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Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

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  • #61
    Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

    It's hard not to trash every move... when's the last time we made a really good one? Signing DWest is the only really good move I can come up with in the last 5 years.

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    • #62
      Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

      Yeah, you're right. The team with a top 5 record last year, has only made on good move in the last five years. Pretty remarkable progress with all those bad decisions. We could be looking at 2-3 rings if they just managed to bat 50%.

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      • #63
        Smh.....well then, by all means I hope the front office ignores their combined years of actual experience and listens to your hunches and your crystal ball. You have no idea what they tried to get done. Maybe they tried to sign others and it couldn't be done.

        All I know is their job depends on making the right moves, so I'm pretty sure they try every avenue. It's laughable when people on here actually believe they know better.

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        • #64
          Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

          Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
          Only few of us(the haters) could see this coming, there is a whole thread full of people ("sunshiners and positive people") trashing us because we didn't agree and still don't agree with their point of view, the same "sunshiners" and "positive people" are still in denial about the off season maybe because they don't want to prove us "hater" right or because of pure blindness.

          The fact is that the Pacers had the potential to have one of the best off seasons ever and they screwed it up by signing a bunch of scrubs, I mean they had everything, cap space, trade assets, picks, they were also under the cap what else do you Fing want?

          They also had a one time opportunity to sign amnesty players without having to give up anything of value because they were under the cap but they decided not to pursuit anybody because "they knew what they were doing", how stupid can a front office be to decide not to sign quality players pretty much for free?

          I've been saying it for while the Pacers signed the equivalent of Solomon Jones, Kareem Rush, Travis Diener and to do it they decided that this time they were going to spend 10mil dollar a year, how stupid is that?

          Just imagine if the Pacers had a competent front office and instead of signing the scrub of Mahinmi(while giving away a trade asset) they have waited for Philly to amnesty Brand, or for Houston to amnesty Scola, imagine if instead of signing the scrub of Green they decided to keep Barbosa for veteran minimum, imagine if instead of DJ we have DC and instead of Young we have DJ.

          If the Pacers had a competent front office they would have made similar moves to the ones I'm describing but instead they decided to make moves that only worse GM's could think about making, hell I don't think I can see another worse GM making the same stupid moves I just can't.

          God forbid the front office try to upgrade our bench with some youth and athleticism. A former bench that simply got abused by the Miami Heat in the postseason (against a Heat team that is not deep at all). It hasn't paid off so far, but I can't fault them for at least trying. The status quo simply wasn't good enough...

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          • #65
            Originally posted by PR07 View Post
            God forbid the front office try to upgrade our bench with some youth and athleticism. A former bench that simply got abused by the Miami Heat in the postseason (against a Heat team that is not deep at all). It hasn't paid off so far, but I can't fault them for at least trying. The status quo simply wasn't good enough...
            Exactly! Certain people will complain no matter what moves are made.

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            • #66
              Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

              This isn't how an argument works, you haven't made an argument you've just said, "no you are wrong." In order for me to take you seriously you need to say you are wrong BECAUSE and then provide some examples. Where are these good moves? Which ones were good?

              Top 5 record... how'd that end up for us? Fool's gold right, I mean, 6 playoff wins feels nice, but when you remember they were all against teams missing a player better than any player on our roster is kind of sobers it up a bit, doesn't it?

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              • #67
                Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                Originally posted by PR07 View Post
                God forbid the front office try to upgrade our bench with some youth and athleticism. A former bench that simply got abused by the Miami Heat in the postseason (against a Heat team that is not deep at all). It hasn't paid off so far, but I can't fault them for at least trying. The status quo simply wasn't good enough...
                Of course you can, by the way I wonder how great this bench is going to look against Miami? It's going to be ugly.
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                • #68
                  Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                  Originally posted by Pacerized View Post
                  I think we could have landed Kaman with a longer contract offer in the same price range and that would have been my first choice.
                  Wait, you think we could have gotten Kaman as a backup at the same price range as who? Mahinmi? Kaman is getting $8M next year alone.

