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Originally Posted by Cinarocket
You're the 3rd poster who replies to my post with a "look at their regular season record since pop is here" kind of comment. I said their GM moves for a while have been not good. And by a while I mean basically since their last title, the last 2-3 years.
What good moves (trades, signings, drafting) have they made recently? Telling me what they've accomplished since 1997 is nice but it's not what my post was saying
It's just like anytime I ever dare to point out a bad in-game move Pop makes in a playoff game and everyone just replies "POP GOAT"
Pop is obv the GOAT but he's still capable of making -EV moves. Spurs GM'ing has been great over the past 20 years (I won't say GOATish because playing with Duncan/Pop makes everyone look far better and there have still been plenty of misses like Turkoglu and RJeff along the weay) but they've obv been bad recently. The Gasol/Mills contracts were clearly awful at the time and if they were any other team they would've been crushed here.
It goes beyond the individual moves though; my main problem is the lack of big picture focus. The Spurs could've been in a perfect position to win big this offseason but instead they made a bunch of shortsighted moves in order to...I guess increase their title equity against the Warriors, which seems impossible to be much greater than 0% with Gasol in the mix.
I'm sure they tried to do better but couldn't and thought it was better to get something than nothing, in case Kawhi turned into the best player in the league this year (maybe not that big of a stretch considering he was probably the best player in the regular season last year). I would've been more OK with this line of thinking if they hadn't handcuffed themselves for this offseason.