I just wish we had taken the greak freak.
think about how much better off we would be
If we had selected Giannis, I would have preferred to keep KG and Pierce, and somehow jettison Jason Terry
, haha. Leave him at the airport in Dallas, idc
. Why? Look at the effect that those two hall of famers had on Sullinger, Avery, and, obviously, Rondo. You simply can't teach, let alone replace, guys like that. No, I say that we should have kept our guys together, and let them retire here, as they should have
. That doesn't mean, however, that this past season would have been a waste of time, at the end of which we would have been left without a lottery pick. There were moves that could have been made. What about Richard Hamilton, who was waived by the Bulls, and was surprisingly not picked up by anyone? I don't like him because, imo, he's always been a whiny, dirty, player, but getting a guy like that would have reestablished the dynamic that the previous group had with Ray - a shooter, albeit with better size and a post game instead of 3-point range in Hamilton, a slasher in Pierce, and KG. Add Rondo and Bass to those other guys and that's a pretty good starting five. But wait, there's more
. What about Oden, who I wish that we had gotten prior to last year? I don't want him now, for obvious reasons, but at the time, he would have been a great addition, imo. Sign Henry Sims, maybe Aaron Brooks to take over for Rondo until he comes back, move Avery to the bench, Giannis backs up the 2, 3, and 4 (ocassionally) spots, Sullinger (of course), and I think we're ready to go. Just take the approach of the 09-10 team in keeping the older guys fresh, and use the season to develop guys like Giannis. That is a deep team with plenty of young parts at crucial positions, and they would have definitely given Miami all they could handle - at least. Hell, we might have been able to win it all with Rondo back. Yeah, I know, I'm being an idiot (as usual, lol), but let me have this one for the moment
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