05-03-2023, 06:54 AM
(05-02-2023, 11:41 AM)chaparral Wrote: How is the new guy (Lindsey's) history in deals with the Heat or Excel clients?
Too lazy to look this up as it would take time to look at every player and check it against agent lists.
He kept Hayward when he was a RFA, but pissed him off by making him go get an offer to be matched. He moved up in the draft one year combining picks and seemed to generally try to build through the draft. He had some misses, but a cursory glance at those drafts showed me that at the position the player drafted played, the picks usually made sense (in other words, players of the same position taking within the next 5-10 slots weren't any better). Obviously Gobert and Mitchell were big hits (or big misses by the teams drafting ahead of Utah).
The question in all of this is how much influence he'll really have. If Cuban is still at the top of the pyramid, none of this may matter.