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Q-was-here wrote:By the way, there are political reasons for Connelly to avoid any big moves. To take a typical Abe angle on front office self-preservation, TC can justify a more conservative course - and therefore a season where perhaps we don't improve much - by saying "I'm new and I wanted to assess the roster and with so much young talent I wanted to give this squad a chance to improve organically".

He can sort of buy a year for himself before making any high-risk/reward type moves.

Yes possible, however there are so many assets that he could make a move whiff and still have the assets / picks to again tweak the roster the following year. After that the roster gets much more financially strapped and it's more about finding talent via the draft and finding the right role players to complement your core. I think part of landing the big fish and making everything final was the interview where he lays out his plan and vision and goes out and proves why they brought him in.

I think it's more of a risk to have no major failures, yet make no progression and bust out the first round with the same Rosas roster. That's a bad look, however if you make changes and it doesn't work you say you have now identified the weakness and vow to address it in year two. That's far less risky because you are actually doing what you think is best and continually say I have the fix.

Either way if you don't deliver you ain't gonna last long.

I actually think there's tons of growth room for Bolmaro, you don't have to question his effort :)

Following him with Barcelona he displayed growth and maturity. He's only 21 years old. So now that he is familiar with the system, coach and city lets see if he doesn't blossom. Lack of a role has held his growth back in my opinion but that could change quite a bit in a year or two.