« Reply #369 on: February 07, 2019, 04:19:28 PM »
Danny...didn't....panic.
Again.
He also sat back and watched the 3 biggest challenges in the conference all get better and simultaneously didn't drop the team below the luxury tax. I'd give this trade deadline a solid F.
Of course you do.
I do expect the team to be active in the buyout market where improvement may come (I actually like the potential of adding someone like Kanter). But it is hard to get a grade better than F when you don't do anything and your rivals all get better (and trading Bird isn't doing anything since it didn't drop the team below the tax line, he hasn't been around, and no player came back for him). I would have at least liked to have seen some effort being made to trade players that had no real shot at being in a Davis trade this summer (i.e. Rozier, Morris, or Baynes), especially when there were players out there that could have helped or the team at least could have dropped below the tax line (which I do think was important for a team that realistically might not get out of the 2nd round - delaying the repeater tax year is huge).
If management and ownership didn't prioritize dropping below the tax, why are some posters so obsessed with it?
Because you see time and time again what the luxury tax, let alone the repeater tax, does to a franchise. It is one thing to be ok with it in theory, but it is entirely another when you are faced with signing minimum contract players and then paying 15 million in tax on that million dollar salary. Heck we saw what it did with players like James Posey not being re-signed after Boston won the title. The repeater tax makes it so much worse.
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