re: Dell Demps Approval Rating

Do you think that there is a scenario where Demps fires Gentry and hires a new coach this offseason because I know he hasn't coached a game yet with cousins but I don't think he his the right coach

I think they are genuinely giving Gentry a chance with this roster. But if it is obvious his system won't work over these 25 games, they will look elsewhere. But the same problem remains - Demps won't want to hire a guy who takes power from him. The question is whether Loomis fires both Dell and Gentry if Calipari calls again. Or if things blow up in LA and Doc does, etc.

You might, but when people post things like "Dell is an idiot, he should have...." they are essentially saying or acting like they are smarter than him in this arena. They aren't. I'm not. Talk to him for an hour and you will realize that really quick.

He made some bets and was maybe a little too glass half full and they went bad, mostly because of freak injuries that not only hurt the team while the guys were injured, but it din't allow them to build cohesion. And it also killed guys trade value, as his whole plan was to acquire all these assets and then flip two or three for a major piece. Bad luck.

But on Sunday, he had his "Drew Brees" fall into his lap. The Kings (Dolphins) did something stupid and nobody else capitalized. Sometimes luck trumps intelligence.

You're right, it doesn't matter to much anymore. I just really hope that if we are able to open up cap space this offseason through a trade and we miss on our top targets, that we don't dish out a long term deal to a player that might not be worth it. I'd much rather doing something like Boston did with Amir Johnson, we could find a decent shooting guard, sign him into a non-guaranteed one year deal with a team option for a second and let that become an asset come trade deadline or next year's off season.

Rumor is the "better deal" Vlade had on the table was from us.

It was the 2019 1st rounder in stead of the 2nd rounder this year.

So Boogie could have walked after next season before we were done paying for him.

Not good management.

Demps has been closing his eyes and swinging at the high heat for years and suddenly he is the best ever because he connected and put one out of the park? Please.

He is just as bad now as he was Sunday night.

Hence, the part where I said "he makes mistakes"

If you were the GM, you wouldn't go 100 for 100. I guarantee if I scoured your past posts, you advocated moves that would have been horrible for us. He is flawed. He was a C ten days ago, he is a C now, IMO. But he got unlucky in the past on moves that could have gone either way. He got lucky on Sunday. He will make good moves in the future and bad ones as well. His optimism bias got him with several past deals and it will probably burn him again in the future. He is human, but he knows the game better than we do.