[Lewis] Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks is expected back with the #Nets despite Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving failure that had some viewing his stay as tenuous. He’ll get a chance to oversee this retooling, centered around Mikal Bridges.
Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks is expected back with the #Nets despite Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving failure that had some viewing his stay as tenuous. He’ll get a chance to oversee this retooling, centered around Mikal Bridges. #nba https://t.co/ObwNwOQJSh via @nypostsports
— Brian Lewis (@NYPost_Lewis) March 8, 2023
by Evilsj
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Good
He did what every other gm in the league would have done.
The harden Simmons trade was awful. Somewhat offset by the Durant trade
Nervous laughter
A number of you will have an issue with this but:
I remember the days of this team having a terrible front office, from cheap ownership, to just bad decision makers. Bobby Marks is great at the CBA but he’s a bad take maestro who works at ESPN for a reason
The good: Drafted Jarrett Allen, Caris LeVert, Cam Thomas in the 20s, Claxton in the 2nd round. Found Joe Harris and Dinwiddie from the bottom. Put the Nets in position to go star hunting after coming in with NOTHING to work with
The bad: Trading the 20th pick for Landry Shamet. Not surrounding the big 3 with enough shooting besides Joe Harris 2 years ago. Giving the stars too much power. Hiring Steve Nash.
The uncontrollable: new ownership coming in. Stars wanting control of the franchise. A pandemic and Kyrie Irving constantly putting pressure on the organization
The ugly: changing the court to the gray monstrosity it is today
Overall: I don’t mind him continuing on. He’s shown that without ownership and player meddling, that he’s a capable GM and excellent drafter. Let’s see what he can do without stars and divas around
Great.
Marks deserves another shot.
He already aced his first test by handing the keys to Jacque Vaughn.
Honestly I love it. We sacrificed what made us appealing for talented players. Lesson learned. We gave a psycho the keys and he drove it off the cliff. Yeah, lesson learned.
Marks drafted well, done well at asset acquisition and management. supposedly has good relationships with agents around the league. Let’s get back to what got us here.
Like him or not, the situation we’re in is where Marks already operated at his best. The criticisms of if he was good enough and had enough leadership during the superstar era is fair, but his eye for talent and developing young players is pretty unquestionable, and that’s where we’re at now.
And the way Kd spoke about the org makes me think it was just super tenuous between Kyrie and management, but not some deep issue with Marks or anything.
I’m happy with it. You don’t say no when two superstars come knocking at your door. Definitely a couple of things he could have done differently, but I don’t fault him for the outcome.
He’s exactly the kind of GM you want with our current outlook. One that can find some diamonds in the rough, develop players, and turn castoffs into role players or trade pieces.
If you’re not good with Marks sticking around as GM you’re showing your true colors as a Nets fan. Dude returned the franchise to relevancy and turned chicken shit into chicken salad with a chance to do it again. “Stars don’t want to play here” is the most ridiculous logic I’ve heard in a while and makes me think some people are confusing us with that other team across the river.
The amount of positive feedback in this thread shows how infiltrated this sub was by KD and Kyrie stans lol
So… Mikal basically saved his job.
It’s not Marks fault that Kyrie ruined our title chances. I would rather have stability with Marks then handing it over to some unknown.
I never really expected him to be gone, and I get *why* a chunk of people here want that but I think it’s misguided: yes, he made missteps during the Star Era. Some were things I think seemed right at the time and aren’t that bad, and some are legit bad moves.
But that being said, the time when he excelled, the time when people here and all around the league and on /r/nba were all praising him, the time when he was in his wheelhouse, was a a time when the team was in a similar situation to right now, except now he has *more* assets to work with.
So, to me, people wanting him gone for mistakes he made in a situation we are no longer in when he had proven himself prior in a situation similar to the one we are in right now is a bit knee-jerk and short-sighted.
I’m looking forward to seeing the moves he makes, and this time with the hindsight and lessons learned from the KD/Kyrie experiment so we don’t repeat the same mistakes.
Marks is underrated, he took a mid managed roster, made it ready and competitive and added KD and Kyrie.
He had to gut said roster for harden to appease them.
He’s once again set this roster up to make another run at some premier talent over the next 2 seasons .
Did it KD/Kyrie work out ? No, and no one will ever who’s more to blame, but all things considered he’s done a pretty good job.
I’ll this version of rebuilding versus losing 60 games for multiples seasons hoping a lottery pic turns into a star.
