Tirion wrote:cpfsf wrote:Tirion wrote:Of course I'm mad, Taylor had the top-3 player in the league from 2000 till 2007 and didn't do **** with it. Then he traded said player for 0.01 cent on a dollar and fed the fans with empty promises and horrible basketball for 4 years. How can you call yourself a fan and not be mad at the guy?
It's just a game and a business.
It's just emotions.
KG was my all-time, but I don't think there's any doubt that we have a higher ceiling now than we would have had w/ KG. Personally I would have rode it out w/ KG to the bitter end just b/c the guy was willing to stay, but for me the biggest issue isn't that Glen traded KG or that we got a gash return, but just the way it was handled. He deserved to be sent off as a king and as farewell gift to him to let him compete for a title with nothing but goodwill, but all this negative media talk got in the way and now KG is basically indifferent to the franchise.
To me thats annoying b/c I feel the fans are the face and representation of the franchise, not Glen or McHale or whatever, but GT said some things that had nothing to do w/ the fan's feelings talking about KG's effort and whatnot and that puts the fans in a situation where they're choosing between the franchise and KG. Like a kid caught in his parent's divorce...I never really even cared about basketball pre-KG so his tenure was a big episode for me; I wish we could be in a situation where this offseason we were looking at KG as our big acquisition for a final hurrah, but that wasn't even possible thanks to the shenanigans of the higher ups.