Brickowski said:
So far the boy with the Stanford MBA has produced two unwatchable teams (last year and this year). I wonder how season ticket sales are going.
1) Who cares what his academic pedigree is? That is the basest of Fox News style "blue collar elitism". Just... Stop it.
2) You are judging a bad team's GM by its on-court product? It's like judging an architect by the naked rebar. Wait at least until the concrete has set, man.
3) Are you saying Noel + Saric is worse than Holiday? Based on what? Seems like you're begging the question in your assessment of things (ie, you're saying something along the lines of "Jrue Holiday has had a better NBA career than these two guys.") Realistically, the 76ers get a total of 8 cost-controlled years of a couple high-ceiling players for a mid-tier (~15/3/8) PG. Not a bad return.
If Hinkie's looking at 2016 (which he's all but said), who cares if the on-court product in 2014 is a mess?
4) You're asking the 76ers to predict that Giannis Antetokounmpo (note: dude's a human being. Google his name, copy/paste) is going to be better than the people drafted ahead of him? Why? Putting aside that international (cough cough Drako Mlicic) players are a crapshoot, do you expect GMs see into the future? That's like asking people to know that 2006 dregs Kyle Lowry and Rajon Rondo would be better than top picks Randy Foye and Andrea Bargnani.
In sum, you're criticizing Hinkie for not being superhuman and then judging him poorly against the absurdest of expectations of fielding a better product now while drafting better and fielding a better team in the future, too.