Post#46 » by therealbig3 » Wed Jan 2, 2013 11:44 pm
Actually, after re-visiting some of King's decisions in this thread, yeah, he should have been fired a LONG time ago. He's been awful, and totally blew our chance at building a contender.
I can not see how anyone is honestly defending the Wallace trade. We have gone over it plenty of times, and it makes no sense from any angle. Deron barely mentioned Wallace as the reason why he stayed, he mentioned JJ specifically. I'm not even mad about the JJ trade, because he would have been a great 3rd option if we got a legit 2nd player. He cost us nothing in terms of talent, just cap space that we weren't going to have anyway.
Remember, it took a few days for Deron to decide where he wanted to go. Keep the pick, then sign Wallace to a deal immediately for 4 years, 40 million. NOBODY else offered that kind of deal to him. Everyone else maxed out at 8 million a year. You're telling me he turns down that kind of money? Heck, even make it 4 years, 44 million, or 48 million. Give him the condition that we need his decision within 2 days, or the deal is off the table. After he signs, trade for JJ. Now, you have JJ, Wallace, AND a top 5 pick (at minimum, our record would have been worse without Wallace that year). Deron re-signs. We would have used the pick and Lopez to acquire Dwight, in all likelihood.
Our starting lineup the next year:
PG - Deron
SG - JJ
SF - Wallace
PF - ?
C - Dwight
That was literally the MOST likely scenario if we had kept that pick. Or we trade for Harden instead of JJ, using that pick.
PG - Deron
SG - Harden
SF - Wallace
PF - Humphries
C - Lopez
Please spare me the excuse that Deron wanted JJ, and not Harden. Harden was an Olympian and the 6MOY, and he was already considered a far better player than JJ. If you gave Deron the choice, and if he was smart, he would have picked Harden over JJ ten times out of ten.
Or, if we got the #1 overall pick and got AD, we could have STILL constructed this lineup:
PG - Deron
SG - JJ
SF - Wallace
PF - Davis
C - Lopez
Some of you guys don't understand that Wallace was an UFA, and we overpaid him. Money talks, he would not have turned down a deal that pays him 2-3 million dollars more per year. We could have pulled off the JJ trade any time we wanted.