It definitely feels good to see his first two hires being guys that aren't big names but have strong reputations and clear specialties. Aller comes in and you've got a cap expert; Perrin comes in and now we've got a scouting pro. Rose came in green but he's at least pulled in a lot of experience with those first two hirings. The big choices are still to come and will tell us a lot more (coach, draft picks, free agent targets) but the front office building at least looks good on the surface. That said, Mills hiring Perry looked promising too...so I'm cautious to get excited.
That's stood out to me most and I hope it trickles down to the roster.
A specialized capologist. A specialized scout and player development guy. We have building blocks for defensive specialists in Frank and Mitch. What do we have besides that, in terms of defined skills/specialists? Between fukking around with the GM mode and watching the Last Dance, it really reminded me of the importance of addressing specific skillsets you want and creating a system for it. Our last good year we had legit scorers(Melo, JR, STAT), legit shooting (Novak, Copeland), legit facilitators (Felt, Kidd, Prigi) and a legit defensive anchor (Chandler) along with defensive minded pieces, despite being young or old (Shump, Kidd, Camby, KT) as key rotational guys. Whatever direction we settle on, I really hope these are things they keep in mind.
I flip flop on this a lot but if I'm Rose - Portis, DSJ, Ellington, Bullock, Knox, Payton, Randle and Taj need to go for pennies by any means necessary because none of them do anything particularly well. Get whatever current and future draft assets you can for a DSJ, Randle and Knox and let the rest go. Dot can shoot and play D, Trier can get buckets - if either can be kept long term for cheap, they're valuable, otherwise let them go.
Go all in on LaMelo with whatever assets available.
Have Frank, RJ and Mitch as your core to build around with Melo.
Zero in on Joe Harris, Davis Bertans, Christian Wood and Andre Roberson as free agency targets.
Mitch/Bertans
Wood/Draft Pick
RJ/Harris
Roberson/Dot or Trier
LaMelo/Frank
Good mix of youth, length, offense and defense, score by committee while giving Melo the opportunity to shine as the primary facilitator, have RJ work with Harris and Bertans shooting day and night, have Roberson build Frank up some more, see how this team manages and what options become available tradewise (Mitchell?) or FA (Giannis) and go from there. The foundation is there, the front office seems to be moving in a positive direction and you're in a favorable position despite the Coronavirus because most teams will be sellers right now. Time to take advantage and build a culture.
