It's more than a little bit of a strawman. It's a total strawman. It's satire.
You guys are staking yourselves to the position that Kevin Love isn't worth max money, and I don't believe you. I think that you're being contrarian because Kevin Love is an imperfect, known quantity and you aren't willing to give up the dream that some asset we already have in hand is going to provide a better opportunity.
While there's no telling who'll be available, how our picks pan out, etc, I do prefer flexibility to paying a high price for Love. I trust Danny to do more than just that one move, but we need more than Love, and I'm not sure how we get there if most of our best assets go out for him.
I also think it's hard to characterize this as contrarian when at least a large minority of the blog seems to agree, including a lot of posters who don't typically take contrarian positions.
My issue is that if you don't think you can build around Love + Rondo, I'm really not sure you think you can build around anyone who's not an MVP caliber player.
This is basically the quandary we're in. From where I sit, there are only two players who could singlehandedly change our fortunes--LeBron and Durant--and we're not getting either of them any time soon, if ever.
So you have to build around multiple players. Well, we already have one solid piece in Rondo, and Love could be the second major piece. If we don't acquire (or even go after) Love, what's Plan B?
Build entirely through the draft? Very much a crapshoot.
Melo? I rate him behind Love in terms of overall impact (Melo only scores, Love scores and rebounds).
And there are no other star players who are disgruntled ? la KG circa 2007.
We're likely not going to be able to trade for Curry, or Griffin, or CP3, or Aldridge, or any other comparable players.
Sure, we can try to score big in the draft, and great if we do--and tonight will certainly make that possibility clearer--but I don't think a team can sit on its assets forever (see what I did there?
). It's fine to be patient and let things play out
for a little while, but eventually you've gotta make a move, and to me, starting with Rondo and Love is a good beginning.