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"I tried everything I could to build around Chris Bosh but he wasn't good enough"
post 2010/11 season : "Andrea will never be a good defender but he can be a good rebounder" - post 2011/12 season "Andrea will never be a good rebounder but we saw he can be a good defender"
"on paper this was the best team I ever assembled"
Biggest draft mistake - "Casey Jacobson and PJ Tucker"
Does Colangelo admit failures? Sure. The small ones. But he never admits to the big ones and the ones with a significant impact. Don't get me wrong I'm not expecting him to go public and say "damn I f*cked that one up. My bad." But what he does do is invest more heavily in his mistakes in an attempt to make them work, which leads to even bigger problems. The most obvious being:
Bosh - JO/Marion/Hedo were all done in an attempt to retain Bosh. Besides Bosh not being a franchise player, there was little chance he was staying
Bargnani - #1 pick, has used him as the center peice of the team since Bosh left. Casey, "Accelerated Rebuilding" and all thats come with it
Plus now we have:
Demar - picked because of the need for athleticism and the lack of wing play, given a heavy team focus prematurely, now given a big contract extension prematurely.
This is what Colangelo does. He makes heavy investments in a players potential and then continues to force the issue. So while he does admit the small mistakes, there is significant difference in accepting and selling a $500 dollar loss in General Motors, while continuing to add to my $10,000 investment in horse drawn carriages.
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