Posted by Cosmic:

Rebuilding is a two part process.
First you have to tear down the mess - which is what we did all last year - and will continue to do this summer and all of next season.

The tear down process will largely be completed by July 1st, 2010 - when all those expirings finally expire and we renounce their rights. In that time we've dumped Zach and Crawford for Harrington and Hughes. Those two players were not acquired to be a part of the future they were acquired for financial relief.

Then, is part two, which begins the summer of 2010, which is where you start adding serious pieces to the roster who are actually meant to be here to be a part of the future.

From the Fall of 2010 and beyond is where you add smaller pieces to complete your team but to me that isn't really a part of the rebuilding process that is just business as usual for any NBA team.

It is astounding how many fans are either impatient or just do not understand what this overall process really entails.

1) Tear down the undesirables and gain financial flexibility. (ongoing, to the summer of 2010)

2) Use that new found financial flexibility, and the clean slate roster gained by doing so, to begin building the team from the ground up. (This begins the summer of 2010).

This is why those mumbling about how bad our team is - and wondering what we can add to it to make the playoffs this year - just don't seem to understand the big picture because it is a TWO PART PROCESS.

You have to clean before you can cook and that's what Donnie is doing.

Isiah never bothered to clean first and that's why the meal was always tainted.

The misunderstanding of the value of systematic everyday work is not just applied to BBAL.
It is the thing that we all as American society need to overcome to get back to be the most dynamic and successful culture of the world.
Success in not growing on the trees and American dream is only exists for those who know how to work hard to get their piece.
Mecca or not - we have a lot of work to be done and this will take a while.

Posted by AnubisADL:

Posted by Cosmic:

Rebuilding is a two part process.
First you have to tear down the mess - which is what we did all last year - and will continue to do this summer and all of next season.

The tear down process will largely be completed by July 1st, 2010 - when all those expirings finally expire and we renounce their rights. In that time we've dumped Zach and Crawford for Harrington and Hughes. Those two players were not acquired to be a part of the future they were acquired for financial relief.

Then, is part two, which begins the summer of 2010, which is where you start adding serious pieces to the roster who are actually meant to be here to be a part of the future.

From the Fall of 2010 and beyond is where you add smaller pieces to complete your team but to me that isn't really a part of the rebuilding process that is just business as usual for any NBA team.

It is astounding how many fans are either impatient or just do not understand what this overall process really entails.

1) Tear down the undesirables and gain financial flexibility. (ongoing, to the summer of 2010)

2) Use that new found financial flexibility, and the clean slate roster gained by doing so, to begin building the team from the ground up. (This begins the summer of 2010).

This is why those mumbling about how bad our team is - and wondering what we can add to it to make the playoffs this year - just don't seem to understand the big picture because it is a TWO PART PROCESS.

You have to clean before you can cook and that's what Donnie is doing.

Isiah never bothered to clean first and that's why the meal was always tainted.

The problem with thinking like that is you assume Walsh and company aren't going to blow the cap space on 2nd or 3rd tier talent.

Selling this dream of 2010 puts pressure on them to have some semblance of a team able to compete in 2010 anything less will be considered failure.

Walsh took the remodeling approach when a wrecking ball should have been used instead.

what is the dif between remodeling and wrecking ball? I mean, with the "assets" that Walsh had when he took over, what was he SUPPOSED to do?

what is the dif between remodeling and wrecking ball? I mean, with the "assets" that Walsh had when he took over, what was he SUPPOSED to do?

Posted by Allanfan20:

1) How would it be screwing us? He fulfilled his contract. If he leaves, we get another guard. Or perhaps get a guy like Ramon Sessions. If he plays well, we make a run, or we trade him. If he sucks this year, then we only have him for a year.

Not everything we do has to revolve around 2010. We can still build a team.