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Originally Posted by fleury
It’s not black and white. He’s done some really good things but his deals involving high picks has been atrocious IMO. His flavour of the month deals like overpaying for Hamonic, speaks to more of an ego and doing whatever it takes to ensure he wins. Normally I wouldn’t have a problem with a desire to outdo someone but when he overpaid for some mediocre players, it killed the possibility of sustainability. On one hand I’ve been happy with his drafting but again, his inability to get high end talent, with handcuffing deals, very challenging. If they keep him I hope he’s learned from his problems.
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Outside of the Hamonic deal, which we all agree was poor in retrospect but is now YEARS ago, how many other bad deals did he make? I would argue the deals made at the deadline last year were rationale deals to supplement the team at reasonable prices.
His mistakes are well documented: Hamonic, Neal, Brouwer, but they are also ones years in the past.
To me his performance in the last few years has been very strong.