bigfan wrote:
I am not a Paxson fan....Its always the coaches fault, he doesnt like the time it takes to be the GM, too much pressure...he just wants to be the guy who does...what exactly? Follows around Doug mcDermott for a year
Doesn't Pax have final say on basketball things? If so, the one thing you can't knock is his talent evaluation skills. His only true bust out is Tyrus Thomas and even he stuck around the league for a while. Yes the Aldrige trade hurts but then you never end up with the number one pick and so on.
Who here liked the Noah pick. I thought it was terrible at the time but Pax knew what he was doing. Rose was hard to screw up and in hindsight you'd rather have Westbrook but he could've Leafed it and selected Beasley. Deng and Hinrich werse solid. Ben Gordon is still in the league. Taj late in the first round and James Johnson is still playing. Gotta love Butler and by the looks of it, he was right on Mitotic and Snell.
Free agency wise, Wallace and Boozed flamed out. Wallace shouldn't have been considering Skiles was coaching. Most knew that was a relationship that wasn't going to work. Boozer I believe, was a "Hey we have to do something here" move. Gasol has been more than anyone of us could have hoped for. Dunleavy, Bellinelli, Robinson, Augustin, Brooks, Korver and if you remember he wanted Reddick which some in the media scoffed at. Now look at J.J. out in LA. Pretty good.
Also, doesn't he have to get credit for hiring Thibs?