This thread must be a joke. ESPN said about the NY Knicks while Scott Layden was GM, and I quote; "Worst Franchise in Sports." Lovely suggestion to bring him in. His time in NY was an absolute nightmare, and you're wanting to replace a 15 year vet with a guy that lasted 3 miserable years as he built the worst franchise in sports? Hard to understand your reasoning here. We give a ton of credit to sloan, as deserved, but never really realize that we have had players that have made us competitive for 20 years despite being in the most unattractive free agent market in the league. I'm sorry KOC didn't get LeBron, or Bosh, or Kobe, or Kevin Durrant, or whoever else you're complaining about not having. Has he made mistakes? Sure, AK's contract the biggest of which. But has been a successful and great GM? Ask anybody in any front office of any team in this league, and they would undoubtedly say yes. Your reasons that you have listed for not liking him is you don't like his personality, and because he effed up our season. Wow. Your take on his "ice-cube" like personality is why you think he's bad GM? Didn't one of our previous coaches have a personality like that? And you, like every other Jazz fan, were probably pumped for this season back in October, and that's because of the team that KOC built that looked very promising. So let's now blame him for our star player quitting on the team/coach, losing our HOF head coach mid-season, and not getting our starting center back due to injury all year. Name me one team in this league that would have survived that! We not only have survived that, we have prepared for the future unbelievably well, and are still even in the playoff hunt for hell's sake! We've lost a few games and had a tough season, calm down. We have young studs on our team and have a handful of lottery picks in the immediate future. Please start cheering for the Lakers or the Heat if you can't understand the difficulty of staying competitive in a small market.