# BEAUTIFUL
He offered the “big 3” contract extensions..ONLY KD SIGNED
Marks wasn’t the problem…
as expected
I’m fine with moving on from Marks….. but there’s no way this is the right time.
No one in the league has a better track record of rebuilding a team as far as I’m concerned.
Oh god
I believe in Marks. Best GM we’ve probably ever had.
Good. Most of the unreasonable folks that rooted for this team left with KD and Kyrie. Unfortunately, some of them still run popular Nets Twitter accounts.
Nets had no picks, no good young players, and were dog shit. In the span of like 3 years he acquired a lot of young talent and draft capital. Then signed 2 elite level UFA and swung for the fences for a championship. If you asked anybody after the Billy King era when they thought the Nets would next be competing, it sure as hell wasnt going to be within 5 years. He was nothing short of a saving grace in Brooklyn
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It could be worse, could be what happened after billy kings failed era lmao
Good! Suck it, haters.
Dude turned a team with no picks and prospects into a playoff team that attracted two top free agents.
It’s not his fault those free agents were bums who couldn’t stay healthy and didn’t want to actually show up to work.
In Marks we trust, now and forever.
Ofc this fanbase would love this move.
The vibes fanbase
Guy drafted LeVert, Allen, and Claxton he’s got an eye for talent, I want him to stay.
What a travesty. Any regular franchise would have fired his ass the moment he traded for Ben Simmons.
took a team that was the laughing stock of the league and made it a premier destination. i’m sorry but i just cannot and will not have the same hatred for him that so many other people have.
Just have Bridges play the Celtics for 82 games and Marks will look like a genius!
I think he should help get the retool together (aka what he is doing now) but as much as I like Sean and frankly I’m not upset he is staying because he is freaking Sean Marks, I don’t think he should see it through to the finished product.
Most GM’s would’ve been fired after everything happened, especially with nothing to show for it.
Some of you forgot the Billy King Era and it shows. Marks deserves to oversee this retool.
Even though we all have gripes with Sean he is one of the only reasons we got out of pure mediocrity/ trash.
I was actually wondering if Mark was going to be gone this off season. Only because Tsai has a tendency of firing business manager after not meeting expectations.
I am glad that he will be here for this new generation of the team. Mark does appear to be good at the analytical side of GMing. Finding cheap but good players, talking to other GMs and getting beneficial trades, etc. But he seems to lack the personable skill. All super star weren’t happy here, but honestly who could have made those three happy. KD somehow wasn’t happy in GS, Kyrie is Kyrie, and Harden is already rumored to be going back to Houston.
As long as players personality dont dramatically change, it seems as though Bridges and Dinwiddie will take an ACTIVE and VOCAL role as leaders (not leading through vibe, or whatever the fuck KD was doing). So hopefully the short comings of Marks no longer causes massive drama again since those two can compensate.
In Marks We Trust!
Looking forward to Sean Marks building and not trying to trade for superstars every chance he gets this time.
Let’s continue building with this team, get Ben back into All-Star form, make smart trades, then try to win.
You don’t succeed by failing and giving up. That’s the kyrie Irving way. You learn from mistakes made, you make better decisions and you grow. We failed. Miserably. And that type of knowledge is immeasurable as far as leading us into the future. I’m okay with it. #GoNets
The ones that have a problem with this, suck a dick.
He should do a good job with the rebuild and I hope he finds more hidden gems that can be valuable pieces for us and a true franchise player soon.
Although, he also needs to do some self reflection on what caused KD/KAI/Harden to leave especially Harden who heavily cited the Org. In addition to not rolling over to every of our future stars’ requests and having contingency plans on where to trade players who don’t sign extensions right away so we don’t have another Harden/KAI fiasco.
Rewarding failure lol, got his guys paid and then he somehow got an extension, must be nice…
Excellent as he’s great at drafting. Now do I want him here if and when we get an all star thats another question. His moves to bolster the roster around our previous all stars were not that great.
As he should. A lot of ppl forget he was responsible for turning the Nets around in the first place pre-7/11 era. Has he been perfect? No. But would a lot of GMs have done the same? Yes. He deserves another shot to improve the team
ITT: new fans who hate this, Billy King survivors who are fine with it
Pretty much don’t have a choice. Marks made all the easy moves right, and all the hard ones wrong (signing Nash, signing Mills, etc).
whatever