I did a search to try and verify this but I'm pretty sure I've never referred to D'Alessandro as "Gerbil".
I did a search and I have used that term one time since July, which btw was about the time that draft videos and other evidence made me begin to suspect too many Maloofs in the front office kitchen. There WAS a gerbil in our power structure, but all of a sudden it did not have to be PDA and it didn't seem right to tag him with the label if it wasn;t his nose that was twitching. And as I've mentioned before, the most likely culprit for the series of little veteran roleplayer moves made to steady us is precisely the GM.
In any case, not everything gone right here is PDA anyway:
-- Cousins was Petrie, retaining him was Vivek and Shaq.
-- Thompson is Petrie. Making him into a defender maybe Malone.
-- Rudy is...unclear. A PDA idea inspiring his owner? Or an owner directive?
-- Ben and Nik appear to have largely been owner driven, and maybe Mullin driven.
-- Collison...I am betting Collison was PDA.
-- Landry was Malone.
-- Malone was Vivek directly.
-- McCallum seemed to be Vivek or Malone, forgot who knew him from before.
-- Williams = ? That's unclear. PDA brought in Mbah a Moute, and I have come to believe Luc fits much more with the sorts of little moves (Reggie, hollins, Casspi etc.) he has made elsewhere. So who immediately turned Luc into Williams?
-- Getting Cousins and Gay onto Team USA for that critical experience = the players themselves, not on our front office
-- where I can most confidently point to PDA would be on the smaller moves. In consultation with Malone perhaps. But Reggie, Hollins, Casspi, Moreland etc. scrappers and defenders important to team culture.