RexBoyWonder wrote:Slot Machine wrote:Tony15 wrote:Ira said it best on blog, if Shannon Brown and Andrew Bynum were the last hopes we're Miami title chances, then we weren't winning one to begin with. Some guys need to stop obsessing over a guy that hasn't played well all year and has already cited passion issues, not to mention very injury-prone....pretty sure we aren't necessarily done making moves anyhow. Mason/Douglas could be cut at any time, and who knows what that could entail.
Ira's an idiot. No one here is saying he was the "last hope", we're saying he could've given us a better chance to win. As usual, Ira provides a strawman argument that hardly relates to the question.
Even if Bynum did present a small upgrade to our chances (and none of us know that to be true, with how badly he looked this year), who's to say we won't make another move, a better one, before the playoffs?
The only way Bynum will be considered a missed opportunity is he plays well for Indy AND we don't make any other moves this year.
Let's wait for those 2 things to come to fruition BEFORE we start bitching about how badly we messed up the Bynum situation.
What better move is out there? I'm really hoping you don't say Okafor or Hawes. All Bynum would have helped with is a big body to turn Hibbert from the Wilt Chamberlain clone he turns into against us back into normal Roy Hibbert. We just needed a big body to keep him off the boards and someone big and long enough to contest his hooks.
Bynum is a missed opportunity regardless if he helps the Pacers or not. If he does nothing there but could have helped us here, we still missed out. Hell, if nobody signed him at all but he could have helped us, we missed out. It's opportunity cost.
