Avoiding the repeater luxury tax this season & next seems like a key point that most fans usually don’t acknowledge.
Other than cashing in for picks (which Tsai forbid, anyway), I don’t see what else Marks could have done with this non-contending roster. They’re stuck with this mediocre team not going anywhere soon, and of course $40M of their salary is tied up in a player whose career now looks over, with one more season owed him.
So much of all this goes directly back to overpaying for Harden, which of course got sabotaged by Kyrie’s reckless actions, which kinda goes back to the risk of signing for KD & KI in the first place, which goes back to the Nets arguably playing too damn well under Kenny and Marks, killing their lottery chances in later seasons, which of course goes back to the totally reckless trades Prokhy and King made years earlier.
Point is– there never was a proper reset, and we’re still paying for it today (and next season). That’s the awful thread of reality that runs through the past decade of Nets history.
That said, I think most of Marks’ GM moves are perfectly defendable (with most being good or excellent), but his two coaching hire failures of Nash and Vaughn are arguably fireable offenses if he doesn’t hit a home run this offseason.
Either way, I think Tsai has to seriously consider blowing up the team if he wants to field a contender under his ownership. Otherwise we could be looking at continuing to pay for the mgmt disasters from ~2015, continuing to live in the twilight zone as it were.
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This cat is such a homer. Probably one of the doosh bags in this sub
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Avoiding the repeater luxury tax this season & next seems like a key point that most fans usually don’t acknowledge.
Other than cashing in for picks (which Tsai forbid, anyway), I don’t see what else Marks could have done with this non-contending roster. They’re stuck with this mediocre team not going anywhere soon, and of course $40M of their salary is tied up in a player whose career now looks over, with one more season owed him.
So much of all this goes directly back to overpaying for Harden, which of course got sabotaged by Kyrie’s reckless actions, which kinda goes back to the risk of signing for KD & KI in the first place, which goes back to the Nets arguably playing too damn well under Kenny and Marks, killing their lottery chances in later seasons, which of course goes back to the totally reckless trades Prokhy and King made years earlier.
Point is– there never was a proper reset, and we’re still paying for it today (and next season). That’s the awful thread of reality that runs through the past decade of Nets history.
That said, I think most of Marks’ GM moves are perfectly defendable (with most being good or excellent), but his two coaching hire failures of Nash and Vaughn are arguably fireable offenses if he doesn’t hit a home run this offseason.
Either way, I think Tsai has to seriously consider blowing up the team if he wants to field a contender under his ownership. Otherwise we could be looking at continuing to pay for the mgmt disasters from ~2015, continuing to live in the twilight zone as it were.
This cat is such a homer. Probably one of the doosh bags in this sub