re: Our once great Pelicans Talk is becoming unreadable

quote:

---

Sure. Okay, now what? I'm telling you, the ownership situation is not good. Can it be overcome? Sure. Anything is possible. It just isn't likely, so I wouldn't hold my breath. But you can do as you please. Hold out hope that they hire one of those once in a decade guys who can turn an organization around in spite of itself.

You hope. I shall not. Im too old for that.

---

Correct me if I'm wrong but, I see three main problems with our ownership:

1) The weird organizational structure which has Loomis overlooking Demps even though Loomis has no real experience running an NBA franchise

2) Benson bought the team as an old man and wanted to see them win a ship before he dies. Therefore, he rushed the rebuild process which hampered Dell.

3) If Benson couldn't win a championship, he at least wanted to make some money off the team which made him less willing to spend money on the little things. Sure, he's not as cheap as Shinn, but he's still not doing "whatever it takes" money-wise to compete with the top teams.

IF I'm right, that means that potentially two of those problems could subside when Benson passes and Gale takes over (Assuming Gale is the one that will continue to own the team afterwards. I don't know what the plan is there.)

Now, you know more about this than I so my question is, do you see ownership improving at all once Benson is gone? I know that's kinda morbid to think of and I'm not sitting here hoping he dies, I'm just curious on your take.

quote:

---

Davis makes Cousins better, but I feel like Cousins kind of makes Davis worse.

---

I read this. Thought to myself that's a clever observation, as I hadn't seen this yet on the board. Looked who wrote it. Damn near fell out of my chair.

i am never shocked at how our biases cause us to ignore obvious facts

quote:

---

I DON'T THINK THAT MANAGEMENT IS GOOD!!

How many times do I have to say this???

I just think ownership sucks TOO

---

Where did I say you think management is good??? You always get so defensive with the notion that you have a connection to management.

I said I think your view of ownership is skewed by your affinity for management. Perhaps I should have said relationship with instead of affnity for, but in essence you like Dell (not that you think he has been a good GM, but that he could be a good GM) and have a long term relationship with the people in his office. You chat with them and receive information from them, so you would tend to see things from their point of view as opposed to ownership with which you have no connection.

Regardless, the Pelicans are stuck with the owner. The owner is not good, but he has a championship trophy in a major sport because management/coaching changed the way they approached things with the Saints. From my perspective the ownership situation can be improved, it is not the unfixable type of Dolan/Randavive/Sarver bad.

Actually one of my biggest criticisms of Dell is that he does not appear to be a leader. If ownership is not on the same page, then the GM should convince them how the organization should be run and why it would be in their best interests to fix things. Again we are the smallest of markets, so there will always be a budget as very few teams can spend without regard for costs. However a GM should be able to convince ownership to spend where necessary and figure out the most efficient allocation of funds for running the organization.

It has always been unreadable.