Letting Posey walk was CLEARLY the right move.
Letting House go, I can't see how that hurt us much.
#7 for Telfair and Ratliff -- that was a good trade. The Ratliff contract-- because it was so large, but also because it was effectively being paid off by an insurance policy-- was essentially a piece to give a small market team that saved them $10mm in exchange for a superstar. That's exactly how it worked out. The flier on Telfair was a huge miss, but the Ratliff contract was incredibly valuable.
Not having TA this past year was HUGE. But there are a couple of things that stand out:
1) They offered him a 2yr deal and then matched the Grizzlies offer, but he wanted to go somewhere to start. We couldn't offer that. I guess Danny was surprised by how hard people came after him and that he wouldn't come back for the same deal.
2) This is a guy that was getting KILLED on this board for years, so its a bit ironic that people will look back and call this a big mistake. We all know he was capable of playing great basketball SOMETIMES and for SHORT stretches. We also remember his terrible ball-handling and shooting and the fact that he's been injured A LOT. Not exactly the kind of guy you want to commit major money to for a long period of time.
3) If Marquis Daniels doesn't get hurt, its not nearly so big a deal. On his best day, TA is better than Marquis, but TA's best days were kinda here and there. Both were injury prone, but TA made it all the way through the season whereas MD did not. Not sure how you could have predicted that. MD on a very very friendly deal or TA locked in for 3yrs... it didn't exactly scream out "no brainer to keep TA" a year ago, though DA did try.
To me the Antoine/Lafrentz deal (though i was 100% in favor of dealing AW) and the Blount signing stand out as the biggest wiffs. We did get a pick from Dallas which turned out pretty well though (Delonte).
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