HomoSapien wrote:
Free-Agency isn't a sure bet. We got burned by McGrady, it set us back. We got Wallace, which was the wrong bet and it set us back. We missed on Lebron, and were set back by Boozer's contract. We're seemingly about to strike out on Melo now too. It's just time for a new approach.
How were we set back by Boozer's contract. Yes, it was a bad contract no doubt, no argument from me, but he did his part though he has been declining over the years, and we have still be a successful team with him on the roster. It was Derrick's injury more so than anyone else on the roster that has set us back, not to mention the new Derrick Rose rule on his existing contract which put us in a worse position still.
I get that Boozer is easy to blame as he has been the whipping boy for the Bulls fans since day 1, but he isn't the main reason why the Bulls were set back and limited in what we could or could not do for the past 2 seasons or more, it was Derrick.
As you said free agency is a gamble, and all you can ask for is that the franchise puts in their best effort, we've done that over the years and that's all you can ask for as a fan I think. I mean, no matter how great your pitch is, at the end of the day it's out of the teams hands as to what the player chooses to do. Whether we need a new approach, I don't know, but trading for a star player seems to me to be more difficult because there are a few variables that need to be considered:
1. Does that player have enough years left on his contract to make the trade worthwhile
2. Does he even have any interest being on your team
3. If the player is young, and upcoming, usually teams are going to do everything they possibly can to keep them, even more so if they are still under contract
4. How much do you have to give up to get that player, usually it's going to be a crap load, so does that put your team in a better position right away, or you hope that it would in the future
I think the best way to get immediate success is through trades for established players, but in most cases those players aren't likely to be young, they would ever already be players already at their peak or on their way down, and you'd still have to give them a boat load to acquire them. But the next best way would be to obtain high draft picks and hope that those picks land on a year where the draft class has really good players in them, and then you are lucky enough to pick one of those players.
