The Fire Danny crowd is already trying to locate their pitchforks...
Some of them might not have the stomach for losing and leave the forums and quit following the team.
- Trade Green and Bass for a 1st and expiring contracts/propects
I am sure there were no takers. One can only deal if the other team plays ball. No one did on Bass yet. You just don't make a move for the sake of making one.
- Use the 1st to obtain Asik (create the space somehow or it should of been done last season)
Again didn't happen, pretty sure their were talks but Morey did not go long with it. Maybe get out your fantasy mind control ring. In the real world, guys make deals because it benefits them or the team or because they had no other option. THEY TOOK ANOTHER OPTION! once our picks dropped in value due to the lotto they were a lot less attractive.
- Trade a future 1st , 2nd pick, 2014 6th pick, salary match for Afflalo and the 2014 4th pick
Again didn't happen this is not NBA Live. Other teams have motives and maybe they liked a 4th pick whose position was known over a future first whose position would be worse if we had a better player.
- Trade Rondo to the Kings for the 8th pick and Mclemore.
McLemore can't shoot. They took Staukas with the 8th pick because Ben can't play in the pros well. I will go on record as saying that Rondo will be a better pro than Staukas so this is a bad trade for us and Danny was wise not to do it.
The lineup then would of looked like
Asik
KO/Sully
Afflalo
Mclemore
Exum (4th pick)
Bench
James Young (17th pick)
etc.
Saric (8th pick) draft and stash
Talk about a team that will be mired in mediocrity and not winning anything. I doubt they could win the Atlantic. Saric knows he is not NBA ready or he would be playing here instead of Turkey.
Would you rather have this lineup above that is ready to make the playoffs and has a bright future ahead or the one today which is ready for tank part 2??
Bright future, I see a team that maybe makes the playoffs and loses year after year drafting in the teens. I'd rather build up our talent some more than settle for mediocrity that you present. Yeah, losing sucks but in the "real world" you can't be good every year and sometimes the other teams don't help you to get back on top.