Great piece from Kelly Dwyer from "Ball Don't Lie" regarding Colangelo and how he's been revealed.
I'm quoting more than I should, but this is worth the read.
Click the link below to read the entire column. It's good and opens your eyes to perhaps what Colangelo hasn't done while in Toronto. Build a winner.
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I'm quoting more than I should, but this is worth the read.
Most GMs, be they new hires or incumbent holdovers, are usually afforded one franchise-type talent in their attempt at the ring. These talents don't have to be as prominent as a LeBron James(notes) or come as hyped as a Greg Oden(notes), but there are enough talents to go around, and give each of these personnel bosses one with which to work. Then, with the patience of ownership and a short window of cap space and pre-contract expiration for the star in question, the GM gets one chance to get it all right.
Bryan Colangelo didn't get it all right with Chris Bosh(notes). Actually, he got most of it wrong. And this is why Bosh, in Colangelo's own words, is "likely" to leave Toronto sometime this summer.
Which is a shame, because Toronto itself didn't really do anything to deserve losing its best player without compensation. The Raptors fans remain rabid and intelligent; a good decade after quite a few of them remained, well, rabid. Playing at the Air Canada Centre, even if you're pulling down one win for every two tries, seems like a pretty worthwhile experience.
Bryan Colangelo didn't get it all right with Chris Bosh(notes). Actually, he got most of it wrong. And this is why Bosh, in Colangelo's own words, is "likely" to leave Toronto sometime this summer.
Which is a shame, because Toronto itself didn't really do anything to deserve losing its best player without compensation. The Raptors fans remain rabid and intelligent; a good decade after quite a few of them remained, well, rabid. Playing at the Air Canada Centre, even if you're pulling down one win for every two tries, seems like a pretty worthwhile experience.
The problem was Colangelo's execution, and the seeming arrogance that came with it.
The guy has more or less been revealed. And as damning as his big moves have been, the smaller ones tell nearly as big a story. The hiring of bit players whose names had been tossed around the NBA for a while, but ones that any scout with any salt tossed over his shoulder (or, perhaps, an understanding of advanced pro basketball statistical metrics) would have run far, far away from.
The guy has more or less been revealed. And as damning as his big moves have been, the smaller ones tell nearly as big a story. The hiring of bit players whose names had been tossed around the NBA for a while, but ones that any scout with any salt tossed over his shoulder (or, perhaps, an understanding of advanced pro basketball statistical metrics) would have run far, far away from.
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