KiwiMatt wrote:I think it's unfair to blame Flip.
He inherited a sinking ship with too many holes to fill and not enough resources to fix it.
Kiwi, its unfair to say flip didnt have resources to fix the team he inherited. He had the #9 pick. When ak opted out, he had cap space to use. He also inherited love,rubio and pek. Both dw and shved had more trade value when he got them than they do once the season started playing out.
What flip failed to do is to maximize the assets that he had and make the most out of it. Heres some examples..
1. Missing out on michael carter williams, the greek freak or even just keeping burke. Could flip swap williams+the 9th pick to sac for the 7th and draft mclemore? He could throw in the 26th pick as well to sac considering that we traded that pick away to save money. I know, mcw and burke are pg's but they are also the best prospects at the time. Mcw could have played together with rubio as well. We should be adding talent to the team instead of fits considering the guy he eventually drafted isnt a true sg and added to our logjam at sf.
Missing out on the greek freak and taking shabazz could come back to haunt us. The way flip sounded after taking bazz, sounding disappointed and all, why take him if your down on him and why not just gamble on antetoukompo instead?
Granted, we may still have the same record now if we chose mcw,burke,giannis or pull of a deal for mclemore but at least we would have a young player on the team for the future instead of having none right now.
2. The cap space with ak opting out.
Ive said it before back on the espn boards, we could have used the cap space in a sign and trade deal for a scoring wing instead of focusing on free agent sg's in martin/mayo/redick. We could have explore a trade for gay using williams, luke'expring deal, steimsma non guaranteed deal+the cap space we save. I always believe gay would have work here. Paired with a 3pt shooting love, pek inside and rubio at pg, gay wont have to shoot all those mid range game and he could play efficiently in adelmans offense. We probably wont sign brewer in this scenario but we could use the money to sign one or 2 of bellineli, gary neal, ellington,,morrow like 3pt specialists.
Flip had his chances, he chose to go the safe route with his choices. Im not saying what he did was bad, we are better now than we were before but still not good enough. And thats whats frustrating.
