SA Express News: Career backup assistant exec Hennigan not that well regarded

Unless they purposely tank (which is very likely), you don't think a starting 5 of Jameer Nelson, Afflalo, Hedo, Al Harrington, and Glen Davis and a largely unchanged bench would at the very least be a mediocre team? That's a very Houston 14th pick'ish team right there.

 

I think that's a horrific 12-win team.

 

When was Emerson College ever considered to be even remotely close to IVY League education?!

 

You can't necessarily correlate young age with being a whiz kid. Plenty of employees and politicians rise quickly through their respective ranks based on unfounded notions of pedigree and reputation only to be later outed as empty suits. The world of full of talented bull****ters and yes-men, especially in the executive ranks. Some, like Hennigan, just get figured out sooner than others.

 

The article kind of contradicted itself. If the man was not that highly regarded, how come did he get promoted from an intern to the president of personnel at SA so fast so young?

 

Yeah, that's fair. I should have phrased it differently.

When the Battier-Gay trade comes up some people act like Morey had nothing to do with it and post something along the lines of "MOREY WASN'T THE GM BACK THEN!!!"
Well, yeah, that's true and all, but that doesn't mean Morey wasn't on board with the move and for all we know he might have been one of the driven forces behind it, which the interview certainly seemed to indicate to me.

Sorry for derailing the thread by the way. The interview just popped into my mind when I read the thread and I didn't know where else to post it. FWIW I actually didn't and still don't mind the trade. It's certainly very much arguable whether or not the trade was a good one or not.

 

At least he is making the Lakers pay a massive $$$$ of luxury tax. And when Dwight goes down half way or end of the season it will be for nothing.

 

That's not a bad trade. We shipped off Swift's bad contract, and battier then was much better than the battier in Miami now. Gay was not on good enough level in earlier years anyway and we need immediate help then with cap space to further improve the team.

The pickup of Swift and bad moves afterwards were things to blame.

 

He did exceptionally well as an intern.

After being promoted to a position with some responsibility, he could not handle it.

 

The Peter Principle except the Magic did it one better by hiring him as GM.

 

Understood and well said. I wasn't sure which direction you were going with it.

 

agreed. especially if they had SVG, now it depends on how big the changes are.
but that's a team with a lot of playoff experience, leadership, confidence and toughness.

I'd say they are more talented that Cleveland post LeBron.
And remember, Cleveland had very tough injuries to their best big men that year, and they traded their best guard for (unhealthy) Baron Davis, and they still won 19 games.

This team will win at least 30 and could go up to 40 if they are healthy and clicking.

 

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Houston-ish 14th pick? LOL why do you think so bad of your own team? Houston team was actually quite good, we were 5th in the league for some time before Lowry got injured/Kmart got injured/Dalembert spaced out.

I have no idea what Afflalo and Vucevic can bring to the table, but to me it looks like that team is slightly better than the Cavs post Lebron...ie 4rth worst team in the league while playing in the Leastern conference.

 

No I was saying if his goal was to lose why did he bring back a guy like Afflalo who's going to contribute to wins. Nowhere did I say that team is "good".

 

I can imagine the interview:

DeVos: I need a guy who can build a new superteam in LA and keep a straight-face at the press conference. Can I count on you?

Weaver: Don't you mean 'in Orlando'?

DeVos: Sorry, Stern's orders. Pau is sucking so hard, he's making the refs look bad fixing the games for LA. Don't worry though; I get a kickback later.

Weaver: I think that would just about ruin my career.

DeVos: I'm sorry to hear that. Do you know someone dumb enough to take this job?

Weaver: Yeah, I know a guy.

If I'm right, you'll see Hennigan leave next offseason, and it'll probably be announced as his own choice. I'm still convinced. For a guy like Weaver who is on the cusp of a real GM job, having to trade Howard could be radioactive -- so much potential for things to go wrong and hurt your reputation. For Hennigan, who still has a couple of rungs to climb, the gamble could make more sense. Or he could just be dumb, which is more likely considering what he got back for Howard.

 

DeVos is one of the richest owners in the NBA. He could buy half the teams in NBA and you think he wants kickbacks from David stern?

 

This doesn't make much sense, if they needed a fall guy, they should have just left otis smith there.

 

I can appreciate that arguiment. But, why did the Magic fire John Gabriel and hire Weisbrod to trade McGrady? They could have had Gabriel do it.