Venting

[inverselock]

Smart's pre-draft scouting report is identical to Westbrook's.  Swap explosiveness for strength.

Smart's weakness is shooting.  Plenty of players have improved there.  Does anyone remember how raw Kawhi Leonard was?

Trading for stars is difficult.  I'm happy to invest in our own youth instead of the pursuit of greener pastures  somewhere else.

[inverselock]

So the fanbase wrongfully believed this was 2007 all over again.  We got ourselves a team full of assets... clearly that means we're going to flip them all for superstars.   Wrong.  This is 2003.  This is day 1 all over again.  We blew it up and we're building with mediocre assets.  It's going to take a few years to even acquire the pieces that can be flipped for stars.   We might get lucky Summer 2015... but folks who thought this was going to be an easy/quick turnaround were off-base.   We need to accept that barring another miracle set of moves by Ainge (in a few years), we could be looking at a team that might suck for 20 years.  This team probably will not crack 40 wins anytime soon.

TP.  The idea of trading our assets for Love and we'd somehow be a contender was always a pipe dream.  This team needs at least one more year with a high lotto pick before we can think about making a move back to relevancy.  We just don't have enough pieces yet.

I still think the Celtics have a chance of acquiring Love. That's my opinion though.

If Broussard's sauces are correct, they are offering Wiggins + Bennett + a 1st...

Nobody is coming anywhere close to that... nobody is even in the same continent.  That's a ridiculous offer.

Flip is dreaming if he thinks he's getting Wiggins or even Thompson for Love.