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Originally Posted by FAX
I've thought of that. I'm not sure that's the reason we didn't aggressively go after better talent this year, though.
My take is that everybody knew that this season was going to be very rough but, unfortunately, they really couldn't evaluate our roster until we had a training camp and some games under our belt.
Planeteers haven't talked about it much, but Pioli has. He's mentioned it several times ... stating that he needs to find guys who have talent but also "respond" to the coaches (meaning Haley), or words to that effect. I don't think they knew which current players were going to "respond", so the strategy was to more or less hold pat until the smoke clears and they can see the picture more clearly.
Of course, that theory gives Pioli the benefit of the doubt that, after watching film, he knew we were horrible.
FAX
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At this point we pretty much have to give Pioli the benefit of the doubt. You might be able to judge a player pretty quickly but a coach takes longer ... a GM even longer still.
We'll have to wait and see what happens next offseason before we even begin to judge Pioli imo.