                  Are you saying have Kaman play all PF AND C bench minutes and therefore not get Mahinmi and dump Tyler as well? Then who plays the minutes when BOTH Roy and West are sitting?

                  I don't think this was feasible.


                  Originally posted by Pacerized View Post
                  Failing to do that I think the F.O. should have forced the signings of Hibbert and Hill back a week or 2.
                  I don't think they could have moved the signings once they were scheduled, not just because that was essentailly a promise but because it starts to look like cap manipulation that the league could (and probably would have) come down on hard.

                  I agree that the original signing scheduling was shortsighted due to not taking the amnesty period into account. While Scola was a surprise, failing to anticipate that a surprise could happen was a huge failure by the FO, probably the single one I personally am willing to point to as completely avoidable. Definitely a mistake.

                  Originally posted by Pacerized View Post
                  Imagine having DC backing up Hill and having the option of starting Barbosa, Jones, or Lance and never seeing Green or DJ on the floor.
                  Yes, DJ turned out to be a fail, but it isn't like DC is burning it up other than for a brief honeymoon period. Keeping DC would have ended up being a major problem for the bench and would likely have led to the FO being castigated heavily for having these weapons available off the bench but utterly failing to get a PG who could get them the ball or defend his way through a pick set by a wet paper bag.

                  And I think people have forgotten just how badly Barbosa was trashed around here after the Miami series. People were throwing him under the bus to the extent that I think there'd have been a revolt if he'd been re-signed.
                  BillS

                  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
                  Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...

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                  • #69
                    Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                    Originally posted by Miller_time04 View Post
                    I don't get it. I'm so baffled and confused at how bad he's been this year. It's like space jam, someone just stole his abilities and he forgot how to play. I dunno man...maybe he just doesn't wanna be here. Let him go back to the kitties then.
                    I've thought this same thing...which is ridiculous, because he came here as a FA.

                    Originally posted by McKeyFan View Post
                    Also, Frank pulled Lance after Lance played decent defense and did get called for a foul, but there was no penalty. Frank subs in Young and Miller immediately jukes him for a wide open 10 footer that he drains. I get that Frank is trying D for O and all that, but Lance had played pretty good defense. Young failed. And all that can affect a player's confidence.
                    Well, Lance did come right back in after that play. Lance came out, talked to the coaches, immediately came back in.

                    Miller had scored 8 straight...definition of insanity and all that. Trying to get on Frank for going to our second best man defender to slow that roll is ridiculous.

                    Finally, regarding the DJ situation, at some point you have to mail it in. $3.5M for this guy to literally be a negative force on the court. Hansbrough isn't a good option, as how much better will he be? It's worth a try, sure, but I believe you have to look for some veteran leadership to put on that unit.

                    There are 3 guys I'd be interested in, based on how they performed the past couple of seasons:

                    Lester Hudson (Real nice run with the Cavs, current FA. 10 day contracts become an option soon, maybe bring him in and see how it goes)
                    Baron Davis (Only reason he wasn't retained by the Cavs to play with Kyrie was his awful contract. FA, maybe he could bring some stability to the second unit)
                    Jordan Farmar (Hate myself for even mentioning it. This one is more a function of how bad DJ has been. But, MAYBE give Farmar some run and see what happens?)

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                    • #70
                      Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                      Originally posted by 2minutes twoa View Post
                      Smh.....well then, by all means I hope the front office ignores their combined years of actual experience and listens to your hunches and your crystal ball. You have no idea what they tried to get done. Maybe they tried to sign others and it couldn't be done.
                      You don't need a cristal ball to know that Green, Young, Ian and DJ were going to fail, it wasn't that hard to predict and yes we have an idea what they didn't try to get done BECAUSE THEY HAD A CHANCE TO GET AMNESTY PLAYERS BUT THEY DECIDED NOT TO EVEN TRY.

