CR Reina wrote:The argument of the article isn't that the Nets should abandon their pursuit of Dwight Howard in favor of Andray Blatche. It writes about how taking chances on players like Gerald Green is a good strategy in case they are unable to keep Deron and acquire Dwight.
One of the things that Jonathan writes about frequently is how many teams are stuck in mediocrity by not allowing themselves to be bad enough to get a high draft pick and not acquiring players with sufficient enough upside to make a true difference.
The title doesn't refer to their present situation, but what would happen in this scenario.
I hope this helps in understanding what was intended.
Ask anyone who is a frequent visitor of the Nets board. I don't think you'll find a forum as Pro-TANK as this Nets board. Has been for as long as I signed up here (since 2003 and counting). We see the value in being so bad that we stink it up. We've always criticized the stance of many teams who try and stay a 1st/2nd round exit team with no cap flexibility as opposed to those who gut their team and start over.
I mean, how did we get Deron Williams in the first place? By pawning off the fruit of our 12 win season in Derrick Favors.
If the author's intention with the article is what you state it is, then once again it illustrates just how misinformed he is, and has no business writing for a (what is trying to establish itself as) legitimate sports website. ..or at least a team that he does not follow and know little about (stick to your Mavs!)
Gerald Green? OK, yeah. We all get that. Every Nets fan who watched that DLeague All-Star was thinking "Why didn't we sign this guy instead of Emmett again?"
Blatche? No, not even close.
Blatche is the anti-thesis of the kind of player teams (with the exception of a veteran team with strong locker room leadership and maybe needing that one extra "oomph" to get over the hump and win the ring) that are rebuilding should get.
Loose canon. Bad work ethic. Low basketball IQ. More importantly, $30M over 4 years. (including this year, till 14/15) that is basically untradeable. Just ask the Wizards.
If he was making the minimum like Green? Yeah, then what the author said makes somewhat of a sense, IF he stated that guys like Blatche was someone the team can take a chance on. Instead, he used Blatche as an example of someone to BUILD your team on.
There is a huge, huge, HUGE difference between the two.
Basically, the author can claim two things:
First is that he completely misrepresented his point, because if what you said was what he was really trying to convey, then he failed miserably as a
writer, as nobody understood his article for what he intended it to be.
The second would be that he was completely misinformed about the Nets situation to the point that his opinion piece on the state of the team was viewed by just about every single person who read it as a troll or joke article. In which case, he failed miserably as a
sports writer, and had no business writing an article for a team for which he did neither know a lot of nor did its research on.
Bless the man if his heart and his land are one ~ FrancisM, R.I.P. 3/6/09
