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Originally Posted by octothorp
GMs, like players need to be evaluated on strengths and weaknesses. I'd say Colangelo's strengths are an ability to make creative trades to get the assets he wants, acquire underrated assets, and get quality out of mid-first (and occasionally second-round) draft picks, while avoiding busts. His big weaknesses are a tendency to overspend for high-end assets he wants, and over-value the offensive side of the game.
In the last year, he's shown that he's aware of his weaknesses and is attempting to correct them: hiring a defensive-minded coach and other defensively-minded acquisitions, not immediately using cap space just because he has it, hiring a second-opinion in Stefanski. I think it would be stupid to keep Colangelo if he weren't willing to work on his own weaknesses, but right now it looks like he's reevaluating some of his core philosophies. I think that if he has a good offseason and next season shows that the new direction for the team is working, then he'll definitely deserve a new contract at the end of next year.
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I don't really see any quality that he is getting out of mid-first or second round picks and his weakness seems to be that he is horrible at judging talent.
He wasted Nash in Phoenix making dumb deals, whining about a lack of money and then spending more money on crap talent than it would have cost to keep the good players.
Since coming to Toronto he has brought the team to awful in a fairly quick period and has managed to maintain them at that bad level for a few years now. He has brought in about 0 impact players and one above average player (Bargnani). He seems good at bringing in mediocre to bad talent I will give him that.
I guess I didn't see what he did to earn an extension the first time and not sure why after having this team miss the play-offs 4 years in a row now with little hope for the future outside of a kid playing in Europe what he has done to earn another contract extension in the future.