EasternMagic wrote:obviously everyone will say no, but until someone can come to me and name all the trades discused with otis and other teams i chose to believe that otis did wat was good for our team and team chemistry right now.
BY that rationale the GM position should be beyond ever being questioned because no one not even the owner would be aware of all the trades discussed if Otis chooses not to give a full report. Its the standard cover for Otis lovers. Its VERY similiar to the excuses given by Bhill lovers. How do you know he wasn't doing everything he could and that our team isn't good. Just replace the team with being good to the possible trades being good.
the facts are simple. He left the team with no other option at PF except an aged battie this summer. He had the summer, the exception and Ariza and now the trade deadline (where a number of Gms found ways to improve) to get even one serviceable true PF.
WHy? We have his own word that he didn't want to trade JJ or giveup a third string guard. soo whether or not he could have got a trade we know by his own words that he never reached to the point of offering what he might have gotten one with.
I really don't care if a deal hypothetically wouldn't have been made. That is IMPOSSIBLE to know. WHat we do KNOW because Otis told us is that when he went up to the plate he was refusing to take his best swing.
IF you value JJ that highly (and I feel for him there) then get his rear end off the bench. doesn't make any sense but he can redeem that part of it by getting the kid some playing time.