Same and with identical reasoning.
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I stand by it
But if they fall 3 or lower I start seeing what I can get for moving down
Iām high on Whitmore too for the age thing. He shoots it pretty well and looks fearsome when heās going downhill.
I went with Ausar who I think can be a lockdown defender and has apparently been shooting it better.
oh wow you guys aināt kidding Whitmore is crazy young and Miller is super old. i might change my vote.
Iāve always lives Whitmore
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Kevin Ollie???
Heās Kobe aged for his class
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Udoka 
I will take Udoka lol
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Udoka is the best possible hire if the team is willing to live with the PR hit
Nothing thatās been reported, at least with any credibility, has made Udokaās transgressions seem prohibitively outrageous.
Maybe, I havenāt sought it out, but I think we can agree that it will be come with a PR hit
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James Edwards III (Athletic beat writer) said (in a now deleted tweet) he thinks the next coach will be one of the first four names he listed in his Athletic piece about candidates.
Names did not leave me too optimistic. Though Iāll also say I feel I have a far better grasp of what would make a good college coach and not so much what makes a good NBA coach
Ok
My Weaver take
I have not done a GM power ranking 1-30
Maybe he isnāt bottom 5 after I think about it
I think he is decidedly below average.
Good things: Ivey pick, Cade pick (I donāt think I give a massive amount of credit for these as I think like 27 of 30 GMs would have done those). Stewart was a good pick. I used to think Bey was, but they ended up getting nothing for that, so w/e. The Duren thing was a good transaction even though Iām way lower on him than most here (Iām not sure heās an NBA starter but lots of time to see if he is)
Bad:
Hayes pick
Held onto Jerami Grant way too long and sold at like 70% of his peak value for a late first rounder three years in the future
Is currently holding onto Bojan for too long, could trade him for something that can help their next good team
Signed every FA save those two for way too much money (small point I guess)
His second draft exploits havenāt panned out
He has not shown he can or knows how to assemble a team that has an offensive and defensive theory, like, how can this roster execute offense and defense. Tbis is different than getting good or bad players, but itās having more than 2 forwards, more than 3 guards, more than 2 guys who can shoot, and less than 8 centers for instance
Roast away
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I donāt follow the NBA much beyond getting score updates for the pistons (fun notification to get every other day!), so iāll just ask:
below average for the current crop of NBA GMs, or below average for like an absolute range of possibilities (as in, youāre not necessarily saying you can find 20 current GMs better, but his moves have not been good and a better GM would have followed a better plan)? obviously both can be true
Hereās my thing
The Magic, Jazz (admittedly started with 2 tradeable pieces the Pistons did not), Cleveland, Indy, NO, OKC all have had similar or shorter tanks and are in better situations going forward. I like Houstonās talent base more, but they are still a serious mess like Detroit.
They are looking at a fourth year of awful next year, and probably at least 2 years away from where OKC is now.
I think their org is probably better than Atlanta, Charlotte, Portland, Lakers, Chicago, Maybe Dallas (Nico stinks but Cubans spending helps). I think Washingtonās FO is oddly pretty good, but saddled with the worst owner
Soā¦bottom third?
Oh Minnesota is worse
Thatās what āget two draft picks right and bomb literally everything elseā looks like. I stand by the Jimmy Butler test (if Jimmy says your team is losers and your org doesnāt know how to win, heās been batting 1000)
I will acknowledge that Weaver is suffering from massive organization malfeasance prior to his tenure (I have worse things to say about Gores).
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Not a single one of these orgs had a worse starting set of assets than the pistons when weaver took over
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Weavers made enough āwtfā obviously bad moves that I donāt think you can say heās a good GM. TBD on if heās bad or okay.
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Really hard to judge him until next season. Once Cade got hurt the purpose was to lose asant games possible. Next year needs to show real progress.
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