Trading for Murray is a desperate move and also short-sighted. I don't care if he was on the staff at the time of the trade, the reason he is gone is because he refused to give up assets (reasonably so) trade for Murray, that's not on Travis. Fields, Nick Ressler, Trae & all the other front office doofuses were pulling to reign him in from San Antonio. Schlenk refused to be a yes man and paid the price for it. He also did not treat Trae like a sacred cow and was willing to listen to inquiries from other teams. The team friendly deal is literally the only silver lining and not because of our cheap money grubbing owner. It is because we can now trade Murray & hopefully re-coup some of what we lost in acquiring Murray.
The only moves that give me comfort are the Quin hire + Kobe & Gueye. But there are many decisions a GM must make in a league year. We could have signed Vit and still kept him as an RFA. What's the difference? $100-200,000 and no Forrester or end of bench player? It is clear to me that in one year that Fields lacks nuance. He either needs to surround himself with a better front office or nut up and start making executive decisions. Whatever they doin' up there is not working.