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Originally posted by <b>Schilly</b>!
SIlly question, but...Why must an intelligent person with a vast knowledge of the game have experience in the front office to make a good GM? Greg as a smart PG functioned as a scout every game he ever played. He has played with most of the current Blazers and knows their strengths and weeknesses. If a person is a bad GM they are a bad GM, period. Experience doesn't change that.
I'm not saying it doesn't have value, but how important is it?
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There's the collective bargaining agreement. There's interacting with the personnel infrastructure (GMs, Presidents and assistants) for the different teams. There's coordinating with the scouts. There's putting quality people in place around you.
There's a whole lot that a player just isn't exposed to that a GM needs to be able to do. It's probable that none of this is particularly difficult on its own, but couple these things with tasks and responsibilities that most of us have no visibility to and there are just a large number of hoops that need to be jumped through, and a person should have SOME experience before being handed a position of authority.
Even Joe Dumars, cited above as an example of having no expierience, went directly from the roster to the front office and spent a year in a lesser role before filling in for the fired GM, Rick Sund.
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Greg Anthony for GM?
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