Rob Pelinka Discussion: BBall Ops Pres + GM (AKA: Lucky Rob)

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Yeah main issue was Jeannie for penny pinching.
Then on Rob for the THT over AC decision. But I actually don't hold that one against although he got it wrong.

THT really looked like the next big thing. His frame is pretty much the ideal NBA player in modern times. Long, athletic, can handle, attack the paint and pass. He was a triple-double type of guy. Shooting isn't perfect but there was room to improve there. Completely understand the decision at the time, it's tough when you gamble on potential. That's why so many FRPs bust.

I'm actually pretty shocked with how bad he turned out. His ceiling was legit all-star but I thought his floor would be much higher.
It's probably one of low IQ, bad personality or work discipline, can't see other reason.

It certainly didn't help his fit here with Bron and Russ (reason why we should probably have sell high on him) but I thought he would thrive somewhere else and at least in Chicago he had a good opportunity to do so.

In any case, business decision should have been to keep both as both had a lot of value at the time and we couldn't lose them for nothing.
Rob is also to blame for 1) not convincing ownership of the mistake and 2) be creative to find ways to keep both, i.e. dumping someone else or getting creative. That's his job and he failed

 

yeah, i always go back to "no other gm of a contending team has to make that choice". that means ownership is the bigger problem. making the wrong one is also a problem, of course, and it's probably the worst decision rob's made during his entire tenure as gm.

i'm sure the fact that we've basically been desperate for a caruso type player since the day he left--and have been unable to conjure one by any means--isn't lost on him.

 

We came closest this season finally with Smart, unlike AC, not in his prime. But the positive effects for the team were obvious.

 

Honestly even knowing now that THT didn't work out, I still would have done the same thing that a lot of us advocated for then. Sign THT, Sign AC based on the information that was available at the time.

The cap hit was overblown because they signed an undersized guard that even Spoelstra couldn't quite figure out how to make it work in Nunn.
You always should take risks on really young players, with good skill sets, adn freak atheltic abilities IMO and you don't give up on assets for no reason.

 

yeah, one could argue the choice became nunn over caruso, really, as the money was closer there. and...yikes...

still can't believe we went after a second miami guy after that, lol.

 

It's really underrated how big of crashout the Nunn for AC move was. You redo the Brick debacle but you're still end going into those Denver series with AC/Reaves/lebron/AD - everyone else kind of shifts one level lower. You're 5th becomes Rui with Prince and DS as needed. Yikes re-visiting that series as the games were lost on basically a lot of loose balls and Murray pulling some s*** out of his a** looks like a perfect series for a guy like Caruso. Uggh

 

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