the problem, i see it, with the arguments on this blog is that they boil down 'the trade' to the value of each individual involved in terms of their individual stats, whether they're over or under rated, whether they will be over or under paid, etc. looking at things from the individual standpoint is important, and you can obviously make a valid argument, but it always leaves out the impact the trade had on the team. you can argue that they're professionals, they're highly paid, they should get over it, etc. I say the celtics broke down last year in decidedly un-celtic fashion, to me it looked like they had given up well before the series was over, and there has to be a reason for it.
granted, injuries were a huge factor, and there's no telling what would have happened had we kept perk. i'm not going to deny that. but at this point, we can feel pretty certain that danny had little right to believe shaq was going to come back healthy (apparently shaq WARNED them this), there was no timetable for JO's return (amazingly he DID come back healthy and we still lost), and with perk, you had a championship squad that had never lost a playoff series together.
My argument and I think that of many others is that danny rolled the dice unnecessarily last season. the big 4 were playing their best basketball of the big 4 era, we had the 1 seed, we were rolling. and this came out of left field. now we'll never know what would have happened without the trade, and we will be talking and arguing about it for years to come.
Topic: My whole thing with the Perkins trade (Read 18059 times)