deal and the weakest link. If there's a roster crunch for them to bring in a buyout signing, it's Noah who's going to go, and DL should not pass up another Denver gift that drops from the sky. Go look at Noah's per 36 stats in Denver. He's pulling down 12 rebounds and hitting 100% on threes.

If we land Noah, then we will meet Denver in the playoffs and Rudy, Donovan, Mudiay, and Noah will all be big.

Please, Denver FO, be aggressive and go sign someone.
Here is what you should hope for... Denver decides they want to convert Dozier's two way deal. They then release Noah... we wait for his agent to call us... his agent calls us... we then wait for NWG's agent to call us for release and bam... we got your guy.
 
Here is what you should hope for... Denver decides they want to convert Dozier's two way deal. They then release Noah... we wait for his agent to call us... his agent calls us... we then wait for NWG's agent to call us for release and bam... we got your guy.
DL always talking about how they do these autopsies on all decisions and try to identify where they made mistakes... they did it last summer and they did it with Hayward. Like, the things they'll be talking about in hindsight are the exact things we're talking about now. But when we bring that up over the summer, we'll be accused of hindsight bias.
 
DL always talking about how they do these autopsies on all decisions and try to identify where they made mistakes... they did it last summer and they did it with Hayward. Like, the things they'll be talking about in hindsight are the exact things we're talking about now. But when we bring that up over the summer, we'll be accused of hindsight bias.

One of these days I'll do a full download of all the issues I've had with the DL era, but they all come down to one kinda common theme... They don't get out ahead of the potential issues. The Hayward thing is a prime example... should have settled on extension but didn't correctly project the cap exploding (they were a couple million apart and not at the max)... everyone knew the cap was going to explode and those contracts would all be fine. Then waited to long to make win now moves which irked Gordon (cakk bakkkking)... gets a pg he wants right before he's a FA in Ricky (I know we had Hill) and goes all in on keeping Hayward without enough assurances he is staying (while Ainge and Stevens had tampered for at least a year).

the right move can be the wrong move if it is 6-12 months too late.
 
One of these days I'll do a full download of all the issues I've had with the DL era, but they all come down to one kinda common theme... They don't get out ahead of the potential issues. The Hayward thing is a prime example... should have settled on extension but didn't correctly project the cap exploding (they were a couple million apart and not at the max)... everyone knew the cap was going to explode and those contracts would all be fine. Then waited to long to make win now moves which irked Gordon (cakk bakkkking)... gets a pg he wants right before he's a FA in Ricky (I know we had Hill) and goes all in on keeping Hayward without enough assurances he is staying (while Ainge and Stevens had tampered for at least a year).

the right move can be the wrong move if it is 6-12 months too late.
Oh, so you think you're a better GM than a guy who does this professionally? There are millions of fans and only 30 GMs. He wouldn't have a team in the playoffs for three years if he was 6-12 months too late on everything.
 
Oh, so you think you're a better GM than a guy who does this professionally? There are millions of fans and only 30 GMs. He wouldn't have a team in the playoffs for three years if he was 6-12 months too late on everything.

Yeah I mean call me crazy but risking your best perimeter player getting an offer that is potentially more toxic for a couple million a year is totally worth it... especially if you end up paying him a max and still end up having excess cap space the following two years. Have to protect that financial flexibility that you never used ya know.
 
Yeah I mean call me crazy but risking your best perimeter player getting an offer that is potentially more toxic for a couple million a year is totally worth it... especially if you end up paying him a max and still end up having excess cap space the following two years. Have to protect that financial flexibility that you never used ya know.

He used it to get Bogdanovic and Conley.
 
Oh, so you think you're a better GM than a guy who does this professionally? There are millions of fans and only 30 GMs. He wouldn't have a team in the playoffs for three years if he was 6-12 months too late on everything.

Some act as if we are the only option that players and agents have and that everyone we want will show up in Utah. Bizarre reasoning.
 
He used it to get Bogdanovic and Conley.

not in 2012-13 we didn’t.... @infection is making me pick off old scabs.

Just for the record... I don’t think I’m better than DL but I do think I’ve been right about things when he wasn’t. The opposite would be true as well and I acknowledge he has done more than a few very good things. He has a tendency to hold back on things and is generally pretty conservative. Maybe management didn’t allow him to spend but eating cap space a few years in a row while the cake was baking was silly imo. We could have signed guys in that period that would have helped but that would require some risk... that we weren’t willing to take.

I was pretty pleased with the offseason but there is still work to do. I trust DLJZ to keep us out of trouble, but not sure they will push all in for the chip.
 
Some act as if we are the only option that players and agents have and that everyone we want will show up in Utah. Bizarre reasoning.

Some act as though no one will ever come here and that we can’t do deals for players because we don’t have assets to trade... even when those deals happen with assets that we could easily produce.
 
Some act as though no one will ever come here and that we can’t do deals for players because we don’t have assets to trade... even when those deals happen with assets that we could easily produce.

I have only heard that logic from the media. That has been disproved as has the notion that our FO is not active.
 
Yeah I mean call me crazy but risking your best perimeter player getting an offer that is potentially more toxic for a couple million a year is totally worth it... especially if you end up paying him a max and still end up having excess cap space the following two years. Have to protect that financial flexibility that you never used ya know.

This is what my tramp stamp says. Totally agree. Obviously.
 
-Utah doesn't have the same margin of error that franchises like the Lakers do.

-We don't know what we don't know, so who knows what else they tried to get done.

-Playing armchair gm can be fun, but it's just pretend.
 
-Utah doesn't have the same margin of error that franchises like the Lakers do.

-We don't know what we don't know, so who knows what else they tried to get done.

-Playing armchair gm can be fun, but it's just pretend.

I agree with a lot of this... I try and be fair with DL/JZ. As @infection has mentioned many times just because we aren't the GM doesn't mean we can't be right when they are wrong on certain things. irrc DL himself questioned his approach the cakk bakkkkng year.

Definitely not saying I'd do a better job, but I think it is fair to criticize these guys for the times they have kinda crossed their arms and said "its good enough". I think that is basically what they did at the deadline and have my reasons for believing so. Not that they wouldn't have taken a no brainer deal if it came across the desk... don't feel like they were out rattling cages.
 
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