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Originally Posted by fleury
I defended him and I'll still defend him. Firstly, getting spoiled NBA players to play for the city through a FA signing is difficult. That's a given and if anything, that's where Colangelo has failed. He's left with signing and trading for many Euro's in hopes they'll stay out of loyalty. Where Colangelo succeeds is in trades - off the top without much thought, I don't believe he's lost badly in any trade. He's also made many moves to get that guy to complement Bosh, but things just simply didn't work out. Good decisions with bad results. This off-season was a disaster though, not his fault though, with trades falling though. It's just the nature of the league though, and quite simply, this year I'm sure it's more of a decision to sit back, get a high draft pick, wait until the new CBA is signed (with a cap), sit back and make some good signings when the teams over the new Cap will be in panic mode making deals to rid themselves of salary. Colangelo never stays still with a mediocre roster, so it's quite telling that he hasn't done anything yet during the season - it's a wait and see approach. Firing him doesn't help either as I don't think there's a better guy out there.
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The TO excuse is weak. If the team was any good and the franchise showed any signs of moving forward guys would come here.
He has consistently built a butter soft team with streaky jumps shooters that was bound to fail.
Which moves did he make to get a guy to compliment Bosh?
I guess he didn't lose badly in any deal but he didn't make any good deals either. He has failed to draft anyone of consequence. FA signing have been bad to awful. The team has got worse since he has been here.
As far as there being nobody better, what has Coangelo done to prove he is any good? He got an executive of the year award he didn't deserve because Nash played out of his mind and then proceeded to wreck any chance the Suns had a a championship with dumb, dumb moves.
I am not going to say that anyone would be better than Coangelo, because Isiah and Babcock are still out there, but there aren't many that could do a worse job at building a team than he has.