DaeDae wrote:DJHill wrote:BrooklynBulls wrote:We are reactive and not proactive in regard to trading. We make trades when we have to get under the tax, dump a bad attitude, clear cap for free agency. These are all reactive trades and not trades based on seeing an undervalued veteran talent. The closest we've gotten to that is the Salmons and Miller trade in 09.
Was just about the mention the Salmons/Miller trade myself. We also got our starting, reigning DPOY Center in a trade but other than that I would have to agree with this post and really have nothing much else to add.
We traded for a draft pick and got lucky when joakim Noah a) didn't come out the year before, and b) fell to us in the draft. Had the kings taken him instead of Spencer hawes, the disingenuous point you tried to make just now would be moot. We did not trade for joakim Noah. We traded for a late lottery draft pick and got very VERY lucky that he was available when we picked.
We probably end up with Noah either way, since all reports were that we were in love with him in 2006 too. We just wouldn't have drafted/traded for Tyrus Thomas. You have to give credit to Pax for refusing to let those picks be protected, and to Isaiah Thomas for agreeing to it like the idiot he is.