What's this fascination with Sam Hinke? His whole strategy as GM was to tank and get a top 3 picks for 7 years in a row.
Out of all those years of tanking, he drafted exactly one All-Star player in Joel Embiid! One All-Star player, for all those years of tanking!
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I’m 100% with you here.
What’s Hinkie’s track record prior to Philly? It’s not as if this guy is Jerry West or Pat Riley with a long storied, successful resume.
His claim to fame is fielding G League (formerly D-League) roster’s for several seasons all while stealing money from super unhappy fans then getting lucky in the lottery a couple times in draft years that also fortunately had a couple potential star players at the very top.
Don’t forget that the KINGS once held the best odds of landing the #1 back in 2009 but wound up with the 4th pick. So that strategy isn’t so super smart. And especially nowadays when they’ve further weighted lottery odds and spread the. Out among the bottom 3-4 teams.
The KINGS also landed #1 in 1989 when no worthwhile player’s were available. Per usual their timing was awful as had player’s been coming straight from HS then as they would start doing 6 years later, they likely would have ended up with Shaquille O’Neal.
In short, the KINGS lottery fortunes have been abysmal. Yet some folks want some overrated dude that only manage to build a playoff team by unabashedly tanking for numerous years? And that same team he built has done nothing but underachieve considering the expectations.
Sorry, no thanks.
With regard to Daryl Morey, sorry again, but no thanks. It doesn’t matter to me how many times the Rockets have won 50+ games and been to the playoffs. They aren’t a championship level team despite all the hype and preferential treatment they receive. If they don’t manage to steal a title during this bubble season where the Warriors aren’t a factor and KD isn’t playing for Brooklyn, they never will.
And I don’t care to watch a team that goes over-the-top small ball then chucks 50+ three’s game in and game out because their GM thinks he’s some analytical genius.
I’d rather suffer through losing the way the KINGS have been losing than root for a team that plays the way Morey’s teams do and are typically underwhelming against better competition. That style of ball wins during the regular season when they play 82, but doesn’t fare so well outside the 1st round of the playoffs.
The Warriors have won several titles, but they also are an exception with 2 of the better shooters of the modern era, and possibly ever. And they played elite level defense.
Morey’s teams jack up three’s despite not having near as efficient and prolific shooters and don’t play anywhere near elite level defense.
If not for bogus bail out, star treatment calls from officials, I don’t believe HOU would even be a top 6 team in the West.
Again, no thanks.
I’d much rather see the KINGS in the hands of Joe Dumars full-time, or some other fresh candidate that doesn’t buy into Hinkie or Morey’s way of doing things.
