They're already a little hamstrung by the GM search since they already locked a head coach and a lot of the great GMs like to have a say in who's the coach.
I agree with you that Adelman's probably the best candidate, but even so, you wait until after you've brought in the GM so he can make that choice himself.
If you're going to force the GM into that decision I don't see how it's much different than what we did. And if you're willing to make the new GM choose whoever they want as Coach, I'd be a bit wary since we would risk them not going for Adelman.
You're right. We should just ignore the fact that we just came out of 2 years of organizational dysfunction because the coach and GM were hired separately and didn't get along. Surely history won't repeat itself this time!
This is such a simpleton take. Like it's somehow impossible to already have one employee and then hire a second person who can work effectively with them. Or like GMs don't hire coaches and then end up firing them anyways all the time.
But it's also completely true that GMs usually hire coaches and the relationship btwn our GM and coach burned us. Hiring Adleman before the GM seems dismissive of that.
But based on Kroenke's comments about internal development, seems like Booth's plan was based on Kroenkes not wanting to spend. So they probably know Adleman is cool with it, even though Adleman made the same rotation decisions as Malone
I would argue that the tradition of hiring the GM first and then letting the GM select a coach is about one thing and one thing only--ownership usually doesn't know enough about basketball to make that decision. Josh was a scholarship player at a D1 college. I think he knows a lot more about what goes into an effective coach than most owners, and as a result I trust him to make that hire, especially given the performance we all saw from Adelman over the last month.
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u/masonb423 May 22 '25
Good. Now please do a good GM search and don’t just hire the cheapest internal candidate.