Its funny how two weeks ago people were so upbeat and now its' all doom and gloom. Anyone who thought we were going to set the roster up to be competitive this year was fooling them selves.
Now a trade could come through between now and the deadline that changes things, you never know. But too many bad decisions by DA, some could have seen it, some who would have know, put us were we are now. Irving being a flaky deva, Kembas knee, and the J's being good faster than thuogh they would have been no one could see.
Irving and Kemba are self explanatory, But the J's hitting all star levels over the last two seasons, and being really good before that wasn't expected whent hey were drafted. It was suppose to be Haywards team, and at first with IT and Horford, but you get Irving and then Haywards injury, pushed the J's to have to be better, then with out the two major stars they go deep into the playoffs. This should have been the Vets team for a few years until the next contracts(now) and the keys would start getting handed off to them. But the kids took the keys and ran.
Handling Hayward last summer and not getting McBuckets and Turner was a bad move. They both would be better than a trade exception, and while Turner not the ideal center, worst case a decent trade chip for down the road.
Spending the trade exception last season was dumb too, desperate move for a nice player that didn't move the needle. They should have seen this team wasn't going to compete and held onto it and spent it on two or three players that could fill the bench.
A few years back we took over a store, I went in and started retraining and hiring. first day I knew two employees would need to be let go, hired two, train and fired the other two, and did that a couple more times over the next few weeks, then by the end of the month the store was cruzing.
This is were Stevens it at right now, cause the management made some mistakes, he has to clear things, strip it down and build with its strongest players. Coach was the beginning, we'll see how that works. Now going all in for FA next summer is a bold move, but right now it's the best one they have. If they got Ball for Smart, then we're sitting in a different position, but they didn't, so plan B. And you might be bad enough to get a lotto pic and do some thing on draft night, which give syou options.
How the team was even with Fournier wasn't going to do anything, and nothing we could get in addition would make us better than last year, not by a big margin anyways. So why spend money and tie up cap and handcuff yourself next summer to be a middle of the road playoff team? One thing is Stevens has to make some deals we don't really win out on, get rid of DA's needing to win every trade stigma, so down the road we can get the deals we need.
Remember the last time we sucked with an allstar in a 22 win season, the following season was pretty dang good. Not saying it's going to happen, but sometimes you have to get bad to get good.
