you know , watching that crap dump of a team in Detroit made me think about just how badly some teams are run.
Detroit is a prime example to me, they simply do not know what they want to be.
they have tanked, which never works ( NO team that ever went thru tanking this century has ever played in an NBA finals afterwards, I believe).
and they signed the best HC on the market in Monty Williams ( and had to pay up big time for him agree to come there) and they talked about pushing for a playoff spot
yet they used cap space this past off-season to take on marginal or BAD expiring salary's ( J. Harris-19.9M and M. Morris- 9.8M). While vet free agents that could have helped them actually WIN went elsewhere.
they have a boatload of high draft picks, but maybe only Cunningham, Duran, Ivey and Stewart are really NBA starters on a good team.
yet they used the #5 pick on yet another YOUNG player, who may or not ever be a NBA starter on a good team.
a good GM who wanted to win might have looked at moving Bogdanovic and his 20M salary along with that #5 pick to get a quality NBA vet at the draft.
the next best asset they have is I. Stewart who is behind a better young big in Duran now.
Using Stewart and maybe K. Hayes salary to get another quality NBA vet might have been a smart move ( IF one wants to actually win that is).
players like M. Brogdon, M. Smart, J. Collins. C. Paul (played for Williams) could have been possible vet additions in trades.
while Free agents like K. Kuzma, D. Green , PJ Washington, G. Williams. D. Brooks, M. Strus, B. Brown would have been much better use of cap space than the above mentioned Harris and Morris.
I mean its not that hard to to put a team together to actually TRY to win, when an organization wants to.
it just seems some are inept or somehow think "tanking" is the answer ( again its never won a team anything)
