Solid signing. I like Barbosa.
Danny is acquiring a lot of mediocre/solid assets. Maybe he can package some of them for an impact player like Josh Smith.
I don't dislike any of his signings. At this point, I just don't totally understand this roster. I've been saying that for a while now. Having 5 good shooting guards doesn't equal 1 elite shooting guard. Right now we have lots of players... I don't get how they fit yet.
It's fun to get excited about Avery Bradley, Courtney Lee, Jason Terry, Jeff Green and Leandro Barbosa... but only a total homer wouldn't trade the whole lot of em for Dwight Howard. It's too bad the NBA is a 5 on 5 game. If we were allowed to play 12 players at once, we'd have a darn good team.
Doesn't make since because no team only plays 5 players every game for all 48mins or else what's the point of having other players? Where would Mia be if they didn't have someone to step in for Bosh when he went down or when Wade went down during the season? As good as Wade, Bosh, and Bron are they would not be champs today without guys like Miller/Battier coming in and performing well! We do have a darn good team! Where would we have been last season without all the other players who showed up when they had to step in for injured players? We would have been absolutely nowhere without Avery Bradley! Yes, you can only have 5 players on the court at one time but they can't play 48mins straight at an elite level every night (as good as players are, none are superhuman)! You never know how many players you will end up needing b/c anyone can get hurt! It's better to have other players who can step in who can actually perform well!
Thing is... Bron averaged 44 minutes in the finals. Wade averaged 40 minutes in the finals.
As far as "Where would the Heat be if they didn't have someone to step in for Bosh when he went down?"... your answer is... "Down 3-2 to the Celtics". As soon as Bosh came back, the Heat took care of business.
It's a superstar league. Having lots of average mediocre players is helpful, but at the end of the day... it's gonna be the Dwight Howards of the world who make the difference... not the Courtney Lees.
I'm not complaining about the signings. They are solid role players and we have a lot of depth. If KG and Pierce play like they did in their youth, that depth will be nice to have. But I don't totally see yet how having a handful of average bigs surrounding KG and a handful of average shooting guards makes us a contender. I'd gladly take 40 minutes of Dwayne Wade over 10 minutes of Lee + 10 minutes of Terry + 10 minutes of Barbosa + 10 minutes of Bradley
I don't want to go back and forth b/c I can see you aren't really thinking this through. I will leave you with this...
If not for someone coming off the bench to start in Bosh's place, they wouldn't have been playing 1 game against the Celtics much less going down 3-2... unless you know how you can play with 4 men on your roster in the NBA! I'm not arguing that the stars aren't important (the most important), I am arguing with your idea that you only need superstars, Mia needed everything those "scrubs" named Miller,Battier,Chalmers, etc. could give them! These guys aren't going to get the press (outside of Boston fans/media) but if we had a guy like Wilcox or Jeff Green, who knows what we could have done against Mia, neither of which are superstars, they are just solid bench/role players. You undervalue bench/role-players, I bet those superstars you mention don't! Mia are the champions but tell me this, if you only need superstars then why did Mia go out and find players past their primes that are now role players to add to that team? Because they know, while you need the superstars, you also need guys who will step in and do the little things, some of which will never show up on a stat sheet! One last thing... ask Shaq about his last season in LA, ask him if all you need are superstars...
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