I think you're missing the plan here.
Grit n Grind has come to Sacto.
Joerger is a bit like Bill Musselman in a way (Bill, not his dolt son). Worked his way up through every armpit minor league in America coaching scrubs and roleplayers and getting them to bear down, to grind out wins. Then joined the grittiest and grindiest franchise in the NBA. took over as coach with an aging unathletic crew, and again got his roleplayers to bear down and grind, hung on to a playoff spot last year with random roleplayers of every description filling most of his roster. This is his M.O. Sign guys who will bust their ass and play right, as opposed to sloppy or undisciplined talents.
Now what has amazed me is:
a) people have to leave Vivek alone now. You suspected it last year, but this summer is making it completely obvious that he must have learned his lesson. This all flies completely in the face of his limited basketball experience, is a complete 180 from jazz-ball and the pace that fired Malone. He has obviously turned things completely over to Vlade
b) Vlade himself, anybody who doesn't respect his work by this time is somebody who isn't paying attention. There are hints of Euro-flavor, but despite what I would speculate might be a preference for Princetonesque big man centric ball, this is a unique GM who appears to be absolutely in tune with his coaches. He has had two wildly different coaches, and rather than put together rosters according to his, the GM's instincts, he has put together radically different rosters apparently catered to those individual coaches.
So we are making the unsexiest moves possible, because our coach is unsexy, and our playstyle is apparently going to be unsexy. Unsexy but gritty. Tough roleplayers fighting for every possession, and then just a sprinkle of talent to try to provide us separation. Its an entirely different theory of roster construction than accumulate as much talent as you can and then try to meld the disparate parts together.
