Might the Lockout Affect David Kahn's Future?

I’m in CA also. When in Minnesota last week, the restaurants kept offering me a beer chaser with my Bloody Marys. I thought they cost extra, so I said no, preferring to spend my extra cash on more BM’s. To my surprise, the beer chasers are free at many restaurants. When I found this out, I happily agreed to the chasers. What a State!

David Kahn will be the GM of this franchise for about a decade before Taylor considers letting him go. First of all, it seems like Taylor’s MO. Second of all, continuity in a sports franchise is generally a good thing. Even when the initial results are less than to be desired, sticking with a coach, or GM in this case, is often the most sure path to success. In a recent post about franchises that have turned it around, someone noted that continuity seemed to be the most common theme. When your franchise is following one building plan for long enough it will eventually become a finished structure – it may not be the Taj Mahal, but it will be something. When you change building plans every few years you never finish your structure, instead you end up with a bunch of half-finished wings around an amorphous glob in the center.
I may question the choice to hire Kahn in the first place. I may question the building plan and vision he has. I may question whether his project is still on schedule. Yet I can’t help feeling that a shakeup would only set things even further back than they’ve already been. And for proof of this I offer the fact that most of us probably didn’t think the Wolves could sink any lower than we were in Kevin Love’s rookie year, but we managed to do just that after a shakeup at the top of the basketball decision making pyramid.
The path to success is staying the course. The only questions are: 1) what will success look like when it gets here; and 2) will we want to raze the structure in order to make way for a new building as soon as this one is finished?

OTOH, would Glen Taylor simply bid adieu and hire somebody else next spring?

Simply? Oh, no no no. Not Glen.

First, you have the question of when Glen Taylor would come to the conclusion that he needed to consider hiring someone else on. Given Glen’s history – "Step down to the bench, Kevin McHale, and we can wait a half-season or so before we make any calls on your GM replacement" – and the team’s – "We need a 10-page report on what you’re going to do this summer" – I think it’s a dead lock that any decision about David Kahn would not, not, not be “simple.”

Without a high draft pick to bother with next year, too, what kind of time pressure would the Wolves be under? Next spring? How about we shoot for two Decembers from now? You don’t want to make a decision like that in haste, while the taste of 32-132 is still in your mouth.