                      All I know is their job depends on making the right moves, so I'm pretty sure they try every avenue. It's laughable when people on here actually believe they know better.
                      It's laughable to see you guys defending this front office even after the horrible results, I wonder what excuses are you guys going to make this next off season? hey at least you are going to have some excuses, like no cap space, no trade assets, no more amnesty players and a bunch of long term contracts, yep it sounds familiar doesn't it?
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                      • #71
                        Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                        I wish I could be this bad at my job and have a fan base telling me I'm great at it. No, that's not even true, I have too much personal accountability to be satisfied with a decade of mediocrity at best.

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                        • #72
                          Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                          Originally posted by Dece View Post
                          I wish I could be this bad at my job and have a fan base telling me I'm great at it. No, that's not even true, I have too much personal accountability to be satisfied with a decade of mediocrity at best.
                          I would love to suck at my job and still have people telling me how great I am while getting pay a huge amount of money that would be nice.
                          @WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!

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                          • #73
                            Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                            Originally posted by BillS View Post
                            Wait, you think we could have gotten Kaman as a backup at the same price range as who? Mahinmi? Kaman is getting $8M next year alone.
                            Are you saying have Kaman play all PF AND C bench minutes and therefore not get Mahinmi and dump Tyler as well? Then who plays the minutes when BOTH Roy and West are sitting?
                            .
                            Yes, I think we could have landed Kaman with a 4/32 contract or maybe a 3/24 and he's well worth double what Ian is getting. Kaman would have had as many or more minutes playing for the Pacers as the Mavs and money talks. Figuring out the rotation really isn't that hard with Kaman being able to play either the 4 or the 5 it's easy to keep a combination of 2 of the 3 on the floor at almost all times you just always have either West or Hibbert on the floor and sometimes both. It's almost like the rotation we played with Smits and the Davises. I wouldn't suggest completely eliminating Hans but I would suggest just giving him spot minutes.

                            Why did we have to even schedule the signings of Hibbert and Hill so early? Good time management which falls under the job radar of the people managing our F.O. would have opened many many doors, and every year there are bargain players available after the big overspending rush. Bird knew this and that's how he landed West.
                            No offense but it honestly sounds like you're making excuses for incompetent management.
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                            • #74
                              Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                              People are happy and excited that we're hanging around .500. I guess .500 isn't terrible without Granger, until you realize that we have played the third weakest strength of schedule so far. Only Philly and Dallas have played weaker schedules, in the entire NBA. We have what, 2 wins against teams over .500 so far? Our record is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. But I guess we have to keep saying that when Granger gets back we're ECFinals bound, because that's even remotely likely. (hint: it isn't)

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                              • #75
                                Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                                Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
                                Only few of us(the haters) could see this coming, there is a whole thread full of people ("sunshiners and positive people") trashing us because we didn't agree and still don't agree with their point of view, the same "sunshiners" and "positive people" are still in denial about the off season maybe because they don't want to prove us "hater" right or because of pure blindness.

                                The fact is that the Pacers had the potential to have one of the best off seasons ever and they screwed it up by signing a bunch of scrubs, I mean they had everything, cap space, trade assets, picks, they were also under the cap what else do you Fing want?

                                They also had a one time opportunity to sign amnesty players without having to give up anything of value because they were under the cap but they decided not to pursuit anybody because "they knew what they were doing", how stupid can a front office be to decide not to sign quality players pretty much for free?

                                I've been saying it for while the Pacers signed the equivalent of Solomon Jones, Kareem Rush, Travis Diener and to do it they decided that this time they were going to spend 10mil dollar a year, how stupid is that?

                                Just imagine if the Pacers had a competent front office and instead of signing the scrub of Mahinmi(while giving away a trade asset) they have waited for Philly to amnesty Brand, or for Houston to amnesty Scola, imagine if instead of signing the scrub of Green they decided to keep Barbosa for veteran minimum, imagine if instead of DJ we have DC and instead of Young we have DJ.

                                If the Pacers had a competent front office they would have made similar moves to the ones I'm describing but instead they decided to make moves that only worse GM's could think about making, hell I don't think I can see another worse GM making the same stupid moves I just can't.
                                If we had a competent front office we'd be looking at what the Mavs brought in for bargain prices. Cuban made us look like fools.
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