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Originally Posted by Laz

This might be another reason why Pioli didn't go big in free agency. Not only are they evaluating existing talent,switching all the coaches and transitioning to new systems on both sides of the LOS but they have a n00b Head Coach who is learning his way during his first year.

I don't think you want some big time veteran free agents coming in and wondering "WTF" when all this transition is going on.

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.

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