From here we go stinking it up for the next ten years. Why can we expect some miracle cure for the fact that we mortgaged our future for last year's banner and we dont even have a decent draft pick this year? Why do we insist on putting possible trades in the table in which we are giving our remaining garbage for other teams'good players and still think that we are going to lure them into bad trades for them? We took very drastic measures last year to win one flag. We got our flag. Our aging three are in the accident prone age zone; so relax and review our last year's taped playoffs wins, cause the winds of mediocrity are in the horizon. Or you can continue to concoct dream trades.
Im getting sorta tired of this, im going to start a new thread on it when i get a chance at home so i can type something out.
Aside from the draft pick, which could have been a bust (we were going to take YI, who stinks so far in his career) and the future draft pick that could or could not be good this year (what if we were decent this year with big al, and got into the dead zone of the 11-15 area?) what exactly did we morgage?
Lets look at the guys going out.
Big Al- obviously, This guy is very good. Recently his injuries have reasserted themselves however, and he doesn't play any sort of defense. However, i think we are all aware he is a very good low post man in this league, he's a 20/10 guy, and solid. So we gave up a good to great PF here to get on back.
Ryan gomes- Now lets get into these future guys we mortgaged. Ryan is a good kid, i love what he brings, but he's not a guy showing me the talent to replace paul pierce, as we were being sold during the rebuilding era. He's a decent defender, a streaky shooter, and a solid help defender. I would say right now he's projecting to be 7th or 8th on a good teams bench. So, not much "future" here, he's more of a bench player in training.
Wally- I had zero problems shipping his overrated self out, already lost his starting job twice in CLEV and somehow remains on the team in a limited role post trade deadline.
Telfiar- Once billed as a great up and coming PG, he's shown that while he is better than i thought when he left, he's not going to be the high caliber starter we were told he would evolve into. He might be a serviceable starter someday, but not right now.
GG- stinks, and has now failed on 3 teams.
west- has proved to be a very good starter with lebron, good defense, good shooter when left alone, developed better finishing around the basket, and is generally, in my mind, a solid starter.
So, if your keeping score, we traded one good big man with injury issues, 2 sucky players, 2 bench players, and one solid starter to get 2 HOF'ers and a championship. and we kept the one young player outside of Al who has a chance to be an all star in rondo.
The notion that we "mortgaged our future" has always been so laughable to me. I know we all bought into how great our core of young players was going to get, but look at how these "can't miss" guys danny sold us on turned out. outside of AL and D west (who many thought wouldn't make it above bench player WHILE HE WAS HERE) who is in that trade that is the key to a this championship squad in training we had?
The simple fact is, that team was going to be mediocre, despite what danny told you. Ascending to contender would have required us to hit on the 1st pick in the durant/ oden sweapstakes, and that didn't happen. This team will be in no worse a position in 2-3 years when we start to rebuild than we would have been if we kept rondo and big al and were mediocre for the foreseeable future till paul came off the books.
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