knicks1248 wrote:nykshaknbake wrote:I cant really find any moves that Perry has made to be clear mistakes. He's batting 1.000 in my book thus far.
As GM Under MILLs, perry is not calling the shots, he's make suggestions.
The same thing mills was doing when he was the GM..
As far as perry goes, he was brought in because he has good relationship with players, yet it wasn't able to mend any of the relationships that went sour, with Melo, Noah, KP, Kanter, or Willy.
For every Mitch, trier, luke, mudiay, there's a David Lee, Nate, Ariza, prigioni, novak LIn.
Every GM finds a decent player under the radar, but if it still ends in 50+ losses, what's the difference..
Every franchise handles this differently.
You've been told this 50+ times and yet you don't seem to care.
Mills runs the BUSINESS side of operations. Running a sports franchise from the accounting/marketing/branding/television/sponsor/local politics/media side is extremely ****ing hard. He only took the GM role because Phil Jackson had/has no concept of the CBA or cap principles ( far deeper than the Coon summary, far far far deeper. I've read several of the last few CBAs, not all at once, and that **** is dense and complicated. )
In a sport with small rosters/few overall moves, the GM typically checks in with heads of the other franchise departments and owner and apprises them of what's going on. In cases like Danny Ferry and the Cavs, he had to get permission from Gilbert, who got permission from LBJ. In cases like Belichick, he gives token updates to Kraft and does whatever the hell he wants.
Perry makes all personnel decisions for this team. This was contingent on him taking the job. Don't forget the Knicks had to give up an asset for Perry. This had to be negotiated. Whatever Mills says otherwise is **** he says to the press. What the **** else is he going to say to the press? How things are said and how things are two different worlds in pro sports. For Mills to make personnel decisions, he'd need a deeper dive into scouting ( hard as **** and time intensive) on top of his normal duties ( already hard as ****)
People underestimate how ****ing hard some jobs are in life.
An amateur boxer who doesn't do it for money and can't make a career out of it. And competes against real competition. You want to throw a jab 20K times? Hard as ****.
Those little girl gymnasts who spend their entire lives as preteens training non stop. Hard as ****.
Those dancers who spin on their hands for like two minutes of original choreography. Where they have to do blocking and time everything and most of them suffer from multiple injuries all the time. Hard as ****.
I've seen first hand what a guy like Mills has to do every single day. It would make most dudes here sit down and cry and drink a bottle of Vodka. Hard as ****. It's not a job, not a career, it takes over your entire life.
The NBA model has ZERO MARGIN OF ERROR. Small draft, few FAs, few impact players, small amount of resources each year, guaranteed contracts. Hard as ****. At least in the NFL and MLB, you have some wiggle room to **** up.
Here's the other thing you are told 50 thousand times and you ignore. Dumping someone like Mills means dumping EVERY RELATIONSHIP AND CONTACT HE'S BUILT. That's 1000 little fires getting put out every week that would turn into firestorms from someone raw and new.
You need to be mentally tough to work in a front office in pro sports. I mean hard as ****ing nails.
You talk, but you don't listen. If you did, you'd learn more about how this all works. You'd be better off asking others WHAT THEY THINK. You never do that.
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