re: Hollinger on the Status of the Pels

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Griffin really has been a disaster for this franchise.

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Do people really need this kind of hyperbole? He has obviously not been a disaster, as we are 1.5 games out of the play-in, without our franchise player, and we are 10-7 in our last 17 games.

Griff isn't responsible for Zion's foot injury, without which we would undoubtedly be in the top 6 teams in the West, which is all I think that most of us expected from this season.

You can't just dismiss the Willie Green hiring, the drafting of Herb, and the Valanciunas acquisition and say that those things mean nothing.

I also don't think that Griff has been all that great, and I don't see any need to defend the Lonzo trade. I was on the fence about keeping Lonzo, but we clearly did not get market value for him. I will say that Temple and Sato have looked more like actual rotation players of late, instead of the unmitigated disasters they seemed to be at the beginning of the season.

You don't have to be a hater or a fanboy, folks. You can try to be objective and say that, after the first 13 games, it looked like Griff's grade would be an F, but more recent developments make it look more like a C-, and his grade could go up even more, or it could go back down. Because, ultimately, he's responsible for the result.