ArksNetsSince99 wrote:vincecarter4pres wrote:ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
It’s Marks and Tsai , they both sucks
I still don’t understand the beef with Marks.
Outside the putrid return on the Harden to Sixers trade, he’s been really good.
Do people think even if he wanted to, that he can override Tsai and just have traded Bridges to Houston?
What ???
1 for some reason Kyrie is a model citizen in Dallas , mishandled Kyrie here big time , with decision about not playing away games then changed his mind , Tsais stupid 7 points to do list , all of this was one big ****
2 never took a time to talk to Bruce Brown about extension and possible trade, all while corpses of Blake and Patty was still on the team
3 extending Vaughn while several better coaches was available in that very offseason
4 not protecting the picks in Harden incoming deal ( Billy King 2.0 )
5 not performing medical in Simmons trade
Marks is as terrible as they come , he made you believe in Brooklyn culture , so far this Brooklyn culture amounts to loosing season without a picks , without any promising young talent
All we got is
Terrible HC and staff
Mishandled Cam Thomas
Heavily underperforming Bridges, DFS
Overpaid Johnson
One foot out the door Claxton
and few miserable role players
Really well done Marks
We’re not going to agree here on most any of this, and I again feel most of this falls on orders from Tsai.
1 is the most important, and squarely falls on Kyrie himself, and Tsai. And let’s not be fooled, Kyrie has burnt every bridge he’s collected a toll from. Maybe he’s finally learning, and tbh I’m still rooting for him in Dallas, though felt he had to be dealt.
2 again was a tax issue and a Tsai issue imho. Still, he didn’t bring much back in trade and isn’t a player we needed now.
3 once again, I don’t believe this is a Marks choice, hell he desperately wanted Udoka, but the optics around the league and Tsai and Silver put the kibosh on that.
4 I’ll semi-agree on this, but this is normally the cost of trading for a superstar, especially with the other two guys on the roster.
5 this is a big one, along with only getting two very mediocre picks for him, then watching him traded for better value to LAC years later after pulling another tantrum and showing up looking out of shape and old.
I truly don’t understand what he has to do with Cam Thomas and some of you guys are way too over the moon with him anyway imho.
And Bridges is not underperforming, he’s basically performing. Why people are mad at him for not keeping up his unsustainable play from the second half of last year is beyond me. He has improved vastly overall since Phoenix, and this is pretty much the type of raw numbers we should expect out of him on an actual contender, 20/5/3.5 stuff as a 2b/3a option, just on immensely better efficiency and with energy left to play his league leading defense. Of course he’s failing when being forced to be a first option and initiator, with suspect point guard play, or even as a 2nd to the ball stopping and inefficient Cam.
Cam Johnson was overpaid a bit, but he’s another overextended role guy and likely wouldn’t be hard to move for a playable expiring and a late first or decent prospect.
DFS has always kind of sucked, don’t understand the allure to him, at this point he’s neutral to positive value salary filler they need to hang onto though.
Marks isn’t without flaws, but he is absolutely not terrible, not even close, he’s in the top half of GM’s in the league and will be scooped up in a heartbeat if he’s fired.
Your main beef should be with Tsai, his ego and delusion is unmatched.