We Want Ten
Make Chinakov Great Again
Sounds like a familiar narrative. New GM takes over from a hated former GM and inherits a coach. Team nearly makes the playoffs in new GM's first season, then makes it in the second year but doesn't escape the first round. There's a lengthy losing streak in the third season that leads to questions about whether the entire thing was just smoke and mirrors and who should bear the blame for a sudden deep collapse.
There are, of course, obvious differences. One inherited a total mess with little on the roster and nothing in the system. One had to make a ton of moves to get the team into a playoff position at all, the other was able to trade away the team's most talented offensive player for nothing and still make it.
Of course, plenty regard the decision to fire the most successful coach in team history or make a really minor trade simply because of a losing streak to have been a cataclysmic mistake that only a bumbling first-time GM could ever make.
That's some low hanging fruit.