Skin wrote:davidse wrote:the difference with shard and before all the other trades, is that you had options -
you had other assets with which to possibly entice teams to take shard at next year's deadline. or you had tradable players to move so that even with lewis and howard's bird rights - you'd still have cap room for a max deal a-la miami for chris paul.
so imo - i think that's ^ what's changed now.
you had a very good team with an exit strategy to keep your superstar.
now, you may have a better team, but you have to wonder if it's good enough to win it all and have you lost that exit strategy - which i fear you have.
i think wade has shown that it doesn't matter if you had a bad team the previous year - if your team presents you with a bright future (much less your home team) - you will gladly resign and even give up money...
so i do think you took a huge huge risk today, and i think that this specific risk (of losing howard) is just not worth it and i wouldn't have made those moves.
doesn't mean i'll turn out right eventually, but it's how i see it -
keeping howard > all, and keeping howard will have a lot more to do with future prospect than past success if the roster isn't flexible to allow improvement.
We never had flexibility to add a max FA before Dwight's contract was over. So your logic is flawed.
you mean to tell me you couldn't clear the entire roster except for lewis and howard's bird rights for the 2012 summer if it came to it as a last resort ?
because i beg to differ.
could be nelson or it could be system or maybe the personel we had. we should probably point out everything.
