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The two things can’t be decoupled.
Ownership stood with a Demps and signaled a mandate to get to the playoffs imminately. Benson made that known publicly during the transition. They found their superstar(and maybe their perceived second in Gordon) and they wanted to skip the line and start winning games right away. Which prompted the moves to trade in draft picks for guys on their more expensive second contracts, going into their third. Which immediately puts you at a much greater cost scale than had you stayed patient and built through the draft and made cost effective free agent moves in the interim.
Dell Demps did not execute that well, that is a fact. Injuries were also a major stumbling block.
But ownership set the stage for this path and have enabled Demps to continue being the man to walk it.
We are at a point where when you add Mirotic and Cousins next contract, staying out of the luxury is basically impossible if they want to go from marginal playoff team to actual contender. IMO, the only way you fill in that gap is by opening the purse strings or pulling off an all time great bargain bin offseason where you find a Covington and Dinwiddie in FA and strike gold on a Draymond Green or Malcolm Brogdon in the second round. Outside of that you basically either fill out the roster with more bottom tier players that wouldn’t get minutes on most contender squads and hope your front end can overcome that, or you become a full in lottery team and embrace it.
Both are very overrated and should have been fired by now. It’s obvious Dell trades all our #1 picks to give him another year each year and Gentry seems like a nice guy but he’s simply an assistant coach.
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