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Topic subjectI don't know why you're hinging everything on *this season*
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107597, I don't know why you're hinging everything on *this season*
Posted by Bombastic, Wed May-08-13 01:32 PM
he's done playing, he's been preparing to be done playing for quite sometime now.

To pretend he's never looked into any of this 'metric' shit as if it's so complex you need to spend years studying it or can't delegate it to some degree is the stuff that's wildly dishonest.

>again, i don't want a dude who was playing *this season* to
>make personnel decisions for my team.
>i don't want to have cap/metric stuff explained to him or
>relayed by other employees.
>i don't want him to learn on the job.
>
>grant hill may one day be a great GM, but i wouldn't hand the
>keys to my organization over to someone who has literally not
>spent a day working in the front office in any capacity. if
>you want those things, cool. neither of us has a basketball
>team.
>
I'd take him in Philly today.

>mcdonough worked for the celtics for 10 years, starting in
>scouting. he might end up sucking, but posing him as an
>entitled naif who parachuted into the asst GM position is
>wildly dishonest.
>\
We have no idea what he actually did in any of those roles, we do know how he got the role had nothing to do with his ability to assess basketball matters & his period as an Assistant GM has been three years & the Celtics haven't made one move in that time period you'd even consider good.

>i think his age is just making 30-plus sports fans furious on
>some lena dunham shit.

LOL, jesus.