Kilo wrote:It doesn't matter what we might want. It's what Gores wants and he wants to win now. He traded for Blake Griffin to pay him $120M not to rebuild with him. He brought in COY Casey and paid him $7M a year on a five year contract not to tank over it and rebuild again to be competitive just as that gaudy contract is up. This is very likely Casey's last stop - he didn't sign on to rebuild. He was going to get paid to stay home for the season by Toronto and could have waited for a mid-season phone call or next off-season when 3-4-5 vacancies opened up.
This team isn't going to ride it out, let the bad contracts expire and then start a slow rebuild. Gores wants in the playoffs. Gores forced swapping out 8,000 lower bowl seats from red to black because he didn't like how the empty seats showed up on television.
You're right of course.
It doesn't matter what we want, there is a sense of futility in my repeating over and over again what we really SHOULD do when it's been pretty well telegraphed what's actually going to happen.
This season and the last few are showing pretty clearly what it looks like when you push in to win now but you don't actually have the chips to make it happen. And I guess everyone can see it but our owner.