For his part, Calvin Booth was a decent scout; he drafted Christian Braun in a first round and traded for Peyton Watson early on in his career.

However, his contract negotiation led to inflexibility in the cap space to hire impactful vets. Tenzer and Wallace turned it around immediately, as shown by the positive differential in bench points so far this season.

Any ideas for further analysis?

8 comments

  1. i think tenzer and wallace are going to do a great job of keeping the team relevant through the primes of Jokic/Murray/Gordon, but i think we aren’t going to have much time to get attached to bench guys going forward. a lot of 1 or 2 year contracts on seasoned vets that are 32-34 years with interesting movement for our current young core. but i’ve got more faith in a completely new executive team with a new head coach than i would in a single person that has been making questionable moves for a few seasons

  2. I don’t know if you were following the team prior to the championship, but Tim Connelly was very much in charge of personnel decisions through 2022.

  5. As users have pointed out, Booth assumed leadership of the front office after the 2021-2022 regular season, not the previous.

    [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Booth) and [Basketball Reference](https://www.basketball-reference.com/executives/boothca01x.html) have conflicting information and I should have used the latter! Thanks everyone.

    EDIT: [Basketball.com](https://basketball.realgm.com/staff/Calvin-Booth/Summary/2389) also agrees with Wikipedia. Anyone understand?

  6. Booth’s ability to scout and find talent in the draft was a blessing and a curse. He drafted Braun and Watson (I begrudgingly give him credit for the KCP and Bruce signings) but then he gave guaranteed contracts to Pickett and Tyson. Most damning of all is he wouldn’t sign free agents to play over Pickett, Tyson and Strawther. There were guys out there on minimums last year we could have signed (Gary Trent Jr).

  8. part of it is on with his inflexibility and over reliance on the starters. when was the last time Malone gave a 2-way contract player an extended minutes like we see with spencer jones? adelman also randomly started end of bench guys like the legendary zeke depending on matchups. dudes would go on to other teams and get extended minutes

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