According to JE3, Weaver got an extension last offseason. I must have missed that, but what the actual fuck lmao. They had another year, to have him prove it and instead they doubled down on the guy with (by far) the worst record in the nba since he’s been a GM. They worried someone else is going to scoop him up 🤢🥶
You don’t want your GM making short sighted decisions based on a need to “prove it”. That’s how you end up with crappy Blake Griffin trades. He can still be fired at any time, it’s not like it counts against our cap or anything
I swear it’s like this sub forgot about those purgatory years that we are just now getting out of. I rather go through some years of losing then have a chance at actually winning it all for 3-5 years rather than just be an 8-9th seed for the next decade.
Weaver is getting brutalized on twitter and on the radio. If you haven’t heard it yet, go listen to Mike Valenti’s Pistons segment from yesterday afternoon.
We are walking thru the fucking desert, paying for our sins, for running Joe D out of town, I swear to God
Losing sucks, and the losing streak is breaking people’s brains. I get it, and I’m probably not far away myself
But why all of a sudden is it viewed as some shock that we’ve been the worst team in the league since he came in? We started to transparently tank, which is what I and I feel like most fans wanted to do. We’ve made no big splashes beyond draft picks, unless you count signing Jerami Grant. We were probably the most egregious tanking team last year, and that was the plan for the Wemby draft. How did everyone forget that?
Weaver has been fine. If you think Kelly Oubre would’ve been the missing piece to make you happy this year, I won’t argue with you. If trading away rotation players in Saddiq, Bruce Brown, or Kennard was just too much for you, whatever. We have four young guys who have more value than anyone on the roster Weaver inherited - one of which was traded for, another was the opposite of a consensus pick, and the #1 pick which required losing on purpose
Can we stop having a meltdown every day? Half of us won’t even acknowledge that injuries are playing a huge role, as if missing 2 starters and playing guys signed off the street and two-way players big minutes shouldn’t matter. I just want to make it to Christmas with Duren, Bogey, Livers, and Burks consistently in the lineup to see what the team looks like, is that too much to ask? What’s a new GM going to do, probably draft worse and maybe overpay a Cam Johnson level player?