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Now when i look back at it, did we screw up in 04-05. Now i know it was the popular move (even though he wan't and isn't the right fit for the teams we had in place) at the time but did we screw up making the trade for Carter? I mean i've always believed this that if you don't win it all or make a stride towards winning it all, then whats the point wouldn't you rather have a good draft pick to build for the future. We made the Carter trade and avoided the lottery just to get trounced in the first round and to draft antoine wright with our pick.
think about it, we were a lottery bound team before the trade. If we didn't make the trade we would've likely had a top 10 pick. Meaning if we were the 10th worst team we would've gotten yes, Andrew Bynum or if we were worse we could've gotten marvin williams, deron williams or chris paul. The point is, we would be a better team overall. Not to mention what those picks could've gotten us that we traded for him (btw what did they end up becoming?) Which would've made it easier to start a rebuilding effort then or we would've had another nice core.
It just seems to me that we've been putting off rebuilding for too long and it's finally clear that we should start but we're in a tough position now.

So looking back, are you glad/mad that we traded for Carter and made the playoffs but with nothing to show for it and put off the rebuilding effort or what?

The picks we traded K-Mart for were Joey Graham, Renaldo Balkman, and Marcus Williams. Two of those picks were in the hands of TOR at one point from the VC trade. I'm fine with the VC trade. It's what we didn't do and continue not to do with certain trades and staff moves.

agree with Rich.

We traded a bag of chips for VC, VC hasnt been the long term problem, you get a good coach, like an avery Johnson, Phil Jackson or Greg Popvich type coach we would have been somewhere, Frank screwed us up along with mmgt.

Rich pretty much nailed it on the head.

Everything other than drafting Sean, Marcus and Boone since the VC deal was a mistake including resigning Carter for so long and so much.