fordronken said:
Don't say you are looking long term and then say Jerry West only did so much with the Grizzlies thus far. First off, what he's accomplished with the Grizzlies(an enormous joke before he got there) is remarkable. Also, if you look long term, as you claim you'd like to, you may want to take a gander at a team called the Los Angeles Lakers. They did okay while he was in charge. BC is a good GM, almost certainly in the top half of the league, but to say he's not as good as Colangelo because you wouldn't trade their current teams is ludicrous. I would rather have last year's Lakers than last year's Grizzlies, but there is no way in hell that it makes Kupchak a better GM.
i dont give jerry west all of the credit for the lakers because the city and team name gets some of that. and right now jerry was has a team loaded with wing players, one point guard who has improved but still has a lot of work to go before he is something and a power forward who cant guard a door but is a very hard worker and is the team star player.
i look at more then does the team make the playoffs, i look at how well the team is build for the roles. these can be moved around a little but for the most part the closer to the roles the better the team does as a team.
-center low post, shoot blocker and rebounding.
-power forward mid range, rebounding and some toughness
-small forward mid to long range shooting and good defense
-shooting guard long range and movement without the ball, second ball handling respondabilities and defense.
-point guard outside shooting, setting up the play and getting the ball where it needs to be, making others better. defense, ability to pressure the ball.
does it have a post player? if it does have a post player then does it have players around to help open up and space the floor for the post player. does the team have a star player? if so does the offense go to the strenght of the team (i.e. clements came into dallas and wanted kidd to run the triangle offense.)
for the suns their weakness up until the signing of nash has been solid outside shooting and inside defense around the post. suns have been lucky that they have both amare and marion as solid shooting blocker but they do need to strenghen the defense on the inside.
it is the GM's reponsability to bring all the pieces together on the floor for the coach. west has done a very good job in memphis but they have 2 many wing player(small forward and shooting guard) and not enought player to fill the other needs on the team.