AshBlackstone wrote:arkknight1988 wrote:AshBlackstone wrote:This deal is indefensible. You can't come out of a Dwight Howard deal without obtaining someone else's lottery pick or an up and coming future star.
We all know that Houston offered us something.
The worst part is, we don't even get the cap flexibility we were looking for. I keep seeing people in this thread defend the deal...by claiming we get cap flexibility.
We gain very little cap flexibility out of this in comparison to holding on to Dwight and letting him walk. We basically swapped J-Rich's deal for Affalo's, and got out from under Duhon's deal.
We gained the cap flexibility of not having to pay Chris Duhon. That's it. Whoopie.
And so what if we only have to pay Harrington 50 percent of the salary if we waive him after this year? That's a loss, because we wouldn't have had to pay Dwight Howard ANYTHING after this season.
This deal doesn't make any sense.
cap flexibility doesn't mean sh*t for the next couple years. We are tanking, full out tanking. Only thing that matters is that we got assets instead of letting him walk for nothing. I'm not saying its a great deal but we got assets.
What assets did we get? Aaron Affalo stopped playing defense in Denver last year, and was one of the least inefficient players at his position. He had a PER of 14. Everyone trying to sell us on his defense didn't watch him play last season.
We didn't get desireable assets, other than late first round picks...which are only minor assets.
We got nothing. After all this time, we caved...and just decided to move on, and take whatever garbage deal was on the table.
Harkless is a great asset. Vuc is a good asset. 3 1sts GS 2nd and the trade is yet to be finalized
