CalgaryRapsFan wrote:
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And even skilled, committed, methodical GM's like Sam Presti can make an epic screw up and trade away a youthful MVP candidate like James Harden for pennies-on-the-dollar. Injuries can happen, players attitudes can change, ownership can meddle or be non-supportive, or cheap, etc.., etc...
The only things that seem to be more controllable than others are: (1) developing a culture of high character, unselfishness, hard work & accountability, (2) having a strong player development infrastructure, (3) having a coach that can develop a system to maximize the value of the players, (4) maintaining financial flexibility & not overpaying relative to performance. Probably a few others, but I'd suspect that for every great talent evaluation move a supposed great GM has made, he's probably made a least one or two duds to offset that greatness. Of course shitty GMs probably make even more bad moves for every good one, so.... I'm at a loss here, really.
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