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.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.
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.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.
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.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.
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.
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.
He used it to get Bogdanovic and Conley.
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.
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.
-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.