it’s obvious to anyone who watched the clip instead of reading the title that is obviously written in a way to make it look way worse lmao

does it really make sense to lead with and emphasize repeatedly “Don’t talk to me about about this ever again”?

I had and still have a great relationship with one of my first managers. This is how he spoke to me and this always convinced me that he has faith in me to handle this situation. I guess it’s what you take away from this statement. I had a lot of trust in him and he in turn had a lot of trust in me.

It’s one thing to not have media literacy or emotional intelligence, but it’s another to spread stupidity by making these posts with disingenuous titles. You’re part of the reason this sub is in the dumps.

Anytime you can emulate the Sacramento kings you simply gotta go for it.

they should’ve just ask loomis to run the pels as well.

can’t be worse than now

Joe Dumars has no discernible qualities? Just shut up man 😹

Dumars is bad, but he has positive qualities. He built the Pistons’ championship team that also went to 6 conference finals (and played on another), and he was at least a well-respected executive. Although now, his credibility is shot.

There’s a little more to it than that. Dumars has a FMVP and won a championship in Detroit as an executive. I suspect the idea was “If a guy with Dumars’ playing career can’t keep our roster healthy, who can?”

Can’t go wrong with some shrimp fry

He has great early success early in Detroit then it goes off the rails (in large part due to his bad decisions). It ended so badly that nobody even hires the champion GM for 5 years? Then you’re part of the Kings front office for 3 years, then had to take a job with the league because nobody wants to hire you?

That’s a pretty damning resume as an executive IMO

How many finals did Sam Presti go to?

Yes he was beyond terrible in his later Pistons years but what the hell has Daryl Morey done

Morey has made mistakes, but he’s obviously been far better than Dumars has at any point in the recent past.

Edit: Wow, Dumars is actually great. Pelicans should keep this elite GM with his many finals appearances.

god this sub is full of pussies

The doc rivers special. Win a chip in spite of you and your work, and live off of it for the rest of your career

when ur a championship caliber team gifted a 2nd overall pick in an all time great draft u play it safe and take one of the more dominate college scorers instead of being worried about tayshawn prince

I think it was because of Dirk’s impact in the league and Dumars wanted to find his own european wonder boy. I do think that stars really aligned for Wade, Melo and Bosh considering that the Pistons were loaded with talent and Larry Brown (Coach of pistons at the time) wasn’t really fond of playing rookies.

Yeah, I think people forget the hype, which was absurd. This compiles some of what was said at the time, with some of the Chad Ford comparisons aging about as poorly as possible.

Everyone is smart in hindsight.

I feel like “don’t ever mention it to me again” makes it sound like he’s annoyed Queen even brought it up. Maybe that’s not how he meant it, but it’s how it sounds, at least to me.

That’s one way to look at it which could be a correct Interpretation, but shows a lack of emotional intelligence from Dumars

Agreed. Unironically it is concerning for the future of our planet that the nephew generation will eventually be responsible for things.

That’s nice friend, thanks for sharing lol

cause he just couldnt ride off into the sunset, he was like a gambler throwing good money after bad,  Bad signing after bad trades after bad drafts.