Say what you want, Mully brought in Jack and Harrington and we went to the playoffs. Riley hasn’t shown anything yet. Listen to his past KNBR interviews and then see if he followed thru on his promises. Let’s talk 2 years down the road and compare Lee/Randolph.

I don’t think Riley is the greatest GM but after Mullin he’s a huge breathe of fresh air and done a good job so far.

The Lee/Randolph thing is just a joke. I wonder at what point people will stop making excuses for Randolph being mediocre and accept fact he is just that, extremely athletic, extremely low IQ BBall player. He turns the perceived ‘potential’ (and even if it’s real it is still JUST potential) into an upper teir PF. A player I might ad, he convinced to come here, when the perception of GSW around the league is it’s a toxic situation you can’t convince anyone to come to. I don’t know what else you want

Blaming him for Mullin’s mistakes is laughable too.

The guy who wrote this is a reason why Blogs are NOT taken seriously.

is claiming that the Riley has no discernible plan. Because, you know, it’s really important to have a long term plan in place with new owners coming in. Right.

Secondly, keeping or trading Monta is kind of a moot point. He’ll be better this year if he’s here, and if he’s gone I’m fairly certain it will be for someone who fits better. But nothing hinges on his presence or absence in the way it does on AB’s health. Unless he fails to pick up his clue from the cluecheck room.

If you actually look at this roster, it’s blindingly clear that there IS a plan in place – put together at least a competent team that the new ownership can work with.

Points out of bunch of good moves Riley made without giving him credit.

Basically the argument is that Riley is the third worst GM in the league because he has no long term plan. Then to defend that claim, he sights the fact that they have retained Nellie as the coach which is bad for a young team because Nellie isn’t known for player development.

Not only does he base this on one reason that doesn’t have a ton to do with Riley, but as counter examples to that claim; Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki. Shoot he even made Baron a better player. Born in 88 so I can’t really comment on Nellie’s effect on Run TMC or the old bucks, seems Moncrief believes Nellie did something for him. I know Popovich has given Nellie credit for his development as a coach.

Just not a sensible way to assess Riley’s stent as GM

He got the job simply because of his friendship with Nelson and that he was willing to do the job for a lot less money than the rest of the GM’s in the league. He never would have gotten an interview for a GM job anywhere else.

I do agree that Mullin made some bad moves early on but most of the recent stuff was a result of Rowell/Ownership unwillingness to take on salary after he had put his plan in place. (Acquiring Garnett, extending Baron).
Riley is getting a lot of love lately for the Lin signing and that is okay but if you look at his
record, other then the Curry drafting (which most average basketball fans could have done). He has let go of Crawford, Jackson, Maggette, Randolph, Turiaf, Azuibuke, Morrow, and Watson. (I maybe missing some) He has added Lee, Rodmanovich, C. Bell and Gadzuric. He signed D. Wright. It is too early to tell on Udoh but Warriors draft grades were lowest in league. If you look at the fact they won 26 games last year plus the moves 28 feels right. Bird has to be below for taking on Dunleavy/Murphy.