Number one, you are being rude. Number two, there is no point in having a forthright debate with you. You defend everything and every player on this team. You defend the coach at every turn. You defend the GM at every turn. Of course you are going to take issue with my opinion. I am willing to criticize this team. You are not. My analysis is based on piecing together bits of evidence, I am not pulling monkeys out of my butt. Of course someone who is unwilling to criticize her team is going to have a problem with someone who is willing to criticize the team.
You love Vlade as a player. That's fine I don't begrudge you that. But that doesn't make him immune to criticism as GM. He gave away the farm including our unprotected pick for cap space, chased broken down players, botched the Boogie trade, signed washed up free agents like Afflalo, Hill and Z-Bo, refused to work the phones, has poor command of the English language in a job that requires savvy subtle negotiation, and he is someone you want to place your complete trust and faith? That's like trusting your car repair to a pastry chef.
With that said, he doesn't have to perfect for us to turn the corner. I said a trained monkey could have picked De Aaron at #5, who I placed a franchise tag on before his first pro game. It was the #10 pick that required prudence. Henceforth, when everyone was going left I was going right. I was applauding his moves over the last 6 months controversial moves like drafting Bagley and chasing Lavine, and now here we are hovering around .500. But that doesn't make him a messiah.
Suppose you hopped over to the Milwaukee Bucks Forum. One fan loves every player, overlooks every lackadaisical play and mental blunder and defends every questionable draft pick. Then you have another fan that hands out praise only when there is preponderance of evidence while also questioning the team or player when progress and improvement is slow to nonexistent. Who are you more likely to trust? Who do you think is able to set aside their rooting bias to do an accurate assessment? Who is not blinded by emotion? You are the first fan. I am the second fan. That's is neither good or bad in an ultimate sense, that is just the way it is.
I only dislike two players on this team: Willie and Jackson. I don't go out of my way to hand out verbal smackdowns. I like and support every other player on this roster, for the time being at least, which may be a record over the last decade. Oh, I don't dislike Koufos, but I don't want to see him play either. Further, though I have been highly critical of Joerger and Vlade, I don't want either to lose their job. The coach in particular has been commendable. I forecast he was coaching for his career this season, and it would be predicated on whether he gave Z-Bo minutes.
Like I said we were drafting Bagley whenever one else was betting on MPJ and Luka or another name out of a hat, this was insight you didn't get elsewhere. This was not blathering, this was Blobian clairvoyance.
Most fans saw Z-Bo as 10-15 MPG bench contributor. But back to the main point: Vlade is incapable of doing his job without a co-GM to compensate for Vlade's flaws. Vlade is more replaceable than Williams. Williams may have spoke out of turn, but we don't know the extent of what transpired yet. Your hero is a paper tiger. Your savior is a charlatan. The ownership knows it and that is why Williams is still gainfully employed.