until i just saw the completed deal between the 6ers and Kings.
for those that haven't seen yet, the 6ers absorb the contracts of Landry, Thompson, and Stauskus from the Kings and as a thank you for doing so, get the rights to swap 1sts with Sacto this year, next year, and get Sac's 2018 1st rounder outright.
i trusted danny, i always gave him the benefit of the doubt in believing that he would at least try for the big options first, that he was doing what was in the best interest of this team and aiming high to start, while knowing he'd be rebuffed, and settling eventually on lesser players. for example, i thought he'd try to get a meeting with Love, get told no, and go all in on Tobias, and if that fell through as well that would be what leads us to the signings of Johnson, Crowder, and Jonas like we've done. now, i just don't think he's earned that benefit of the doubt.
this trade was obviously sitting there to be made. i'm aware the pipe dream was that things would not work out for the Kings and that eventually we'd be right back in the race for Cousins when they decide to unload him. But you CAN NOT let a division rival get that deal while you toil away signing a midlevel, undersized center, and re-signing your own ok but not great FAs.
I was the biggest critic of Hinkie and the 6ers 'plan' here, but this certainly shuts me up. they were able to do in a single night with just cap space, what it took us having to trade away KG, Pierce, and Terry to do, and they were able to do it for what will most likely be better picks. It can't be that Hinkie is that much better of a negotiator than Ainge. maybe he's just more prudent at working the phones? you have to believe Sacto was willing to do this deal with any Eastern Conference team that had cap space, with an eye towards being able to add some FAs of their own. how is our GM seemingly not aware that this deal is out there for the taking? or worse, does he actually think our guys + Amir Johnson provides more long term value to our franchise?
Regardless, i was a huge Danny Ainge fan, and i believed that his plan was that, having no better options out there, sign the guys we have, and coast to a 30-35 win season, and improve our stock in the lottery with the picks we hae next year (don't forget, a lot still had to go right in both camps for both Brooklyn and ourselves to make the playoffs this past season, the odds of that happening again aren't that high). however, now, i think this may be the last straw
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