Revolutionistt wrote:The Spurs drafted great players like Robinson, Duncan, Ginobli and Parker and built around them. They never had the luxury of being major players in such a deep free agent pool like the Nets were. Yes, the Spurs signed players similar to the ones New Jersey signed this year, but look at the core players they had in place. Now I cant blame the Nets for not being able to draft players like the Spurs, but they had an opportunity to get some really good players. You say the Nets were never really contenders in this years free agency, then why were you behind them shedding so much salary the last few years to allow for the opportunity for this summer while putting a mediocre product on the floor for the fans? Im still behind the Nets and am a fan, but not behind the decisions they made this summer and the last few years. And as for OKC, they have some guy on that team whos pretty good. Kevin Durant. Maybe youve heard of him...
See this is how problems start. This is a major misinterpretation of my words. Net fans always held out the possibility of Lebron, but in retrospect, I think all teams that did it were fighting a battle they weren't going to win. Based on the information we know now, I think Lebron/Bosh/Wade was set in stone for a long time now.
And again, you are CLEARLY looking at the glass half empty. Our roster was dead in the water. We were never going to be any more than a 2nd round out at best with the Devin/RJ/Vince combo in the post-kidd era. We'd be stuck in cap hell, only having the MLE ever year and hoping our crappy mid-late first rounder developed into something usuable immediately. In that situation you do 1 of 2 things: You stear continue that course which obviously wasn't going to get us anywhere or you go into a rebuild. RJ's contract had absolutely no value to us. The best deal we could get was Yi and Simmons. Yi truly was gonna be the best prospect we could get in return for RJ and he was in a need position. Simmons was a throw in to make salaries work, saved us some money and gave us a point where we could start the TRUE REBUILD. The Vince deal put us on the same road, also adding the best young guy we could get in another need position. Did this also give us a chance at Lebron? Yes in fans and management's eyes. Was it realistic? Eh that's debatable.
The point I'm trying to make is our rebuild is officially starting. Would it have been awesome to land a marquee name? Hell yeah, but I think Lebron single handedly held the league hostage for the past few years at the thought we could land him. If that management's fault? Not that I believe. Would Boozer or Lee increased our chances? Don't think so now based on the information we now know. If that is the case, then why would we overspend on these guys. We'd only win 5-6 more games AT BEST and still have more holes and locked up cap for a longer period of time than we do as of today.
I think not wasting money and building a complete and fluid team where everyone serves a purpose ON THE COURT (as opposed to having random expirings like simmons or battie filling the roster and barely playing) and not killing our cap flexibility or mortgaging our future was the best thing we've done for this franchise in years. Does it make us relevant? No and I think that is why you are pretty miserable about this, but it's the right thing to do. We have the young talent in all positions that are still growing, have cap space to keep us flexible for easy changes and didn't mortage our future to do any of it.
Seriously, this is our best summer since our draft night trade for RJ which you ignore the fact that happened almost a decade ago. That is a long time.
