We should have gone all in or just gotten what we could for at least KG, Ray, and JO and tanked the rest of the season and hoped to get lucky in the lottery.
As is this team will make the playoffs and lose in the first round, possibly second round, but what good does that do as it just prolongs rebuilding (by making the pick this year worse).
Who would have taken those guys (who had the cap room?)? It's not as easy as holding a "fire sale" and sticking a prioe tag on Ray or KG. Those guys cost too much money. The Playoffs is a new season. Who's ever hot going in can make some noise. Let's hope Danny can find some "bought out" big man who can give us some meaningful minutes off the bench.
Indiana gladly would have taken Allen, but Danny wanted Hansbrough and a 1st.
He should have just offered one or the other and we wouldn't have even needed salary.
O'Neal would have been easy to unload for someone.
Garnett would have obviously been more difficult to trade given his massive salary, but there were trades out there maybe something centered around Camby and Matthews (give them Garnett and maybe the Clippers pick).
Instead of Wallace, maybe you make the deal with the Nets and send them Pierce (maybe the pick has to be protected a bit more if Pierce is involved).
The thing is Danny wasn't willing to just throw in the towel. He wanted as close to true value as possible rather than wanting to unload. If he wanted to unload he easily could have added pieces.
Or you go the other way and take on salary and try to compete now like say O'Neal for Blatche (or something like that) and trades similar to that, where you just go all in and try to get the team over the top and destroy the cap space this summer.
