Jake Madison on what they want Dumars role to be is more of a “high level overview”

Sounds like they want someone underneath him like Bryson Graham.

In other words, they want him to have the final call on drafting and trading, and they want him to manage Zion, but they want Dumars to find someone like Bryson to actually run the operations.

That’s typically how the POBO role is handled. We just had Griff who was basically the POBO/GM all rolled into one.

I can think of one person who absolutely can’t get through to Zion if that’s a priority for this franchise.

Tankmaster Willie

Most teams only have either a president or a GM. It's usually rare to see a team have both. The top guy is the one who makes the call which in this case will be Dumars. So it's not going to be much different than what Griffin was doing. Maybe if we get lucky, less meddling.

If it's the pobo/gm role like griffin, frick no.

If it's the pobo - hire people and make sure they're working and actually doing their work. Players are doing what they're supposed to be doing. Trainers are doing what they should be doing. Scouts are where they need to be. Etc.

That's fine. My issue is - can't we find someone else? Anyone else?

Let’s see the type of guys he brings in.

There's a world in which this works out and Dumars is a competent overview and connections guy. Having a widely-respected person who did this role for the whole league and has bigtime leaguewide connections could really fill a major gap for the Pelicans org IF he's limited to that.

The reality is other NBA teams and people around the league see the Pelicans as an isolated anomaly. Gayle is on an island--doesn't have any friends in the NBA and they run stuff through football people. If Dumars is coming in just to bridge that gap and hires a good GM to actually run personnel, he could be a great hire.

That's me gaming out best-case scenario. If he's doing the Griffin role, frick everything.

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Let’s see the type of guys he brings in.

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Honestly hopefully he keeps Graham on as GM. Our drafting has been good with him at GM/assistant GM

Clean house above Graham, clean house on the training staff (keep the new injury recovery lady), clean house on the coaching staff, everyone else can stay

I don’t care about job titles, who he brings in, etc. If the higher ups can’t see that Willie Green has to go it doesn’t fricking matter. He’s not a X’s and O’s guy, and the players hate him. What a fricking winning combo.

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He said on his pod today that what he’s been told is:

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In other words, Lauscha called and begged him to spin this shite hire so ticket sales do not co minute to crater.

Dumars isn’t taking this job unless he gets to be puppet master, not an overseer. It’s not fun unless you make the personnel choices. I’m out.