Rob Pelinka Discussion: President Of BBall Ops + GM + Extension

If it was an open secret that it was THT or Caruso, that reinforces the point that it was an ownership decision. Only reason to choose between one over the other is $$$ and Jeanie was being cheap.

 

That still didn't dictate which one was chosen.

 

i think it was more klutch than miami -->

this was all in the klutch days. they yielded lebron and AD (yay!) and a bunch of bad ideas (THT, nunn, russ, etc.).

rob's responsible for riding with klutch, and he got a ring out of it and has--i think--now extracted himself from that mutually beneficial relationship and landed a generational talent to build around for the foreseeable future.

i guess you could fire him because he didn't trade dlo and three firsts for jonas valanciunas or jerami grant or something.

...or you could be impressed with him pulling multiple rabbits out of very tiny hats. and give him an extension.

 

tht was 3/30. caruso was less in total cash. nunn was 2/12 with a PO, iirc. so in comparison to nunn, caruso's deal was more expensive. still...wow...just a huge whiff.

again, two things can be true: rob made a poor choice AND rob didn't have to make a choice if ownership wasn't cheap.

HE MOST CERTAINLY WAS.

 

Not sure if you guys saw Caruso’s impact in game three but they were down big in the first half. OKC was able to overcome the lead, partly because Ja got hurt, partly because Chet got hot, and more so that their defense, spearheaded by Alex, completely shot down anything Memphis wanted to do.

 

I knew about Caruso, before any of you cats ever heard his name.

 

That's not accute.

 

Side text Luka right now, and tell him you got his back with the wand moves you can make this summer. Please Rob. This personnel aint it. 3 seed or not, clearly not a team that’s going far.

 

The role players dont play their role well, 40M+ in rui, gabe and vando....

 

Our role players have honestly not shown up in any meaningful way in all 3 games. Recipe for disaster.

 

I’m not sure what you guys were watching. The playoffs are really about a handful of plays per game.

Goodwin had a steal as soon as he entered the game, had a block where we secured possession and forced a jump ball on a 3 vs 2 situation that we won. Brought tons of energy.

Vando brought lots of physicality, and created a few turnovers and played some hard nosed defence that resulted in him getting a defensive rebound.

DFS underpinned our whole defence and was key in our come back in the second. He also boxed out like a beast and hit 2 threes.

Gabe hit a huge three and generally bought energy.

The problem wasn’t our role players, it was that Luka was terrible. Rui was poor and our main ball handlers had 15 odd turnovers.

Reaves needs to be a bit better, his 3’s masked his off finishing and turnovers. Luka needs to be a whole lot better, they hunted him in the 4th to great effect and was game.

 

Vando effort on def is there but hes not actually effective on that end at all, n 1 on randle after a team made a basket, gets def reb loses it and gives up another n 1, rui just non existent, he had a block or 2 but he really wasnt guarding any 1 well...yes Luka sucked but he was sick so im not sure how to point all the blame on him

 

Vando gets a pass from me because JJ has decided he’s a post defender and that’s not what he’s good at. It’s the reason he picks up cheap fouls like the 5 in game three trying to battle monsters like Randle, Gobert and Reid in the post.

 

Yeah I know people are down about the loss but Minnesota is legit good and the Lakers are top heavy! Yeah they're were clearly problems with TOs and rebounding but both are due in part to what Sota does well with their size and athleticism

This game was totally winnable and I thought the Lskers were in control for large portions of the game till it became Luka hunting and JJ kept the ball in sick Lukas hands.

Lebron is starting to move a lot better just bad timing that hes more fit just when Luka got sick. Almost everyone outside of Hayes and Luka looked like they were starting to get in the flow of the series

 

Sentiment is a funny thing, Denver was done 2 days ago. And if they tie the series up today, it’s going to flip.

We’re in the same boat, if Luka, Lebron and Reaves drop 75 on Minny, then they’ll be saying that the wolves lost their chance to go 3-1 up and we’ll win out in 6 from there.

Minny is the bigger team, they’re more athletic with Ant, McDaniels and Randle. But we’ve also got the best players on the floor in Luka and Lebron. They haven’t gone off together yet in this series. Hopefully Luka is healthy in game 4, because Lebron was looking good.

My feeling is we win games 4 and 5. Luka looks to cut their throat in game 6.

 

i'm actually quite surprised denver didn't lay down in game 4. hope we follow suit.

 

Yeah IF you sign him and Tucker. Not if we chose Caruso instead of Tucker.