True. I hate that he gets put up on this pedestal by some.
“Oh he drafted Gobert, he is so smart”
No, he isn’t. If he was smart he would have taken Gobert at 14 or 20 and not traded for Burke.
“Oh, he loved Mitchell. He found his guy and went and got him.”
Again, no. He liked Mitchell. He floated ideas to Denver. But at the end of the day, Denver called us and offered us the trade. Yes, he did lay some groundwork for the deal, but in the end, Denver offered us the deal.
If DL was as good as everyone says, he wouldn’t have screwed up the Hayward situation so much. He wouldn’t have lost Hayward for nothing. He wouldn’t have blown up a team with Millsap for Exum. He wouldn’t have made the trade that allowed GS to become GS. He wouldn’t have traded Giannis and Gobert (who the Jazz has as their #1 choices at 14 and 20) for Burke.