107577, experience as a go-fer for Danny Ainge has no correlation to being a boss
Posted by Bombastic, Wed May-08-13 04:49 PM
>>unless you count paying Jeff Green plus coming off two
>>terrible drafts (Damaged Goods Sully, then the wack Fat
>>Melo/Kris Joseph combo, JaJuan Johnson the year before who's
>>already out of the league in 2011).
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>>Other than that, what? Being a Boston Globe columnist's son?
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>>That trumps Grant Hill's past two decades in terms of being
>>qualified for this role?!?
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>>I honestly don't know what y'all are talking about at all in
>>this thread.
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>There is nothing about Grant Hill that's a guaratee his
>playing career would equate to success as a GM without first
>getting some front office experience....nothing at all.
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nothing in life is guaranteed, if you're a journalism school white boy who didn't even play high school ball then you might take a different road than a twenty-year-NBA-playing vet with a legacy.
You are saying......nothing at all.
>He's smart...he's a good dude from a good family...but none of
>that means he would make a good GM right way.
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I don't even know if McDonough's very smart, was never a fan of his dad's columns, his brother's currentlty fucking up the Jaguars royally & both got into the business of sports because of who their dad was.
>experience as a player imo could equate to getting a coaching
>job right after retirement because that's about the play on
>the court....Front office...GM stuff is about
>business...completely different..
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Dude, it's knowing the salary cap, being able to evaluate & make draft picks, spending money on the right guys, etc.
It's actually not as hard as you might think, you just either have it or you don't.
>I go back to Bob Myers...one of the best young GMs in the game
>right now....he played in college but not the NBA....he was an
>agent first...then Jerry West took him under his wing to work
>in a front office......now he's a GM...
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Funny you should mention Jerry West, since he had zero coaching & then zero GM experience before getting each gig.
>Kupchek was a player...but didn't go right into being a
>GM...first againt Jerry West mentored him and he eventually
>became a GM.
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>the guy Phoenix hired has front office experience under a
>successful GM for a successful franchise.... that holds more
>weight for the job than just being a player.
The guy Phoenix just fired had front office experience with not one but two franchises more successful than the Celtics were while McDonough was there.
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