Posted by BlueSeats:
Come on.
1) Harrington and TT are not equal talent for Jamal, Eddy, Marbury and Zach.
2) Even if they were, if you can get equal talent while freeing yourself of tens of millions of payroll for the FA bonanza, that's good GMing.
The problem is that damn good isn't good enough now. If we don't get the #1 pick in the draft - and pick the best player in the class with it, and get the best coach in the league (who suddenly would no longer be considered the best, or right one, when we got him,) and score not one but the 2 best FAs in 2010, plus Howard in 2011, then everything we've done will be considered wrong, galling and shameful.
Sorry but all you can do is bring in good people, execute a good plan, and hope to get lucky as hell. Right now we're in the first two stages of production. Luck you take whenever it comes.
Maybe I'm reading your post wrong...but...
Talent? Where did that get us? Isiah "Longer, Younger, Athletic, Talent Assets" Thomas also wanted Eddie Robinson "The MLE is yours if you get healthy" and Darius Miles. Come'on, you gotta be beyond the "TALENT" thing. Those four players, Curry, Marbury, Crawford, Zach, are BUMS in every sense of the word.
Marbury, if you did a 2000 Sixers Iverson with him, surround him with eager role players, you got a pretty good team but that's it. The rest? They are GARBAGE players.
Equal talent? Marbury = Me first malcontent. Crawful = Chucking empty worded idiot. ZachAss = Workhorse, he came to play, I cant fault that, but he's a mental midget, a good passer who never passed, who loved jab stepping and chucking over triple teams. Curry? Fat sack of garbage there is nothing of value there. The "TALENT" in those four players is VASTLY overrated.
We're better without any and all of them. We stripped all that talent and we're better than we've been since the year Marbury was added to Layden's role playing chumps. What does that tell you? We axed our best four players and we're a better team after doing that. Eh, me thinks, they weren't all that good.
Also why are you putting such pressure on 2010/2011? The idea was to purge the roster of career losers, Isiahs mistakes, and throw our hat in the 2010 ring. We're also set so if 2010 doesn't yield the home runs we had 2011 to try to add to the roster.
I don't see the problem here. I'd rather worry about all that AFTER 2010 has taken place. The big points are we purged some trash and now have flexibility. Whether it works out or not is beyond our control and not yet written in history. It's 18 months away! It's better than how we were heading the past 8 years that's for certain.
We had an 0-6 stretch. We were .500 minus that. We had just won 8 of 11 games. Now we face the top teams in the NBA and lose a couple and all that means nothing? We're trash? Not feeling that...
