weneeda2guard wrote:dice wrote:weneeda2guard wrote:Our front office is too content with laying all the blame of last years failures on thibs and out to prove they put together a quality contender. They are a failure of a squad moving like we just won the finals. A big market team moving like we in a small market. We sitting around like always watching other teams get better while we sit on our ass. Cleveland just went to the finals and they still moving with urgency. We not going go do anything.
then why are we paying luxury tax for a quasi-contender?
The context of my post had nothing to do with finances, and you and the other front office apologist know that. Although I find it hilarious a team that avg 34-40 million in profit annually spending a few mill in tax being seen as big spender? Lol
But the context of my post was the conservative nature in which we move. The lack of urgency is equivalent to a small market team sitting around waiting for the nba scraps as they have doubt the big fish will come to their franchise , while the big market teams seem to always be in on the big fish. We seem to always strike out. Either we are striking out, or we are quiet waiting to go through the nba bargain bin of players. Or we are overpaying for a older player a few years past they prime. Again all things small market teams normally go through. Inability to hit the home run. Inability to make the trade that makes the league say wow. One of the most active free agency seasons in years and we acting like we got it all together. Well we dont. The league is shutting the door on our chances to win it all as power house teams are being formed, and we sitting here trying to develop niko snell and mcdermott as if they will ever be great enough to be major components to a title team.
We are set to be a 2nd rd team for the next few years and our lack of urgency is what caused it. Only thing we can hope for is other teams get injuries and we can go into the playoffs healthy.....oops that just happened and we still got sent home. Smh.
Our front office has flaws. But so to does your argument. We were "in" on a big fish last summer and it didn't work out. We were "in" on several big fish in 2010 but we struck out as you noted. Still though, this is a different NBA. The Spurs (a small market) just landed a big fish. NOP (another small market) spent big money to retain their big fish. While NY and LA just struck out for all intents and purposes. It's not like we are the only team striking out on the big boys. If you can't snatch the big names that you want from other teams, you at least need to do a good job of retaining the ones that you do have, which the Bulls have done pretty well.
