obviously you're opinion of sweetney's low post game is very low. i disagree with you. i think we have a person to throw the ball into the post. we have yet to go that route and try to establish him. AND we have a SF and a PG and a SG.

but yes, what we lack are big young athletic skill players and young contributing bench players.

i also agree that kwame brown should be our #1 offseason target. but i don't think we should give up sweetney. you look at him and you see and undersized PF with decent skills. i see a possible dominating post presence. it's all a matter of perception.

we need to get lucky on a deal or draft. we got lucky with ariza. now we need to get lucky in moving nazr or kurt. nazr + #1 + moochie should be enough to get kwame. but even if we don't get kwame, if we split the MLE for hunter and gadzuric (who i really like), THEN use tim + penny's expiring deal to get a big man during the year next year, that's fine also. i would love to have all the chips right now but we have to wait.

we are a mosh-posh mess. we have a huge payroll but you keep begging for a rebuild. we are dude, we are. we did not have the ability to get under the cap b/c we had AWFUL deals through 06 with players that NOBODY wanted. we would've had to wait till 06 THEN rebuild. and during that time, we'd be in the mid teens in terms of picks b/c we be a 35 win team. why can't you see or acknowledge that?

allan is a gimp.

but we still have a nice young and explosive backcourt with marbury and craw. we have a nice SF in ariza. and we have a nice low post player, who's essentially in his first year AND getting better AND has a great work ethic. so the major missing piece is the young athletic big, which we'll try to get. and then fill out our bench with 2nd round picks or lingering free agents.

it's not as bad as you think. talk about drama queen...

[Edited by - djsunyc on 01/15/2005 21:03:57]

No, BRIGGS is right, and its all you morons who don't understand anything about basketball and buy the crap Thomas is selling you.

BRIGGS knows more about bball then most of you will ever care to learn, and you have to blind not to see that this team is a joke.

I was optmistic some time ago, too, but hard trugh cannot be argued with. This team is crap. Marbur is a looser, and the only way to go is rebulding.

hahaaha

2008

Wow!

And I thought I was being pessimistic. So essentially you are telling me that by 2008, when all our bad deals will run out, we will be under the cap.

And thats supposed to validate Thomas and this garbage we have now?

Man you sure are earning the moron destinction.

Posted by simrud:

hahaaha

2008

Wow!

And I thought I was being pessimistic. So essentially you are telling me that by 2008, when all our bad deals will run out, we will be under the cap.

And thats supposed to validate Thomas and this garbage we have now?

Man you sure are earning the moron destinction.

you wanted to rebuild. well, we won't be able to "rebuild" the way you want to till 08, so you might as well go home, go to bed, and wake up then otherwise this team will make you pull all your hair out until then.

I'v been calling this team garbabe forever now.

From the home opener in Boston.

How many 30pt+ blowouts do you need to se?

Craw has shown nothing, we were .500 at best with him. He doesnt play a lick of D and just chucks away all game.

Marbury's case is closed, he has had enough chances. He is just a loowing player. Minny, NJ, Suns, and now NY is enough for me.

Only Ariza and Sweetney are worth anything on this team, and Sweetney is not even's Thomas's pick.

I don' know how he lucked out into Ariza.

Posted by simrud:

I'v been calling this team garbabe forever now.

From the home opener in Boston.

How many 30pt+ blowouts do you need to se?

Craw has shown nothing, we were .500 at best with him. He doesnt play a lick of D and just chucks away all game.

Marbury's case is closed, he has had enough chances. He is just a loowing player. Minny, NJ, Suns, and now NY is enough for me.

Only Ariza and Sweetney are worth anything on this team, and Sweetney is not even's Thomas's pick.

I don' know how he lucked out into Ariza.

fair enough. we'll agree to disagree.

this team does suck. but i also think there's a light at the end of the tunnel. we all have to just wait and see whether that light is an oncoming train.

Posted by Pike:

... you're short sightedness is beyond belief. If you don't know the difference in this franchise between then and now, you have no clue what you are talking about.

[Edited by - Pike on 01/15/2005 20:45:14]

Maybe Im short-sighted, but my memory isnt that bad. I remember how many people were begging for Crawford to sit and Allan to start. Were stuck in no man's land, not bad enough to get a top 3 pick, not good enough to do anything in the playoffs--thats IF we make the playoffs.
what si wrose than being like the 12th pick in the draft?

I mean we have some pieces 100+mm is going to get you some pieces, but I would argue that at the time, a team with a healthy Mcdyess would kill this team.

I agree I am not going to give up on this team this easily. The future looks very bright as long as we can turn TT/Penny/Kurt/Nazr into an Elite PF/C. Whether that player is an established star or a high potential guy. I trust Isiah will get it done

My signature tells it all. WE SUCK NOW!