Some fans on this site are maddeningly inconsistent and hypocritical. They want Hinkie or Morey, despite their flaws and lack of a championship, because those teams are playoff teams, but they bad mouth Dumars who also built a perennial playoff team but unlike the other two actually won a title. Go figure. Tremendous logic.
IDC if Dumars team won a title 16 years ago. He at least proved he can build a team to go all the way. Meanwhile the other two have built their teams using gimmicks and never reach the Finals and often lose in the 1st or 2nd round. The freaking Sixers have TWO 2nd round appearances thus far to show for all their years of tanking. In the weaker East no less.
Yeah, yeah, but at least they make the playoffs unlike the KINGS, right? If that’s the extent of a KINGS fan’s goals or vision, I can’t go there with you.
Sure, of course I’d love for the KINGS to reach the postseason. But I’m not so solely focused on it to blindly accept a GM that can build a team mired to the bottom half of the top 8. The KINGS had that type of team in 1996 and even early during the Adelman years. It gets pretty old pretty fast. I root for teams in other sports that are good enough to make the postseason regularly, but can’t ever take it further. Do any of you root for the SJ Sharks?
I’d much rather have a GM that has at least made it happen once. And didn’t have to resort to gimmicks to do it.
Regardless, IMO it’s disingenuous to prop up Hinkie and Morey while dismissing Dumars.
I personally am not 100% on the Dumars bandwagon. But if it’s a choice between Dumars or the likes of Hinkie and Morey, it’s an easy choice for me. But if the KINGS could get an up and comer in the mold of a Sam Presti, I’d prefer going that direction.
Presti hasn’t won a title either, but he’s proved more consistent than the other two in terms of drafting talent and acquiring assets and using those assets wisely. His OKC team came closer to a title than anything Morey or Hinkie has produced. His current team minus a legit super star is arguably just as good as their teams. And he has a ton of assets to continue building. And he didn’t use gimmicks to do it.