There was of course potential rewards with Kemba. ..... Thibs obviously the wrong coach to monitor and ease up on a gimpy vet's minutes. Kemba's second year was very questionable.
Noel was heroic last year. Hasn't been healthy this year. ...... Mitch insurance, since he tends to be injury and foul prone.
Funny how most of the Knix played better in their contract year and regressed this year ...
well in the abstract any signing has potential rewards, but as you yourself note - Thibs was the wrong coach for an aged Kemba...
Heroic Noel was also injured periodically and has a history of injury, so Noel as insurance for an injury prone player is a clever meta narrative, but a dopey real world one...
no, with all that cap space last summer, FO Rose and co. spit the bit - easy to say now, but also looking back - it was overly conservative, a lot of risk for not so much reward, did not ACTUALLY address the point guard issue in either a short term or long term way, and begins to open up the notion that Rose might be a good agent but a lousy president.
Also, what is the deal with hiring the former T Wolves president - that's a pretty admin. heavy FO - a lot of cooks in an increasingly small kitchen...