Can a Coli poster do a better job than some NBA GMs.

[ALonelyDad]

Easily, you just have to read the gm surveys every year to know they are as casual as some of the fans

 

[FTBS]

Yes. You see some of the shyt that cats on here point out before it happens and you are like "How the hell did the people paid millions with greater access not see this? "

 

[DaSk8D00D]

I think a lot of people could do the actual "job" better than a lot of these GM's as far as coming up with the right ideas for trades, contracts, etc but most people dont have the administration skills or experience to pull off everything that they can think of in their head. Its seems easy enough to do some perfect 3 way trade on 2k or ESPN trade machine but its a whole other ball game when you gotta actually call mf's up multiple times to negotiate with multiple pieces while they're also negotiating with some other GM and yall doing this back n forth over the course of days. I'm sure the trade deadlines and offseason are hectic as fukk.

a lot them do seem incompetent tho almost as if they got the job for their prior administration skills/experience regardless of their actual basketball knowledge

 

[hayesc0]

Sure but could you deal with the office politics of backstapping etc.
Dealing with a frivilious owner who flip out since you ordered the last piece of fish in the cafeteria.
I'm guessing the job is a lot harder than it looks

Yep this is what people arent realizing. Just like whatever job you may work its somethings you have control over but its probably 1000 things you would change but you dont have the power to.

 

[Heavy_Handz]

Hell yea. I could transform the worst NBA team and turn them into perennial winners. Just give me a top draft pick and salary cap to work with right off the bat

 

[Creflo ½ Dollar]

Sure but could you deal with the office politics of backstapping etc.
Dealing with a frivilious owner who flip out since you ordered the last piece of fish in the cafeteria.
I'm guessing the job is a lot harder than it looks

But I was saying if I was a regular GM candidate and assuming I knew the game (hence being a GM candidate) I feel like I could be a decent GM. Paying Miles Plumlee 4 years 50 million dollars was inexcusable at the time and still inexcusable to this day.

Obviously we would have to know how the business work. For example I'm pretty sure that the rich Russian wanted to win now but what Billy King did to the Nets was ridiculous no matter how you look at it.

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Easily

 

[TrebleMan]

I don't know about GM's because they have to manage business relationships and politics too. The fact is that you'll have to do some things you wouldn't want to do and that'll be enough to fire many people who think they can be.

You'd have to watch a ton of basketball, know your players' personalities, know our staffs' personalities, have good relationships with all of them, how the players will mesh with each other, not lose your cool otherwise your rep gets demolished and nobody would sign with you. You must know which players will impact your current locker room for the better. Work with the endorsements, media accessibility, dishing out fair discipline, etc. Not to mention having to work with the geography you got: being GM of the Utah Jazz, Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers trying to contend with the Lakers when it comes to free agency is another tricky aspect altogether.

Like another breh said, it's a lot more difficult than some ESPN or 2k game. In a lot of ways, basketball is the easy part.

Two players may fit great on the court, but they hate each other off of it and you have to manage that. Most likely means you'll have to get rid of one and your fans will hate you for it. The cat you get rid of is close with some players on and off the team and now you really got a mess.

Even politics are in play when it comes to signing scrub players for a lot of money. Refusing to could easily turn into talk about your reputation as being cheap and treating players as expendable.

Imagine hiring Greg Popovich and having Shaq before either won any championships. Chances are egos would blow up and you'd get rid of one of them. Then you'd be known as the GM who got rid of Pop or Shaq.

Dealing with parents, close friends of your players, spouses of players on twitter, players who have that "you never played in the NBA tf you know?!" mentality, once-in-a-generation draft picks who absolutely don't want to and will not play for you because the Lakers are picking next, etc.

You really have to be a people person, understand social dynamics, and other areas where a lot of the introverts on message boards would fold. Dealing with emotions, egos and rumors complicates decision making.

But I do think some people here are better talent scouts and maybe even know more about basketball than some of the coaching staff. But again, can they cater to personalities?

 

[Creflo ½ Dollar]

I think a lot of people could do the actual "job" better than a lot of these GM's as far as coming up with the right ideas for trades, contracts, etc but most people dont have the administration skills or experience to pull off everything that they can think of in their head. Its seems easy enough to do some perfect 3 way trade on 2k or ESPN trade machine but its a whole other ball game when you gotta actually call mf's up multiple times to negotiate with multiple pieces while they're also negotiating with some other GM and yall doing this back n forth over the course of days. I'm sure the trade deadlines and offseason are hectic as fukk.

a lot them do seem incompetent tho almost as if they got the job for their prior administration skills/experience regardless of their actual basketball knowledge

Yea I understand that it's more than just picking players and trading them. But what can make anybody look at the Deng and Mozgov signing and be like this would be good for our franchise moving forward. Some of the stuff that some GMs do is just

 

[pimpineasy]

But I was saying if I was a regular GM candidate and assuming I knew the game (hence being a GM candidate) I feel like I could be a decent GM. Paying Miles Plumlee 4 years 50 million dollars was inexcusable at the time and still inexcusable to this day.

Obviously we would have to know how the business work. For example I'm pretty sure that the rich Russian wanted to win now but what Billy King did to the Nets was ridiculous no matter how you look at it.

Yeah but you missing the point. What about the politics and backstabbing. Dealing with people who are trife in your own organization. You can't throw hands at the first fukkboi that backstabs you or you out the door.
That's what I magine it to be like

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Everybody on thecoli better than Dell Demps.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Without a doubt. I don't but into the thinking that just because they are their means they know more or are better. Fields where nepotism reigns are plagued with people who really don't know what they're doing.

Jim buss gave mozgov and deng those disgusting contracts. You damn right I could do a better job

 

[AVXL]

I think you have guys on here who have good opinions on players and maybe the type of players they'd want to build a team around, but working the cap, evaluating, drafting & developing players, working with a billionaire owner and coaching staff would probably be what trips most people up trying to basically run an organization not just picking players

 

[Creflo ½ Dollar]

I think you have guys on here who have good opinions on players and maybe the type of players they'd want to build a team around, but working the cap, evaluating, drafting & developing players, working with a billionaire owner and coaching staff would probably be what trips most people up trying to basically run an organization not just picking players

It would be sort of like how Trump handle being in office lol just surround yourself with people who got experience. If that motherfukker can be president with no experience we can be a GM lol. It would be hard but idk see how the GM can make so many obvious fukk ups. It happen every summer. You can't do worser than billy king did to the nets even with the pressure to win now.

 

[42 Monks]

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