Oh he's going to take care of it for me. He's about 1 more losing season from getting his underqualified ass fired. Unfortunately as likely as not to be replaced by Chris Mullin who appears to have strapped himself to Vivek's hip. Nonetheless he's done absolutely nothing to deserve anyone's particular respect. Unfortunately for him, I don't know that he is entirely in control of the situation to fix things. I have ?? over several decisions made in his tenure, about how much he is to blame, or how much he is to credit. There is a Maloofian air of too many cooks hovering over our decisionmaking crew. Go back and watch the vid of the idiots dancing around when they drafted McLemore. Notice the one guy who isn't? Watch the vid of this recent draft with Stauskas. Notice the hesitation? Landry may have been Malone's idea. This Golden State fetish would surely be coming from Vivek/Mullin, not PDA, who came out of Denver. etc. When there are reports that we are looking around the league for either a shotblocker or a stretch 4 to put next to Cousins...that's a very odd thing for a single individual to target. Two wildly different visions. Would not surprise me if those two visions belong to two different factions in the front office. not sure which one is PDA, and which one is the coach or Golden State boys. In any case gerbil was wildly unqualified to suddenly get a random promotion. He wasn't even expecting the hire. The thought has occurred to me more than once that that may have been done on purpose to create a weak GM/set up a decionmaking cabal including the owner, his "advisors", the coach the owner hired, and then the GM. That's done all the time. You want to be hands off, you hire a big hitter who runs things like he owns the team, in dictatorial fashion. You want to have a say/meddle? You hire somebody underqualified who is aware of the weakness of their position and will not dare to make moves without your sanction. In which case BTW Pete has my sympathy. Few things suck worse than being led down a path to failure that is going to land on your lap, and not having the power to change it.
In any case, this next move is the one that could get the rodent off his resume...or could seal his fate as a temporary phenomenon quietly demoted back to basement stats geek/cap specialist. The shotblcoker/defender. The guy who is going to have to serve as defensive catalyst. I have been saying for weeks I strongly suspect gerbil is trying to do something big back there, and it could change our fate considerably, for good or ill. Just don't know if we have the pieces left that anyone will play along, which BTW again returns to the poor planning stages.
