TMS wrote:Cosmic wrote:TMS wrote:i'm not worried about him knowing about Lebron & Bosh... i'm worried if he even knows guys like Luis Scola are available this summer that can be had at much less money than D Lee... or if he even has a fallback plan in place if we miss out on Lebron other than signing Joe Johnson to a max contract, for instance if he even knows if Rudy Gay can be had at a much lower max salary tier? things like this requires a bit of research & legwork on figuring out who is available & who is not... if a freakin' message board poster can do this with a simple click of the mouse, why can't he? & if he does know, why even bother coming out with idiotic statements like "i didn't even know what the list of free agents were"? it just makes him look clueless.
Walsh isn't even our GM. I doubt he ever really was. He's the president of operations. He has John Gabriel (capologist and GM), Glen Grunwald (GM).
And all of these clowns...
BASKETBALL OPERATIONS
Vice President, Basketball Operations Jamie Mathews
Vice President, Sports Team Operations Jason Vogel
Director, Player Personnel Misho Ostarcevic
Director, Pro Scouting & Free Agency John Gabriel
Director, East Scouting Rodney Heard
Director, West Scouting Mark Hughes
Director, International Scouting Kevin Wilson
Scouts Ben Jobe, Scott McGuire, Walker D. Russell, Steve Yoder
Assistant to the Pres for Basketball Operations Allan Houston
Director, Team Operations Chris Bernard
Director, Security John Donohue
Executive Assistant to President Marivic Lardizabal
Executive Administrative Assistant Dianela Correia
Manager, Sports Administration Debbie Sturniolo
Manager, Scouting Kristian Petesic
Administrator, Sports Team Operations Tim Criscitelli
Administrative Assistant, Team Operations Caroline Giglio
All running the show. Donnie Walsh is merely the face...and a consultant.
& who is in charge of putting all these people into their roles? & who should be accountable when the team he has put in place doesn't do their jobs correctly? so basically u look at Donnie Walsh as a figure head only & not responsible or accountable for any of the player personnel decisions this franchise makes? that's nonsense... other than James Dolan, Donnie gets the last say on all roster decisions... the buck stops with him... as such, he should be in the know about all available prospects when he's got a #8 lottery pick to use, & he should be in the know about all available free agents when he's got $35 mil in cap space to spend... coming out with statements like "i didn't know" is just no excuse.
Accountable of what?
What are you missing?
The same thing many fans are missing....
The plan all along from the day he was hired was to tear down the roster and start over.
The roster was in such distress that it would take two years to tear it down.
We're now at that point. It's been two years. The roster has been torn down (sans McCurry).
Now, we're going to build a new team starting this summer.
We hope to start with franchise players.
How about we give Walsh and Mike, partners in all of this despite what the media may say, two years to prove themselves? Can't build a team overnight. We build a foundation this summer and add to it over the course of next year but most likely the following (2011) summer. Then we compete (2011-2012 season).
I don't understand what is so hard to understand.
We didn't trade for Harrington and Hughes with the intent to win 50 games and steam through the playoffs - no matter how much you fell for the necessary lip service of the GM. We made these trades to dump salary and start over.
We're there now. Salary has been dumped. This summer we start to build the new team.
Why not give it a shot?
Why bash it before it begins?
This is like impregnating a woman and trashing the baby that isn't even born yet.
Why not let the baby be born before you have an opinion?
